The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-03-11
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS, BRIEFLY NOTED.

VIGIL Ou tu0 IculuSuld.
The Bayside Cornet Band, of
Havre de Grace, realized $69.4S by
their recent bazar and festival held
in that town.
A fine driving horse was stolen
from the stable of Archie Donald
son at Hamorton, Chester county,
one night last week.
The brick store property in the
town of Elkton, occupied by Harry
R. Boulden, has been purchased
by him from Mrs. Maria Avery.
Thomas w. Sanders and William
W. Spencer have been appointed
ducking police for the Susquehanna
Flats on the Hartford county side.
The theatrical entertainment
given by members of the Field Club,
of Kennett, in that town last week,
netted $83 for the club exechequer.
The damage suits of Sophia B.
and W. Hand vs.. the p, B. & w.
railroad company have been remov-
ed from Hartford to Cecil county
for trial.
Dogs killed eight pigs, one night
recently, by getting into the en-
closure at Alexander's Meat Mar
ket, Oxford. The porkers weighed
130 pounds each.
The secondary and primary
schools Of Christiana, Lancaster
county, have been closed on account
of the prevalence of diphtheria
among some of the pupils.
Rev. Mr.. Coe, of Bay View NJ.
P. church, has been granted an in.
crease of 800 in salary and asked
to return the coming conference
year as pastor of the church.
The Middletown, Del, merchants
have organized merchants
Protective Association whose
object is to require weekly or
monthly settlements from their
customers.
Ice stove in the schooner Sarah
Vickers, last week, and she sank.
The vessel was loaded with 125
tons of coal and had been ice
bound near Turkey Point since
December 26.
Misses Louie Boyd and Florence
Miller, of Nottingham, while re-
turning from Calvert on Sunday
afternoon, were thrown from their
buggy by the upsetting of the
vehicle in ditch, but fortunately
escaped injury.
The P, B. & w. signal tower at
Elkton has been fitted with heavier
wires, which are capable of carry.
ing a greater voltage, thereby Sc
curing better lighting facilities for
the company than has been the
case in the past.
Miss Tacy Fawkes, of Atglen,
Chester county, has a'rare plant
which is at present in bloom. 1t
is an Egyptian lily which was
brought from the banks of the
Nile about ten years ago. The
bloom is a maroon color.
Miss Adelaide Mackereth, of
Avondale, was one of the number
of Red Cross nurses who left
Philada. for Keota, japan, on Fri
day, where they will attend the
sick and wounded during the
Russo. Japanese war. Miss Mack
ereth was on the Red Cross corps
of nurses in Cuba and the Phil.
ippines.
The Elkton Stock Farm, which
has had several different owners
within the last few years, has
changed hands again. This time
the deed is from William j. Miller,
of New York, Ito whom the prop
erty was decided by Sheriff w. T.
McAllister,) to Mary q. Maloney,
of st. Louis, Mo. The considera-
tion stated is "one dollar and other
valuable considerations"
W. T. jackson, of Havre de
Grace, has been paid the sum of
$3.50 by the P, B. s. W. railroad
company, in lieu of cleaning out
a spring on land owned by him at
Frenchtown, in the Seventh district,
as covenanted by the company
with Henry L. Gale, from whom
the right of way was acquired at
that point in 1866, and who then
owned the land which is now the
property of Mr.. jackson.