The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-10-14

i property at Bay View to Ernest
Abrahams.
Harvest Home will be celebrated
Sunday, October %, at Mt. Pleas
ant M. E. church, near Colora.
J. R. K. Maffitt has resigned as
assistant station agent of the F.,
B. & w. railroad at North East.
The democrats of the Fourth dis.
trict organized a Parker, Davis and
Smith Club at Fair Hill on Monday
night.
John Gallaher has been appoint
ed postmaster at Fair Hill. Cecil
county, in place of w. Sutton,
resigned.
The ladies of Port Deposit Pres
byterian Church will hold a bazar
in that town on Friday evening,
October %.
The ducking season on the Flats
will open Nov. 2. Gov. Warfield
has notified the ducking police to
be on the alert and strictly enforce
the ducking laws.
The quarterly distribution Of the
State school tax fund, made on
October 1st, amounted to 5000, 900
and is the largest distribution ever
made in the State.
Mr.. A. M. Jackson, of Newark,
who was a student in the Office of
the late John s. Writ, at Elkton,
has been admitted to the bar of
Wicomico county, and will locate
at Salisbury.
Application has been made to
Governor Warfield for the pardon
of Charles Saunders, sentenced by
Elkton Circuit Court several months
ago to four years in the peniten-
tiary for stealing tobacco.
The Conowingo Bridge Company
is offering an issue of $4,000 of
mortgage bonds to cover the cost of
tn, repairs necessitated by the
damage done to its bridge during
the ice breakup in March.
Reuben Heavalow, a Chesapeake
City lad, fell from a achestnut tree,
a distance of 35 feet, one day last
week, and suffered a broken arm.
His injury was painful one, but
his escape from death was remark
able.
At the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Maryland Water
Company, of Elkton, held last
week the old board of directors was
re- elected with George A. Blake
|president, and P. 81. Cleaver Sec
retary.
Rev. W. J. Rowen, ID. D., of
Newark, Del, was elected moder-
ator to fill out the unexpired term
of Rev. j. NJ. Bull, formerly of
Kent county, at the fall meeting of
the New Castle Presbytery, which
convened at Rock Presbyterian
church, near Fair Hill, last week.
A race meet of the Lima Hunt
will be held at the Wilmington
race track, Ninth and Woodlawn
Avenue, Wilmington, Del. Satur-
day, October %, under the rules of
the National Steeplechase and Hunt
Association. Entries for the races
will close midnight of October 15.
The Hytheham, of Port Deposit,
has reorganized with the following
officers: Prest., Mrs. Charlotte M.
Newell; rec. sec., Miss Thomp mpkin-
son; cor. sec., Mrs. Benson; treas,
Mrs. Alrich. The literary work
of the society will be based upon
the Chautauqua Course for this
year.
The ladies auxiliary hospital
committee will hold bazar and
supper in Elkton on the evenings
of Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
December /, and 3, also on Satur-
day afternoon. Donations of pro-
visions, fancy and domestic articles
and the hearty co. operation of all
is most earnestly solicited.
| The conductors and brakemen on
the freight trains over the p, B. &
w. railroad are bothered by the
unusual number OF tramps, who at
this time of the year are beating
their way over the road in their
annual migration to the sunny
South. They are insolent and
abusive to the trainmen, frequently
make strenuous resistance when
ordered to get of and have to be
lput off fOrcibly.