The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-10-08

Providence.
The AL. F. Wheeler show will return to
Oxford on October 1S, and go into winter
quarters on the fair grounds.
The farm of Levin w. Skinner, near
Town Point, has been purchased by Jos.
w. Brooks, Jr., OF Madison, for $1,000
The Susquehanna river is reported SO
low at Harrisburg, Pa, that sand cart
teams are driving across it at that place.
During quarrel between Mary Will
son. colored, and negro man at Earle
vile, the woman was slashed with razor,
receiving deep cut.
Pretending to renovate feather beds, a
gang of sharpers is going through Della
ware substituting chicken for goose feath-
ers where bedding is entrusted to them.
Magistrate Gilpin, of Elkton, last week
sentenced Frank Cooper, colored, of that
town, to fifteen months in the House of
Correction on the charge of wife beating.
His right hand getting caught in the
cogs of Gaping machine at the cannery
of C. C. Rouse, near Bel Air, Dale Coale
had his thumb and three fingers crushed.
Charging that fish dams along the Sus-
quehanna river were not being con-
strncted according to law, suit has been
entered at Harrisburg against twenty-five
owners.
Comptroller Herring of the State Treas
ury on Friday announced quarterly dis
tribution of the State school tax, payable
October IS. Cecil countys apportionment
is SIS, 1854.
A stack containing about thirty tons of
straw, was burned on Tuesday night of
last week, on the farm of c. S. Armstrong,
near Cooch's Bridge. The fire is supposed
to have been started by tramps...
After January I, 1910, it will be against
the law to send or draw check for any
sum less than one dollar. The law is a
part of the penal code adopted by Con-
gress and approved on March 4, 1909.
The Jacob Tome Institute of Port De-
posit, has installed two hundred Post
Office Lock Boxes in one of the school
buildings where students may receive
and deposit their mail without leaving the
grounds.
Hopewell M. E. church, Woodlawn,
Rev. ]. Howard Gray pastor. Sabbath
services October 10 Sunday school at
o:3o; preaching at 1890; Epworth League
at 1890; preaching at Asbury at 8 and 8
p. m. Revival in evening. All welcome.
Mrs. Nettie Carlisle has filed bill in
the Circuit Court of Hartford County,
asking for divorce from her husband,
John F. Carlisle, alleging cruelty, etc.
They were married August 6, 1850, by
Rev. H. H. Douty, and have three chill
dren living. whose custody she asks.
The treasurer's report of the receipts of
the recent. Oxford Fair shows the Asso-
citation lost $500 by the Fall exhibition.
R lin on Friday, necessitating the con-
tinuing of the fair a day longer than
originally planned, was the cause of the
deficit. The total receipts of the Fall
Fair were $s,36s.
The guy line of forty-eight foot
derrick breaking, the big stick fell in
juring three men employed at the Baker
Standard Lime & Stone Co. quarries, near
Havre de Grace. One of the injured men
was climbing the derrick when it fell.
He jumped and escaped with nothing
more serious than slight scalp wound. .
AS Evans Dunbar and Jacob Biddle,
employees of the Elkton foundry, were
carrying large ladle filled with molten
metal, quantity of il splashed on them.
The former received severe burns on the
side and on both feet, while the latter
was burned on the left foot They were
taken to Union Hospital for treatment.
Mail carriers are not required to de-
liver mail matter at residences where
vicious dogs are permitted to run at large.
The Postofice Department has sent out
the following notice: Carriers are not
required to deliver mail at residences
where vicious dogs are permitted to run
at large. Persons keeping such dogs
must call at the postoffice for their mail. I"
A pie and cake social will be held at
the home of Altman Ferguson, Tuesday
evening, Oct. I2th. If stormy, the follow
ing evening. Aprons and neckties will be
on sale. A quilt that was presented to the
church will be given that evening to the
candidate collecting the most money,
Everybody is welcome. Proceeds for