The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-27

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lakewood.
The annual encampment of the
Delaware National Guard will lie
held at Rehoboth, from July
16 to %.
The report of the Grand Secre--
tary shows the total number of Odd
Fellows enrolled in Pennsylvania
to be 124, 1862.
There is talk of establishing an
automobile passenger service be-
i tween Chestertown and Colchester
Beach this summer.
The Conrad & Jones Co., of West
Grove, has shipped about $1,000
worth of Cannas to the st. Louis
Exposition. Many of them are
new and choice varieties not yet
placed upon the market.
Joseph Marks and Miller Rich
mond have been sued for $4,000
damages at Lancaster, Pa, for
alleged racing on the road and
causing the team of John Gantz to
run away and kill him.
4 The Hartford Boat Club, which
has a clubhouse on Bush river,
near Otter Point, has recently or
ganized with Thomas cassidy,
pres; Harry D. Hanway, vice.
pres; Alex. S. Bell, sec. and treas.
The Spruce Grove, Lancaster
county, mill property has been
sold by Robert Ferguson to the
Octoraro Water Company. The
property consists of the mill, dwell
ling and 10 acres of land on the
OctOraro.
i Workman while repairing the
building in Chestertown, Kent
county, to be used as the postoffce,
found a marriage license bearing
date of Oct. 1, 1898, and issued to
Richard Lowman and Kate Harris,
OF tnaG county.
| A COW belonging to R. K.
Vanneman, of Havre de Grace,
wandered upon the tracks of the
P, B. & W. railroad, on Friday,
and was struck and killed just at
the approach to the Susquehanna
river bridge by fast freight.
Three white men and thirteen
colored men were given public
whippings on Saturday morning at
the Delaware whipping post. Their
punishment ranged from ten to
forty lashes, according to the
offense for which administered.
| The Baltimore Conference of the
| M. E. Church South, on June End,
will publish the first issue of
The Baltimore Southern Methodist,
as the conference organ. Rev. B.
w. Bond, D. D., will be its editor,
with Rev. Chas. Lynch as assistant.
| Suit for damages has been enter
ed in the Superior Court of New
Castle County, by Calvin Potts, of
Hockessin, Del, against the
Peoples Railway Co., for injuries
alleged to have been received by
being jolted from a car of the
defendants line.
John NJ. Phillips, of Kenneth
Square, has in his possession
Bible printed in 1000, which con.
tains matters of interest to the
Phillips family. 1t was brought to
the United States by member of
the family many years ago, and
finally fell into his hands.
The annual convention of the
Delaware State Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will De held at
New Castle, October 26, 81 and %.
Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis, National
w. G. T. U. Superintendent of
Legislature; Mrs. j. X. Barney, of
Rhode Island, and Rev. Anna
Howard Shaw, of Philadelphia, will
be among the speakers.
Prof. Edward Reisler, principal
of the Havre de Grace High
School, has rendered his resigna-
tion to the School Commissioners
of Hartford county. Prof. Reisler
has been elected a teacher in the
English department of the Balti-
more Polytechnic Institute.
James Stewart, of Havre de
Grace, was Overtaken by train
while on the p, B. & w. railroad
bridge across the Susquehanna, and