The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-07-29

mlSos uldkJ y l. Allllpo, "a 1AChOht,
suffered broken arm last week
by a fall from cherry tree.
The Good Templars of Chester
county will hold harvest home at
Pomeroy on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Richard M. Ryan, Kent county
farmer, has recently lost eight
horses from an unknown disease.
Oxford is to issue bonds for the
erection of a $l7 900 public school
building, which will accommodate
400 pupils.
The contract for the new bridge
over the Little Elk, on the Blake
Elk Mills road, near Sharpless' mill
has been awarded.
Rev. Thomas G. Baxter, a
student at Princeton Seminary, has
taken temporary charge of Head of
Christiana Presbyterian Church.
J. F. Newcomb, a Kent county
farmer, was fined $40 and costs
last week by a Magistrate on the
charge of having whipped a boy
who was in his employ.
The first shipment of the finish
ed product of the new basket max
ing plant at Chesapeake City was
made last week, it being consign-
ment of $500 tomato baskets.
The Newark s. Pomeroy railroad
is being graded between Avondale
and Bakers station, preparatory to
laying a new track, when freight
will be run through from the main
line.
Stephenson A. Williams, of Bel
Air has been elected a member of
the Board of Governors of st. Johns
College, Annapolis, to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of John
IS. Writ, late of Elkton.
Jacob Wolf. of Lower Oxford, :,
has made an assignment to Robert
Merrick for the benefit of creditors.
His assets consist Of real estate and
personal property valued at So, 800,
while his liabilities are $4,000.
A festival will be given at Ere.
mont Friday evening, August 5,
by the Trustees and Ladies' Aid
Society of Union M. E. Church, on
the church lawn. If stormy fes-
tiyal will be held the following
evening.
Harry Sharp, aged 15 years, son
of John Sharp of Oxford, is lying
in a critical condition at his home
in that town, from the effects of
nicotine poison, contracted through
the cigarettes habit, as the lad had
been an inveterate smoker for
years.
The Oxford fire department was
called out Saturday at noon to fight
a fire which broke out at the Cen
trail Division round house in that
town. The fire was soon under
control, the roof of the building
being damaged to a considerable
extent.
At the target practice participat-
ed in BY Co. +, of Elkton, and Co.
f, at Glen Burnie, last week,
Harry d. Racine, of Elkton,
won highest honors. At 200 yards
he scored 81 out of so; at 300 yards
81 out of so, and at 500 yards, AZ
out of 100.
The acetelyne light on board of
DIR. Edwin Graves launch the
emma" exploded one evening
last week while the boat was lying
at Chesapeake City, severely burn
ing him on the hand and arm,
burning the curtains of the yacht,
and otherwise damaging the boat.
Early one morning last week as
Elmer Bouchelle was returning to
his home in Chesapeake City he
surprised three men trying to force
an entrance to the residence of u.
t. Cooling, Jr., a neighbor. Mr..
Bouchelle opened fire on the would
be burglars with a revolver and
put them to fight.
Thomas Lipp, pitcher and UNI
pire of the Brandywine base ball
club, of West Chester, has pre-
fered a charge of libel against
Louis Hitchler, editor of the Tri-
County Sportsman, published at
Oxford. The defendant is held
under $500 bail for his appearance
in Court at West Chester.
H. s. Goldey has been president
of Goldey College for is years.