The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-08-31
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Miss Laura j. Ward, of Cherry
Hill, has been appointed principal
of school No. z, Fourth district.
Two Italians were lodged in Elk
ton Jail on Thursday last, charged
with assaulting B. & o. track
walker.
Mrs. Evelyn s. France is having
constructed upon her Mt. Ararat
farm a pumping station and large
reservoir.
DIR. Howard BrattOn, of ElktOn,
is suffering with broken toe, the
result of being struck on the foot
by base ball.
Carey Lambert, formerly Of
North East, has been appointed in
structor of manual training at the
Annapolis High School.
Poultry thieves made a raid on
the hennery of Wilson Merritt, near
Warwick, one night last week, and
carried off fifty of his fowls.
T. K. Stubbs, Esq, of Oxford,
has secured a Government pension
for Mrs. Isabella Kirk, widow of
the late Rev. Elam Kirk, chaplain.
Fred Price, employed at Port
Deposit by the Mccall Ferry Power
Co., was severely injured in the
back last week, by being struck by
the bucket of a steam shovel.
Benjamin Sacks, an Elkton junk
dealer was thrown from his wagon
last week, in that town, by his
horse taking fright at a traction
engine, and suffered a fracture of
the arm.
A tornado struck Lincoln on
Monday afternoon which uprooted
several trees, unroofed the barn on
the farm of Hsprg Cope, tore slate
from the roof of the Abbot creamery
and did considerable other damage.
Among those who went to New
York to participate In the Bryan
home coming this week are the
following Cecil countians: VIM.
M. Pogue, w. T. B. r. Robertson,
6. Ross Biles, Geo. Biles and Jos.
H. Steele. ~
A defective flue was the cause
of a blaze which damaged the
kitchen roof of the dwelling at
North East aecRpiea hY William
Dean, one day last week. The
fire was discovered and put ont
before much damage was done:
We have received the handsome
new catalogue of GQllay CONNER.
cial College, Wilmington, which is
a fine piece of work. The high
standard of this institution is at
tested to from the fact that last
year 700 applications were received
from business houses for the 14O
students graduated.
Joseph NorrQw, m italian of
Perryville, has been lodged in
Elkton Jail charged with cutting
Mrs. Mary Heekman with a razor.
The Italian and the woman had
agreed to marry but the woman
later rued bargain, whereupon the
dago showed bis sweet disposition
and skill with the FayqF.
Miss Mary Brumfield entertained
on Thursday afternoon of last week,
a number of little girls in honor of
her niece, little Miss Margaret
Brumfeld, of Menaenhall, Pa.
Those present were Misses Mir
lam Maxwell, Esther Maxwell,
Virginia Maxwell, Mana Hopkins,
Marion Pyle, Ella Pogue, Gertrude
suMmeriIl and Naomi Wilson.
Edward Patchell, baggage master
on Baltimore Central train, had
narrow escape last week. AS he
pulled the hell rope to signal the
engineer to stop at Morton, he
leaned from the car door, and
losing his balance feel ont. Luck
lily be retained hold of the bell cord
and a fellow trainman was able to
drag him back into the car before
he struck any obstacle or his slen.
der support broke.
The members of the Baltimore
Young Mep's Christian Association,
who spent couple Of weeks in
July camping on Roberts Island,
in the Susquehanna river, opposite
Port Deposit, have presented Mr..
Roberts, as token of their apPFe-
citation for the many kindnssses
shown them by himself and the
members of his family, with a
handsome umbrella, the gold head
Vof which is suitably engraved.