The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-13

There are six cases of scarlet
fever reported in the town of West
Grove.
The Port Deposit Press suspend
ed publication with this weeks
issue on account of lack OF support.
The approaching marriage of
Miss Edith Maude Clendenning, of
Kenneth, and Harry Swift, of
Zion, is announced.
Charles M. Boulder, one of the
largest merchants of Elkton, is SER
iously i'll, suffering with a cancer.
His recovery is doubtful.
The textile mill of the Baldwin
Manufacturing Company, at Elk
Mills, resumed operations on Mon
day after being closed for two
weeks.
John Racine, of near Elkton,
while on a visit to his brother-in-
law, Armstrong Jackson, on Satnr-
Gay, was kicked in the head by a
horse and seriously injured.
Mrs. Smallwood, of Cherry Hill
received a bad cut on her hand by
her little son. pulling knife out of
her hand while washing it. The
wound required several stitches.
While handling a gun at his
home in Bel Air, Joseph Jacobs,
the young son of Frank Jacobs,
accidentally shot himself in the
foot, inficting a dangerous wound.
A defective flue caused the
destruction by fire of the tenant
house on the Mckinney farm in
Elk Neck, a few days ago. The
family of Fletcher Harris, the
tenant, lost all their household
goods.
In the presence of large con.
gregation, the Methodist Protestant
Church at Leeds was reopened and
dedicated Sunday morning. The
sermon was preached by DR.. F. t.
Tagg, president of the General
Conference.
The Ladies' Missionary Society of
West Nottingham church will meet
at the manse next Thursday after
noon, 10th inst, at 2 O'Clock.
Those who have not brought in
their mite boxes will please do so at
this meeting.
A team owned by Joseph Fl
lQuigley, of New Castle, Del, was
struck by a northbound express on
the Pennsylvania Railroad at New
port, one day last week, both
horses being killed, while the
the driver, Joseph Kelly, had a
narrow escape.
A petition has been filed in the
United States District Court against
the American Pottery Supply Com.
pany of Hartford asking that they
be adjudicated bankrupt. The
company operated the Husband
Flint Mill and owned the Klondike
farm near Castleton.
| Alonzo Scott has sold his prop
erty at Fair Hill to Smith Williams
of Kembleville, for $500.
The Powell farm of AZ acres, near
Bacon Hill, was sold Tuesday to
Frank CorrideaD, for 800.
The McCabe property in Elkton
has been sold by R. q. Thackery,
Attorney, to Lewis McCabe, COL,
for $500.
The partially completed dwelling
of j. T. Baldwin, at Aberdeen, yas
damaged by fire one night last week.
A stove had been placed in one of
the upper rooms for the purpose of
drying the plaster, and is supposed
to have caused the fire, which
resulted in damage to the extent of
800 before being extinguished by
the fire company.
Edward Griest, brakeman on an
extra Baltimore Central freight,
whose home is near Nottingham,
Pa, met with painful but not ser
ious accident in Lenni Yard last
week. He was riding between the
cars while rounding a curve when
his hips and legs were caught and
badly squeezed and lacerated.
The Medical and Chirurgical
Faculty of Maryland presented to
the State of Maryland Saturday
afternoon portrait of the late DR..
John Archer, of Bel Air. William
Pepper Constable, of Elkton, de
] liYered the presentation snaech.