The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-02-20
Havre de Grace is suffering from
another coal famine this week.

Trimble, of Elkton.
W. Evans Frazer, formerly of
Elkton, has purchased livery and
feed stable, in Chestey Pa.
Havre de Grace has an epidemic
of measles over one hundred cases
being reported in the town.
The Ladies' Art Circle, of Perry
vile, cleared $50 by their dramatic
entertainment given in that town
last week.
Easton is making an effort to
have the annual encampment of the
State National Guard held at that
place this year.
The Wilmington papers report
Strawberries have appeared in the
markets of that city and are selling
at fifty cents a box.
Andrew d. Dean, of Elkton, has
purchased at private sale from
Charles King a double brick dwell
inghouse on West Main street, in
that town.
Theodore X. Stubs, Esq, of Ok
ford, was on Tuesday elected
Chief Burgess of the that town.
He will take the oath of Office the
first Monday in March.
A strange collie dog supposed
to be suffering with the hydrophO-
bia, was killed in Elkton last week.
The animal bit number of dogs
in the town before being killed.
Baker & Arthur have sold their
large cannery at Sudlersville to
George, Anderson & Spencer, for
$4,000, and will devote their atten-
ton to the operation of the Elkton
cannely.
Ernest Kirk, who has gained ex-
perience in the business by clerk
ing in the store of James Clifford at
Hickory Hill, will embark in the
general storekeeping business at
Sylmar in March.
The McClenahan Granite Co. of
Port Deposit, has been awarded
the contract to furnish 200 granite
buoy sinkers for the government
for use in the Fifth lighthouse dis
trict for So, 227 so.
A lecture will be given in Me
mortal Hall, Port Deposit, Friday
afternoon, February 81, at two
o'clock, by James M. Buckley,
editor of the Christian Advocate,
on "Peculiarities of Orators"
At the annual meeting of the
Green Hill Fire Brick Co., of
North East, Saturday, Theodore J.
Abrahams was elected President
and General Manager and Wilmer
j. Falls Secretar and Treasurer.
One of the largest freight barges
turned out at the Deibert boat
yards, near Elkton, was launched
last week. 1t was built for James
McNalley for Southern trade via
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.
Miss Carrie Palmer teacher in
charge of the private school, at
North East, has resigned her
charge and gone to Richmond, Va,
under an engagement with the Pas
tors Supply Company as stem
ographer.
Rev. III. G. Budd, of Berlin, Md,
has been instrumental in securing
indictments by the grand jury of
Worcester county, against liquor
license violators. The Rev. Mr..
Budd is former pastor of Perry
vile M. E. church.
The town of Clayton, Del, has
a smallpox scare, four cases of the
disease, in a mild form, having
developed there. Rigid quarantine
has been maintained by the author
tiles and is thought the spread of
the disease has been checked.
The horse of the R. F. D. mail
carrier from Colora took fright at
dog one day last week and ran
away, colliding with tree and de-
molishing the buggy. Wells Wiley,
the present carrier, will resign on
March LIST, after one years service.
Four negroes entered the clothing
store of Abraham Friedman, in
Havre de Grace, on Tuesday night,
and seeing no one about but the
proprietor, made a raid on the
piles of clothing. Mr.. Friedman
Summoned his wife, who notified
the police by telephone and the four
negroes were soon placed under
arrest. The men were sentenced to
ninety days each in the House of
Correction.
On returning to Lincoln Univer-
sity last week, for it's reopening
since the abatement of the small
poX scare, each student was COM
PEELED to undergo rigid medical
examination. The medical author
tiles have pronounced the two
smallpox patients completely free
from the disease but as an extra
precaution, and for the satisfaction
of their fellow students and the
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