The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-02-26

neighborhood.
The annual sessions of the Will
M. E. Conference will be held at
Dover, Del, March 1928.
A patent was this week granted
Charles Fl. Reckefus, of Port De-
posit, for horseshoe ice creeper.
Arthur M. Tosh has sold his
farm at Mt. Pleasant to Thos.
Mahan, of that neighborhood, for
81 300.
Elkton Council, Jr. o. U. A. M,
is preparing to hold a fair and
festival in that town on March 2,
3, 4 and 5.
Rev. VIM. P. Taylor has been
invited to return as pastor of Elk
Neck M. E. charge the coming con-
ference year.
William Balance, of Whining
ton, has purchased the small farm
of William Armstrong, containing
IA acres and lying near Elkton, for
$3.50.
Good prices were realized at w.
o. Fowler's horse sale in Rising
Sun last Tuesday, the highest
price paid for a single horse being
$194. 80.
Rev. T. N. Given, pastor of
Charlestown and Principle Furnace,
M. E. churches, has been invited
to return to his present charge the
coming conference year.
The missionary rally held in the
M. E. church at Calvert, on Sun
day last, proved an interesting
service, and a fund of $20.85
was raised for missionary purposes.
The dwelling occupied by Melvin
Brown and family, near Andrews
Bridges, Lancaster county, was de-
stroyed by fire, together with con-
tents, on Wednesday evening of last
week.
The County Commissioners were
in session Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of last week to hear ap-
peals and make corrections in per-
sonal assessments. But few changes
were made.
The pupils of Liberty Grove
public school will give cantata,
"Cinderella in Flowerland,'' on
Thursday evening; March 3. If
stormy the next evening. Admis-
sion, Is cents.
Wheat reached the dollar mark
in the Rising Sun market last week.
1t is-the first time for six years
that the farmers in this neighbor-
hood have received one dollar a
bushel for their wheat.
A freight train of % cars, all
loaded, broke the record from
Baltimore to Wilmington over the
Philadelphia, Baltimore & Wash
ington railroad, on Saturday, by
covering the II miles in IS minutes.
G. G. Rea, of Nottingham, had a
narrow escape on Friday morning
last, while in Oxford. In crossing
the railroad tracks at South street,
where an engine was doing some
shifting, he was struck by a Car
and suffered the fracture of two
ribs.
A petition numerously signed by
citizens of this town and neighbor.
hood, urging the passage of the
Hepburne. .Do!liver bill to prevent
the shipment of intoxicating liquors
in State where prohibitOry law
is in force, has been forwarded to
our representative in Congress.
A mortgage for 1O,570,OOO has
been recorded in the Office of Clerk
of the Court, to cover property OF
the P. B. & w. railroad in Mary
land. The mortgage comprises 5s
pages of printed matter, legal size,
and is with the exception of B.
& o. mortgage recorded some
months ago the longest document
handled in the Clerks Office.
The family of Fletcher Harris,
consisting of himself, wife and
small child, had narrow escape
from drowning on Monday. Their
home is near the river at North
East, and the high water Monday
surrounded their house, threaten
ing to sweep it from its foundation.
A number of citizens of the town
heard his cry of distress and went
to the rescue in boats.