The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-01-15

/ iOAulODg ACaA GAOnAOhVg hOCtC0 wee
by the oyster supper recently held.
The Oxford Electric Light and
Power Company has declared five
per cent dividend to stockholders.
The residents of Lsmpeter, Ian
caster county, are planning to Gel
lebrate the 2OOth anniversary of
1.-THE settlement of their county.
The Savings Bank of Hartford
county, has declared a dividend of
6 per cent and added 81 per cent of
the undivided profits to the surplus
fund.
The York County Agricultural
Society realized a profit of So, 742. 40
from its annual fair. The receipts
were $2S,891. 46 and the expenses
$23, ,149 Oh.
Samuel Mcdowell, of Oxford,
has been appointed to clerkship
|in,the Mercantile Appraisers office,
at Philadelphia, with a salary of
81, 500 per year.
The American Road Machine
Co., of Kennett Square, last week
received an order for six stone
crushers, TO be shipped to the
Philippine Islands.
The hitching sheds at Union
church, near Fremont have been
comp eted, and are a great con-
venience. The sheds will accommo
date about twenty teams.
Capt. Alexander n. Ingram will
be, Oxford's new postmaster, the.
term of Thomas d. Alexander,
who has held the Office for. four
years, having expired the first of
the month.
The Delaware Game Protective
Association, will distribute through
out the State one hundred brace of
Hungarian pheasants, for stocking
purposes, at the close of the pres.
ent cunning season.
Miss S. B. Treadway, of carlton,
Harford county, won the piano
offered by Mrs. George Pfaffenbach,
of Havre de Grace, to the person
holding the largest number of mer
chandise tickets. Miss Treadway's
tickets were valued at $l, ,l49 SO.
Christopher Herbert, while pur.
chasing goods in Browns store at
Magnolia, Hartford county, one day
last week, was stricken with para
|lysis and died shortly afterwards.
Several years ago his father was
similarly stricken in the same store
and died.
The Court has confirmed the
Sheriff sale for taxes, of real estate
in West Nottingham township, Pa,
belonging to the Bessemer Iron
Ore Co. The tract of land en-
braces 80 acres and was purchased
by Henry A. Kaufman, agent for
Charles Ingram, of Baltimore, for
1871.
Governor Crothers, at the request
of the Edgar Allan Poe Memorial ]
Association, has expressed the hope
that the public schools throughout
the State, as well as the colleges,
would see fit to set apart certain
part of next Tuesday to hold ap
propriate exercises commemoratingI
the one hundredth anniversary OF
the birth of Poe.
The bondholders of the Times
Publishing Co., of Oxford, have
filled petition in bankruptcy with
the Refree at West Chester. The
liabilities of the concern are about
$50, 900, the total assets being rep
resented by the plant and some
life insurance policies. Every
effort will be made to keep the
plant in operation.
DIR. J. Whitridge Williams, Pro.
fessor of Obstetrics at the Johns
Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, will
deliver a lecture before the next
meeting of the Cecil County Medi-
cal Society, to be held in Elkton,
on Thursday, January 21. DR..
Williams is one of the leading
specialist in his department in this
country, and a large attendance of
the members is hoped for.
On February 1st will begin the
quadrennial weighing of the mails
handled by the Pennsylvania Rail.
road Company. The weighing will
be continued for a period of from
thirty to ninety days and upon the
[ rasnlf will he hnaad fhn nrino Ca.