The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-06-15
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

county Will close On Friday,
June %.
The ladies of Sylmar M. E.
church will hold a festival on the
church lawn Tuesday evening
next.
, The farmers of the First district
expected to begin wheat harvest
the latter part of this week, weather
permitting.
The Commissioners of Kent
county have fixed the tax rate fol
the coming year at $1.15, the same
as last year.
The County Commissioners will
fix the tax levy for Cecil, for the
Forthcoming year, at their meeting
on Tuesday, June 26.
1t is estimated the yield of wheat
on the late Capt. Andrew Wood
all's farms in Cecil and Kent coun.
ties will be 100000 bushels this
year.
William P. Constable, of ElktOn,
was one of the graduates from the
Maryland University School of Law
at its commencement held last week
in Baltimore.
DR.. Merritt Burke, son of Rev.
Asbury Burke of Perryville and a
recent graduate of Louisville
University, has located in Elkton
for the practice of his profession.
Rural Route Inspector Clifford
of Washington, d. c., was in Elk
ton Tuesday, with view of estab.
fishing rural mail route from
Elkton eight miles down Elk Neck.
The Hartford county school
board has placed John B. Scar
borough, Samuel J. Tammany, Mrs.
Mary A. Gibson and Miss Mary E.
Norris on the retired pension list.
A number of dwellings and
stores in Newark and vicinity have
been entered recently and consider
able plunder carried away by burg.
lars who have SO far left no clue as
to their identity.
i A petition has been presented to
the Hartford county school commits
sioners asking the consolidation OF
Forest Institute and Hartford Sem.
mary Schools into graded school
at or near Webster POst0fice.
/ Raymond Cameron fell from the
fence on the school house grounds
at Zion Friday last, and broke
his left arm. On Tuesday Miss
Sue Ward, of the same place, met
with a similar accident by fall.
The body of an unknown white
man, apparently about 25 years Of
age, was found along the tracks
of p, B. & W. railroad at Stoney
creek, near North East, on Sunday
1t is supposed he fell from a train
and was killed.
It is reported that the firm OF
Armstrong & Latta Co., Philadel'
phia, have contracted to take down
the old iron bridge of the Pennsyl'
vania Railroad Company, across the
Susquehanna river, at Perryville,
and the work will be commenced in
early fall.
| Over 1900 crates of Strawberries
were shipped from Ridgely, Md,
on Tuesday, making the largest
single shipment made this season,
The farmers in that section claim
this is the best strawberry season
they have experienced for a mum.
ber of years.
| The first accident at the new
railroad station at Havre de Grace
occurred last week, when Charles
Whims, colored was sitting upon
the edge of the platform with his
feet resting upon the tracks, wait.
ing for train. he was struck by
passing train and received in jur
les from which he died.
The Jacob B. Cazier farm of 25(
, acres in the First district, has beer
purchased by W. Fl. and John d
Roulden for $8, 500.
Ephraim Blackburn purchased
at public sale on Tuesday, fol
$46O, the Cameron tract of wood
! land, containing IA acres, ant
r lying in the Fifth district.
Mrs. Margaret A. Stewart, o
d Philadelphia, purchased on Tues
uay at public sale the farm of tn
E late jacob p. Markee, containing
: 85 acres and located east of Elkton
for @70O.