The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-01-27
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

Burglars entered the postoffice at
Aiken, one night recently, and
stole stamps and other supplies
valued at $40.
Frozen pears fed to the horses of
Samual A. Walten of Centreville,
killed one of them and made sew
eral others sick.
The Kent County Farmers
Institute will be held in Chester
town on February 7th and 8th, w.
l.. Amoss, director.
The pupils of Warburton school,
Fifth district, will hold a box so
cial this evening. Proceeds for the
benefit of library fund.
The Rod and Gun Club'ot Pitts
burg, Pa, has applied for the use
of the public park at Havre de
Grace to camp in next August.
Mrs. Mabel Cawley Wilson, of
North East, has been granted a
decree of absolute divorce from her
husband, Benjamin Wilson, by the
Circuit Court.
The bazar of Bayside Cornet
Band, held in Havre de Grace
last week, was success, the total
receipts being $415.79, of which
$500 was clear.
The annual debate between the
students of Delaware College and
those of the Maryland Agricul
tural College, will take place this
year in March.
Hugh Thompson, an e k Mex
farmer, lost fine young bull last
week. The animal was poisoned
by eating laurel while ranging with
other cattle in the woods.
George w. Bradford, "a Hartford
county farmer of near Aberdeen,
has freak in the animal line, i,
being a calf born without eyes,
The animal is normally developed
in every other respect.
The will of Mrs. Hanna R.
Boulden, late of Elkton, was pro-
bated before Register of Wills
Thomas B. Miller, last week. The
testatrix devises all her property
to Howard W. Green.
A Delaware exchange says a few
Florida Strawberries are going
through Dover daily from the N.
Y. P. & N. Railroad to Philadel-
phia and New York, were they
bring from rs cents to 81 per quart.
During the past three months
1,674 acres of Maryland land have
been sold to settlers from Illinois,
Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, S.
Dakota, Germany and Sweden, at
prices ranging from $15 to $100 an
acre.
The ladies of st. Mary's P. E.
church, of North East, have organ,
lied an Auxiliary Society of fifteen
members, with the following off
GERS: Mrs. CAN'T, president; Mrs.
j. III. White, 'cretary; Miss Bes-
sic Wingate, treasurer.
The Textile Cornet Band, of
Havre de Grace, have filed papers
of incorporation at Bel Air. The
names of the incorporators are
Bertram Il. Gambrill, John Shaub,
Alfred Coslett, Augustus White
head and Lawrence'S. Nichols.
The following are the recently
elected officers of Cherry Hill w.
G. T. IT,: President, Mrs. Arthur
Harvey; Vice President, Mrs. s.
X. Blake; Recording and Cores
ponding Secretary, Miss Laura
Ward; Treasurer Miss Laura Ward.
A committee from st. Patrick IS
Catholic Church, of Havre de
Grace, met Pennsylvania railroad
officials at Philadelphia on Mon.
day to determine the value of
church property, needed for
bridge improvements being made
at Havre de Grace.
At the annual stockholders
meeting of the Mason Multi
pie Plate Washer Company, of Ok
ford, held on Friday, plans were
approved for the installing of an
electric lighting plant and of a
number of new machines which will
double the capacity of the factory.
Demonstration days at Buffing-
toms, January 80 and 81, National