The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-17

ing friends in Camden.
Thos. N. Lakeland is lying very
| i'll at his home at Principle.
The young ladies of Port Deposit
will give a leap year dance in that
town Friday evening next.
The Cecil farmers Club met on
Wednesday at the home of Robt.
T. Cameron, near Pennington.
Mrs. j. D. G. Pownall, of
Swarthmore, is the guest of her
daughter, Mrs. a. L. Burlington.
Nj. and Mrs. Jesse T. Cameron
are moving into their recently com
pleted dwelling on Cherry street.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Saml. P. Ryan are
spending the winter at the homeSof
their daughter, Mrs. w. K. Terry,
of Perkasie, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Spence,
of Garland, Hartford county, eel
ebrated their sixtieth wedding an
niversary Saturday at their home
in Garland.
Miss Ida E. Morgan and Clay
ton O. Buckworth were married
"Wednesday evening, 9Th inst, at
1.-THE BRIDES home in Chesapeake
City, by Rev. T. G. Smoot.
Mr.. Robert Trimble and Miss
Anna Lynch were quietly married
at the M. P. parsonage, Bay View,
on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 8,
by Rev. g. r. Strausburg.
On account of i'll health, Rev..
Robert Roe, pastor of Betterton
Methodist Church has resigned.
and Rev. E. n. Collins will sue
coed him.
The Newark, Delaware. Ledger,
has informed its patrons that IN
less white paper takes a drop in
price the subscription to the Ledg
er will be advanced from 81 to 81 80
per year.
A petition from the Women's
christian Temperance Union of
Kent County has been sent to the
Maryland Legislature asking to
enact curfew law for the towns
in that county.
Conductor Johnson G.. Gully, of
Oxford, who has been in the EN-
Eploy of the Pennsylvania Railroad
for twenty five years, has resigned
and will embark in the delivery
business in his home town.
| DR.. Stanley Steele, of Chesapeake
City. who is now an auditor for the
dupont Powder Company, of Will
mington, has been stricken with
Typhoid fever, and is now in a
hospital at Berkeley, California.
The members of Grace Metho.
dist Protestant Church, Belair,
have rented the Odd Fellows Hail
in that town in which to worship
until a new church is built. Their
beautiful edifice was reduced to
ashes recently.
| William Holloway, who oper.
ates saw mill near Lapidum,
Hartford county, while working at
the mill on Thursday afternoon,
had a heavy log to fall on his
right leg, breaking the leg in two
places between the ankle and the
knee.
j An oil portrait of the late Gov
ernor Phillip F. Thomas, of Easton,
the work of the school children
from the Easton High School,
was presented to Governor Crothers
at Annapolis Monday. States
Attorney Covington made the
presentation speech.
| The will of Miss Margaret Cum
mings has been admitted to probate
in the Orphans Court. She de.
vises all her property to her
brother, T. Herbert Cummings, of
Conowingo, and names him as ex
ecutor. The will bears date Nov.
10, 1907, and is witnessed by DR..
George w. Gillespie and Robert A.
Mccullough.
At a special meeting of the di-
rectors of Farmers Il Mechanics
Insurance Company held last Satur
day, Alfred Kirk rendered his
resignation as president of the
company and A. ]. Kitchener was
elected to fill out the 1nexpired
term. Mr.. Kinks resignation was
rendered and accepted on account
of his i'll health.
Master Robert L4awder, of
Havre de Grace, has been appoint