The midland journal., 1902-06-13
MINORLOCALS

The salary of Postmaster Smith
of Elkton, has been increased tc
81, 200.
The non-jury term of the Circuit
Court for Cecil County will convene
at Elkton next Monday, June 16.
The Day Basket Factory, Of
North East, has shipped so faI
this season 800 dozen pea baskets.
The Whitaker Iron Company, Of
Principle Furnace, has granted
a per cent increase in wages to
its hands.
G. Ross Biles, of Singerly, has
sold his young trotting mare,
Happy Venus, to III. Stacy Smith,
of Newark, N. j., for $1,000.
A number of farmers have COM
menced the harvest of their hay.
The crop is a light one owing to
the extremely dry weather for the
past month.
The young son of Harry England,
of near Zion, sustained a bad frac-
ture of the arm on Friday last, by
a fall from the top of corn crib, a
distance of fifteen feet.
Harry G. Warfel, employed as
telegraph operator on the p, w.
& B. railroad at Perryville, was
struck by a shifting engine on
Tuesday and badly injured.
The proposed camp meeting for
the Children's Fresh Air Society OF
Baltimore, under the auspices OF
the Y. P. S. G. E., of Cecil county,
has been indefinitely postponed.
J. T. Burkins has small patch
of corn in his lot on Pearl street
which attracts considerable at
tention on account of its size, a
portion of it being shoulder high.
Mail service will be established
between Havre de Grace and Bet
terton, Md, from June 16 to
September 1, and service will be
made by the Colchester Steamboat
Company.
The Green Hill farm, 25O acres,
in the Fifth district, formerly own.
ed by Rev. T. Snowden Thomas,
has been purchased by Geo. W.
Cosden and Charles w. Shippers,
of North East, for $4,000.
Tome Institute, Port Deposit,
will have an electric illumination
of the new buildings and grounds,
on the evening of Monday, June
18th, in connection with the Glass
Day exercises and reception.
The government pension of Geo.
Bran, of Rowlandville, has been
increased to $40 per month.
Mrs. Rebecca Garretson, of Oak
wood, has been granted govern
ment pension of IS per month.
Miss May T. Barton, who for two
years has been principal of Friends
Normal Institute, has rendered her
resignation to the board of trustees,
who have appointed in her place
Miss Laura Balderson, of Dolington,
Pa.
The following is the newly organ
lied Board of Directors of the
Friends Normal Institute: Prest.,
+. R. Burlington; sec., E. 81.
Reynolds; treas, Jonathan Rey
nolds; S. Taylor Reynolds, L. r.
Kirk.
A. B. Keen of this town has
been awarded the first prize of a
Baker "B" double barreled, ham
merless shot gun, worth $35, for
securing the largest number OF
subscribers to the Blacksmith &
Wheelwright. He sent in SO sub
scribtions.
Elwood Balderson, of Colora and
Frank R. Cherry of Principle were
in attendance at the meeting
of the Gu ,rnsey Breeders
Association, which was held on
Friday last on the the New Jersey
stock farm of Edward Strawbridge
of the firm of Strawbridge &
Clothier OF Philadelphia.
J. G. Richards, Examiner U. s.
Customs at Port of Balto., on June
LIST received another promotion
The position he now holds is the
highest possible without it being 6
federal appointment. This com
pletes Mr.. Richards 18th year a:
Examiner, he having been promot
ed under every administration
since his appointment.