The midland journal., 1907-06-21
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

lOnSllltlS IS prevalent In OX1OrQ
and vicinity.
The merchants of Oxford have
agreed to close their stores at six
O'Clock three nights in the week
after July 1.
The State tax this year will be
..16 cents on the $l00, which is a
reduction of seven and a.half cepts
over last year.
The two hundredth anniversary
exercises of the Head of Christiana
Church, near Newark, were held
Thursday, 20th inst.
Jethro Johnson, Of Bay View,
was elected State Councillor of
Maryland at the recent meeting of
the State Council o. u. A. M.
A dividend of five per cent, pay
able on July 1, has been declared
on the preferred stock of the Ian
caster County Railway and Light
Company.
A heavy traction engine belong
ing to Garrett Lockerman, Of War
wick, broke through a county
bridge on the road near that town
last week, but was not greatly
damaged.
Prof. Ralph L. Johnson. for the
past four years principal of Oxford
public schools, has resigned to
accept the position of Superintend-
ent of the township schools of
Upper Darby.
F. e. Barrett. of Port Deposit,
has rendered his resignation as
constable of the Seventh district
and accepted an appointment as
special officer on the Jacob Tome
Institute grounds.
The electric current for lighting
the town of Port Deposit will in
future be furnished by the Tome
Institute power plant, on the In
stitute grounds, the old plant in
town having been abandoned.
James G.. Doaks, a contractor
and builder of Philada., has pur.
chased the Johnson Shippers prop
erty in North East and is having it
greatly improved, preparatory to
occupying it as a summer residence.
Joseph J. Flynn, of Towson,
was awarded by the Court at Bel
Air last week, 800 damages for
injuries received by being struck
by a car of the United Railway
Electric Company. The amount
sued for was $4,000.
The Susquehanna Electric Com
pany of Hartford county was sued
recently in the Superior Court.
Baltimore, tor the State tax of
one. eight of / per cent, on its
capital stock of $12,O 100000. The
amount of tax is $15, 900.
A train on the L. o. IS. railroad
ran into a herd of fifteen cattle,
near Fairmont on Monday, but
only one was killed, the rest es-
Gaping injury. The cattle belonged
to DIR. Dull and had broken from
the pasture field, near the tracks.
Miss Katharine M. Bratton, of
Elkton, and Miss Maude A. Fell,
of Sylmar, graduated at the Mary.
land State Normal School last week.
Miss Bratton will succeed Miss
Mcfarland, resigned, as one of the
assistant teachers at the Elkton
High School.
The School Board will hold a.
competitive examination next month,
for the vacant scholarship at st.
Johns College, Annapolis. Robt.
Anderson, Jr., of Cecilton grad.
uated from the College, this year,
making the vacancy which is open
to some bright Cecil county boy.
1t is reported that the govern
ment has taken hold of the matter
of the erection of piers between the
old piers in the reconstruction of
the Baltimore. and Ohio railroad
bridge over the Susquehanna river
at Frenchtown, it being feared that
the closeness of the piers will have
much to do with increasing the
chance of ice gorges in the river.
Claymont School, Wilmington,
won the $40 in gold offered by
Samuel Donnell, of Newark, for the
Eprize Temperance Essay. The con-
test was under the direction of the
scientific department of the Della