The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-08-09
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Anthrax has broken out to an
alarming extent among horses and
cattle in the lower counties on the
Eastern Shore.
Professor G. Milton Wright of
the Maryland School for Boys has
been appointed principal of Aber-
deem High School.
The duck farm, near Oxford, re-
ceived a shipment of 600 ducks
from Long Island on Saturday for
restocking purposes.
The Republicans of the second
Judicial district, have decided to
hold their judicial convention in
Centerville on August 20.
A class of fifty. nine probationers
were recently received into full
membership of Havre de Grace
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Soap stone quarries are to be
opened on the property of John A.
Dunn, near Conowingo, and a mill
erected on the premises, it is
reported.
District Attorney W. H. Nc
Elree, of Chester county, Pa, who
is a resident of West Chester, is
writing a history of the Brandy
wine creek.
George A. Shay, of Havre de
Grace, has filed a bill in the Har-
ford County Court, asking for a
divorce from his wife Stella M.
Shay, on statutory grounds.
Hampton Ashby, near Lombard,
lost one of his farm horses this
week. The animal was so badly
cut about the legs by the knives of
moving machine that it had to
be killed.
Prot. Hugh W. Caldwell, for the
past eight years principal of Chesa
peake City High School, has been
elected principal of Havre de Grace
High School, at salary of 81 200
per annum.
Henry A. Whitaker, lawyer,
of Bel Air, has applied for the
benefit of the bankruptcy law.
His liabilities are $27,3S7 and
assets 800. Ofthe liabilities 81 |, ,4S1
is secured and $11, , ,4O1 unsecured.
The Hartford County Commits
sioners have awarded the contract
to j. W. Silver and Company to
macadamize seven miles OF public
road between Kalmia and Belair,
the work to be completed October 1 i.
Rev. John B. Kendall, Jr., form
erly of Lincoln University, who at
present IS pastor of the Greensbnrg,
Pa, Presbyterian Church, is re,
ported to have declined a call to a
pastorate at Boise, Idaho, at a
salary of 81, 900.
Prof. G. H. Dye, an instructor at
Tome Institute, Port Deposit, has
been selected principal of the Den
ton High School and Prof. H. Fl.
Nittle, a teacher at the Conference
Academy, Dover, principal of the
fredericksburg High School.
Miss Mabel Jones, daughter of
Mrs. E. G. Jones, of Newark, will
sail for China from San Francisco
on August 8th, under the auspices
of the Y. M. G. A. of the United
States, to engage in missionary
work, for the next four years.
The Lancaster and York Furnace
trolley line is to be extended from
Feauea to York Furnace Springs,
where it will cross the Susque.
hanna river to York Furnace, York
county, a distance of $500 feet.
The Maryland State Horticul.
tural Society will hold its meeting
at the jamestown Exposition Tues
day, September Oath. Arrange
ments have been made through the
department of special events to
have the date known as Maryland
Society Day.
Two of the four steam shOvels
being operated at the "Eddy Cut"
on the G. & P. R. r. are to be
moved TO Peach Bottom, where the
rubbish from the cid slate quarries
will be loaded on cars and conveyed
to and near Fishing Creek to be
used as ballast and filling.
Muarry A. Mitchell, aged 19I
years, was arrested and brought
before Magistrate Fahey in Havre
de Grace Saturday. charged with
assulting Carrie Akers, aged IL
years. Two years in the Maryland
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