The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-10-18

Pennsylvania now, Tuesday being
the first day of tue open season.
Rev. John Turner, colored, pas
tor of Allen A. NJ. E. church, Ok
ford, has resigned on account of i'll
health.
! A strange dog showing symptoms
of rabies was shot and killed on the
premises of Cary G. Kirk, Oxford,
4 Friday last.
Samuel DcDowell, of Oxford, is
the owner of finely broken
English setter of the Gladstone
strain, for which he has refused an
offer of $100.
Four loaded coal cars of a north
bound freight train were derailed
at Elkton station Tuesday night
blocking travel on the p, B. & W.
road for several hours.
F. E. William, editor of the Cecil
"Whig," and John s. Strahorn,
of Elkton, have been engaged to
deliver addresses for the temper
anee cause in Delaware.
Edward Doyle, of Oxford, has
purchased the farm in East Not
tingham township belonging to the
estate of John A. Kerr, deceased,
and containing Is acres, for 5000.
William J. Fisher, Of Havre de
Grace, who last winter fell on the
sidewalk, breaking his hip, has
entered suit against Havre de Grace
City Council for $4,000 damages.
| A republican meeting was held
at Colora on Monday evening
which was addressed by State Sen
ator Jos. I. France and F. E.
/ Williams, editor of the Cecil Wing.
/ The recent revival services held
at Perryville M. e. church resulted
in forty conversions. Rev. Asbury
Burke, the pastor, has been invited
to return to the charge for another
year.
|. Joseph Gonzales, of Hartford
county, has applied to the Bel Air
Court for a divorce from his wife,
Florence Gonzales, formerly of
Philadelphia, on the ground of
abandonment.
Carl, the. year old son of DIR.
R. L. Pennington, of Havre de
Grace, while playing with his pet
dog at his home last week, was
knocked down and his leg broken
leloW the knee.
The jury in the damage suit of
Mrs. Aderina g. Mitchell against
the Philadelphia, Baltimore &
Washington Railroad Company, in
the Circuit Court at Bel Air,
awarded the plaintiff $4,000
damages.
The Maryland Construction Com
pany, which has the contract to
build the power plant of the Sus-
quehanna Power Company, has be-
gun to rebuild the old paper mill
power plant for use during con-
structiOn.
Secretary Gortelyou has desig-
mated the National Bank of Port
Deposit as a depository for the
public moneys of the Government.
The gross deposits of this Bank
have increased $500, 900 in the past
four years.
Mrs. Sarah E. Willard, of Phila-
delphia, threatens to sue Oxford
Town Council if it fails to pays her
$3.50 claimed for the removal of
shade trees from her property
without permission when a new
walk was laid.
Clayton Erb, of Matric township,
Lancaster county, has been award
ed $1,345 damages by the viewers
Appointed by the Court, against
the Columbia 8 Port Deposit rail-
road, which constructed its new line
through his property.
The State Convention of the
Maryland Christian Endeavor
Union, will be held in the Lafayette
Square Presbyterian Church, Bal
timore, on November 13, IA and Is.
The address of welcome will be
made by Mayor Mahool.
Mrs. Ellen V. Riley, of Oxford,
charged with the theft of chickens
from Mrs. John Purcell, a neighbor,
was fined eight dollars and costs
last week by Squire Smith, OF that
town. Mrs. Purcell set watch on
her neighbor, whom she suspected,