The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-23
Chinquapins are ripe.

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Oxford Fair next week-2Sth,
29th and 30th insts.
Cora cutting is occupying the at
tention of our farmers at present.
VIM. Ford has been re-appointed
superintendent of the Kent County
Almshouse.
Senator German has appointed
Dorsey Farnandis Munnikhuyson,
of Bel Air, cadet to West Point.
Richard A. Shefels, has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Joppa, Har-
ford county, vice VIM. 81. Chilcoat,
resigned.
Charles Stewart, of Fair Hill,
was the lucky holder Of the ticket
in the drawing, recently held at
that place, which won for him a
horse.
The little child of Mrs. Kate
Markee, of Singerly, was badly
burned one day last week by the
accidental upsetting of a large pot
of lye.
The Elk Art Square Company
has recently installed dynamo in
its plant at Baldwin for the pur-
pose of lighting the mill by
electricity.
Mrs. Lillian Gertrude Miller, of
Baltimore, has applied for divorce
from her husband William ]. Mil
Ter, at present employed at Aber-
deem, Hartford county.
James Andrews, who for 81 years
has been an inmate of the County
Jail at Elkton, has sent a petition
to the Commissioners of Cecil
County asking to be released.
Cecil Brown, son of George w.
Brown, of Bay View, had one of
his fingers so badly lacerated by
being bitten by horse, one day
last week, as to necessitate amputa
tiOn.
Oscar Patterson, young son of
J. T. Patterson, of Perryville, is
the first victim of football this sea
son, suffering a fractured arm one
day recently while engaged in the
sport.
The public schools of Hartford
county were ordered closed on
Thursday and Friday of this week
by the School Board in order that the
children might attend the fair at
Bel Air.
! Thomas Collins, of Washington,
I'D. c., who recently became de-
mented at Perryville and was COM
mitted to the County Insane Asy-
lum, died at that institution on
Sunday.
| The Baldwin Manufacturing Co.,
of Baldwin, this county, has award
ed a contract to H. P. Little, of
West Grove, for the erection of ten
frame dwellings for the use of their
employees.
The Cushing Co., of Baltimore,
which was awarded the contract
for furnishing Cecil county public
schools with books, has transferred
the same to the W. j. G. Dulaney
INn of thot oifu
Thieves entered the residence of
Charles Smith, in Elkton, one
night last week and carried off a
Quantity of clothing. Mrs. Smith
was alone in the house at the time
and frightened the intruders away
by firing a revolver.
@. H. Lafferty, farmer of near
Newark, reports having cut a stalk
of corn on his farm which measures
16 feet 8 inches from the ground to
the tip of the tassel. Can any of
Eour Cecil farmers beat thisi
John Clay, Sr., an ice dealer, of
ElktOn, is In serious condltlOn at
his home, in that town, as a result
of a fall while painting his resi-
dence. He was working near the
top of the house, when he slipped
and fell two stories. Several of his
ribs are broken.
Henry Kimble, aged % years,
is lying at his home in Appleton,
Cecil county, in critical condition
from heart trouble. He is a
graduate of Delaware College and
expected to be examined this fall
for admission to the Cecil county
bar. He has been under treatment
in Philada. and BALTIC. hospitals.