The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-12-18

holders.
An additional rural free delivery
route has been established at Aber-
deem, Hartford county, the service
to begin January 10.
The Maryland State Democratic
Editors Association will attend
the Exposition at st. Louis during
the week of May 10.
VIM. II. Moore has purchased
the business of the Port Deposit
Phaeton Co. for $500, and will con-
duct the same in future.
Rev. J. d. G. Hanna, of the
West Chester M. 3. church, has
received call to the pastorate of
Centenary church, Philada.
A camp of the Patriarch Sons of
America, known as Washington
Camp No. s, has been organized at
Warwick, with 81 members,
A number of Port Deposit mer-
chants lost goods last week by the
robbery of a freight car between
Baltimore and Port Deposit.
Robt. L. Pyle, Londongrove, has
been elected president of the West
Grove National bank in place of
Samuel X. Chambers, resigned.
G. Fl. Aument, a Quarryville
miller, has offered a prize of 100
pounds of flour for the best cake
make from his "Famous" brand of
flour.
Thirty-two car loads of phosphate
rock were received last week by
the Scott Fertilizer Co., which is
the largest single consignment of
freight ever received at Elkton
station in day.
Representative Watcher, of Mary
land, has introduced bill in Con-
gress, making April 14th, of each
year, legal holiday, to be known
as "Martyr's Day" in commemora
ton of the death of Abraham
Lincoln.
A mad deg passed through
Cherry Hill few days ago, biting
a number Of other dogs. The ami,
NAL was killed at Lewisvffle and
several of the CANNES known to
have been bitten have also been
dispatched.
Tome Institute won second place
with Is points, in the recent an
nual meet of the Fifth Regiment
Athletic Association, held in the
new armory at Baltimore. Johns
Hopkins University was first with
80 points.
J. Fl. Crew, of Betterton, claims
the blue, ribbon of the Eastern Shore
for fat hogs this year. His lot of
hogs averaged 555 pounds, dressed.
The smallest hog weighed 515|
pounds and the heaviest weighed
615 pounds.
/ The Philadelphia, Gainesville &
Lancaster Passenger Railway Co.,
which is capitalized at $4,000,
has filed papers at Harrisburg for
the construction of a railway from
Coatesville to Strasburg, a distance
of % miles.
At the annual stockholders
meeting of Kenneth Button Co.,
held in that town last week, it was
discovered that the books of the
company had mysteriously disap
peared and no statement of the af-
fairs OF the concern could be had.
Burglars wrecked the-safe in the
post Office at Bausman's, Lancaster
county, Thursday morning of last
week, with dynamite and secured
$50 in money and $53 worth of
stamps. No clue as to the perpe
traitors of the deed has been dis
covered.
Peter Jones, who is employed on
the farm of G. Chapman Richard
son, near Bel Air, was kicked by a
mule on Wednesday, and fatally
injured. One hoof struck him on
the right side of the face, crushing
the cheek bone, the other hoof
struck him in the side, breaking
two ribs, the ends penetrating the
lung.
w. T. Ward, of Cherry Hill,
picked up a woman's chatelaine
bag while waiting for a train in
the B. & o. Railroad Station, Will
mington, Saturday evening, which
he turned over 70 Operator w. r.
Dill, who found that it contained
1865. 1t was later identified and
claimed by Mrs. F. Golf, of New
ark, Delaware.
The II year old daughter of
Jacob Reedman, farmer of near
Dover, Del, received probable
fatal injuries on Tuesday morning
by the accidental discharge of a
gun. She was coming down the
stairs at her home and knocked
over the gun, which was standing
at the foot of the stairway, the
piece being discharged and load
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