The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-02
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

making plant is being installed at
Alexander's Meat Market, Oxford.
Henry Ferguson, an aged inmate
of the Cecil County Aims House,
died at that institution on Nov. 21.
A car of coal was pushed off the
end of the trestle at Chandler u
Co.'s coal yards, Oxford, on Mon
day, badly damaging both trestle
and car.
The West Chester Firemen real
lied $4,000 by the fair, held in
that place last week. A $1,000
automobile was awarded to w. e.
Griffith, of Coatesville.
The Chesapeake City town coun-
Gil has substituted gasoline arc
lights for number of the oil street
lamps in that town. Rising Sun
town council please take notice.
Dorothy Henry, little daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. f. jerks Henry of
Elkton, fell and broke her collar
bone one day last week while play
ing With a number of other
children.
The founders of the New Cedar
croft School at the old home of
Bayard Taylor in East Marlbor
ough Township, Chester county,
have applied for a charter with
S25, 900 capital.
Rev. Il. H. Dashiel, pastor of
the M. Il. church of Chesapeake
City, is the author of book, just
published, entitled, "Visions of
God" Price, in cloth, 60 cents;
in paper, 25 cents.
Clinton M. Jones, of Havre de
Grace, was badly burned about
the face and hands last week in
throwing a blazing gasoline stove
from his home, the tank of which
had become ignited.
I Dredging is in progress for the
first time in fifteen years in the
harbor at Delaware City. near the
canal entrance. The mud is being
deposited on government land, ad-
Joining Fort du Pont.
The public roads crossing the P.
Il. 4 w. railroad, at Darlington
and Swan Creek, Hartford county,
have both been closed, the tracks
now being crossed ut these points
by overhead bridges.
A model dairy barn is being
erected on the Westamwell farm of
Il. w. Dawson, near Elkton, the
specifications and general arrange
ment of the building having been
approyed by the American Dairy
Association.
Three narrow -guage engines,
which will be nsed in hauling dirt
for the new bridge approach en-
hankment, have been received by
the contractors at Havre de Grace.
The engines have been named
" PerryYille," "Hayre de Grace"
and " Pittsburg."
Linn Gillespie was rendered o
surprise on Wednesday evening by
a humber Of his young friends, on
the 0ccasion Of his fifteenth birth
day. About thirty young folks
called upon him In body and
spsnt > Jolly evening with various
games.
An the public schools, churches
and Sunday schools in Dover and
CoDewago townships, York county,
Pa, have been closed 10y the State
itard Of Health, 90 account of
smallpox. There are Gfteen per
sons now In quarantine within a
radius VI three miles In Dover
horeuGh.
An apbllgasion has been fled at
West Chester ior an extension
~ the Oxford, Cochranville q
Isarke=bnrg Electric Railway to
Axondale and West Chester.
The move i In opposition TO the
NandegTiii Co.. which has en-
dsaforrd 10 block all rival trolley
coacerns by irlanction proceedings.
TIE Cecil Democrat reports that
: prcaiiar ailment, resembling the
ilrh. has broken out among the
sehooi eblldrcn In Elkt0n, and dur
ing the pa4t week ~ pupils
sars senf home fram schOol-ll
from the pahiic school and ~ from
ths Hlgh scboal--afiiicted with the
ailmaut. The disease. while one
o4a.ing the afiicied much annoy
auuo. a = not considered in any
vsy srrious.