The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-03-13
Samuel E. Worth has been re-
appointed postmaster at Oxford.

lent among the children of Kennett
Square.
An increase of pension to $12 q
month has been granted William j
Pickering East Nottingham.
Mrs. Sarah Brown of Glasgow
fell down a flight of stairs on Satur
day, and received serious injuries
u Mrs. Elizabeth Goodyear, of Elk.
ton, has been granted an original
government pension of SIS pei
month.
A Saturday morning dancing
: class for children, has been organ.
lied by Miss Alice Smart, in Port
Deposit.
A council of Jr. o. U. A. M.
has been instituted at New London,
Chester county, with forty charter
members.
William II. May, Jr., of Elkton,
has been re-appointed private
secretary to United State Senator
Arthur P. German.
Port Deposits oldest resident,
Mrs. Phyllis Owens, colored, died
at her home in that town last week
aged 81 years, of pneumonia.
A petition is being circulated in
the neighborhood of Pleasant Grove
for the establishment of rural free
delivery service in that section.
The encampment of the National
Guard of Maryland will be held
from July 9 to 10 of this year.
The site has not yet been selected.
Miss Emma Wilson returned
from Philada. this week where she
has been spending some time pre-
pairing for her spring millinery
opening.
The Delaware Daughters of the
American Revolution are arranging
for a celebration of the battle of
Cooch's bridge on its anniversary,
September Sd next.
The proposed extension of New,
ark's town limits is meeting with
opposition from those whose prop
erty would be taken in the borough
should the extension be made.
Ground has been staked out for
Megargee Brothers new paper mill
at Modena, and the work of con-
struction on the plant, which will
be the largest paper mill in Chester
county, will be commenced in a few
weeks.
Rev. L. Z. Poole, pastor of the
Chesapeake City M. E. Church, has
accepted a call to the pastorate of
the church at Pocomoke City, Md.
Rev. E. III. Collins of Lewisville,
Pa, is mentioned as Mr.. Poole's
successor.
The Polk farm, containing about
$50 acres, in the Second district,
has been purchased by Mrs. Re
becca Harriet from Henry H.
Brady. The price paid is reported
to have been in the neighborhood
of $4,000.
Thomas Welsh of West Grove.
who recently had his leg broken by
a telephone pole falling on him
while working for the Delaware &
Atlantic Co., has brought suit
against the company for $4,000 for
injuries received.
The Elkton Yacht Club has pur-
chased the yacht Spray, owned by
Levi Huntington, of New Rochelle,
N. Y. The Spray is 40 feet long,
with 1O-foot beam, equipped with
a l2-horsepower engine.
The Universalist Church of the
Reconciliation and grounds, be-
tween Elkton and Chesapeake City,
were sold last week, to Desosia
Walworth, of Virginia, for $3.50.
The church is of brick and has
been idle for many years.
Wilmington Conference of the M.
E. church will convene in its thirty
fifth annual session, at Easton, Md,
on March IS. The changes in the
pastorates in Cecil county to be
made include the M. Z churches
at Elkton, Chesapeake City, Bethel,
Cherry Hill, Elk Neck, Charles
town, Zion,
The Elkton American Mechanics
last week awarded gold emblems to
the club of seven members that Sc
cured the most new members dur
ing the past six weeks. John f.
Sparklin, George w. Boulder, A.
M. Strickland, Henry Fl. Plummer,
Howard S. Vincent, William II.
Sprinkle and Alfred Davis were
the winners.
Bailiff Biddle, of Elkton, last
week corraled and lodged in jail
five tramps, who had made them.
selves obnoxious, and after keeping
them locked up over night released
them in the morning, and gave
them twenty minutes to leave those
parts under threat of Jessups Cut.
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