The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-01-20
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

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G. H. McGuigan, of Conowingo,
has purchased the house and lot of
Chas. Dempsey, at Pilot.
J. III. Covington has sold his
farm of 50 acres, near Lewisville,
to Joseph Steele, for $4,000.
Edward Downey, of Red Lion,
DEL, recently butchered a hog
which weighed 733 pounds.
Five shares of the National Bank
of Newark sold at public sale last
week for $114.25 per share.
The receipts of Bel Air, Hartford
county post Office amount to 81, 900
during the year just closed.
The Tyson farm in the Fourth
district has been purchased by J..
A. Warrington, of Big Elk.
There will be two eclipses of the
moon in 1905, one on February 10Th
and the other on August 15.
Samuel Mcdowell, of Oxford, has
announced himself as a candidate
for the Office of Sheriff of Chester
county.
The Delaware College cadets at
tended the inaugural ceremonies of
Governor Lea at Dover, on
Tuesday.
The Head of Christiana church,
near Newark, has been presented
with handsome pulpit Bible by
Mrs. Mary G. Kilgore.
EX Congressman VIM. b. Baker,
of Aberdeen, is mentioned for the
republican nomination for State
Senator from Hartford county.
Fees for licenses of every descep.
tion issued by the Clerk Of the
Court of Hartford county in the
year 1904 aggregated $S,999.73.
Company d. Maryland State
militia, of Bel Air, will participate
in the Inauguration of President
Roosevelt on Saturday, March 4.
The Havre de Grace Water Com
pany is erecting an ice manufactur-
ing and cold storage plant in that
city adjoining its liberation plant.
John Thompson, of near Bay
View, has rented the store property
at Lombard and will embark in a
general merchandise business in
the spring.
The will of Mrs. Amelia T.. Arm
strong, of Newark, has been record.
ed in the Registers Office at Elkton.
She devises her entire estate to her
husband, Theodore F. Armstrong.
| Calvin J. Potts, of Hockessin,
who was recently injured on the
trolley road between Brandywine
Springs and Wilmington, settled
with the Peoples Co. last week for
$4,000 and all expenses.
Milton Hasson, of near Blue Ball,
has replaced the old stone dwelling
house on his farm with a new
frame structure. The old stone
mansion was built in 1853 and used
as dwelling for LAG years.
The Dutch occupancy of New
Castle in 1866 will be celebrated by
the Colonial Danes of Delaware in
May, on the anniversary of the
event, in commemoration of which
a monument will be erected.
Martin Jackson, a P, B. & w.
freight fagman, was knocked from
his train at Edgmoor on Monday
and received serious injuries. He
formerly resided at Perryville,
where he married Miss Florence
Boyd, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
III. Boyd.
Henry M. Mccullough, Esq, OF
ElktOn, was before the Court of
Appeals at Annapolis, yesterday,
as counsel for VIM. Fl. Hart, of
Washington, who was arrested at
Elkton for refusing to enter a Jim
Grow car. The case was tried be-
fore the Circuit Court of Cecil
county and a verdict returned
against Hart, who took it to the
Court of Appeals.
Geo. Wright, of near Elkton,
has been lodged in Jail for stealing
curtains, sofa pillows and other
articles from Miss Mary Ricketts,,
an aged maiden lady residing near
Elkton. Wright is a protege OF
Miss Ricketts,, and showed his ap-
probation to his benefactress by
robbing her. A term at Jessep's
Cut is the sort of kindness to show
such reprobates as Wright.