The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-03-18

/! Association is to be organized ny
the members of ElktOn Bar.
i 1t is rumered that next year the
Jacob Tome Institute Inn will be
converted into a dormitory.
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Gorrell, of
| Havre de Grace, has been granted
a government pension of $S per
month.
4 The annual election for five COM
missioners of the town of North
East will be held on Monday,
March 81.
While carrying heavy bundle
on Monday assistant freight agent
Purnell, of Elkton station. fell and
dislocated his shoulder.
The gorge victims at Port Deposit
and other river front places are
busy this week repairing the dam
age done by ice and water during
the jam last week.
Nelson F. Finnan, of Elkton, who
recently enlisted in the United
States Navy, has been assigned to
the position of assistant engineer
on the battleship Iowa.
The 175th anniversary of the in
corporation of Lancaster county,
which was taken off of Chester
county in 1923, will be celebrated
May 10 by the Lancaster Historical
Society.
Prof. J. II. Wiley, Prof. W. O..
Stevenson, Misses Edith Palmer,
Mary Elliot and Helen Shadd, of
the Jacob Tome Institute faculty,
: Port Deposit, have rendered their
designations.
William Washington, colored,
employed at the Eureka Fertilizer
works, near Perryville, was struck
by a P, B. s. w. train while in
Havre de Grace, one night, last
week, and sustained a broken arm
and leg.
Annoyed by boys throwing
, stones, Joseph Hughes, of Havre
de Grace, one day last week got
his shot gun and fired at long
range stinging one boy in the back
5 of the head and another on
the arm.
E. Blackburn, of Glenroy, has a
three dollar bill in a good state of
preservation, issued by the old
Columbia Bank of Columbia.
Colonel Schock was President OF
e the Bank at the time of the issue
0 of the note.
s Benjamin R. Flaharty, aged 80
years, track foreman on the P,
B. & W. railroad formerly station
ed at Elkton, was seriously injured
Sunday night by falling through a
= trestle near Newport. He sustain.
Q ed a broken arm and other severe
J. injuries.
I 81. H. Haines' sale of real estate
u and personal property was contin-
e ued until dusk Wednesday evening
and number of articles still re-
mained, to be disposed of at private
, sale between now and moving day.
g G. T. Snyder bought the FIVE acre
!, lot within the borough limits, fol
g $3.50.
Charles D. Jamison, of Will
mington, formerly of Elkton, who
was recently granted a divorce
1 by the Superior Court of that
q city, from his wife, Kate Jamison,
b was married to Miss Stella A.
Q Lombard, on March 8, at the
o BRIDES home, by Rev. r. X.
= Stephenson.
! The twelfth annual convention
y of the Maryland State Firemen's
Association will be held at Cumber-
! land, Md, June SO and 10. Cash
? prizes aggregating about 81, 900
will be offered visiting fire COM
8 panies and teams in competitive hose
races, hook and ladder contests,
? steam engine contests, etc.
W. W. McGuigan lost a fine
driving horse one night last week.
: Mr.. McGnigan had been attending
court in Elkton when he was called
C home by telegram, that his prop
: erty at Conowingo was being badly
/, damaged by the flood. He was
] compelled to drive from Perryville,
= where he had left his horse in the
q morning, and the heavy roads were
8 so hard on the horse that the long
t drive completely exhausted it, the
a animal dying in the stable short
time after reaching home.