The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-09-25
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

AHO ldll nCCLluS VI tHO NCW Odo
tie Presbytery will be held in
Smyrna, Del, on October 6 and 9.
The three children recently born
to Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Rothwell,
of Upper Elk Neck, have all since
died.
While Wakeman Munnikhuysen,
! captain of the Bel Air baseball
team, was sliding to a base his
collarbone was broken.
A ruling by Attorney General
Strauss fixes the hours for regis
tration in the counties of Maryland
from a. m. to s p. m.
Hartman Taylor, of Kent county,
has domesticated flock of Mallard
ducks which he Matched and raised
from eggs found in the woods.
The livery business of A. r.
Crowl, 10 Oxford, has been pur
chased by Geo. q. Brown, Of
Lincoln, who took charge at once,
During the season just closed
about $4,000 baskets of peaches
were shipped from Milford, Del,
by railroad and 10000 baskets by
boat.
Oxford's council has passed an
anti-spitting ordinance for that
town, With five dollar penalty for
splitting on the pavement, public or
private steps.
A festival was held in Lewisville
recently for the benefit of board
walk fund, at which the sum of $31
was Melted, and the work of repair
ing the walk will be done at once
A handsome new flag has been
presented to New London High
School by the Jr. O. U. A. M, and
| was unfurled on Wednesday after
noon last, with appropriate exer.
cises.
Governor Crothers has appointed
State Road Engineer W. W. Crosby
as the representative Of Maryland,
to the International Road Congress.
which meets at Paris, France, Octo
Der 10 IS.
Rev. W. L. White. pastor of
Chestertown Methodist Episcopal
Church for the past five years, has
notified his congregation that he
desires change at the end of the
present conference year.
For saving Roy Ferguson from
drowning at Point Lookout several
weeks ago, Carl Furniss, of Oxford,
was presented with handsome
gold watch by the boys mother,
Mrs. Abraham Ferguson, of Bart
vile.
At a recent meeting of the
Chester County Historical Society,
Lewis K. Stubs presented the
Society with photographs of stones
which mark the Mason and Dixon
line, including rock in the Sus-
quehanna river in which an iron
bolt marks the State line.
At Mt. Pleasant church next
Sunday morning the subject of the
sermon will be "Common Honesty"
and in the evening a Rally DAY
program will be given.
There were forty present last
week at the Bible Glass. We
would be glad to have you come on
Friday evening.
The following officers have been
elected by the Perryville Americas
Band for the ensuing year:-T.
Morgan Owens, President and
Treasurer; Emery E. Ward, Vice
President; T. M. Owens, E. E.
Ward, E. 81. Owens, G. D. Smelt
ger and Harry White. Directors;
Blair Hopkins, Musical Director.
Capt. VIM. E. Moore, left Mon
day on the schooner "Wiley,"
loaded with sailed herring for
Richmond. Capt. Moore will take
seventeen hundred barrels to that
market, and expects to make the
trip in two weeks, and that he can
do so, an important wager is at
stake.-Havre de Grace Repub.
lican.
Hopewell M. E. church, Wood
lawn, Rev. ]. Howard Gray pastor,
Sabbath service September 81 |:
Sunday school at $50; preaching at
1880 at Hopewell, -subject-"A
Hiding Place." Epworth League
at 1880; preaching at Asbury, 8 p.
m. and 7:45 p. M, evening sub
ject-'.Three Things We cannot
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