The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-01-15
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
BRIEF MENTION OF HOME AFFAIRS.

vanced the price OF anthracite coal
from $50 to 81 per ton.
The planning mill of the Rowland
Manufacturing Co., at Port Deposit,
has closed down for the winter.
Murray Bruce, of Elkton, lost
$40 on the streets of that town
Saturday night, while on his way
home.
The ladies of Hart's M. E.
chapel, Elk Neck, have presented
their pastor and his wife with a
handsome silk quilt.
The directors of the New Home
Building and Loan association, of
Havre de Grace, have declared a
dividend of 81 per cent for the year
1908.
The eighteenth annual conven-
tion of the Lancaster County School
Directors institute will be held at
the Normal School, Millersville, on
Thursday, January "a.
During the cold weather last
week the Chesapeake bay was
frozen over from shore to shore at
Poplar Island with ice in some
places nine inches thick.
The 38th anniversary of the
founding of Minnehaha Lodge of
Good Templars, at Chrome, which
was to have been celebrated Jan. 2,
has been postponed until the 26th
instant.
The Oxford Press correspondent
from Kembleville reports it was so
cold in that neighbThood one
night last week that a pan of buck
wheat batter was frozen while
sitting upon the stove in the home
of one good housewife.
Samuel @. Ayers, Of Gap, Ian
caster county, employed as to-
bacco shipper on the farm of Me-
linda Stoltzfus, was overcome Dy
coal gas while at work in the cellar,
and when discovered at the dinner
hour was dead.
Rear Admiral Frederick Rodgers,
commandant of the New York
Navy Yard, whose name is on the
list of retirements for 1904, is for
mer resident of Hartford county, be-
ing. a son of Mrs. Sarah p. Rodgers,
of near Havre de Grace.
Allie McNamee, of near Fremont,
lost one of his team of valuable
grays last week. The horse was
kicked on the leg by its mate, the
bone being so badly shattered that
it was impossible to set, and the
animal had to be killed.
Samuel Anderson, colored, of
Elkton, is wanted for theft of a set
of harness from Ernest Frazer of
Newark. The harness was found
in Anderson's house at Elkton, but
the negro took leg bail and has
not been apprehended.
A. II. Brown, of Little Britain,
by mistake, took dose of iodine
few days ago, thinking it cough
medicine. AS his cough was not
cured by the "remedy" he was
compelled to resort to other RENE
dies to secure relief from the un-
usual dose.
A case of death ascribable to
toothache occurred at Pottsville on
the 9th inst, Ethel M. Flail, aged
s years, was siezed with a violent
toothache which all efforts to re-
lieve failed, the pain being intense.
The brain was finally affected, re-
sulting in the little girls death.
w. Hodge Bennett and George
Rash. former residents of Elkton,
who both died suddenly on the
same day last week, Monday, the
former in Philadelphia, the latter
in Chester, were veterans of the
Civil War, serving together in Com
pany B, Sixth Maryland Regiment.
The Ledger reports the boring
machine being operated in the Sus-
quehanna rive for the purpose OF
making soundJhgs for the new
Pennsylvania f3ilroad bridge struck
rock at every sunding until what
is known as The island bar was
reached, whed after about two
weeks work, ind a depth of $50
feet had been tested without find
ing rock, the machine was NOV
ed nearer thu Perryville side cf
the river, channel having
been cut throu 9 inch ice in or
der to move tn scow ON which the
machine is Cpd ated.