The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-06-29


opens July 1st.
August %, 30, 80 and 81 are the
dates selected for Colchester Fair.
Dogs killed a fine calf in a pas
ture field of Samuel j. Harris, near
Elkton, last week.
The salary of the pastor of
Perryville M. E. church has been
raised to 5000 per year.
Owing to i'll health Branson Slack
has sold his brick yard at Oxford
to FL. P. Passmore & Bro.
The cannery at Price Station,
Kent county, was destroyed by fire
last week, causing loss of 90, 600.
One of the P. B. & W. express
trains crossed the new bridge at
Perryville, which is mile long, in
the record time of fifty five seconds.
Miss Ethel Graves, of Elkton,
has been appointed principal Of
Westamwell public school, to sue
ceed Miss Blanche Ford, resigned.
The Elkton town council has
ordered DIR. T. A. Worrall, of
North East, to make % thorough
examination of the water supply OF
ElktOn,
Rev. William BarrOus, D. D., for
twenty years pastor of Oxford
Baptist church, on Sunday preach.
ed his farewell sermon to that con.
gregation.
The Hartford County School Board
has placed John B. Scarborough,
Samuel J. Tammany, Mary A. Glib.
son and Mary e. Norris on the
pension list.
A young colored girl was caught
Tuesday afternoon in the act of
making raid on the money drawer
| in the store of H. Frank Witworth,
Elkton. Sheriff Kirk lodged her
in Jail, it being her second offense.
Henry Brown. q farmer of near
Oxford, has lost all but seven of a
flock Of fifty young ducks. He
ascribes the death of the little
quacks to the eating Of rosebugs, of
which there are such an abundance
this year.
John P. Poe of Baltimore, on
Friday delivered the address before
the graduating class of the Havre
de Grace High School and the
diplomas were conferred by State
Superintendent of Education M.
B. Stevens.
Elma Reburn, little daughter OF
81. r. Reburn, of Nottingham, was
severely injured last week by
jumping upon the npturned prongs
of garden rake, one of the prongs
passing almost entirely through
her right foot.
The Cambria Brick Company of
Hartford county has been incor-
porated with a capital stock of
$4,000 at $25 per share. The
corporation will manufacture and
sell bricks, pottery and earthen pro-
ducts and buy and sell lands and
minerals.
A great amount of damage vas
done in the neighborhood of Falls
ton, Hartford county, by recent
hail storm, fruit trees being the
particular sufferers, branches being
broken, and in some instances the
bark being completely stripped
from the trees.
A mad dog was killed in Port
Deposit Saturday night by Benz.
Griffin, but not until after the
animal had bitten a number of
other dogs, several of which were
also promptly shot. The head of
the rabid canine was sent to the
Pasteur Institute, Baltimore, for
examination.
Rev. Herbert W. Bieber has
resigned as pastor of New London
Presbyterian church to accept the
pastorate of the Presbyterian
church at Bradford, Pa, with a
salary of $4,000 per year. The
Bradford church had sixty Gandi.
dates, the Rev. Mr.. Bieber being
chosen by a large majority of votes.
Democrats of Baltimore, Hartford
and Carroll counties held conven-
tions Monday and unanimously
elected delegates favorable to the
denomination of Mr.. j. Fred G.
Talbot in the Second Congressional
District Convention at Westminster
on Wednesday, where his nomina-
tion went through with rush, the
convention being q unit for him.