The midland journal., 1904-09-09
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

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Day" at the Worlds Fair.
Miss Mary Durgin has been ap-
pointed principal of Chapel school,
near Woodlawn.
Miss Mabel Reynolds will reopen
her private school in Rising Sun
next Monday.
A special train with 400 passen-
gers to witness a base ball game
is an innovation for Cecil county.
E. Ward Brown has sold his
dwelling at Woodlawn to Mrs.
Grace D. Street for $4,000.
The blacksmith shop property
at Lewisville has been sold to
Clarence James for 81, $3.50.
The one hundred and sixty
fourth year of West Nottingham
Academy begins Monday, 18th
inst.
Governor Warield has appoint.
ed Col. VIM. 81. May, of Elkton, a
Justice of the Peace for the Third
district.
1t is estimated that fully 150, 900
baskets of peaches were shipped
from the Eastern Shore last week
to the various city markets.
Lombard had ssmad dog" chase
last Sunday which caused some ex-
citement while it lasted. No harm
was done, however, and the mad
ness was soon over.
VIM. Taylor Il Son, well known
ice cream makers of Elkton, have
purchased the long established
business stand of Wilmer Witworth
in that town.
The authorities now have a clue
to the assailant of Robt. Gardner.
who was attacked at his home near
Frenchtown about month ago and
severely beaten about the head.
An arrest is expected shortly.
j The oyster longing season on the
upper Chesapeake bay and its
tributaries opened on Thursday,
September L. The dredging season
will open November L.
Appomattox Camp, Sons of
Veterans, of Wilmington, go strong,
with fife and drum corps, full
uniformed and equipped, will be
one of the attractions at the reunion
of Company E, at Bay View on the
l17th inst. Everybody welcome.
j The work of driving piling for
the extension of the wood wharf at
the Radn0r pulp mill, on the west
bank of the Elk creek, at Elkton,
below the present wharf, began
last week.
/ Wednesday, Aug. 81, was the
last day which tax payers were
allowed the benefit of per cent
discount for payment of taxes. On
that day the receipts at the Com
missiOners Office in Elkton amount
ed to $4,000.
| The new law requiring that con-
stables shall collect one dollar for
each dog in Cecil county, and, in
the event of the owner failing to
pay the same, kill the animal, went
into effect on September /.
In a suit for $75 damages for
injuries received by being thrown
from her vehicle, which was run
into by a team driven by Chas. G..
Bayard, of North East, Magistrate
Cranmer last week awarded Mrs.
Sarah Neal S25 damages.
| VIM. Ruddell Mackin, of near
Havre de Grace, has accepted a
position at the Maryland Agricul-
tural College, where he will have
charge of the College greenhouse,
and at the same time pursue the
college course of study.
During the thunder gust last
Saturday night a number of cattle
were killed by lightning in lower
Lancaster county. Robert Long, of
Chestnut Level lost six fine cows by
a bolt and two others belonging to
John Alexander, which were in the
same herd were also killed. s..
VIM. A. Walton and Constable
Ringler, of Oxford, made a quick
trip from that place to Honeybrook
last Saturday, in the formers auto
, mobile, and captured John Snod-
grass who had eluded the constable
in Lancaster a few days previous.
, Snodgrass was jailed, charged with
} forging E. Blackburn's name to a
check for $50.