The midland journal., 1908-10-16

mission has announced the work OF
constructing permanent roads will
not begin until spring.
William J.>Myers has been ap-
pointed rural mail carrier and
Samuel J. Thompson substitute, at
Pylesville, Hartford county.
"A number of Perryyille young
people have organized social club
known as the Phelix Wedges,
which meets every two weeks.
Thieves visited the fruit store of
w. W. Alexander, in Oxford, one
night last week and stole several
baskets of peaches and grapes.
The property of Mrs. Sarah A.
Brown, containing 10 acres, near
Elm, has been purchased by VIM.
q. Hilton, of Oak Hill, at private
terms.
E. 81. w. Harlan, of Bel Air,
well-known in local base ball
circles, has been appointed coach
for the Princeton University foot
ball team.
Annapolis is preparing for gala
week, opening November %, in
celebration of the Bi Centennial of
the granting of its charter by
Queen Anne.
A tablet showing a life size
figure Of the late Bishop Leighton
Coleman will be erected as a
memorial in ST. Johns Episcopal
Church, Wilmington.
| Ell. Clay Ward has been elected
Instructor of the Industrial De
partment, and Miss May V. Bean
Fchamp an assistant teacher, of
Havre desGrace High School.
The planets Jupiter and Venus
were in conjunction Tuesday morn
ing at eleven o'clock. They are
still very close together in the
early morning, and may be seen 10
the northeastern sky between 4:3O
a. m. and dawn.
A we'll has been drilled at the
Abbott Alderny Diaries, Oxford,
to the depth of 3913 feet, and a
strong flow of water struck. Over
800 feet of the depth was drilled
through solid rock, and but "a feet
of casing was required for the
we'll.
Unless the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company grants
free use of its lines in any part of
the county to its Havre de Grace
subscribers the Town Council has
given notice that it will not grant
any further concessions to the conf
pany.
VIM. H. Miles, of Kennett
Square, is reported as gathering
immense chestnuts from his trees.
One Of the largest measured 81
inches in circumference. He has
already sold over $50 worth this
season, getting 20 cents quart for
most Of them.
James Foreaker, of near Singerly,
has been locked up in Elkton Jail
for cutting Mrs. Frank Boulden on
the hand with a corn knife. The
woman's husband and Foreaker got
into drunken quarrel and in try
ling to separate the belligerents
Mrs. Boulden received a cash on
the hand:
The Goth annual reunion of
Shows Battery was held at Perry.
Vile on October 8. Twenty. three
of the veteran members of the
Battery were present. Robt. Craig
was elected president; James Gully,
vice. president; Thomas Brown, sec
retary.. Perryville was selected as
the next meeting place.
HopeweIl M. E. Church, Wood
lawn, Rev. j. Howard Gray pastor.
Sabbath services, October 18 Sun
day school at $50; preaching at
1890 a. M, by the pastor, sermon
to Red Men; Rev. Amos r. Brown
will preach in the evening at g.
O'Clock; EpwOrth League at 7:30.
Preaching at Asbury by DR.. A. s.
Movbray at 8 p. m.
Returning to Oxford on a L., o.
& s. passenger train on Thursday
evening last, after visit to Ian
caster where she had taken her five.
months-old child for treatment,
Mrs. George w. Keiffer was great
| ly shocked when the little sufferer