The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

The Quarryville Sun was com
PEELED to omit its issue of Friday
last owing to a break in the press
Spinal meningitis has caused the
death of several horses recently, be-
! longing to Fourth district farmers.
The first train was run over the
Fairmount. Quarryville extension Of
the L. o. & s. railroad on Satur.
day.
T. Roseby McMullen, of Iron
Hill, harvested this year 900 bas-
kets of sweet potatoes from an acre
of ground.
A meeting of the creditors of A.
A. Kirk, Lower Oxford, who has
been adjudged bankrupt, will be
held at West Chester today.
An Italian laborer employed on
railroad work at Qnarryville was
badly injured by the explosion OF
dynamite on Saturday last.
The circulation of the Second
National Bank of Bel Air has been
increased to 100000, the full
amount of its paid up stock.
The Lyon store property in Rock
Run has been purchased by Adam
Peoples, who will open grocery
business at the stand in the near
future.
L. G. Hayes, a farmer of near
Galena, Kent county, threshed
1000 bushels of wheat from 200
acres, one of the best yields report
ed in Kent county.
The entertainment given in the
Elkton Opera House last week by
the Young Lady Minstrels of Mid
dletown, Del, for the benefit Of the
Union Hospital fund, netted about
$65. 90.
Prof. Thomas i. Gibson, Ebens.
burg, Pa, who conducted the music
at the recent county teachers insti-
tute, has been appointed to the
chair of English in the State Nor
NAL School, Baltimore.
Louis Coates, colored, has been
sentenced to three years In the
Maryland House of Correction. by
Magistrate Taylor of Cecilton, on
the charge of being disorderly in
the presence of women.
The suit of Thomas H. Geary, OF
Altoona, Pa, to recover counsel
fees of $14, 900 from the National
Bank of Elkton, for efecting the
sale of $189,000 in bonds for the
bank, ended in judgment of mol
pros in the Circuit Court at Ches-
tertown, last week.
AS a precaution against an out.
break between union and non union
men at work on the new bridge
at Perryville, detectives are on
guard and all persons not holding
passes are forbidden crossing the
bridge on foot between the hours
of & D. nj. and 6 a. m.
The following are the recently
elected officers of the Home and
Foreign Missionary Society of Rock
Presbyterian church, near Fair
Hill: President, Mrs. Samuel M.
Huston; vice-pres., Mrs. J. B.
Mackey; sec., Mrs. j. Alfred Mack.
ey; tres, Mrs. Samuel Gatchell;
sec. of literature, Mrs. Geo. Pierce.
John w. Boulden, of Elkton, was
tried before the United States
Court at Baltimore last week, on
the charge of illegally receiving a
Government pension for Is years,
and found guilty. He was only
sentenced to thirty days In Jail,
the plea being made that he had
not wilfully misrepresented the
facts.
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Newark, Middletown and Elk.
ton Presbyterian Churches have ar
ranged to hold evangelistic services
a week in each church, all the pas
tors to be present and concentrate
their efforts in the one field, until
until all three have been visited.
The work began in the Newark
Church on Sunday, and has con-
tinued each night Of the past week.
From Newark the three pastors
will proceed to Elkton and thence
to Middletown.
The Fort Casimir woolen mills,
at New Castle DEL, idle for several
wears. have been purchased by