The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-04-06

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|quehanna flats closed on Saturday.
The George property, in Elkton,
has been purchased by John
Frazer for 1920.
New locomotives of the latest
type are being put in use on the
Baltimore Central railroad.
The Daughters of Liberty of
North East realized the sum of
$3S by their box social last week.
Among the new laws passed by
the Legislature just closed is
Curfew law for incorporated towns
in Cecil county.
Two cases of smallpox are report
ed near Middletown, Del, in col,
ored families. The houses have
been quarantined.
The nineteenth annual conven
tion of the Delaware State Sunday
School Association will be held in
Middletown, April IL and IS.
Lewis Isaac, young son of Winter
Isaac of Bay View, had the mis-
fortune to break his leg last week
while at play with companion.
j. II. Baker, of Aberdeen, has
flock of white Pekin ducks which
in 1872 days laid 900 eggs, or at a
rate of an egg every other day, per
duck.
Washington College at Chester
town, will receive appropriation
of $50, 900 from the State of Mary
land for the the maintenance Of
that institution.
Edward S. Moores, formerly one
of the editors of the Elkton Appeal,
was last week appointed inspector
at the Government Printing Office,
Washington, ID. G,
Baker & Oliver, who will operate
the cannery at Providence, in this
county, are contracting with
farmers in the neighborhood for
tomatoes at SIS per ton.
Little Britain High School will
hold its first commencement Friday
evening, April 8, in Little Britain
Presbyterian church, when class
of fifteen will graduate.
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The stockholders of Hartford
County Agricultural Society have
decided to abandon the exhihi
tions and sell the grounds. There
is a debt of $500 against the
property of the society.
w. Wylie Hopkins has been ap-
pointed cashier of the Second Nat
ional Bank of Bel Air, to succeed
Harry F. Adams, who resigned to
take an authorship with the Bank
of Commerce of New York.
| DR.. Israel J. Woodward, of
Havre de Grace, has made volun
rary petition in bankruptcy in the
United States District Court, Bal
timore. The Indebtedness is given
AS 81, ,62921; assets, 1886.
| Mrs. Belle Hit, wife of George
Hit of Wrightsville, Pa, was
burned to death on Friday evening
last. She was carrying a lighted
lamp which exploded, sitting fire
to her dress and burning her
fatally.
! The barn on the farm of John r.
Pratt, near Clayton, Del, was
burned last week. Two horses, a
COW and a calf were burned to
death, and fifteen tons of hay and
other provender lost. The fire was
of incendiary origin.
! The teachers and pupils of Havre
de Grace High School are making
an effort to raise enough money TO
purchase a Crowell Desk Labor
atory for experimental work 10
physics. The apparatus costs $500
and about half the sum has been
raised.
The Board of Directors of the
Hartford County Agricultural SUci-
ETY. have decided that it sis mex
pedient and unadvisable to hold a
Fair in the fall of 1905, because OF
the inability of the directors tc
make an exhibition pay the costs
and expense of holding it."
Adjutant General Riggs, of the
Maryland Militia has ordered Com
pany K, at Rockville, mustered
> out of service owing to inadequate
quarters. The citizens of Ellicotl
City have started a movement Il
? organize a company to take the
lplace of the Rockville company.