Middletown transcript., 1904-03-26
MARYLAND HAPPENINGS

f. G. Henley, OF Berlin, has been an
pointed clerk to Adjutant General Riggs
n An exani' alton will be held at Elktol
tomorrow for rural mail carriers for Ceci
County.
fredericksburg Gamers are cont ractinl
' for tomatoes at 81 per ton and 12 cent.
per basket.
c. W. Jackson, Of Ridgely, has pur
chased Oakland camp grounds at public
sale for $500.
Governor Warfield is expected to issue
proclamation this week fixing April 25th
as Arbor day.
Millington's Town Commissioners.
Messrs. Taylor, Ahern and Rolph, have
been reelected.
The annual municipal election was held
in North East Monday, when five Com
missioners will be chosen.
| John Medders, of Kennedyville, has
been elected lay delegate to the Mary
land Protestant Conference.
Black bass have been placed in most of
the rivers of the Eastern Shore by Fish
Commissioner G. L. Vincent.
Maryland Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church will convene in Allnut
Church, Baltimore, April 9Th.
While on his way from New Church to
Stockton, William Watson, farmer, lost
his pocket-book, containing $780,
The new basket factory at Chesapeake
City, erected by New Jersey capitalists,
will begin operations in few days.
The call extended by Church Hill P.
+. Church to Rev. Alexander M. Rich,
OF Stanton, Del, has been declined.
The Laurel baseball team has re-or-
ganized, and the managers will bid for
the amateur championship of Maryland.
Peter Stevens, formerly deputy clerk of
Talbot County Circuit Court, has been.ap-
pointed clerk of the Baltimore City Court. |
The members of the Maryland National
Guard, who served during the Baltimore
fire, will receive their pay in few days.
Employees in the finishing department
OF the Easton Manufacturing Company
have struck for an increase of 25 cents a !
day.
Samuel G. Rowland, of Port Deposit
has been elected trustee of the Jacob
Tome Institute, vice Henry G. Nesbitt,
deceased.
The members Of Greenwood Methodist
Episcopal Church have raised $500 to-
ward paying off the debt on their church
building.
DR.. II. G. Shippers, of Chestertown,
has been appointed health officer for
Kent County, vice DIR. William R. Mes
sick, resigned. u
An effort is being made to have the
Legislature appropriate $4,000 toward the
erection of the Union Hospital of Cecil
County. at Elkton.
For having unculled oysters on their
boats, Captain Wilson and Captain Low
ell were arrested at st. Michaels and {
each fined SOS and costs.
The Art Square Company, which re-
Gently leased the weave mill at Baldwin's,
is installing machinery, and will start
operations about April 1st.
OF the 104 students of Elkton Public
School, 54 were absent Monday on ac- !;
count of illness. Three OF the five teach :.
ers and substitute are also i'll.
James E. Elligood, of Salisbury, will 9
be one of the judges at the annual orator. I
ical contest of the Maryland Colleges As
at Annapolis in April. t
Captain E. N. Dodson, of Queen Anne's v
County, had his arm fractured by fall
ing telephone pole while helping to build t
a line between Easton and st. MichaePs.
City Treasurer H. Winfield Lewis, of a
Elkton, reports the financial condition of d
the town as follows: Receipts, $6146. 81; r
disbursements, $5s5S.08; balance on
hand, $2SS.
John w. Mahoney will succeed Charles u
q. Moody as oyerseer OF the Cecil County r.
A Almshouse, and George Money will re- I
place John Leighman as superintendent 81
If the insane on March 25th. 8
The counties which will be exempted y
rom the repeal of the mortgage tax law :,
will receive all the taxes collected from y
mortgages, as the State can get the bene- :.
it of only uniform taxation. y
For injuries received by falling from the Il
abroad platform at Baldwin Station on C,
September 9th, Miss Hannah Morgan V
vas Monday awarded $500 damages d
gainst the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad D
~ jury in Circuit Court at Elkton. N