The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-02-13

William Taylor, of Elkton, has
purchased the Booth ice cream es-
tablishment in that town, and will
conduct the same in future.
Fl. Frank Wintworth has sold
his residence in West High street,
Elkton, at private sale, to Thomas
N. Tyson, Mechanics Valley, for
J $225O.
While trying to extract a tooth
from the mouth of his horse recent
ly John Rochester, of Church Hill,
Md, had one of his fingers bitten
off by the animal colsing on it.
Joseph Simpson, COL, convicted
of several burglaries in the neigh
borhood of Glasgow and Newport,
Del, has been sentenced to receive
forty lashes and Imprisonment for
ten years.
Messrs. S. Devine, Edw. Leedom,
J. r. Dean and Howard Shippers
are applicants for the posts of car
riers for the two new rural free
delivery routes to be started short
ly from North East.
The Operetta, entitled, "Paul-
ine," to be given by the pupils of
the North East high school will be
rendered in the Grand Army hall
in that town, on Saturday and
Monday evening, 81 and %.
Relatives of Engineer George B.
Askew, of Philadelphia, made an
unsuccessful search for his body
last week. Askew was knocked
from his engine while crossing the
Big Elk creek about month ago.
A car humping into an engine in
Wilmington on Thursday tossed
William Osborne, a Pennsylvania
Railroad brakeman, into the fur
mace, but he pulled himself out so
quickly that only his hair was
singed.
John S. French, professor of
mathematics at the Tome Institute,
has been granted a leave of alb
sence by the board of trustees for
month. He is suffering from over
work and will spend the vacation in
Jamaica.
Having been mourned as dead
ever since the wreck on the Jersey
Central Railroad at Graceland near
ly two weeks ago. Harvey Mar
tin, of Quarryville, returned home
on Monday. He had been injured
in the wreck and confined in hos
pital at Plainfield, N. j.
The new issue of stamps has been
placed on sale at Rising Sun post
Office. The new two-cent stamps
have smaller sized head of George
Washington on them than the old
ones and the difference is quite
apparent when comparison is made,
although the size of stamp is un-
changed.
The Jessup and Moore Paper
Company of Wilmington, Del,
which owns and operates the
Singerly Pulp Mills in Elkton, is
erecting at a cost Of $22, 900, a mill
on the Christiana river, to take the
place of the one wrecked by the ex-
plosion last summer, in which sew
enteen men were killed.
Clarence Segars, an Elkton color.
ed youth about 20 years old, on
Friday assaulted a little colored
boy named Freeman, striking him
in vicious manner with a broom
stick, dislocating his wrist and cut,
ting his head. Magistrate Gilpin
fined him $5 and costs and sentenc-
ed him to thirty daysI in Jail for
the assault.
At a meeting of the Little Brit
ain Detective Association held at
Oak Hill on February 9Th, it was
decided to obtain charter from
court and committee was appoint
ed to procure the same. A
committee on revision of the
constitution and bylaws was also
directed to bring forward for
adoption at the next meeting, such
changes and revisions as seem best.
The Hartford County School
Board has appointed a number of
ladies in different sections of the
county as trustees of the public
schools, among them being Miss
Martha I. AmOss, Falls; Mrs. Ag-
mes Wheeler, Mechanicsville; Mrs.
Margaret Whiteford, Baptist; Mrs.
Alice Smithson, st. Paul, Mrs.
Matte Spalding, Trappe; Mrs.
Jennie e. Hopkins, Darlington;
Mrs. Lydia Robinson Rouse, Belair.
The following officers have been
elected for the ensuing year by
Elkton Cemetery Company: Mana
gers, DIR. John II. lamar,
William II. Mackall, John s. Writ,
F. P. Price, DR.. Howard Bratton,
w. FL. Elder. Executive Commit
tee, Manly Drennen, John S. Writ,
DR.. BrattOn. DR.. j. III. lamar,
President; W. II. Mackall, Secre.
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