The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-05-18

periencing a building boom.
The May term of Hartford County
Circuit Court convened at Bel Air
on Monday.
The Fireside Building Associa-
tion, of Bel Air, has declared a
semi-annual dividend of three per
cent.
Company E, Maryland National
Guard, of Elkton, will engage in
target practice at Glen Burnie, July
1928.
Nottingham Silver Band expects
to participate in the Gilmour Day
celebration to be held at Lancaster
on June 4.
The steamer City Belle, which
plies between Port Deposit and
Lapidnm, has been fitted with a
new boiler.
Mrs. George A. Brown, of Elk
ton, sprained both ankles by falling
down flight of stairs at her home
in that town.
1t is expected that the new rail-
road from Stewartstown to Fawn
Grove, Hartford county, will be
formally opened on July 4.
DIR. J. B. Slicer yesterday pur-
chased the McKinsey mill property,
situated on Stone Run, about %
miles west of Rising Sun, the con
sideration being $4,000.
The First Infantry, Delaware
National Guard, will go into camp
on Saturday, July 81, on the Mar
row farm, near Newark. The en-.
campment will last week.
Miss Alice Brickley. student at
Jacob Tome Institute, fell on the
steps Of the swimming pool last
week, cutting her leg so badly as to
require several stitches to close the
wound.
The State Board of Law Exami
ners will meet for the purpose of
examining applicants for admission
to the bar. in the Law Department
of the University of Maryland,
Baltimore, on June 6 and Z, next.
| Charles H. Dance has filed in the
Circuit Court for Hartford county, a
bill for divorce from his wife, Annie
Bell Dance, upon statutory grounds
They were married on December
81, 1891, and separated in April,
1904.
| Charles Veasey, colored, recently
pardoned from the penitentiary,
where he was serving a ten year
term for the murder of a white man
named Donnell, in Elkton, has
been committed to the Cecil County
Insane Asylum.
| Archer Lambert has been com.
mitted to Elkton jail, charged with
assault on Bertha Perkins, IL years
old, who was on her way from
school in Warwick on Thursday,
when she says she was attacked by
the young negro.
James Pierce, assistant at the
Baltimore Central station in this
town, has been in charge of the
Liberty Grove station the past week
during the absence of the regular
agent, Fl. 7. Brown, who has been
granted a two weeks leave of
abs ance.
Three boys, Harry Lewis, John
O'Brien and George Richards, all
under 16 years of age, and who
claimed Philadelphia as their
home were arrested Friday, at
Perrymans, charged with stealing
the eatables from the dinner buck
cts of the men at work on the
Pennsylvania Railroad tracks.
They claimed they were put off a
freight train.
While Mrs. Brown, who is the
mother of Mrs. GainOr Reynolds,
was descending the steps leading to
the station platform, she fell and
severely injured herself yesterday
morning. Mrs. Browns head came
in contact with the stone abutment
and she received deep cash on
the forehead, besides other injur-
les about the body. 1t is feared
she has sustained concussion of the
brain. The injured lady was car
ried into the residence portion of
the station and later in the day
was moved to her daughters home,
about two miles north of town.
j Go to Bufington's for dress goods
and all kinds of fancy novelties.