The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-02-13
NTY NEWS.
Friday, Feb. l3 1908.
MINORLOCALS


farm Of o. d. Nesbitt, near COlora.
Colora people are forming stock
company to raise funds for build
ing town hall.
Several of the students of Della
ware College, Newark, are suffer
ing with the mumps.
Delaware College has asked the
legislature for $4,000, to erect
additional buildings at Newark.
Oxford Spring Fair will be held
June 3, and 5, and the Fall ex-
hibition September %, "a and %.
During the high wind on
Wednesday of last week, the roofs
were blown off two freight cars at
Elkton.
Mrs. Mary T. Reynolds, of Octo-
raro, killed large copperhead
snake in the road near her home
on Tuesday.
A successful revival is being con-
Quoted at Cecilton M. e. church,
large number of penitents having
professed conversion.
Townsend, Del, is to have shoe
factory. Rising Sun has one for
sale at bargain; good as new,
been used but very little.
A public meeting was held at
Kembleville last night to further
the movement of establishing a
high school at that place.
An athletic club has been organ
lied by number of young men at
Colora and gymnasium fitted up
in tn } old school building.
George Burlin, of Port Deposit,
has accepted position as clerk in
the store of E. R. Burlington &
Sons and entered upon his duties
this week.
The Rev. F. B. Short, of Will
mington, it is stated, has decided
to accept the position of financial
secretary to Pacific University at
San Jose, Gala.
Miss Maud V. Thompson has re-
signed as teacher of Pleasant
Meadows (Old Stone) school, near
town, and her position is being fill
ed by Miss Julia Brokaw.
Mrs. Caroline Hall has sold her
confectionery and ice cream bust
ness in Elkton to Mrs. Margaret
Jones for $1,000 and, with her
daughter, removed to Baltimore.
Hon. William Jennings Bryan
will speak in Baltimore February
II, at Emmanuel church, and will
be rendered a banquet in the
evening by the Maryland Demo
cratic Association.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Mt. Pleasant M. E. church, near
Colora, will hold q poultry and
oyster supper on the evenings of
the 18th and 14th inst. Supper,
% cents; oysters extra.
Chas. B. Silver, of Hartford
county, will operate the cannery at
Rising Sun again this season and is
contracting with farmers in this
vicinity for tomatoes at SIS per ton,
the same as he paid last year.
Several buildings are being torn
down by the Tome Institute at the
southern end of Port Deposit pre-
paratory to the erection of cottages
which will be used as additional
homes for the professors of the
Institute.
The American Mechanics of Per-
ryville celebrated the fifteenth an
niversary of the institution of their
Council Monday evening with a
banquet. John S. Writ, ESQ.,, of
Elkton delivered an interesting adj
dress also.
A Wilmington colored woman re-
Gently visited Newark, Del, and on
returning to her home was stricken
with smallpox. AS a precaution.
airy measure the Board of Health
of Newark has ordered all colored
persons in the town to be
vaccinated.
Rev. VIM. G. Rooms, of New
Castle, Del, will deliver lecture
in the town of North East Tuesday
evening, February 18th. Subject,
"The Spook Family, or How to see
a Ghost" A small admission fee
will be charged and the proceeds
will be for the benefit of the new
church being erected in that town.
Arnold Stewart, of Sassafras,
shot five wild geese one day last
week and crippled another, which
he is tanning. He had previously
shot several as they are very thick
in that neighborhood and are dew
astating the wheat fields. In many
places the ground has been picked
clean and not a spear of growing
wheat left in the field.
Edward Carter, of Elkton, was
one of the winners in the guessing
contest carried on by the FlorOdora