The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-08-24
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The baltimore County Fair Will
open at Timonium September 4th
and continue five days.
The Teachers Institute for Har-
ford will be held in Bel Air the
first week in September.
Arrangements are being made
for Farmers Fair to be held at
Wilmington Sept. 4, 5, 6 and Z.
Joseph Hopkins has purchased
for $500 from Mrs. Frank Suter,
her house and lot on West Main
street, Elkton.
A patent has been granted to
Thos. Fl. Mackin and M. E. Ham
mer, OF Havre de Grace, for a non.
Reliable bottle.
The corner stone of the new
Masonic Temple, to be erected at
Havre de Grace at cost of $16,.
900, was laid last week.
While handling a revolver Geo.
Foreman, of near Elkton, was shot
in the hand by its accidental dis
charge, one day last week.
Out of 397 members of the Mary
land National Guard who have
qualified as marksmen, 16O are
members of the First Regiment.
Alfred Woodruff, a lad employed
in the Oxford caramel factory, had
his foot badly mashed by getting it
caught in the elevator last Saturday.
Trees in the yards of Street
Brown, of Colora, and Samuel
Fryer, near that town, were struck
by lightning during the violent
gust of Tuesday evening.
James Craig, colored, of Elkton,
has been lodged in Jail on the
charge of attempt felonious assault
upon Hannah Thomas, an eight,
year old colored girl of Elkton.
The will of the late John T.
Brown, of Elkton, has been filed
for probate. The testator devises
all his property, of every descrip-
ton, to his wife, Mary Ella Brown.
Rawlingsville Camp opened on
Tuesday evening of this week and
will close on Thursday evening,
Aug. 80. There are over one hun
dred and fifty tents on the ground.
VIM. G. West, of Sylmar, won
two purses of $500 and $500 last
week at Pottstown, with his mare
Hoke's Margaret. Both races were
taken in three straight heats, the
best time being 2.1S4.
The Henry McCay farm, con,
tanning 78 acres, between Liberty
Grove and Battle Swamp, was sold
at trustees sale on Wednesday,
for $2050, Frank E. Williams, of
Elkton, being the purchaser.
A decree has been passed by
Judge Pearce authorizing the sale
of the real estate in Cecil county of
the late T. Egenton Hogg, and ap-
pointing L. M. Haines and Robert
G. Thackery trustees to make the
sale.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Frank Dale, of Wilmington, fell
out of bed one morning last week,
at the home of Samuel Ceilings,
near Elkton, where the parents
were visiting, and fractured its
collarbone.
The old Dayett mill property,
near Newark, once valuable water
power and famed fishing resort,
has been purchased by Joseph
Eastburn who contemplates build
ing a new dam breast and putting
the mill in thorough repair.
Clarence Perkins and Elmer E.
Miller, of Elkton Camp, Rev. F. s.
Cain, Guy Johnson and J. B. Lof-
land, of Warwick Camp, repre-.
sented Cecil county at the annual
meeting of the State Camp, Pa
triotic Order Sons of America, held
at Rock Hall, last week.
Hamp Ashby, of Oxford, with
the assistance of several neighbors,
spent most of last Sunday getting
his COW out of an old we'll on the
place. A tripod and block and
fall was finally rugged up, with
which they landed the animal, in a
considerably damaged condition.
The School. Commissioners will
meet in special session next Tues
day to consider the matter of
transporting children from the
Shawnah school, which it was
decided to close, to North East.
The patrons of Shawnah school
have petitioned against the move.