The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-15

Pennsylvania Friday, April 15.
The Town Commissioners of
Perryville have appointed Albert
jackson bailiff.
The Oxford conclave of Hepta
sophs initiated fifty-five new mem
bers last week.
The annual convention of the
diocese of Easton will convene at
Princess Anne, on June LIST.
The Great Sun Council of the
Red Men of Maryland will be held
in Baltimore, on April 9th.
The annual meeting of the Mary
land State Bar Association will be
held at Annapolis, on April 9th,
2Sth and 29th.
The hotel property at Kemble
vile has been purchased from
Evan Lewis =. by his son-in-law,
VIM. j. Kennedy.
Thomas d. Harper, of Oxford,
last week shot and killed a beagle
dog which was acting in strange
manner and was thought to be
suffering from rabies.
Fire at North East on Thursday
last damaged shed kitchen at
the residence of John Dierling.
Prompt work of bucket brigade
prevented a serious c0nfagration.
Howard P. Milligan, son of Rev.
j. R. Milligan, of st. Georges,
Del, formerly of Zion, Cecil county,
has received an appointment to the
q. s. Naval Academy at Annapolis.
L. N. Hilaman, of Chrome, has
setter which besides caring for her
two little pups has young rabbit
which she carried from nearby
field and is giving a mothers at
tention.
The steamer Kitty Knight, of
the Colchester Steamboat Company,
on Friday made the first trip be-
tween Baltimore and Port Deposit
since the river was closed with ice
in November.
The annual session of the State
Council, Jr., o. U. A., M, will
convene in Baltimore, o4 Tuesday,
April 10Th. Cecil COUNT has ten
Councils with an aggregate mem
bership of 1850.
The Providence base ball club
having Withdrawn from the Cecil
County League, it will necessitate
the election into the League of
another team to complete the cir
cult and schedule as at present
arranged.
A Bazar will be held by the
Perryvilie Base Ball Club on Fri
day and Saturday evenings, April
10Th and 10th, in the Jr., o. u.
A. M. Hall, Perryville. Music
will be furnished by the Principle
Furnace Cornet Band.
Mrs. Dean, of Elkton, recently
lost setting hen, which died on
the nest about the time the eggs
were ready to hatch. The eggs
were Immediately placed between
feather pillows and the entire set
ting of twelve Matched.
The Kennett News is responsible
for the following fish story: "Wm.
Il. Miles, of Valley Mills, near
Kennett, has shepherd dog that
is an expert fisherman. 1t will
dive into the mill race and re-
appear every time with a fish in its
mouth.n -
A band of gypsies went into camp
on the outskirts of Elkton last week,
and made themselves SO objection
able to the citizens of the town
that complaint was lodged against
them, and the Sheriff ordered them
to break camp and move on-which
they did. M
The Back Creek Towing Co., of
Chesapeake City, has presented the
Singerly Fire Co., of Elkton, with
a check for $25. The fire laddies
pumped out the tug Roman with
their engine few days ago, when
she struck a sunken log and filed
with water.
Calvin Potts, of Hockessin, DEL,
received probable fatal injuries
Saturday night by falling from a
Peoples Railway car near Elsmere.
He was standing on the platform
and was jolted from the car, strik-
ing the ground on his head and
sustaining fractured skull.