The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-12-01

Extra services will begin at Cal
vert M. E. church on Sunday eve
ming next.
John w. Mccullough has been
appointed deputy postmaster at
North East.
E. E. Brown, of Philada., has
! purchased the Levi Kirk farm near
Calvert, for $3, 500.
The enrolment of pupils at
Havre de Grace High School is 900,
the largest in its history.
The Ladies Aid Society of Perry
vile M. E. church realized $85 by
their recent oyster supper.
Isaac V. Pyle has been appoint
ed postmaster at Joppa, Hartford
county, vice Richard A. Shefels,
resigned.
Adam Peoples has purchased the
general store of w. r. Nesbitt, in
Port Deposit, and takes possession
on December LIST.
The Epworth League of Hope
well M. e. church will hold a doll
social at the home of Mrs. Fl. 81.
Keilholtz, December 9.
G. A. Anderson packed $4,000
cases of tomatoes at his two can
neries at Conowingo and in Har
ford county this season.
Miss Elsie Irwin, Lombard's g lady
gunner, bagged five rabbits and
woodcock one day recently, as the
result of few hours sport.
A trade mark has been granted
to G. w. Baker & Sons, of Aber
deem Hartford county, for canned or
preserved fruits or vegetables.
The New High School building
at North East is rapidly nearing
completion and is expected to be
ready fer occupancy by the first of
the year.
The next meeting of the Pres
bytery of Baltimore which includes
the Presbyterian churches of Har
ford county, will be held in Ridgely
Street Presbyterian Church, Balti-
more, on Tuesday, December IL.
In view of the fact of several
dogs having been bitten by a sup
posed rabid animal which passed
through Elkton a few days ago, the
Town Council has ordered all dogs
muzzled on and after Dec. LIST.
Over four hundred persons par.
took of the oyster supper held on
Wednesday evening Of last week at
Lewisville M. E church. The
gross receipts were s14l.l5, of
which amount $96.50 was cleared.
| Governor War6eld has issued a
pardon to Thomas r. Freeman, of
Elkton, sentenced at the December
term of Court in 1908 to three years
in the House of Correction, for
misuse of money due insurance
companies for which he was local
agent.
The Willing Workers, of Rock
Presbyterian church, have organ
lied with the following officers /;
Prest., Miss Nellie Armstrong /,
vice. .prest., Miss Minnie Gatchell,
sec., Miss Elizabeth Maokey, treas,
Miss Julia BrOkaw.
A barge loaded with 900 tons of
coal enroute through the Chesa-
peake & Delaware canal, struck a
rock in the basin at Chesapeake
City and sank. 1t was pumped out
by several tugs and the coal traps.
fered to another barge.
8. Griffith Davis has sold his
farm of 100, near Darlington, Har-
ford county, to James L. Breeze, a
millionaire of New York city, for
$4,000. The property lies on
Swan Greek and the Bay Shore
and has on it valuable ducking
grounds.
An examination of the head of
the beagle dog which bit the young
son Of Charles Rryson, of Elk Land
ing last week, revealed the animal
to have been suffering from rabies,
and the child was promptly taken
to the Pasteur Institute, Baltimore,
for treatment,
The colored people of Kennett
Square, who are opposed to sep
arate room in the public school for
their children, and who lost their
case in the Chester County Court,