The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-09-27

4AAtoAJ OOACSO1 "o OSAS,
II. S. Smith, of Redwood, W.
Va, is a visitor at his old home in
town.
Miss Genevieve Turner left on
Monday morning for Roanoke, Va,
where she will enter Virginia
College.
Norman Kirk has re. entered the
University of Maryland, Baltimore,
where he is pursuing course in
medicine.
Misses Rosamond and Bessie
Howard, of East Orange, N. j., are
guests of Miss Charlotte Otis, at
the Parsonage.
Barclay Reynolds, who has been
spending his vacation at his home
in town, has resumed. his duties as
instructor in Blight's School,
Philadelphia.
Misses Mollie s. Keen and Bessie
j. Meloney have returned from an
extended visit with Wilmington,
Philadelphia, Norristown and Sc
cane relatives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asher Clugston and
David Clugston, of Columbia City,
Indiana, were entertained the pres
ent week at the home of w. T. B.
R. Robertson and family, near town.
Drs. J. Fl. Jenness and T. B.
Moore were present at the notifi-
cation meeting of the democratic
State nominees held at the Lyric,
Baltimore, on Thursday night of
last week.
Mr.. Charles Rhodes, of Dauphin
county, Pa, and Miss Rigolette
Ward, of Charlestown, were mar.
ried Saturday at the M. E. Par
sonage in Elkton, by Rev. DR.. l..
E. Barrett.
| In getting off trolley car in
Baltimore one day last week Mrs.
Nellie Wagner met with a very
painful accident. She stepped
upon a loose cobble stone, fell and
received badly sprained ankle.
Saml. J. Terry, William Neil,
Forrest Baker and Herbert Kirk
drove to Mccall Ferry, on the Sus'
quehanna, Sunday, and viewed the
work being done on the immense
dam and power plant at that place.
Rev. and Mrs. John Pickering
Otis, have issued cards for the
marriage of their daughter, Miss
Charlotte Dettmar Otis, to Mr..
Morris Groverman, of Baltimore,
on Saturday evening, October IL,
at six o'clock. in James M. E.
church, Rising Sun.
The Forest Hill Permanent
Building Association, of Hartford
county, has declared a semi annual
dividend of four per cent.
During a thunder storm last
week a hay stack on the. premises
of Lewis Wood, near Oxford, was
struck by lightning and destroyed.
The Great Oak Manor Company,
which proposes to open pleasure
resort on the Kent county shore of
Chesapeake Bay, has been incor-
porated with $4,000 capital.
Edgar Campbell, Of Glen Roy,
cut severe cash in his head Fri
day, while chopping wood, a
clothesline DETECTING the axe and
causing it to strike him in the fore
head.
A tree cut last week near Lam
denburg, Pa, for timber measured
81 feet Z inches in circumference
at the base, and Is feet inches "a
feet from the base. 1t was an i'm
mense log.
Fifty cases of typhoid fever are
reported in Newark, Del. A
physician of the town has given it
as his opinion that the spread of
the disease was due to washing
milk cans with impure water.
Lewis Brown, stone mason of
Chadds Ford, was killed at that
place Saturday night. He had
imbibed very freely and gone to
sleep on the railroad track, a pass
ing freight train decapitating him.
AS the result of a scrap with
John Bryan during which Isaac
Griest, of Oxford, had his thumb
chewed, if was fonnd necessary to
amputate the member, the wound
refusing to heal and the bone be.
looming diseased.