The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-03-05
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

WIG uctteu 30 Wy tAO ASCSno
oyster supper.
Large catches of rock and perch
are reported by fishermen in the
upper Chesapeake.
A Delaware exchange reports
that several Sussex county farmers
have planted potatoes.
One Of the biggest SHOWS of the
winter was that OF yesterday, It
being fully eight inches in depth.
Operating room equipment has
been installed at the Union Hos
pital, Elkton, at a cost of over $500.
The plant of the Mason Multiple
Washer Company at Oxford, will
be sold at receivers sale Saturday,
March Goth.
While chopping wood. Albert
Barnett, of Zion, received a deep
cut on the right foot by the glanc
ing of the ak.
The gross receipts Of the fair
held on Friday evening last by
Nottingham Band, were over $40,
about $50 being cleared.
Miss Anna e. Roberts, formerly
of this town, has been appointed
assistant superintendent of the
Homeopathic Hospital, in Will
mington.
After trial run on Saturday the
new creamery of Cameron & Davis,
at Colora, started operations Mon
day morning, when $500 pounds of
milk we're received.
The Maryland Bankers Asso-
citation will hold its Fourteenth
Annual Convention at the Blue
Mountain House, June % "a, with
banquet on the last evening.
Galen Fritz, who recently sold
the Washington House, in Quarry
vile, to G. G. Kirk of Oxford, is
reported to have purchased the
Hotel Quarryville for $4,000.
The contractors for the caisson
work of the new Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad bridge across the Susque
hanna River at Aiken put large
force of men to work on Monday.
The two masted schooner Emily
s. Burton, Captain John Neal,
bound from Elkton to Piankitank
River, with lumber, was blown
ashore near Colchester Beach on
Friday.
The Kramer Lumber Company,
of Havre de Grace, have been
awarded a contract for 100, 900 feet
of lumber by the United States
Government to be delivered at Fort
Howard, near Baltimore.
W. T. and 81. A. Warburton,
Attorneys, have sold at private
sale, the farm of 81 acres, owned
by Samuel Scotten and tenanted by
his son, Richard, to Charles T. +.
Mearnsy whose farm it adjoins, for
$780,
The viewers appointed to decide
the damage to the Quarryville
School property, caused by the
construction of the low grade rail
road, have awarded the school dis
trict 1874, 100, and placed all costs
upon the railroad company.
A circle of the Kings Daughters
with fourteen members, has been
organized in North East, to be
known as the Lend Hand Circle.
Mrs, John F. johnson was elected
President; Mrs. j. f. Diggs, Vice
President; Mrs. Oliver Murphy,
Secretary; and Mrs. E. r. Fockler,
Treasurer.
Hopewell M. E. church, Wood.
lawn, Rev. j. Howard Gray pas
tor. Sabbath service Mar. 7:-
Sunday school at 10. Preaching
at IL a. ms p. m. Morning
subject:-"Hearts as Dwellings. "
Evening subject:-"Eyange
Sermon" Epworth League at
7.30. Preaching at Asbury at
Bpm.
Young Friends Association will
be held Sabbath afternoon, 3rd
month 7th. Subject, The Nations
Wards. Address, E. r. Buffing
ton. Paper, Religious Ceremonies
Among the Pueblo and Pottawat
omie Indians, B. II. Haines, fol-
lowed by other exercises and
General Discussion of the Indian
Onaafi0n Elafa Mavhee ClrliSla