The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-08-11

held a successful festival last week,
the net receipts being 500.
Bids for the purposed addition to
Havre de Grace High School build
! ing have been rejected, being deem
ed too high.
The Textile Band, Of Havre de
Grace, will furnish music for the
Fair to be held at Colchester Aug.
% to Sept. 1.
The National Guards of Mary
land are encamped near Bel Air
this week. Governor Warfield and
staff are attending the encampment.
The Bayside Cornet Band and
Susquehanna Hose Co., Of Havre
de Grace, netted the sum of $l06
from their recent excursion to
Colchester.
The Maryland State Horticulture
Society will offer $lO0 in premiums
for exhibits at the annual meeting
to be held in Baltimore On Decem-
ber 6 and z.
Hoke's Lee, the speedy PAGER
owned by VIM. G.. West of Sylmar,
won a 2.1S event on the Bridgeton,
N. j., track last week, against a
field of ten starters.
The Oxford Fair Association is
widening the track and making
other improvements at the fair
grounds in that town, in prepara-
tion of the coming fall exhibition.
Elkton enthusiasts have formed
a driving club and leased the track
ON the old Cecil county fair
grounds. Besides using it for driv-
ing purposes they will bold matinee
meets.
The Hartford County School
Board has awarded Normal School
scholarships to Miss Nora B.
Michael of Perryman; Miss Ethel
L. Bayless of Aberdeen and Miss
Addie j. Tenant of Dublin.
Tt is expected that all the piers
for the new p, B. & W. railroad
bridge at Perryville will be com.
pleted by September /. The work
of grading and filling in the ap-
proaches to the new bridge on both
sides of the river is progressing
rapidly.
| The Maryland Agricultural Col.
lege and the Maryland Agricultural
Experiment Station, located at Col
lege Park, B. & o. r. R., have is-
sued invitations for farmers to visit
them on September 1 and 2 next, to
take part in the thirteenth annual
meeting of the Farmers Organiza-
tions of Maryland.
| Word comes to us from Oxford,
that Burgess Stubbs has landed a
new factory. He signed up the
Keystone Cap Company, manufac.
turers of hats, caps and children's
headware, which, as the Oxford
Cap Manufacturing Company will
start sixty machines this month and
employ about 100 girls, boys and
men at good wages and erect larger
buildings later.
i W. S. Turner, proprietor of the
! Ayondale abattoir, which was
burned On the 4th of March last,
has at last been paid the insurance
due him-or portion of it. The
plant was insured in sixteen differ
ent companies for $32, 200, but
after the insurance companies got
through haggling with him he re.
ceived but S25,261, notwithstand-
ing he had paid premiums for the
full amount carried.
John B. Hanna, Chairman of the
Republican State Central Com
mittee, will entertain the Maryland
Republican Editorial Association
at lun cheon, at the Hotel Rennert,
Baltimore, on Tuesday, August %.
j The town authorities of Elkton
did big business with peace dis.
turbers and law breakers in that
town on Saturday and Sunday.
Among. those "pulled" and fined,
which included whites and blacks,
were several dusky damsels.
E. r. Marker, of near Warwick,
who several weeks ago was injured
by being struck in the eye by a
piece of steel flying from thresh
ing machine, was compelled ia
J submit to the removal of one of his
: eyes at Philadelphia hospital in
J order to save the sight of the other