The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-07-28

| me democratic ana republican
primaries of Hartford county will
both be held on Saturday, Sept 8.
The next annual meeting of the
Maryland State Bar Association
! will be held at Ocean City in July,
1906.
Wilson Jackson, aged 10 years,
of Elk Mills, was bitten on the leg
by dog Sunday, the flesh being
badly torn.
The Trustees of Westamwell
School, Third district, have elected
Miss Blanche Ford as teacher of
that school for the ensuing year.
By the sinking of a gasoline
launch on Saturday, near Havre
de Grace, Capt. John Hess and
three colored men of Grove Point,
this county, were drowned.
The republican State executive
committee met in Baltimore on
Wednesday and selected September
6 as the date for the State Conven
tion, which will be held in that
city.
Two cows belonging to Abraham
Mendenhall, of Blue Ball, were
struck by lightning and killed
while in the pasture during the
heavy guest on Wednesday of last
week.
William Perry Stedman, of Con-
necticut, has been elected principal
and Chalmers T. Brumbaugh, of
Denton, Md, vice principal of the
Bel Air Academy and Graded
School.
| George II. Pearce, of Aberdeen,
employed in the Subtreasury De-
partment in Baltimore, has been
promoted from messenger to
clerkship at a salary of 81 900 per
year.
| A charter has been granted
the Farmers Co operative cream
lery company, of near Lincoln,
Lancaster county. The capital
stock of $6, 900 is held by forty five
subscribers.
| Chief Judge James A. Pearce,
presiding over the Kent County
Circuit Court at Chestertown, has
decided the marriage of Florence
| NJ. Smith and Alfred M. Dill void
on the ground that both were
minors.
| On Wednesday evening of last
week Nottingham Cornet Band held
la very successful festival at which
the Oakryn Band assisted with the
music. The gross receipts were
Iabout Sl45, the band netting 800
by the affair.
The Maryland Dredging and
Contracting Company has the
dredge Patapsco at work at the
mouth of the Susquehanna, oppo-
Isite Havre de Grace, and the
dredge Potomac at work in the Elk
river, below ElktOn.
The Oxford Caramel Factory has
changed hands, Messrs. John and
William Brock, of Lancaster, have
assumed control of the plant and
!, | will operate it in future. The fac
tory resumed operations this week
after a shut down of'about a month.
4 William a. Realey, who for sew
eral years has conducted grocery
land provision store opposite the
} Court House in Elkton, has pur-
chased the old Salvation Army
! barracks in that town and will
!, remove to the new stand when i'm
!, provements which are in progress,
have been completed.
| While r. E. McClenahan was
driving with party of friends
near Perryville last Sunday a dog
ran in front of the horses and
caused them to run off. The occu-
4
pants of the trap were thrown out,
but all escaped injury excepting
Mr.. McClenahan who was badly
bruised about the neck and
shoulders.
| VIM. j. Armstrong, the gay Lo-
thario who caused sensation by
eloping with girl in this section
several years ago, has again come
Into prominence. The West Ches-
ter Local reports that Mrs. Elsie
Lear is missing from her home in
l that town and that Armstrong is
presumably the lodestone which
drew her away. Three or four sim
, liar escapades have been credited
to him since his initial case with
the merry Maryland maiden.