The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-08-23
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

stitute will be held at Bel Air Sep
tember 2 to 6.
The Kent and Queen Anne's
County Fair will be held at TOl-
chester, August 27.3O.
Harry Joyce, of Chesapeake City,
has purchased of William Bloomer
his farm of II acres, in the Second
district.
1t has been decided to hold the
annual camp of the Delaware
Guards at Rehoboth Beach, instead
of jamestown, during the first
week Of September.
The newly organized Quarryville
band has ordered a set OF triple.
plated. silver instruments from the
Diston Company. The band num-
bers twenty members.
Harry Kibler, of Chesapeake
City, while leading colt one day
recently met with a severe accident,
the animal rearing and striking
him in the face, breaking his nose.
The festival held at Octoraro M.
E. Church last night was we'll
patronized and very successful
affair. Music, furnished by Rising
Sun Cornet Band, enlivened the
occasion.
1t is expected the Husband Flint
Mill, at Deer Creek, Hartford
county, which was destroyed by
fire May 18th, will be rebuilt at an
early date as the product of the
mill is constantly in demand.
The Susquehanna Electric Co., Of
Hartford County, by order of Judge
Niles, will pay the State bonus
tax of $4,000, which is said to be
the largest tax of this description
ever levied on any corporation in
Maryland.
Under the new game law there is
no open season in Cecil county for
rail bird shooting, but the Game
Warden sanctioned last season the
old date of September 5, as opening
the season, and this rule will be
followed again this year.
Jacob McCardell, a we'll known
character of the neighborhood of
Elkton, has been taken to the
Soldiers Home at Hampton Roads,
Va. He is a veteran of the Civil
War, serving with Shows Battery,
First Maryland Light Artillery,
Sheriff Kirk, Of Elkton, took a
jury to Conowingo Tuesday to hear
condemnation proceedings insti.
tuted by the susquehanna Electric
Power Company against the Tome
estate and others for certain tracts
of land along the Susquehanna
River.
Captain Warren s. Haines form.
erly of Elkton, of the staff of First
Maryland Infantry, has been select
ed as a member of the Maryland
team at the national shoot to be
held at the new rifle range at Camp
Perry, Ohio. from August 30, to
September 1.
The Cecil County authorities are
looking for L. X. Kirkly, who is
wanted in Elkton charged with
forging the name of W. 81. Nc
Rhersan to q check for $45. The
check was cashed by Davis 8
Bros, and was on the Citizen's
National Bank, of Norfolk, Va.
Miller Walker, of Upper Oxford
township, has been adjudged a
voluntary bankrupt by the United
States District Court, at Philadel.
phia. The assets are stated to be
about $1,000, and the liabilities
$4,000, but the latter may lie ip.
creased when the creditors meet.
The Luther Handy farm, in Kent
county, on the Chesapeake Bay,
has been purchased by q Philadel.
phia syndicate, for $4,000, and
will be converted into summer re-
sort. 1t is the purpose to erect
cottages on the property costing not
less than $4,000 or $4,000 each.
The Town Commissioners of
North East have passed an ordi-
aepee requiring license fee of s.
per day fOr three days and $40 for
each day thereafter fnr merry 60
rounds, shows or exhibitions under
canvas, within the town limits,
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