The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-10

Frank A. Lee has been appoint
ed postmaster at Singer, Hartford
county, vice P. d. Clark, resigned.
Up to Monday 91O carloads of
Strawberries had passed over the
Delaware railroad. Selbyville is
the largest shipping point this
season.
The shortage in the accounts of
Cashier Finney, of Bel Air, will
reach $40, 900, which will be made
good by his $15, 900 bond and from
the surplus capital of the bank.
Willie King, of Havre de Grace,
a student of Tome Institute, Port
Deposit, fell and fractured his
right arm in two places, last week,
while making a pole vault on the
athletic grounds.
The Susquehanna Marine Works
Co. of Havre de Grace, to build,
operate and maintain steamships,
boats, etc., was incorporated in
Dover, Delaware, Saturday, with a
capital stock OF 100000.
H. L. Carter. formerly of Singer
ly, this county, is president Of York
Water & Power Co., which has re-
Gently filed a mortgage in the re-
corder's Office at York in order to
make an issue of $1,OO0,O0O of
stock.
Charles Whitley Bush, one of
the candidates from Delaware Col
lege, has passed the examination
for admission to Oxford University,
England, he having been the re-
cipient Of one of the Cecil Rhodes
scholarships. So.
me Mary bnsifding atssthg
St.ELouis Exposition was formally
opened on Wednesday with appros
pirate ceremonies, which included
an address by L. Victor Baugh-
man, chairman of the Maryland
Commission.
Lewis Walker Cruikshank, of
Cecilton, is one of the graduates of
the Md. Agricultural College this
year. The commencement exer-
cises will be held on June Is. Mr..
Cruikshank will deliver the saluta-
tory address for his class.
Miss Ellen Hevern, of Charles
town, was awarded the medal for
the best essay at Cecil County
High School, Elkton, and Cecil E.
Watts, the medal offered for the
highest general average in all
studies for the senior year.
The citizens of the neighborhood
of Chrome and Blue Ball have
petitioned the postal authorities
for rural free delivery route to
run from Nottingham to Chrome,
to White House, to Lombard, to
Wright's corner, to Blueball, up
Blueball road to Gains, to Not
tingham.
E. T. Tunis, of the American
Monorail Company, is endeavoring
to interest Kent county capital In
the proposal to establish that sys-
TEN of transportation between Toll
chester and Chestertown. He
claims the distance of IL miles be-
tween the two points could be
covered in six minutes by the cars
of his system.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union of Maryland has receiv-
ed an offer of $26, 400 for the lot on
s. Gay street, in Baltimore, upon
which stood the headquarters of
the Union, burned in the recent
great confagration. 1t is proposed
to erect a large tiye-story Office
building upon the site if sold by
the W. g. T. U.
Messrs. Osmund s. Galloway, on
last Monday, caught fish, the
kind or species of which none of
our fish experts were able to tell.
The fish was eighteen inches long
and weighed nearly three pounds,
with broad head, tapering to tail
striped like rock or bass with a
suckers mouth, and head hard on
top similar to catfish.-Havre de
Grace Republican.
The milling property of the
Henry Reckord Manufacturing Co.,
at Bel Air, was last week sold at
receivers sale to the Peoples
National Bank, of Delta, Pa, for
$4,000. The property sold includes
a tract of land improved by four
story Touring mill, equipped with
the latest machinery, Office build
ing, tenant houses, two warehouses
and Outbuildings, and is one of