The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-11-01
RISING Sun, CECIL COUNTY, MD, FRIDAY, NOVEMI

Oxford milk dealers have raised
the price of milk to eight cents per
quart.
Growers on the Eastern Shore
received about SO, 100000 for their
tomato crop this year.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has recently made survey of
a route from Warton station to
Nicholson's to Colchester and Rock
Hall.
James W. Frizzell, the prohibi-
tion candidate for Governor, open
ed his campaign Tuesday by ad-
dressing a large crowd at the
Masonic Temple at Bel Air.
The high wind on Wednesday
night of last week blew down the
iron smoke stack on the Oxford
washer works. The wrecked stack
will be replaced with brick one.
Andrew W. Reed, of Lower Ok
ford, suffered a stroke of paralysis
Wednesday afternoon while work
ing in field on his farm. Mr..
Reed is in his list year. His con-
dition is serious.
Residents of Galena, Kent
county, are organizing a local bank
to succeed the branch bank of the
Farmers Trust Banking & Deposit
Company, of Baltimore, which
closed last week.
Rev. J. Morton Sciple preached
his farewell sermon in the Port
Deposit Presbyterian Church Sun
day evening. Mr.. Sciple has been
called to the Dutch Reformed
church, at Napanock, N. Y.
1t is said the prospects are bright
for next Congress making an ap.
preparation for the purchase of the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal,
with the view of having it con
verted into free ship canal.
Among the cases to be tried at
the October term of the Circuit
Court for Kent county, in session
at Chestertown, are two for murder,
Joseph Francis, colored of Cecilton,
for shooting another negro at
Galena, and Mary Pritchard,
colored, for drowning her child.
The Maryland Home Coming
Association, as token of the ap
probation of the efforts of the press
toward making Old Home Week a
success, has sent out to the various
editors throughout the State a
number of pretty badges in the
shape of the seal of Maryland, the
receipt of one of which the JOURNAL
begs to acknowledge.
The members of the Union NJ
E. Church will hold poultry and
oyster supper in the church,
Thursday and Friday evenings,
November 7 and s. Ice cream,
cak, and confectionery will also
be on sale. There will be fancy
table under the direction of one of
the ladies. Proceeds for the
benefit of church Improvements.
DIR. George F. Morrow, for sew
eral years a dentist in Elkton, who
was recently divorced from his
second wife, after much litigation,
entered the matrimonial state Mon
day for the third time, when he
was married to Mrs. Jennie Du
Bois, of Baltimore. Rev. l. a.
Springer, of the United Evangelical
Church, performed the ceremony.
The barn of William Mahan,
near West Chester, was set on fire
through carelessness and burned to
the ground by tramps Thursday
evening of last week. Dan Mullin,
one of the miscreants, escaped and
has not been located; the other,
Frank Haney, was terribly burned
and is now in a critical condition
in the Chester County Hospital.
The loss sustained amounted to
5000.
One new movement of the Mary
land Sunday School Association is
the Cradle Roll which enrolls all
the babies. 1t gives a certificate to
the mother which is usually hung
in the home, it remembers Baby's
birthday, offers prayer for baby
in the Sunday school, visits the
home, and Oooperates with the
parents IN its training. 1t is easy
to organized even in the smallest
Sunday school and costs only a
trifle for supplies, but is wonderful