The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

| 10dCuGrS' GAdLuIudIlOuS Will UC
held in Elkton on Monday and
Tuesday next.
A new iron bridge will be built
over Perch Creek, at Waterford,
on the Elkton Chesapeake City
road.
] The Maryland Democratic Edi-
torial Association will visit the
Jamestown Exposition June 11th
to 18th.
The closing exercises of the
fifty first year oil Maryland Agri-
cultural College, College Park,
will be held June to IL.
Charged with stealing a horse
from w. j. Hurlock, Of Kennedy
vile, Walter Hill, colored has
been placed in Kent Jail at
Chestertown.
Miss Ethel Barton, of Oxford,
has been appointed instructor on
the violin at Cedarcroft school,
Kenneth Square, for the school
year 'O7, ,'Os.
James f. Powers last week sent
a check for $25 to the Singerly Fire
Company, of Elkton, in recognition
of its service in controlling the
recent dangerous blaze at the
foundry.
J. edmund Michael, of Per-
rymans, has been commissioned
by Gov. Warfeld one of the
Forest Wardens under the Foresty
Act passed at the last session of
the Legislature.
| A. Emerson Pitt, of Oxford, has
sold half interest in his furniture
and carriage business to Clarence
NJ. Ortlip. The business in future
will be conducted under the firm
name of Pitt & Ortlip.
| George Bancroft Fernald has
resigned his position in the Jacob
Tome Institute, and has accepted
an advanced position along the
same line of work at the st. Marks
School, scarborough, Mass.
County Treasurer W. Arthur
Mitchell, Of Elkton, had his hand
badly lacerated on Tuesday by
getting it caught between the side
of his launch and another boat in
attempting to prevent a collision.
| DIR. I. j. Woodward, of Havre
de Grace, who had bicycle
stolen from him by q tramp about
a month ago, found his machine
last week along the railroad en-
bankment about a mile from town.
Luther Kilgore, aged Is years, a
brakeman On one of the work
trains, used in the construction of
the big dam at Mccall Ferry,
lslipped and fell beneath the wheels
of his car, one morning last week,
land was killed.
u The annual commencement of
Goldey College, Wilmington, will
be held in the Grand Opera House
on Monday evening, June 18th.
One of the speakers will be Hon.
w. 81. Berry, State Treasurer of
Pennsylvania.
The badly decomposed body of
a white man was found last week
along the Susquehanna river, at
Mccall Ferry. The body was lying
! on the bank 20 feet above water,
and was probably carried there
during the flood in March.
4 The annual readjustment of the
salaries of postmasters, based upon
the business for the preceding year,
increases Elkton from $l,700 to
81, 800 per year, North East from
81 200 to 81, 300, Aberdeen from
81, 800 to $1,000, Bel Air from
81, 900 to $4,000.
The Perryville Record announces
that trains on the Columbia &
Port Deposit road will run from
Perryville to Columbia for about
ten days beginning June 1st.
This will afford good opportunity
for any one wishing to see the
, improvements up the river.
t Robert W. Tunstall, Head of
! the Department of Ancient Lam
guages in the Jacob Tome In
} stitute, has about completed a
textbook on Latin, which will be
published in Richmond, Va. Mr..
Tunstall is a teacher Of long and
successful experience and the forth
coming text is the result of careful
study, and will doubtless prove
a highly desirable acquisition to