The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-08-18

of Elkton realized S54 Dy their lawn
festival held last week.
The Teachers Institute for Har.
ford will be held in Bel Air, Sep.
tember 4th to 8th inclusive.
The Maryland National Guard
broke camp at Bel Air on Saturday
after a weeks encampment.
Elkton Council, Jr. o. U. A. M,
is one of the strongest in the State
having a membership Of 263.
j. Harvey Graves has installed
an ice plant at his mill at Chrome
and is prepared to manufacture ar.
tificial ice.
B. J. McCauley, farmer of near
Galena, Kent county, has lost seven
horses within a few weeks time
through some unknown disease.
Ernest Poist, of Woodlawn, was
kicked on the left arm by colt a
few days ago, the member being
fractured between the wrist and
elbow.
The annual fair and festival of
Childs Council, Jr. o. u. A. M,
will be held in the new hall of the
order at that place on Saturday
evening.
Mrs. 81. A. Akin, of Warwick.
has received $3.50, the amount due
from the American Benefit Society
of Baltimore for the death of her
husband.
James P. Dickerson, of Town
send, DEL, has bought the Rogers
farms in Thoroughfare Neck for
80, 900, and will engage in raising
thoroughbred stock.
The Prohibitionists of Hartford
county will meet in county conven-
tion on Tuesday, September 5, at
2.30 p. M, in Bel Air, when a full
ticket will be put in the field.
Two negro tramps were landed
in Elkton jail Monday, charged
with drawing revolvers on crowd
of boys in Perryville and shooting
at Officer Hoffman, who arrested
them.
A movement is on foot in Havre
de Grace to have the town take
over the control of the Havre de
Grace Water Co., private c0rpOr-
alton, on account of the excessive
rate charged for service by the
company.
Two colored toughs of Havre de
Grace, Charles Sanders and Ralph
Bridges, were arrested in that town
last week and sentenced to term
at the House of Correction on the
charge of throwing stones at p,
B. & W. passenger train.
Rowland Cooper, of Dover, a stu
dent at Delaware College, was
drowned on Friday while bathing
with a number of companions at
Bowers Beach. The young man
was 1S years of age and was the son
of DIR. VIM. II. Cooper, ex.State
Senator of Delaware.
John Sharp, an employe at the
Nonantum Paper Mills, near New
ark, met with an accident last week
while working at calendaring ma
chine. His hands were caught in
the machine, and before he could
release them one finger was com
pletely severed and several others
severely lacerated.
s. j. Seneca, of Havre de Grace,
and Rev. DIR. j. @. Nicholson, of
the Trinity M. E. church, Wash.
ington, made a record breaking
catch of rock fish in the Susque.
hanna river on Friday, landing n,
ranging from one to seven pounds
each.
Thomas H. Van Pelt has been
held for Court by Magistrate Gilpin,
of Elkton, on the charge Of selling
tools to Joseph b. Yerkes and then
falling to deliver them. A pay
ment of $40 had been made on the
the tools, but Van Pelt kept both
goods and money.
The directors of the Hartford coun-
ty Agricultural Society last week
sold the various privileges for the
coming fall exhibition to be held
at Bel Air. The tobacco and cigar
privilege was sold to e. R. Rutledge
for $26; the peanut to F. P. Refs
niger for $50, and the other privi-
leges, including restaurant, to Geo.
lWeems, of Delta, for about $3.50.