The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-03-04
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Station, was washed away by the
flood last week.
S. Russell Ewing has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Level, Har-
ford county, Maryland, vice John
N. Akers, removed.
The Lawder Bros, of Baltimore,
are considering the proposition of
locating their tin can manufactur-
ing plant at Hayre de Grace.
w. G. Palmatory, of Church
Hill, Queen Anne's county, butch
cred one day last week a hog which
tipped the beam at 6993 pounds.
John D. Anderson, of Deals
Island, has been named Fish Com
missioner for the Eastern Shore
to succeed G. L. Vincent, of Snow
Hill.
Rural free delivery route No. 5,
from Oxford is to be heightened
three miles in order to do away
with. the Tweedale- Cream star
route.
The pastor and members of the
Oxford NJ. E. church celebrated
the clearing of their church of a
50, 1000 debt by mortgage burning
on Sunday evening last.
H. G. Lintner last week pur-
chased of DIR. Frank Gillespie of
Oxford, his fine bay PAGER and as
the animal was being taken home
it slipped and broke leg. :
The Press reports that repre-
sentative of the Russian Emtas
sador in Washington is expected
to visit Oxford Friday to interview
Art. McKeever respecting horses.
A new $500 pipe organ is being
installed at New London NJ. E.
church. Half of the cost of the
handsome organ was betrayed by
a donation from Andrew Carnegie.
Rev. j. E. Gallagher, of Lewis
vile, has been paid a small sum
of money for injuries received in
the recent wreck on the Pomeroy
and Delaware City Railroad, near
Ladenburg.
A bill is before the Hartford
delegation in the Legislature, to
submit to the voters of Hartford
county whether or not fermenteu
liquors may be sold outside of
Havre de Grace.
III. 81. Mancill, Of Kennett
Square, master carpenter of the
Baltimore Central railroad, has
been placed on the retired list
after having been in the employ of
the road for thirty eight years.
A bill has been submitted to the
Legislature for the incorporation
of the Octoraro Granite Company
of Cecil, county, with DR.. David
M. Williets, Franklin Heller and
w. G. Cutler as incorporators.
The members of National Lodge,
No. 81, Independent Order Odd
Fellows, of Elkton, will celebrate
the eleventh anniversary of the
institution of their Lodge, on Fri
day night, 4th inst, by a banquet.
William G. Rouse, of Bel Air,
was elected president of the Allan
tic States Packers Association at
its recent meeting in Columbus,
Ohio. The organization has a
membership of over eight hundred.
E.J Steele, of Middletown, Del,
has successfully propagated an un-
usually fine carnation plant, orig
mating a new variety of that
flower, for which he has declined
an offer of 5000 made by a Philada.
| florist.
While playing with a number of
other children Charles Creswell,
the young son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Cyrenus Creswell, of Port Deposit,
fell upon an iron shovel and was
seriously injured. The sharp edge
of the shovel struck the little fellow
above the right eye and cut deep
cash which required several stitches
to close.
The Postal Telegraph Co., fearing
the Conowingo bridge may be
swept away by the ice gorge,
thereby carrying down with it
their entire system of wires and
interrupting communication, have
taken the precaution to string a
single wire across the river at the
bridge from tree tops near the
banks of the stream.