The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-12-01


The Riverside Cornet Band of Port De-
posit. will hold Bazaar December !. s.
and 9.
Citizens in the neighborhood of Cardiff
and Delta have started movement for
the establishment of hospital.
A horse valued at $500 was stolen from
the barn of James Lake. of Forrest Hill.
Hartford county, one night last week.
Dr. G. 1. Barry has been appointed
railroad surgeon by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company with headquarters at
Oxford
Mrs. E. Virginia Reed has been granted
| a divorce by Hartford county court from
her husband, Andrew B. Reed, on the
ground of desertion.
5000 turkeys were sold at public sale at
Hafboro. Montgomery couu y, Pa. Thurs
day, Of last week. First grade brought
IS to 10 cents pound and second grade
10 cents.
Game and Fish Wardens have con6s-
1 Gated launch and nets belonging to
Delaware City and Chesapeake City par
ties accused of Illegal fishing in the
chesapeake and Delaware Canal
The barn on the farm of Mrs. George
Walters, Old Fallston. Hartford county.
was burned one night last week. A COW
Iperished in the flames and all this years
hay and other crops stored in the structure
were lost.
An epidemic of hog cholera il causing
great loss to Baltimore county farmers.
One farmer near Towson has lost 40 hogs
| by the disease. and Laurelville farmer
go, while several others have lost eight or
ten apiece.
The will of the late David M. Taylor Of
Oxford has been filed for probate. The
document issa simple one, the entire
estate being bequeathed to his wife.
Violette Taylor. who is also made sole
executrix of the testament.
Nineteen persons have been success
| fully treated by DR.. Herbert Watson, State
Bacteriologist, at Delaware College,
Newark, the past year, for the prevention
| of rabies, after having been bitten by
dogs suffering from the dread disease.
Judges Hopper and Adkins have signed
an order requiring ]. Myron Miller. who
was returned elected Sheriff of Cecil
county, to show cause by December s.
why the petition Of democratic candidate
Richard K. Barnes for a recount, should
not be granted.
A little colored girl. under the care of
the Children's Aid Society, in attempting
to cross the tracks at Lincoln University
in front of some cars that were being
shifted onto siding, was run down and
had her leg crushed on Friday evening
She was taken to Philadelphia hospital.
Newly-elected Judges Of the Orphans
Court, Milton S. Sentman, Richard B.
Merritt and Thomas S. Miller; Sheriff ].
Myron Miller, and County Commissioner
William NJ. Reynolds, have received their
commissions from the Governor and will
assume their respective Offices. today,
December 1.
Stephen Dorsey, colored. while cutting
fodder at Thomas Nagle's. near Thomas
Run, Hartford county, last week, caught
his arm in the cog wheels of a fodder
cutter. The arm was completely ground
off to the body. He was hurried to a
Baltimore hospital, but died just as he
reached there.
The Board of Directors of the Farmers
National Bank of Oxford have elected
Robert A. Walker president; Henry Cope
vice-president and Miss M. M. Taylor as
sistant cashier. The vacancy in the
Office Of president was made by the death
fof David M, Taylor, who had been Presi-
dent since 1894.
Editor Bright. of the Hampstead En-
terprise." who was defeated on the Legis-
lative ticket at the recent election, thinks
there are a lot Of liars in Carroll county.
and in recent Issue says: "a lire in Italy
is worth about nineteen cents, but the
whole bunch of liars we met before the
election. are not worth damn here or
anywhere else"
Young Friends Association will be
held Sabbath afternoon, I2th month 3rd
at 1890 o'clock. To be addressed by
Edith Winder, of Swarthmore College.
subject, Margaret Fell and the first
Friepdly Centre Address, Charles
Coates. subject. impressions of Svarth-
more Summer School. Followed by
general comment.
ALBERT L. BURLINGTON, Supt.