The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-28
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Murray Vandiver, of Havre de
Grace, has had set out on his
Spesutia Island farm this spring
$500 peach trees.
A freight Of S3 cars passed over
the p. & B. W. railroad on Thurs
day of last week. This is said to
be the longest train ever drawn in
the history of the road.
Owing to i'll health Prof. Pretty.
man, Principal of the State Normal
School at Baltimore, has rendered
his resignation, to take effect at the
end Of the present year.
The Scott Fertilizer Works of
Elkton has lately installed an i'm
proved machine for the grinding OF
phosphate rock, which was here
tofore done with buhr stones.
Patents were issued last week to
G. j. Parker, of Havre de Grace,
for an improved hot-air cooker, and
J. P. Walker, of the same town,
for an improved tomato scalder.
A prize of $50 for breeding corn
and $50 for the largest yield is Of
fered by the Delaware State Board
Of Agriculture, to be awarded at
the Farmers Institute in January,
1906.
Parties wishing to procure trout
fry for stocking streams should
write to Chas. F. Brooke, Fish
Commissioner for the Western
Shore of Maryland, who will send
them to any part of the State to
those making application.
After quarrel with her husband
Rose A. Holmes, colored, of Havre
de Grace, one night last week,
poured coal oil on her clothing and
deliberately applied a match. The
woman was frightfully burned and
died in great agony in a few hours.
The large fishing float belonging
to Silver, Spencer Il Co., which was
washed ashore at Havre de Grace
during the freshet of 1904, is being
torn to pieces and the heavy tim
bers used in the construction of a
wharf for the Delmar Lumber Co.
J. M. Foster, Of Havre de Grace,
represented Morning Star Lodge,
I. o. o. F. of that place at the
meeting of the Grand Lodge, held
in Baltimore last week, for the
36th successive year, a record
equaled by no other representative
of the order in the State we venture.
According to newspaper reports
New York capitalists have decided
to put 10000, 900 in the electrical
development on the Susquehanna,
by establishing a power plant at
McCall's Ferry. The power to be
developed will be used exclusively
in Philadelphia.
The members of Nottingham,
Chester county, Pa, Presbyterian
church celebrated the cancelling of
the debt of 800 against the Par
sonage by a mortgage burning on
Easter morning. The money was
raised principally through the ef-
forts of the ladies Of the Aid
Society.
There will be an entertainment
under the auspices of the Harves
ter Mission Band, and for the ben
eft of missions, given in the Acad-
emy building, adjoining the Pres.
byterian church in Zion, on Friday
evening, April %, at eight O'Clock.
The entertainment will consist of
illustrated songs, a debate, etc.
Admission, % and 15 cents.
The sixty ninth annual session of
the Great Council of Maryland, I'm
proved Order of Red Men, convened
at Crisfield on Wednesday, 26th
inst. There are eight Tribes in
Cecil county, located at Colora,
Cecilton, Chesapeake City, Cherry
Hill, Elkton, North East, Oakwood,
and Perryville, each being repre-
sented at the annual pow-wow.