The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-09-04

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grove, near the church, this after
noon.
Prof. j. W. Tinsley, of Newport
News, Va, has been appointed
principal of the Havre de Grace
High School.
A Laurel, DEL, truck grower
raised 5,19O watermelons from $500
hills this season and secured
$31 l 40 for his output.
The Pure Oil Company, of Will
mington, has arranged to locate a
storage tank in Elkton, in opposi
sition to the Standard Oil Co.
Attorney General Strauss has
ruled that one mark will be suf-
ficient to vote the complete Presi
Dental elector portion Of the ticket.
A Bryan, Kern and Covington
Club has been organized at Port
Deposit with 200 members. Adam
Peoples is president, E. G. Gather
treasurer, R. A. Stephenson and
Philip r. Bond secretaries.
Governor Crothers has appointed
Edward G.. Wilson, of Elk Neck, as
one of the commission to represent
Maryland at the international Con,
gress of Fisheries to be held at
Washington during September.
There will be box social and
necktie social under the auspices of
Mt. Pleasant Epworth League, held
on the churchllawn Friday evening,
the 11th Of September. Next eve.
ming if stormy. Ladies please
bring boxes.
Ernest Congo, colored, of Cecil
county, convicted March, 1906, of
larceny and sentenced to four years
in the Maryland penitentiary, has
been granted pardon by Governor
Crothers on recommendation Of
Warden Weyler, of the peniten.
tiary.
AL. F. Wheeler has rented the
Oxford Fair Grounds as winter
quarters for his circus, and will
take possession about Nov. 1. The
horses belonging to the show will
be wintered with farmers in the
fneighborhood of Lambertville, New
Jersey.
A festival and supper will be
held in Sylmar M. e. Church,
Thursday evening, September 10.
Supper will consist of ham and
chicken sandwiches, cocoa and
coffee, from to s o'clock. Not
tingham Band will furnish music.
If stormy, next evening.
While at work for the American
Bridge Company, on the new Balti-
more and Ohio railroad bridge,
Gus Anderson had the middle
finger of his left hand caught be-
tween piece of iron and a piece of
timber, and so badly mashed that
amputation was necessary.
A large wood. leave has been pur-
chased by representative of the
American Tobacco Co., near Ben
ton Station. on the Columbia &
Port Deposit railroad. The soft
wood will be used in the manufac.
ture of tobacco boxes, and the other
for various purposes.
Oxford Town Council has sus-
pended Policeman Samuel Worth,
for one month, on the charge of
conduct unbecoming an officer, and
appointed Constable Vernon Ring
Ter in his place. The suspended
policeman, like some of his guests
at the lookup, has a fondness for
Oxford booze.
Hopewell M. E. church, Wood,
lawn Rev. J. Howard Gray, pas.
tor. Sabbath services September
| 6: Sunday school at $50 a. m.
Preaching 1890 a. M. and p. m.
Morning subject,-"The Face of
Jesus Christi" evening subject
"Peter Delivered from Prison. !"
Epworth League at 1880. Preach
ing at Asbury at 3 p. m.
The 18th year of West Noting
ham Academy will open September
2l with the following corps of in
structors Horace @. Gillespie, A.
B., Principal, mathematics and
science; Hubertis M. Cummings,
A. B., A. NJ, Latin, Greek and
French; Miss Mary L.. Clendenin,
A. B., history, German and English;
Rev. Saml. Polk, the Bible; Mrs.
Saml. Polk, drawing and painting.
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