The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-01
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

The Havre de Grace city election
for three councilmen will be held
on Monday, May 2.
J. Hayes lGallaher, formerly of
Childs, this county, has been ad-
mitted to the Philadelphia Bar.
A swapping turtle weighing 36
pounds was caught last week in
Elk river by an Elkton colored man.
Miss Martha Finley, the Elkton
authoress, has been elected vice.
president of the Authors Associa-
tion of New York city.
A slight freight wreck occurred
at Elkton station Tuesday night,
blocking the tracks of the p, B. &
W. railroad for several hours.
Mrs. 81. Jennie Whiteford has
sold at private terms her residence
at Slate Hill, York county, to Mrs.
Starr Edwards of the same place.
The P, B. & W. R. r. is secur.
ing the water rights along Winters
run in Hartford county, and will
pipe water to a. tank near
Edgewood.
j. Harvey Groves has sold his
creamery at Elkton to Davis &
Vinsinger, who will operate the
plant, which occupies part of their
mill building.
A survey has been made by the
P, B. & W. railroad, between
Perryville and Aiken, for con-
Meeting link with the B. & O.. road
at the latter point.
The steamer City Belle, sunk at
Havre de Grace during the break
up of the ice gorge, has been raised
and will soon resume her trips be-
tween Port Deposit and Lapidum.
The largest cargo of lumber that
ever passed through the Chesa.
peake & Delaware canal was towed
through last week. The barge
was loaded with 506,OOO feet of
lumber.
Baker & Arthur, who operate
the Elkton cannery, are contracting
with the farmers of that neighbor-
hood for corn at $500 per ton, and
tomatoes at $500 per ton, for the
coming season.
Stanley Bros. are building at
their farm on Elk river, a schooner
with carrying capacity of IS tons,
which they expect to launch in
May, and will christen as the
"John s. Writ"
The B. & o. railroad company
has issued orders for their employees
to don their new summer uniforms
on May II. The new uniforms will
be blue serge instead of blue flannel
as in former years.
The Burns Bros. base ball club
of Havre de Grace, has purchased
the outfit of the Havre de Grace
club. The membership of the club
is made up of the employees of the
Burns Brothers Carriage Factory.
Warwick, Cecilton and Earle
vile have two daily mails from
Middletown now, in place of one
as formerly. The improved mail
facilities are a great convenience to
the residents in that section of the
county.
Early Monday morning the
breaking of a flange on the wheel
of freight car on the P, B. & W.
railroad near North East, caused
the derailing of three cars and
blocked traffic over the road for
some time.
John w. Mahoney, of Mechanics
Valley, and George Money, of
Cherry Hill, have succeeded Chas.
III. Moody and John Leighman as
Overseer of the Almshouse and
Superintendent of the county In
sane Asylum.
On Sunday sixteen carloads of
bridge material passed over the
Columbia & Port Deposit railroad
for Safe Harbor, where it will be
used in the construction of a bridge
tc replace the one swept away by
the recent ice gorge and flood.
Rev. j. P. Otis. who was assign
ed to the Rising Sun charge at the
recent Conference, will occupy the
pulpit of the NJ. Il. church for the
first time on Sunday morning next,
Easter, at 1890 o'clock. The eve
ming service will be in charge OF
the Sunday school when special
Easter program will be given at
7:30 O'Clock.