The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-12

special services, on Friday, November Io.
Despondent on account of ill health,
John c. Brice, well-to-do farmer of Up
per Kent county, committed suicide by
shooting last week.
The corner stone of the independent
Peoples church, of which DR.. A. w.
Lightbourne is pastor, was laid at Dover,
Del, on Sunday, October 81.
The firm of Thomas Whitaker & Co.,
blacksmiths and wheel-wrights at Tough
kenamon, Pa, have gone into bankruptcy.
The liabilities are $6,655; assets ST., los.
The fourth annual district convention
of the Knights of Pythias, comprising the
Lodges in the counties of Hartford and
Cecil, was held in Havre de Grace last
week.
The tenant house on the farm of Edward
Boyd, near Chrome, was burned on Sun
day evening. The house had been unoc-
cupied for month past, and the fire was
undoubtedly of incendiary origin.
The Delaware Automobile Association
has agreed to cooperate with the Grang-
ers of New Castle county in placing warn
ing and danger signs along the roads of
the county, and will furnish the signs for
the Grangers to erect.
Although diligent search has been made
no trace has been found of Henry Jacobs,
the aged farmer who disappeared from his
home near West Grove, on the night of
September 21, when the buildings on his
property were destroyed by fire.
Armour & Company, the well known
meat packers of Chicago, have decided to
enter the canning field in Maryland and
will locate an experimental plant near
Salisbury, for next year, for preserving
strawberries, and will contract for $500, 1000
worth of fruit.
Hopewell NJ E. church, Woodlawn,
Rev. ]. Howard Gray pastor. Sabbath
services November ID Sunday school at
o:3o; preaching at 80 and 7:45. Preach
ing at Asbury at 3 p. m. Revival at
Hopewell in the evening, and every night
during week except Saturday.
/ About two hundred men are engaged
on the dam construction work at Mccall
Ferry, and great progress is being made.
The order to sell the company's property
at public sale in December, in order to
satisfy some of the creditors. does not seem
to affect the plan of continuing work and
completing the plant.
Referee in Bankruptcy George M. Rup-
ert, has handed down his decision in the
Times Publishing Co. S financial tangle, at
Oxford. The decision is to the effect that
the first mortgage bonds outstanding, to
the amount of $4,000, be paid in full, and
that the balance be divided pro rata
bonds.
The Mccall Ferry Power Company is
to be sold at foreclosure sale, in the city
of Lancaster, Pa, on Tuesday, December
9TH. and the sale will probably mark the
beginning of the final completion of this
great project, work on which was practi-
cally suspended by the failure of the
Knickerbocker Trust Company, of New
York, for nearly two years.
i The Fall meeting of Cecil County Medi-
cal Society was held in Elkton on Thurs
day, Nov. II. DIR. Charles F. Miller, of
Blue Ball, read a paper upon .Rheu-
matism," and DIR. H. Arthur Mitchell, of
Elkton, spoke upon the Estate of the
Public Health in Cecil County," giving
some statistical reports. DR.. William S.
Gardner, of Baltimore, Councillor for Cecil
County, was present and addressed the
Society upon matters of general interest
to physici ms. DIR. c. P. Carrico, of
Cherry Hill. presided.
1 Programs OF the ninth annual Cecil
County tournament at clay targets, by the
Rising Sun Gun Club, to be held Wednes-
day and Thursday, December and 2,
have been issued. Ten events will be
shot each day. On Wednesday, the FIRST
day, Aberdeen Gun Club and Rising Sun
Gun Club will shoot a team race. On
Thursday the Cecil County amateur
championship viii be shot for, open to. all
IIesidsnt amateurs of Cecil The winner
will receive a handsome silver loving cup.
The winners Of this eventin the past have
been 1901, H. R. England; r9oa-3-4 H.
Il. Worthingtop; 1895, H. 3. England
j Iopb. j A. Hartenstne; 1907, Cecil Kirk
IIoos, Willett Ewing.