The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-12
OXFORD AND VICINITY


Oxford is its self again.
Fox hunting has opened the hunting season
with vim.
Pumpkin custard on tap.
Charles Zell has packed his belongings and de.
parted for Avondale.
George Carr, formerly of this section has re-
moved from Coatesville to Chester.
Banker Spencer has purchased the Charles Bye
farm at Hickory Hill. The price paid was about
$500.
William Alexander the well known Market
Street fruit merchant has purchased the property
of the late John C. Strickland at the corner of
the Railroad and Market Street. Consideration
$4,000. After extensive improvement Mr.. Alex
ander will remove to the new quarters.
The corn is most all cut and the crop is only an
average" one. Fodder is being already hauled
in. On account of some fields being laid low
few farmers report an exceedingly poor crop.
At this writing negotiations are being closed for
the purchase of the Oxford Hotel by Walter
Bidderson. Price $65,OOO This does not include
the price of the headaches.
minstrel show in the town hall drew large
audiences before its departure for Quarryville,
pocket books.
Abbotts creamery is expected to begin opera
ton by the middle of December.
The cool snap failed to exterminate the FREELY.
If they prowl around these nights much longer
they will be fitting around with frozen lights.
new fad has overtaken Oxford. That of
complete record of the baby on the part of its
mother. The presents, first word spoken, its
carriage rides and so on 1t is fortunate that
some mothers will not live long enough to write
the last chapter.
Apropos toage of old horses making the rounds
of the Press John A. Leeke has old dick" age
% years, works like a trooper any where you
place him, never had sick day in his life and
can beat many horses in yet From present
appearance he hasn't spent over half of his life.
Rodgers and Mason the undertakes have had
26 funerals in % days. During the month of Aug.
they were the directors of "a burials. Recently
they had five bodies in their care in one day.
Towsend Pugh, John 7. Broadway, Charles
Wilson, all deceased. and John A. Leeke were
bunking chums of Company C,-124th Pa. Vol.
during the Civil War.
The debt that we all must pay,
They've all Cancelled, except John A.
His debt is still running, it Leeks some way.
pastor in recent sermon made the state
ment that zone should smother their inclina-
TONS" For years oxford folks have been doing
that very thing for after inclining their arms in
taking a drink they most invariably take to
Glove or q little lemon peel in smothering it.
Professor Osler's mother is living in Toronto,
Canada, at the age of a hundred years. Can any
OF our readers inform US why she wasn't chloro.
formed forty years ago?
1t is reported that large Chicago mail order
house has contracted with the Spring Lawn rug
people to take their entire output and more too,
hence the addition being erected to the building
and the requirement of an additional force of
hands.
Dr. P. c. Chalfant has lost horse. That is he
hasn't exactly lost it, but he has that morbid
feeling that some pretty blue-eyed golden haired,
rosy checked young lady will soon be masti-
eating part of its carcass in the form of gum be-
tween her pearly teeth while pair of shoes made
from the hide may be encasing her shapely feet,
while the mares bones will be assisting the farm
er in filling his corn crib and wheat bin and
placing eyes in the potatoes. A case of reformed
spelling-Kolick.
n WHO has pldCG Oh SuuT6SSuyS that
the article of agreement is so tight, he nds that
it is with difficult he is able to leave the house.
We do not expect that he will be ever able to
take it with him.
A young Oxford swain carries his best girls
''photo' around with him in his wallet and while
exposing it to parcel of friends the other night,
a lady, no doubt thinking he carried the wallet
in his inside coat pocket made the remark, "He
carries it next to his heart" There was laugh
among the knowing. He didn't. He carried it
in his hip pocket
1t is known fact that man with one arm has
double the strength in the other and that man
with one eye has higher seeing powers in the
other. Nottingham school boy wants to know
then why COW with only two teates does not
give quantity of milk equal to four.
The match trust has fallen in love with the
tailors They have introduced a new match
called the BIRD Eye" match that will strike
every time, any time, everywhere. They do not
take fire" for second two after being
scratched and are noseless. Several young men
in East Nottingham have struck the match on
their uplifted trouser leg and in Withdrawing it
quickly and not noticing fire they have sent it
back for another hasty scratch when the match
took fame burning hole in their brooches and
temper.
To the trust the "birds eye" may be all right,
And to the tailor, the same,
But they'll take another birds eye view of the
matter.
When their own breeches get in the fame.
One farmer has already gone cunning, that is
after satisfaction He had an old thresher. He
desired larger one. He traded his old one in and
fifty sweet williams (bils) to boot tor one claimed
to have been run only year. While threshng
it suddenly began to chew the wheat all to
pieces. The farmer sent for a man whose brain
capacity was sufficiently large enough to under.
stand such things and as soon as he saw the
"chewer of tie grain" he recognized it as one he
had in use four years and some one else three
times 1865 days before that and said that it never
was any good and that he could do nothing with
it. The farmers brain is now on fire and we
advise the use ola high silk plug hat to let out
smoke and steam. The Oxford band will now
strike up "The Thresher left behind me-"
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