The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-05-20

George Serack last week caught six
foot roe sturgeon off Betterton.
DR.. T. B. Moore is attending the ses-
[sions of the State Board of Dental Ex-
aminers, in Baltimore.
Isaac Gibbs, Jr., of near Kennedyville,
has been appointed road engineer for Kent
county by Governor Crothers.
Hal lamar, son Of DIR. John H. lamar,
Of Elkton, has been appointed chief clerk
of the United States Circuit Court, in
Chicago.
1t is rumored new trolley line will be
built through Lancaster county extending
from Willow Street to Mccall Ferry via
Rawlinsville.
Run over by a heavy traction engine.
Wesley Davis, aged 65 years, OF Newark,
V'as taken to hospital in Wilmington
with both legs broken.
Sheriff Colder has levied upon the per-
sonal property of Isaac Boyd in East
Nottingham Pa, and advertised it for sale
on Tuesday, May oath.
The ladies of the Zion M. E. Church
will hold strawberry festival on Thurs
day evening, June 2, on the church lawn.
# stormy the next fair evening.
The new inter-connty bridge over the
Octoraro creek, at Ferguson's Mill, be-
tween Lancaster and Chester counties,
has been completed and opened tp travel.
Mary E. Campbell has brought suit for
$1,000 damages against Alfred W. Walker
for Injuries alleged to have been received
when Walkers automobile struck her
market wagon near Marshallton, Del.
Rev. w. F. Dawson will deliver his
instructive and entertaining lecture,
Five Smooth Stones from the Brook, . in
Ebenezer M. E. church, Wednesday, May
IS. # stormy, next evening. A small
admission fee will be charged. For bene-
fit Of church.
The trial of Louis G. Frankan, New
York and Washington Railway Postal
Clerk, formerly of Havre de Grace,
charged with taking marked letter con-
tanning 81 note from the mail on his
car in Washington, D. c., ended with
verdict of mot guilty"
The removed case from Hartford to
Baltimore County, of Miss Annie Lynch,
of Bynum, against her brother Daniel P.
Lynch, was concluded by the jury award
ling her $6S5 in her suit for ST., s62. The
account covered period of "a years for
services as housekeeper up to the time
Mr.. Lynch married.
| Because he would not leave his team
in field to furnish information wanted
by the Census Enumerator o. ]. Rothwell
had William ]. Reed, farmer of the
Newark section, arrested. He was held
in $500 bail for the action of the u. S.
Grand Jury. He gave the information
required, after his arrest.
Edward Jones, employed at the yards
of the Henry Deibert Barge Building
Company, along Little Elk Creek, was
killed early Monday morning, Shortly
after going to work he climbed to the top
Eof 4o-foot derrick to adjust the guy
lines, when it fell with him. He was
about 2S years of age and is susvived by
a wife and two small children.
colora Council, Jr., o. U, A. M, will
attend services in body at Mt. Pleasant
NJ. F. church on Sunday, May 20.
Special music and special sermon by
the pastor, Rev. w. M. Mccain. Public
cordially invited. Very interesting ser
vices are being held each Sunday eve
ming, with large attendance A short
revival service is held after each regular
service.
| The following officers have been elected
for Hopewell Sunday School: Superin-
tendent, c. S. Abrahams; assistant super
intendent, Miss M. o. Jackson; secretary,
Bayard miller; treasurer, H. H. Kirk
organist, Miss Helen Jackson; assistant
organist. Miss Lora Thompson,
Zion Presbyterian Sabbath School has
been reorganized and the following officers
elected for the ensuing year Superin-
tendent, Edwin Carhart; assistant, Will
inner Fox; secretary and treasurer, Cecil
Mackey; organist, Miss Katherine Ruth
erford; assistant, Miss Marietta Mearns;
librarian, Herbert Rittenhouse; assistant,
Norman England.
The case of William Wilson, of Havre
de Grace. against the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company and the American
Bridge Company, for alleged injuries re-
ceived at the time of the wreck of the
new span of the b. and o. bridge over
the eastern channel of the Susquehanna