The midland journal., 1906-10-19
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

of North East High School opened
on Monday.
A new piano has been placed in
the Cecil County High School
building at Elkton.
| The Robert Anderson property,
lin Cecilton, has been purchased by
Geo. W. Padley for $4,000.
The Williams Caramel Co., of
Oxford, is preparing to establish
a branch factory in West Grove.
The residence of Henry Deckman,
at North East, was damaged to the
extent of $3.50 last week by fire
caused by defective fue.
The W. G. T. U. of Aberdeen
has presented the town with a
public fountain, the work of
er 'ction upon which was begun
last week.
| J. Penney Wells county treas
urer for Hartford County, while ad
ljusting knife in mower on his
farm near Aberdeen, had the fore
finger of his left hand severed.
Rev. Father Crowley, pastor of
Warwick Catholic church, has
given the contract for the erection
of a parish house to contain four.
teen rooms with all modern i'm
provements.
Ralph Strawbridge, professor of
the manual training school at New
Brunswick, has been selected by the
Hartford County School Board to
have full charge of the manual
training department of the high
schools
The American Grocer states that
Hartford county is the birth place
of shoe peg corn, and that Aber
deen is probably one of the largest
shipping points for canned corn in
the United States, more especially
shoe peg and whole grain varieties.
E. V. Stockham, has been elected
president of Cecil National Bank of
Port Deposit, to succeed Mrs. E. S.
France, who has disposed of her
interest in the institution, while
Geo. w. Albaugh succeeds Mr.
Stockham as vice president.
i William F. George, of Kent
county, has brought suit against
the owner of a steam carrousel at
Colchester, for $4,000 damages,
lalleging his son was injured by es
Gaping steam from the machine
while at the Beach in August.
The large barn on the farm of j.
W. Watt, near Oxford, narrowly
Escaped destruction by fire on Tues
: day afternoon. The fire was dis.
covered in a pile of chaff in the
barnyard, and neighbors rallied
and with hand extinguishers and a
bucket brigade managed after a
hard fight to extinguish the flames.
The Maryland State Game and
Fish Protective Association will
make an extra effort this year to
} enforce the law governing the
!, shooting of wild ducks on the Sus,
lquehanna flats. Ducks are begin
ming to arrive and heretofore they
have been gunned for market be-
fore the law allows their shooting.
u A district convention of Knights
of Pythias in Cecil and Hartford
counties will be held in Port De-
posit on the evening of October
| oath. James II. Touchstone is
Chancellor Commander of Cecil
Lodge, Port Deposit. Adam Peep
les is district deputy and is also
chairman of the committee of
arrangements.
| Walter Shippers, Dorie Alexan-
der and William Kline, employees
the Bacon Hill Clay Works, near
North East, were badly injured last
week while engaged in getting out
clay from a pit. A horse and cart
used in hauling the clay from the
pit were accidentally backed into
it, falling a distance of fifteen feet.
The cart struck the men, badly
injuring them.
The Hytheham Club of Port
Deposit has elected the following
officers for the coming year, the
twelfth since its organization: Mrs.
Charlotte Newell, President; Mrs.
]. 1. France, Honorary Vice Presi.
dent; Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, First
Vice-President; Mrs. J. R, Bond,
Second Vice. President; Mrs. F. T.
Benson, Secretary and Mrs. W. P.
cameron, Treasurer.