The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-03-13

appointed special night Waterman
for EIkton, by the Town Council.
Application has been made to the
Legislature for q charter for a State
bank at Millington, Kent county,
with capital Of 500, 900.
Judge Van Bibber has imposed a
fine of $3.50 and costs upon Eliza
Revel, who was convicted Of vic.
lating the local option law of Har-
ford county.
DR.. Robert Watson, for seven
years pastor of the Oxford Presby
terian Church, has been called tnI
the Chambers Wylie Memorial
Church, Philadelphia.
The Oxford School Board has
been forced to yield to the popular
demand for fire escapes, and will
have them placed on the school
buildings in the town.
A prize Minorca hen belonging
to T. III. Ward, of Jarrettsville,
Hartford county, recently laid an
egg weighing 81 ounces and
measuring 8 by 81 inches.
Sameul Winchester, of Chrome,
last week saw on his premises a
buzzard which he caught four years
ago and released, after attaching
small sleigh bell to its leg.
A number of West Grove boys
have organized a Fife and Drum
Corps and expect to make their
bow to the public az a musical
organization on the 4th of July.
Chester Mayhem, colored, wanted
for the theft of a horse, which he
stole before Christmas, at Barts
dale, Pa, was captured on Friday
last near Wakefield and turned
over to the authorities.
The young people of 0ctoraro M.
E. church will hold leap year
box social in the church on the
evening of March 10Th. Gentlemen
please bring boxes. If stormy,
come the following evening.
The application of Thomas Ken
nedy for a liquor license for the
West Grove Inn, against which
there was bitter protest by the
citizens of that town, was refused
by the court at West Chester.
At the recent annual meeting of
Forest Hill Permanent. Building
Association, Of Hartford county, a
semi annual dividend of per cent
was declared, making total divi.
dend for the year of Z per cent.
Edward A. Mullin, of Kennett
Square, who sued the county Of
Chester for $4,000 for the loss of
his leg through the breaking of
bridge by Evan Moores engine near
Dowingtown, has settled with the
county for $6250.
Residents of Newark and vicinity
have petitioned the Levy Court for
the matchmaking of the Tele
graph road, extending from the
western limits of the town to the
Maryland State line, distance of
about one and one half miles.
Harry Mounier, the negro who
murdered the IS year old white
girl, Vivian Phillips, in Worcester,
Mass, with whom he was in
fatuated, and then committed
suicide, formerly lived in Oxford.
He was nearly white, and passed
himself off as a white man in
Worcester. Mounier left Oxford
two years ago.
In attempting to arrest three
Italians employed by the Sueque-
hanna Power Co., who refused to
pay their board, Constable Jesse
McNutt, of Darlington. was badly
used up. The Italians relieved the
officer of his pistol andhandcuffs and
beat him over the head, cutting a
cash that required five stitches to
close. The foreigners made their
escape and have not been ap-
pretended.
Probably there are not many
persons aware of the fact that three
signers of the Declaration of indie
pendence were once students of the
New London Academy. The i'm.
mortals were Thomas Mexican,
afterwards Governor of Pennsyl.
vania; George Read and James
Smith The Academy in those
days stood on the Robert A. Crowl
farm three miles south of New
ondon.-Kennett News.