The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-29


ford County Agricultural Society
will be held at Bel Air September
20, 81, % and %.
The Elkton Electric Light Co.
took advantage of the moonlight
nights this week to shut down their
plant for needed repairs. The cur
rent was turned off Sunday night.
VIM. B. Baker, of Aberdeen,
Hartford county, was elected Grand
Master of the Grand Lodge of L. O.
o. F. of the State of Maryland at
the annual meeting held in Balti-
more last week.
Four students of Washington
College, Chestertown, were fined
So and costs last week in Kent
County Circuit Court for hazing a
fellow-student 10y giving him the
"cold water cure"
John Banks, of Chesapeake City,
has been awarded the contract for
repairing the Ericsson Line wharves
at Harrises and Betterton, which
were damaged during the break up
of the ice pack this spring.
The recently incorporated Deer
Creek Electric Power Company
proposes to furnish Stewartstown,
Hartford county, with both water
and light, for 10 years, for 5-mill
tax on the borough valuation.
In order to defray the remaining
81 800 debt the Wilmington Con-
ference Academy, at Dover, each
charge of the District will he assess
ed a pro rata share Of the indebted
ness which will be raised by pri-
vate subscriptions.
The boring machine which is
making soundings for piers of the
new railroad bridge across the Sus-
quehanna river, recently made
soundings on the Perryville side to
the depth of 167 feet without
striking rock foundation.
In order to meet the expenses in
Cured by the suit of Mrs. Agnes
I. EmmoRs against the town of
Chesapeake City, the town commits
sioners were compelled to increase
the municipal tax rate from 80 to
40 cents on the 800 this year.
The salary of Presiding Elder A.
s. Mowbray, of the Wilmington
District, has been fixed at 81, 800,
with an allowance of $3.50 for
house rent and $125 for travelling
expenses, an increase of $50 for the
item of house rent over last year.
A suit to recover $4,000 for the
drowning of her son at Georgetown,
along the Sassafras river, has been
entered in the Circuit Court for
Kent county, at Chestertown,
against the Colchester Steamboat
Company by Mrs. Fannie B. Roy.
1t has been definitely decided
there will be no encampment oil the
Maryland National Guard this
summer, on account of the service
the guardsmen saw in the burned
district of Baltimore, in February,
some of them being on duty three
weeks.
A man supposed to be John w.
Kennedy who broke Jail at Staun-
ton, Va, on March z, while under
sentence to be hanged four days
later for train wrecking, was arrest
ed and placed in ElktOn Jail
on Thursday, of last week, by
Deputy Sheriff McAllister.
Through traffic over the Colum.
bia Il Port Deposit railroad, which
had been blocked at Safe Harbor
on account of the immense amount
of ice piled upon the tracks by
the flood and gorge on March 4,
was not resumed until April 10,
when the tracks were finally
cleared.
One day last week after Miss
Nary Kreider, of Wilmington,
had alighted from the train at
Frenchtown and was proceeding to
the home of friend for visit she
had the misfortune to stumble over
a crosstie and fall, suffering frac-
ture of the arm.
The trespass suit brought by the
School Commissioners against
Haines G. Harlan for cutting up
the public school grounds at Fair
Hill, by hauling loads of lime
through the yard, was compromis
ed by Harlan agreeing to pay all
costs and restoreN the grounds to
~ os, ors usp.l condition