The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-07-15

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last week.
/ Miss Laura R. Curtis, of Natick,
Mass, has been appointed manager
of the Tome Institute Inn, of Port
Deposit.
Oxford citizens have reorganized
the Board of Trade and will
tcirculate 5000 booklets advertising
their town.
The American Ice Company is
shipping about 500 tons of ice
daily in barges from its houses at
Havre de Grace.
John M. Reed, Jr., of Chesapeake
City, while playing ball at St.
Michaels on July 4, fell and
broke his collar bone.
Manly G.. Miller, of the Fifth
dist, has been appointed Deputy
Game Warden for Cecil county,
by Governor Warfeld.
The rectorship of St. Georges
parish, Hartford county, has been
resigned by Rev. 81. Field Saum-
enig, to take effect July 25.
The proceeds, of the Liberty
Carnival, held at Oxford on July
4th, were between 800 and $500
which will be devoted to base ball.
The Star states that the $4,000
note, representing the Indebtedness
against the new North East M. E.
church, was cut down to 81 800
last week.
Capt. Edward W. McCaskey,
21st Infantry, has been assigned as
military instructor at Delaware
College, Newark, vice Capt. Tired.
well W. Moore.
During an electric storm on
Thursday afternoon, of last week, a
horse and colt on the farm of
Eugene FOUGHT, near Elkton, were
killed by lightning.
The citizens of Newark will hold
a country fair on the afternoon
and evening of July %, the pro
ceeds of which will be placed in
the depleted treasury of the town
library.
| Ruthren Given, young son of
Rev. s. 0. Given, of st. Georges,
was knocked down, run over, and
had his arm broken by team re-
turning from a Fourth Of July
celebration.
Rev. Thomas L. Poulson, D. D.,
of the New York East Conference,
has succeeded Rev. Chas. s. Baker,
D. D., as pastor of Asbury M. E..
church, Wilmington, for the re-
mainder of the conference year.
The expert accountant who ex.
amined the books of defaulting
Cashier Finney, of the Second Ma
tional Bank of Bel Air, estimates
the defalcations will reach $4O, 900.
1t required two months to complete
the examination.
The Press reports that the bonds
of the Oxford Agricultural Society
are being paid of, being due July Z.
The Board of Managers propose to
have the mortgage debt of $4,000 in
one lump, not scattered in small
sums as has been the case.
Captain Ezekial T. Mitchell, of
Havre de Grace, we'll known to the
frequenters of the Susquehanna
ducking flats, and master of the
yacht Reckless, died at his home
in that city July z. The deceased
was 6S years of age and is survived
by widow and five daughters.
The Jacob Tome Institute has
opened for the summer session.
The faculty consists of selected
representatives from the different
departments. The sessions of the
school are held in the cool morning
hours and the afternoons are de-
voted to pleasure and outdoor
exercises.
Mr.. George M. Reese, of Balti-
more, met with painful accident
on Monday. Mr.. Reese was en-
gagged in cutting grass in the rear
of the Manly property on Main
street, when the sickle which he
was using, glanced off, striking
him on the knee cap and cutting a
cash several inches in length, and a
number of stitches were required
to sew it up. Mr.. Reese's family
have come to Elkton for the sum-
mer and he was spending few
days with them, when the accident
occurred.-Democrat.