The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-14

Ihe Perryvllle DaSe Dall team
will hold a supper and bazar in
that town on April 20, 81 and %.
The work of propagating shad at
the Battery fish Matching station,
below Havre de Grace, began this
week.
A new public hall building with
a seating capacity of 800 is to be
erected in Oxford at cost of be-
tween $6, 900 and $4,000.
Benjamin Robinson, of Earleville,
has been awarded the contract for
carrying the mail between that
town and Middletown, Del.
The town council Of North East
has re elected w. 81. Abrams bail
iff, John L. Moore treasurer, and
w. s. Gatchell lamp lighter.
The work of dredging the chan
mel of Elk creek, below Elkton, is
expected to begin in few days.
There is about $4,000 available for
the purpose.
Miss Lillian Hartnett, of Childs,
has resigned as principal of White
Oak school, near Calvert, and Miss
Mearnie Carhart, Of Zion, appoint
ed to fill the vacancy.
Walter Wright, an employe of
the Thomas Wall Paper Company,
had his foot caught and crushed
by the freight elevator at the mill
in Newark, Del, last week.
DIR. John III. lamar and Col. /.
d. Davis, of Elkton, attended the
annual banquet given by the Union
Veteran Association at the Eutaw
House, Baltimore, on Monday eve
ming.
The foundation of the new M. E.
Parsonage at Perryville has been
completed and work on the frame
of the building begun. The Par
sonage when completed will cost
about $500.
M. Gambrill, proprietor of the
Gambrill textile mill, at Havre de
Grace, has notified the City Coun-
Gil that unless his plant is exempt
ed from taxes he will move it to
another town.
| DR.. J. H, lamar of Elkton, chair.
man of the county committee for the
care of poor children, on Monday
had three small children from Sin
lgerly taken to the Henry Watson
Home, Baltimore.
j The Ladies Aid Society of Leeds
| M. P. Church will hold Come and
See social at the home of Caspar
Garret Wednesday evening, April
10. Admission 10 cents. If stormy
next fair evening.
The popular drama, ''The Old
Fashioned Huskin' Bee," will be
, given in the Friends school build
, ing at Calvert, Saturday evening,
April %, under the auspices of the
W. G. T. U. Admission, 25 cents.
! During the heavy electric storm
of Monday lightning struck the
, stable of Mrs. William Collins, in
Oxford, passing through the roof
and bursting both doors of the
stable, but doing no further damage.
i The annual meeting of the
Womans' Home and Foreign
Missionary Societies of New Castle
Presbytery was held in the Presby-
terian Church at Chesapeake City,
on Wednesday and Thursday OF
this week.
i The contract for building the
branch of the Lancaster, Oxford &
Southern railroad from Fairmount
to Quarryville, a distance of eight
miles, has been awarded to P. Nc
Manus & Co., the work to be COM
pleted by August 1.
The municipal election in Elkton
Monday afternoon resulted in the
choice of Postmaster w. j. Smith
and Joseph 81. Sloan as Town Com
missioners, to succeed James r..
Powers and A. M. Strickland. A
total vote of 345 was polled.
| Elkton Council, Jr. o. U. A. M,
celebrated the fourteenth ami
versary of the institution of their
Council on Thursday evening.
The Elkton Council is one of the
strongest in the State, numbering
259 members and owning a hand
some three story brick Office and
hall building in their town.
The trout fishing season in Penn.
lsylvapia opens on Saturday.