The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-03-02
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

| J.J. McCrery denies the reported
sale of his fine store property at
Nottingham, to ID. Fl. Cooper.
1 The entertainment given at Elk
ton on Tuesday evening, for the
benefit of Union Hospital, netted
about $50.
! The temperance people of West
Grove are protesting vigorously
against the granting of liquor
license in that place.
! Frank Colder, of Bel Air, had
bis skull fractured one night last
week by being struck by an cleo
trio car in Baltimore.
Louis Ell. Hitchler has assumed
entire charge of the Oxford News,
which made its appearance in en-.
larged form last week.
1 Miss Catherine Budd, Miss Mary
| L. Budd and Miss Belle Vanneman,
of Cecil county, have been granted
life certificates by the State Board
| Of Education.
| Supt. of Education Stephens
has prepared an interesting
program for the use of the public
schools throughout the State in
the observance of Maryland Day,
on March 23.
i Mrs. Mary T.. Richards has been
awarded $3.50 damages for the burn.
/ ing over of a tract of timber on her
property, near Havre de Grace, by
fire caused by sparks from B. &
O.. locomotive.
/ The Zebulon Short property,
near Bacon Hill, containing Al
acres, with improvements, was
purchased at public sale on Mon
day, by Mrs. Robert Heath, Of
North East, for 1882 80.
] Wire thieves made raid on
the line of the American Tele-
phone Company in the vicinity of
Oxford Sunday night, cutting out
a section of the line and carrying
off about 80 pounds of copper wire.
| Rev. Robert Watson, Ph. D.,
formerly pastor of Oxford Presby-
terian church, but at present
located in Cincinnati, O., has been
appointed professor of pastoral
theology in Lane Theological
Seminary, in that State.
! The balance of $16 in the treasury
of the disbanded Lewisville base
ball club was donated by the play.
ers to Rev. o. E. Jones to help pay
the mortgage against the parsonage
of St. Johns NJ. E. church, which
was cancelled by the congregation
on Feb. Is.
4 After a pastorate oftwenty years
Rev. WIN. Barrows has rendered
his resignation to. the congregation
of Oxford Baptist Church, to take
effect in June. The resignation
came as surprise to the congre-
cation and no action has yet been
taken upon it.
Mrs. Ladora Reynolds has filed
a petition in the Circuit Court for
Hartford county, asking divorce
from her husband, John A. Reyn.
olds, and the custody of her three
children. The parties were mar
ried on January 81, 1896, by Rev,
s. A. Hoblitzell, and separated in
1908.
The graduating class of 1906 of
North East High School has pre-.
sented a fine stained glass window
which has been placed in the As
sembly Room of the new building,
which is rapidly nearing compile
: ton. The new furniture has
arrived and it is hoped the build
ing will be in readiness for the for
NAL Opening Day, the second week
in March.
!. A bill is pending in the Legis.
lature to change the days of meet.
ing of the Orphans Court of Har-
ford County from the firstifour days
of the first week of each month,
as at present, to Tuesday of each
week, which would be more con-
venient for the transaction of bust
ness in that court.
The Democratic Editor Associa-
tion of Maryland held their biennial
meeting in the old Senate Chamber,
at Annapolis, on Tuesday. Gov
ernor Warfield delivered the ad.
; dress of welcome. At night a
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