The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-01-02
Miss Edna Green of Media is the
guest of Miss Eleanor ,Jenness.

SlOn OOclaI was nelu at the nome OF
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Pogue on New
Years night.
The first National Bank of Havre
de Grace last week declared a
semi annual dividend of 6 per cent,
payable the first of January.
The burning of the coal chute of
the Pennsylvania railroad on Sun
day night, in Wilmington, caused
the suspension of traffic over the
road for several hours.
| G. 81. Messick, of Cecilton, a
contractor and builder, has pur-
chased tract of timber land in
North Carolina and will put in a
saw mill to convert the cut into
lumber.
John J. Ryan, the well-known
horseman who recently purchased
the Elkton Stock Farm, two miles
northwest of Elkton, has started an
outlaw race track at Newport,
Kentucky.
Two cases of small pox are re-
ported in Hartford county, near
Bel Air, and the health authorities
have quarantined the house and
provided the inmates with fuel
and provisions.
The M. E. churches of the Will
mington District contributed about
$4,000 toward the $20,000,O 900
Thankoffering Fund which has
been raised by the M. E. churches
of the country during the last three
years.
1t is now lawful to shoot ducks
on the Susquehanna flats four days
in the week, instead of three, the
law after January LIST making
Saturdays legal cunning days in
addition to Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays.
Sidney Park, an aged colored
woman of near Aberdeen, Hartford
county, and her six months old
grand child were burned to death
on Tuesday night, in fire which
was caused by the upsetting of a
lighted lamp.
William Reynolds is spending
the holidays in Hartford county,
visiting friends and relatives in
Benson, Fallston and Bel Air,
feasting on turkey and cranberry
sauce, with plenty Of cake and ice
cream for dessert.
At the M. E. Parsonage, Elkton,
last week Rev. r. X. Stephenson
united in marriage Cloyd A. Herb
ster, of Feverton, Pa, and Miss
lola F. Oldst, of Wagner, Pa,
and also Hudson Mahan and Miss
Jennie Messick, both of Del.
The sixteenth annual session of
the Peninsula Horticultural Society,
will be held in Delaware College,
Newark, January 6, 7, s. The
Hon. James Wilson, Secretary Of
Agricultural, is expect ID to be pre-
sent and address the Society.
The Rising Sun euchre club
was pleasantly entertained by Mr..
and Mrs. Fl. Fl. Haines last
Tuesday evening: Seven tables
were played, and Miss Gertrude
s. Dare and Mr.. j. M. Sterrett
winning high scores for the evening
were awarded the honors.
Two Italians employed in remov-
ing rails from car at Beacon Hill
on the P, B. & W. railroad were
severely injured last week. One
of them may be compelled to sub
nit to the amputation of one of his
legs as result of the accident, the
member being badly mashed.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Mearns very
pleasantly entertained a large num-
Der of friends at their home in Zion
last Friday evening, in honor of
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Norwood Pratt of
Springfield, ILL.,, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Earnest Mearns of Asbury Park,
NJ. About sixty were present to
enjoy the hospitality of the &C.
casion.
A boom of 5000 saw logs broke in
Pine Creek last week and the tim.
Der went down the Susquehanna
river and out into the Chesapeake
bay. A number of the logs were
caught on their way down but it
is estimated that fully 100000 feet,
valued at $4,000, went out into the
bay. The logs were the property of
W. of Fighters Sons, of Williams
port, Pennsylvania.
Rev. w. Allen Wise, pastor
of the North East Methodist
Episcopal Church, is reported
seriously i'll, suffering from nervous
prostrdtion, brought Oh by over
work, mental and physical, in con-
nection with the new church build.
ing now in the course of erection.
Pastor Wise is chairman of the
building committee, and has the
work in charge. In addition to
giving it his personal attention,
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