The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-08-03

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allied $1OO by the festival held one
night last week.
Buck hotel, in Drumore town
ship, Lancaster county, has been
sold by William Campbell TO John
M. Patton, of Rawlinsville, Pa, for
81 200.
Herbert Il. Perkins, of the Ches-
.tertown bar, has been appointed
deputy treasurer Of Kent county,
to succeed A. Parks Rasin,
resigned.
Mrs. Cornelia J. Packer has been
sentenced by Justice Fahey, of
Havre de Grace, to six months in
the House of Correction for assault
and battery.
Aberdeen Council, No. SO, Jr.
%. u. A. M, has surrendered its
charter, number of the members
joining Guiding Star Council, No.
9, of Havre de Grace.
The Ledger says July 25, forty
years ago, the first wooden railroad
bridge across the Susquehanna
river between Perryville and Havre
de Grace was blown down.
The annual regatta of the Chesa-
peake Bay Yacht Club will be held
on August Is, and the committee
has laid out the courses for the
canoe and power boat races.
The Havre de Grace Athletic
Association has been formed by a
number of sport loving citizens of
that town, and taken over the
management of the Burns Bros.
ball team.
A man eating shark measuring
eight feet in length was captured
last week in a seine in the upper
Chesapeake Bay. 1t was one of the
largest sharks ever seen in the
Chesapeake.
At the prize drawing held by
one of Elkton's clothing firms on
Saturday night, W. J. Brown was
awarded a suit of clothes, E. e.
Rogers a silk vest and G. Shivery
a pair of pants.
On account of delay in the ship
ment Of cattle from Buffalo to
Lancaster, j. B. Keller, of Mt.
Joy, Lancaster county, has entered
suit for $500 against the Pennsyl-
vania railroad for loss sustained.
Footpads held up and robbed a
white man of ten dollars and some
small change one evening last week,
near the paper mill at Newark.
The victim reported his loss to the
authorities but refused to divulge
his name.
While handlinga blank cartridge
pistol one day last week, the IL.
ar-old son of William Gregg of
Newark received an ugly wound in
the hand by its accidental dis
charge. The lad was sent to the
hospital for treatment.
The Grand Council Improved
Order Red Men, of America, has
changed its place of meeting in
September, from Dallas, Texas, to
Niagara Falls. William T. Vim
singer and Miller F. Magraw, of
Elkton, will represent Cecil county.
Travel was resumed on the Port
Deposit & Columbia railroad
through to Columbia, on Wednes'
day. The extensive railroad Oper-
ations along the Susquehanna has
caused the road to be closed from
Pequea to Columbia for the past
sixteen months.
The members of Elkton Bar have
issued a challenge to the officials of
Cecil county for game of ball to
be played at the county seat, the
proceeds from which are to be de-
voted to the Union Hospital fund,
where it is probable a number of
the participants in the game will
have to be taken for treatment
at the conclusion of hostilities.
Pickpockets are reported to have
relieved several of their pocket
books on the Colchester excursion
last week. Ross R. Smith, of near
Zion, was one of the reported vic
tins. The pocketbook of Rufus
Bowland, Jr.. of Elkton, was stolen
from him some time during the
day. The book contained nothing
but some cards and small photos
and on the return trip the thief
threw it from the car window as
the train passed Elkton, and it was
recovered.