The midland journal., 1904-08-26
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

VIM. Slicer, of Colora, has placed
his gasoline launch on Hunters
dam.
Capt. Andrew Woodall has pur-
chased the Boyer farm near Sassa-
fras for $40, 800.
The annual tournament at Dewey
Park, near Chesapeake City, will
be held September Z.
The young people of Bank will
give dance in Carter's Hall Fri
day evening, August 26.
The members of Bayside Cornet
Band, of Havre de Grace, have
purchased new uniforms.
Susquehanna Marine Works Co.
is erecting a boat building estab-
lishment on the water front, in
Havre de Grace.
The Hartford County Teachers
Institute will open at Bel Air, on
September 8. John B. Hanna will
deliver the address of welcome.
A horse and buggy belonging to
D. B. Widmyer, of Lancaster, was
stolen at Rawlinsville camp Sun
day night.
An effort is being made to have
a postoffice established at Pivot,
this county. At present the mail
for that section is distributed at
Chesapeake City.
The barn of John Walters, at
Scarf, Hartford county, was struck
by lightning last week and burned.
The loss was 81, 900, partly insured
in the Hartford Mutual.
Mrs. Margaret Jones has sold
her ice cream and confectionery
business in Elkton, to Messrs NAL
vern and Charles Jeffers, who will
take charge on September 1.
Walker & Gibson were awarded
the contract for the erection of the
new school house in Oxford, at
$14,741, and broke ground for the
new building on Wednesday.
Gov. Warfeld has appointed
John G. Rouse, of Bel Air, and
Judge Moores, delegates to the
Farmers National Convention, to
be held at st. Louis, September
Goth.
Thieves entered the store of T.
L. Hanway, at Aberdeen, one
night last week, by prying open a
shutter, and carried off a quantity
of goods, including jewelry, cloth.
ing, shoes, etc.
1t is said that the one hundred
trains which pass over the P, B.
& W. railroad, take 400, 900 gallons
of water every twenty-four hours
from the water troughs between
the tracks at Edgewood station.
Ivanhoe, the gray PAGER belong.
ing to W. j. Adams, of Quarry
vile, captured third money in the
2:12 pace at Pocomoke City last
week. The best time made was
2:163. The race was for purse of
$500.
Prof. II. Won Dusen Smith of
Montclair, N. j., has been elected
professor of mechanical and elec-
trical engineering at Delaware Col
lege in place of Prof. Arthur J..
Wood, resigned to accept the chair
at the Pennsylvania State College,
near Bellefonte.
After a visit of inspection of the
Bel Air Jail and Almshouse, G. M.
Griffith, president of the Maryland
Prisoners Aid Association, reports
that that Jail is one of the worst in
the State. 1t is poorly constructed
and the health of the inmates is
continually jeopardized.
Miss Anna Barker, of Baltimore,
while visiting friends at Aberdeen,
swallowed an ordinary steel pin,
about IL inches in length. The
young lady had placed the pin in
her mouth and Inadvertently swal-
lowed it when she laughed. 1t has
since caused her great pain in the
region Of the breast.
The Cecil County News reports
that arrangements have been made
for special train to Rising Sun on
Monday, September 5, when the
Elkton team will visit this town for
kIo &hsrH rama 1,afwoon tho nraa !.