The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-09-13

City, is visiting the Misses Camp
bell.
Ralph Wilson returned on Tues
day from sojourn of several days
by the seashore at Ocean Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. K. Terry and
SOD, Harold, of Perkasie, Pa, were
guests the present week of relatives
in town.
Miss Elizabeth r. Stephens and
Miss Mary s. Haines have returned
from a pleasant visit to the family
of Rev. Ell. A. G. Westertield, in
Wilmington.
Norman Smith, of Oxford, had
the misfortune to fall from wagon
at the johnson Carriage Shops, in
that town, on Saturday afternoon
and fracture his arm.
| Miss Margaret Durham, of Ok
ford, ami Miss Nellie Shea, of
Rising Sun, have returned from a
weeks visit with Philadelphia and
Wilmington friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Kirk and
daughter, Miss Miriam, of Dover,
Del, were guests the present week
at Maple Lawn, the home of
Thomas J. Wilson and family.
While cunning for squirrels
Frank Merchant, of Galena, Kent
county, accidentally shot himself In
the foot, severing his big toe.
The Susquehanna Tribe of Red
Men, of Colora, will attend services
in a body at Octoraro M. E church
on Sunday morning next, at II
Eo'clock.
Several cases of diphtheria are
reported in the town of West
Grove, and the houses in which
they occur have been strictly
quarantined.
| An Italian by the name of Peitro
Guihana, was accidentally killed
at Mccall Ferry, Saturday after
noon, his skull and right thigh
being fractured.
The season for catching oysters
with tongs in the Chesapeake bay,
and its tributaries opened on Sept.
2. The dredging season will not
open until October Is.
The changing of the railroad be
tween Benton and Mccall Ferry is
about completed and it is expected
through trains will run from Port
Deposit to Columbia in about a
week.
Capt. Emil Holm, of Port De
posit, suffered stroke of paralysis
while on board his steamer City
Belle, on Thursday of last week.
His epndition is somewhat i'm
proved.
The stock of j. W. McElhany's IS
store at Quarryville, was sold on
saturday afternoon at public sale
to S. Fleisman, of Philadelphia,
for $4925. The store will be re-
opened for business.
Walter Fielis, retired farmer
of Lincoln, met death on Wednes-
day afternoon of last week by fall
ing through trap doorin the floor
of the mill of Henry Cope, dis
tance of twelve feet. The deceased
was 81 years old and unmarried.
While engaged in removing the
machinery OF the compressed air
plant of Kerbaugh & Co, along the
G. & P. d. r.. r., Friday, the
smoke stack fell and struck Jacob
Kunkle, of Fairfield, one of the
employees, dislocating his left
ankle.
On Friday afternoon last
Caromele' Dl Marionne, an Italian
employed as track hand on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was
killed at Swan Creek, near Havre-
de Grace. He got out of the way
OF an eastbound train and was
struck by an cypress on the west
bound track and thrown about
so feet. His head was crushed
and left leg broken in three places.
A number of citizens of West
Grove have formed company for
the erection of a hotel in that town.
The building will be brick, three
story, 39x60 feet, containing
twenty nine rooms, with all modern
eonveniences, bath rooms, steam
heated, electric lights and large
basement suitable for restaurant.
An effort will be made to have the
building ready for occupancy by
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