The midland journal., 1906-10-19

the Port Deposit base ball club was
won by John Morgan.
"Chestnuting" is a popular di
version at present. The crop is
plentiful in this section.
The W. G. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. A. E. Reynolds on Thursday,
Oct. 25th, at 2:3O p. M.
Mrs. Hettie Foster is having her
residence on Wilson avenue i'm
proved by coat of paint.
A concrete pavement was laid
this week in front of the dwelling
on East Main street occupied by s..
P. Ryan.
Samuel S. King of Elkton, won a
watch offered by the Philadelphia
Sunday Inquire for the solution of
of a puzzle.
The jury in the Gillespie Penn
sylvania railroad 100000 damage
suit visited the scene of accident
at Barnsley on Tuesday.
The October meeting of Cecil
Farmers Club was held at the
home of DIR. j. [. France near Port
Deposit, on Wednesday.
DR.. Arthur Mitchell, of Elkton,
has invested in runabout auto.
mobile. The machine is of a type
built especially for physicians.
The Nehemiah Guild has been
organized at Port Deposit for the
purpose of liquidating the debt
against Tome Memorial M. E.
church.
W. Louis Ryan has staked out
the ground for his new dwelling, to
be erected on the lot adjoining the
house at present occupied by him,
on Cherry street.
The ladies of Charlestown M. e.
church will hold an oyster and
poultry supper in the basement of
the church on Friday and Satur-
day evenings, Oct. 19 and 20.
A beagle belonging to G. T. Dare
was struck by passenger train, at
the station on Saturday morning,
and so badly injured that the ami
NAL was shot to relieve its suffering
The W. G. I. U. of Hopewell will
hold an oyster supper at the home
of Mrs. 81. 81. Keilholtz on Friday
evening, October 10, from to 10
o'clock. If stormy next evening.
j. H. Kimble and G. G. Tome,
of Port Deposit, left last week fol
Rock Island, H., where they will
attend the twenty.sixth annual
session of the Farmers National
Congress.
The Cecil County Medical Society
held its Fall meeting in Elkton, on
Thursday, October IS. The sub
iect of discussion was "Pneumonia
and its Treatment" by Drs. Mitch
ell, Miller and Carrico.
AL. F. Wheeler's shows, which
exhibited in Rising Sun on Thurs
day, will be quartered on the Ok
ford Fair grounds this winter, the
management having rented the
property for that purpose.
The enrolment of the boys board.
ing school of the Jacob Tome Insti.
tute is about 17O, the largest in the
history of the school, with students
from more than half Of the States
of the Union, Panama, Mexico and
Cuba.
j. Andrew McKenney, of Elk
Neck, had one of his horses killed
while in the pasture field, by a
ball from a rifle fired by some un.
known person who was on the
other side of the Elk river from the
pasture.
An important meeting of the
Sixth District Local Option Con-
ference will be held in the lecture
room of James M. E. church, Ris.
ing Sun, Saturday, Goth inst, at
2:3O p. m. All friends of the good
cause are urged to be present.
George S. Fox, of this town, who
is extensively engaged in the lad.
der business with headquarters in
Philadelphia, has purchased a
manufacturing plant in Skowhe-
gan, Maine, near the source of sup
ply of material for his ladders.
While a horse and buggy were
being taken aross the new railroad
bridge at Perryville, during a
heavy wind, the buggy was blown
from the car, and Jos. Gillespie had
a narrow escape from being blown
with the vehicle into the river.