The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-29

been granted a government pension
of $6 per month.
M. s. Henry, of Havre de Grace,
has been appointed United States
gauger for the rectifying houses of
Wilmington.
J. III. B. Hubbard has been ap-
pointed by the Delaware M. E.
Conference, colored, pastor of the
A. M. E. church at Port Deposit.
Everett F. Warrington, a stu
dent of Delaware College, New
ark, has been awarded the
Cecil Rhoades scholarship from
Delaware.
Lester Curry was painfully in
jured in the foot by the accidental
discharge of a gun while attending
a shooting match recently held at
Kembleville.
The first base ball accident of the
season at Tome Institute occurred
last week, when G.. R. McCord sus-
tanned broken nose by collision
with another lad.
Governor Warfeld has notified
the school board of the Bel Air
High School that he will deliver
the address at their commencement
| exercises in June,
| William Anderson, of Shawville,
has been elected assistant superin-
tendent of public schools for Har
ford County, to succeed 9. L.
Reckord, resigned.
Seven barrels of German carp,
ranging in weight from Z to 80
pounds each, were landed at one
haul by Elmer Murphy, at the
mouth of North East river.
W. Fl. Evans, of Whiteford,
Hartford County, while engaged in
blasting rock with dynamite, was
killed by an explosion. Deceased
was 80 years of age and unmarried.
Company K, First Md. Regt.,
recently organized at Havre de
Grace, has received its equipment,
Including blue uniforms, overcoats,
caps, hats, guns, ETC., and is pre-
pairing for drills.
The Missionary Society of Hope
we'll M. E. church has elected Mrs.
R. G. Terry, president; Miss Lora
Thompson, vice president; Miss
Helen jackson, secretary; and Miss
Lula Tyson, treasurer.
Here comes the usual prediction
concerning the peach crop. 1t is
to the effect that "there is fear the
Delaware peach crop for this season
has been seriously injured, if not
destroyed by the hard winter"
Wilson d. Wallis, of Forest Hill,
Hartford County, was the success
ful candidate to the Rhodes schol
arship from Maryland. He will
start for Oxford, England, in the
Fall to take up his four year course.
AS the first result of the effort
of the State Bureau of immigration
to import labor, II young men have
arrived in Maryland from Austria,
sent by 4, F. Trappe, who is
now abroad endeayOrinG to secure
farm labOrers.
The public schools throughout
the county and State celebrated
Monday last, with exercises appro.
pirate to Marylsnd Day, commem-
Grating the 273d anniversary of the
landing of settlers at st. Mary's,
March 25, 1854.
The members Of ST.. Patrick's
Catholic church, Hayre de Grace,
at their regular morning service on
ISt. Patrick's Day, contributed
81, ,531 toward the erection of their
new church, and the amount was
later increased to 81 900.
Prof. Charles A. McCue has
fjoinRG the faculty of Delaware
College at Newark, apd will occupy
the chair of horticulture, as well
as be horticulturist at the agricul-
tural experiment station. He is a
graduate of the Michigan Agri-
culture College.
Farmers, look out fcg this new
swindler; he sells barbed wire fence
stretchers, leaving the machines
and about forty rods of good fence
for trial, requiring the farmer to
sign an agreement for the return of
the fence, the value of which is
placed at So. The agreement later
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