The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-10-22

Princeton, N. j., were guests at the home
of Edwin Haines on Monday.
Mrs. H. ]. R. Creswell. of Elkton. wild
ow offormer postmaster general J. "A. ].
Creswell, vas seriously injured on Tues
day BY fall a. her home near that town.
Miss Selma Perkins. daughter Of form
er Sheriff J. Will Perkins, of Elkton, a
student at Women's College. Newark,
Del, fell on the college steps fracturing
her ankle. which will con6ne her to the
house for several weeks.
William Wallace Spence. for many years
a leading fnancier Of Baltimore. on Mon
day celebrated the one hundredth an
niversary of his birth. Mr.. Spence was
born in Edinburg, Scotland. Il took him
70 days to cross from Scotland to the
United States. in 1888.
Hartford county has received its share
4 from the gate receipts of the Havre de
Grace race track meet held during
September. $3.S34. so, making. total for
the two meetings this year of $3.50 81,
which will be applied towards public road
Improvement.
Emerson G, Harrington. Democratic
nominee for Governor of Maryland. spent
1887 6I5 and Blair Lee, his rival for the
nomination, $4,000 in the recent State
primaries. The former sent $1,000 and
the latter $3.50 to Cecil county.
The first mass meetings of the present
political campaign were staged for Cecil
County this week The Democrats start
ed the ball on Wednesday night at Elk
ton, when all the State candidates ad-
Idressed the assembled voters The Re-
lpublicans will have their turn on Friday
might. 22nd inst.
Buck Shade had his left wrist broken
on Tuesday afternoon. by getting il
caught between the rounds of an extension
ladder. He was whitewashing on the
farm of S. ]. Reynolds. near town, at the
thine of the accident and in lengthening
tHS AhS AOtS OtOASt aitS "AASt 7CSAb5
lcaught between the ladders.
i The large barn on the farm OF Howard
lie Chandler. just west OF Kennett, was
totally destroyed by FIRE about. midnight.
Wednesday. All the seasons crops. in
lcluding IS loads of hay, all the wheat and
oats, and most of the farm machinery
were destroyed. There was an insurance
of $4. 900 on the barn and contents.
4 The Mission Study Class has reorgan
lied for the winter and held the opening
meeting on Wednesday evening at the
home of the secretary, Mrs. Joseph Smith.
who acted as leader in the review OF first
chapterof the text book, Paul. Cam
| paigner for Christ"
4 About twenty members were present.
AT the close of the study pleasant social
time was enjoyed and refreshments serv-
ed. The next meeting will be held Thurs
day evening, Nov. 4, at the home of Miss
Lizzie Kirk.
II But one candidate for appointment to
: the RHODES Scholarship, tenable at Oxford
England, took the examinations for the
scholarship, held at Delaware College
recently. The examinations were con-
Quoted by Professor George A. Harter,
Phi. D., former president of Delaware
College. John Wesley Jones. the only
candidate to take the examination. is at
Epresent member of the senior class in
the arts and science course at Delaware
College. His home is in Woodside, Della
ware. He will be graduated at Delaware
College at the commencement in 1916.
La Tena's Circus has gone into winter
; quarters at Havre de Grace. The show
left that town i'm April and travelled
through the eastern and northern sections
of the country. going as far north as the
Canadian line. Mr.. Downie. owner, re-
ports it the wettest season known to Ia his
40 years experience. Besides having his
large tent blown down twice by the heavy
wind storms the canvas was not dry 4S
hours during the entire six months.
There was not week which had more
than three dry days, and for twenty weeks
it rained six out of the seven days. The
longest dry spell was in the last two weeks,
while the show was on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland.
S. T. Shippers. of North East. has pur-
chased from Wilson & McNamee a
Chevrolet touring car
Il Preston Baker has sold his farm of ao4
, acres south OF coatesville. Pa. to the
Midvale Company, which recently pur-
/ chased the iron mills there. Il is report.
ed that Mr.. Baker received $500 per acre
for HE land