The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-08-19
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Rights of way have been secured
for a trolley road from Parkesburg
to Oxford.
The Hello Match Co., of Newark,
has been reorganized and the plant
has resumed operations.
L. G.. Lee, of Bel Air, has been
| appointed on Governor Warfield's
staff, ranking as a Colonel.
The Newark Academy building
is to be used as a dormitory for
Delaware College this fall.
| A large schooner loaded with a
thousand watermelons reached
Scott's wharf, Elkton, on Friday.
The Toughkennamon hotel prop
erty has been sold for $4,000 by
its owner, John Babb, to Philadel-
phia parties.
Constable VIM. Roe, of Kent
Island, is charged with selling or
giving away liquor on the Wye
campmeeting grounds.
The Farmers Fair at Brandy
wine Springs, near Wilmington,
will open on August 30th and will
continue for three days.
Work has begun on the Octoraro
Water Company's new dam at
Pine Grove, Lancaster county, a
gang of fifty men being employed.
A dancing pavilion has been
erected at the edge of the Barrens,
on the Elkton. North East road,
where dances will take place each
Wednesday.
I Fifty per cent of the peach crop
in the Maryland tidewater counties
is reported by the Department. of
Agriculture to be affected with
brown rot and spots.
Reed and rail birds are reported
as making their appearance on the
marshes. The shooting season for
these birds does not open until
lSeptember 5 in Cecil county.
1t is reported the Lancaster, Ok
ford & Southern Railroad is to be
newly equipped in the fall and ex-
tended from Fairmount to Quarry
vile, necessitating an expenditure
of $150,O00.
Charters have been granted the
Kennett Gas, Fuel and Heat Co.,
with a capital OF $4,000, and the
Kennett Gas Light Co., with
capital of $50, 900, both of Kennett
township, Chester county.
R. K. vanneman has purchased
the st. Johns street wharf property
in Havre de Grace and leased the
same to the contractors of the new
railroad bridge to be built across
the Susquehanna.
p. M. Mitchell of Wilmington
won the horse and buggy chanced
off by the Rrandywine Fire Co. of
that city, Friday evening. The
team is valued at 5000 and cost
Mr.. Mitchell % cents, as he pur-
chased five tickets.
The 124th anniversary of Bar
rett's Chapel, DEL, will be held on
October %. Rev. s. w. Forbes,
secretary of the Church Extension
Society of New York, will deliver
the sermon on the occasion of the
anniversary celebration.
Four cows and two bulls belong
ing to the herd of j. e. McCafferty,
of near New Castle, Del were bit
ten last week by a dog which de-
veloped rabies. Mr.. McCafferty
was compelled to kill his stock and
places his loss at $4OO, all on ac-
count of a fifty cent cur.
Some good catches of rock fish
are being made in the pound nets
in the rivers of the upper Chesa-
peake. Edward G. Wilson found
the dead body of a shark about
ten feet in length and weighing
probably 600 pounds in his net at
the Gridiron Fishery, one morning
last week.
John j. Ayers, farmer of near
Van Bibber, Hartford county, was
attacked by vicious bull one day
last week and severelyiinjured. The
animal was dehorned or otherwise
Mr.. Ayres would have been gored
to death. He was knocked down
and trampled upon but was rescued
before being seriously injured.
II. G. Conrad, formerly city at
torney for Wilmington, teachers
commercial law at Goldey College.