The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

Inc RlVerSlOe COrneC band OF
Port Deposit, will run its annual
excursion to Tolchester Beach on
Friday, August is.
Constable Harry 81. Abrams, OF
North East, has announced his
candidacy for the Office of Sheriff
on the Republican ticket.
The Rawlinson farm of 81 acres
in the Third district was sold Mon
day by George A. Blake, Esq,
Assignee, to Frank e. Marble, for
$4OO.
Rev. j. N. Mcdowell, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Mcdowell, of
Principle, has accepted a call to
the Presbyterian Church at POGO.
moke City, Md.
The Gordon property of 73
perches at Pleasant Hill, Third dis.
trict, was sold last week at the
Court House door by sheriff Kirk,
to Henry Henderson, for $31.
Leonidas Ryan, of Perryville, in
attempting to prevent a launch
from colliding with the wharf one
day recently had his thumb so
badly crushed as to necessitate
amputation.
The Gilpin Falls hydro electric
plant near Bay View, which has
been shut down for some time to
permit the installing of new ma
chinery, expected to resume oper-
ations this week.
Harry 81. Barnes, telegraph
operator at the Elkton signal tower,
whose home is at Charlestown, is
in a critical condition from blood
poisoning, the result of running a
rusty nail in his foot.
Members of Company E, Mary
land National Guard, of Elkton,
returned home Saturday evening
after spending a week at Fort
Howard, and another week at the
State Rifle Range, at Glen Burnie.
Charged with stoning a Penn.
sylvania Railroad passenger train
at Elkton Tony Tildon, colored, of
Port Deposit, was committed to
Elkton Jail, Tuesday to await the
action of the September term of
court.
The stewards and trustees of
HOpewell M. e. church met at the
parsonage on Monday evening and
appointed Harry Rialey steward
and Rufus Jackson trustee to fill
the positions formerly held by the
late John F. Gilbert.
John M. Post, until recently
editor of the Elkton Appeal, left
Elkton, Monday night for Wash
ington State, and will look over the
journalistic field in Washington
and California, in one of which
states he expects to locate.
During one of the heavy gusts
last week bolt of lightning struck
a pig pen in Lancaster county, in
which was mother pig and eight
infants, a week old. The shock
killed mother and stunned three
babies. At last accounts the piggies
had all recovered, except mother
who was still dead.
Thomas Earle Scott, aged nine
years, son of George Scott, oolored,
while alone in a rowboat on the
Mccullough dam at Rowlandville
Sunday afternoon, 14th inst, fell
overheard, and was drowned before
assistance could reach him. The
body was recovered in a few min.
utes but efforts to Tesuscitate
proved unsuccessful.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilkinson Ander.
son, of Nottingham, experienced an
upset on Sunday morning while
driving into town, their horse shy.
ing at man lying along the road.
side. The occupants were thrown
from the vehicle, Mrs. Anderson's
shoulder being severely injured.
The buggy top was considerably
broken.
2. T. Loer, whose home is in
Lebanon, Ohio, drifted into town
last week and set up his table on
the street corner, where he executed
with great skill and rapidity with
pen and ink, cards and artistically
colored notices and signs of every
description. The wandering pen
man stated he taught school until
few years ago, but being a sufferer
from asthma determined to try the
outdoor life, and has been greatly