The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-05-15
TOWN AND COUNTY.
!, Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

MOuudy
The entertainment by the EIkton
Paint and Powder Club for the
benefit of Union Hospital, netted
$57.
Delaware College, at Newark,
has 157 students, the largest en-.
rollment in the history of the
institution.
A 400 pound sturgeon was caught
in William Rutter's pound nets at
White Bank Fishery on the North
East river this week.
Messrs. John Gilpin, John Frazer
and John E. Gonce have been
elected trustees of the Elkton Pres.
byterian Church for the ensuing
year.
Bitten on the arm by her pet fox
terrier, Mrs. John 81. Jarvis, OF
Galena, Kent county, is taking
treatment at the Pasteur Institute,
Baltimore.
The Hartford County School
Board has elected John D. Worth
ington president, and Prof. Charles
T. Wright superintendent, secre
tary and treasurer.
The Commencement exercises of
Oxford High School will be held
Friday evening, May 20, when a
class of twelve graduates will re-
ceive their diplomas.
Company x, First Infantry, M.
N. g., of Havre de Grace, has been
ordered to the State rifle range
Monday, the 18th, inst, for a
weeks target practice.
Two silver collection plates bear.
ing the inscription, "The First
Presbyterian Church of Chesapeake
City, Md, May 10, 19OS,n have
been presented to that Church by
the Christian Endeavor Society.
The Odessa and Middletown
Trolley Railway was sold at public
sale at the Court House in Will.
mington, last week, to H. r.
Bringhurst for w. 81. Hiles, at
torney for the bondholders, for
$500.
A large delegation of repre-
sentative citizens of the First dis
trict of Cecil county, appeared be-
fole the County Commissioners at
Elkt0n, Tuesday, and urged an ap
lpropriation for new and modern
schoolhouse at Cecilton.
An old log cabin, known as
Sunny Dell," one and a.half
stories high, erected 1873 years ago
on the property of w. A. Jewens,
near Aberdeen, is being torn down.
The logs are as sound as the day
they were placed in the building.
Richard S. Wallis, who was re-
Gently appointed cashier of the
National Bank of Chesapeake City,
has declined the position and
Henry 7. Deaver, who had resign.
ed as cashier, has reconsidered the
matter and will remain as cashier
of the bank.
| A delegation representing the
Conowingo Ferry Company appear
ed before the County Commits
sioners at Elkton Tuesday, and
asked for an appropriation to help
maintain the ferry until the Como.
wingo bridge, which was burned,
can be rebuilt.
The suit of the Conowingo Bridge
Company to recover $4,000 from
the Home Insurance Company, of
New York, and the Commercial In
surance Company, of London, for
the burning of the bridge across
the Susquehanna, has resulted in
favor of the plaintiff.
Zion Presbyterian Sunday School
has reorganized with the following
officers: Superintendent, Mr.. Ed
win Carhart; Assistant, Mr.. Will
mer Fox; Secretary and Treasurer,
Mr.. Cecil Mackey; Librarian, Mr..
Britton Carhart; Organist, Miss
Katherine Rutherford; Assistant,
Miss Mary Palmer.
| The fish Matching operations at
the Battery, below Havre de Grace,
have been almost complete failure
this year as far as shad is concern.
ed, but 5000, 900 eggs have been
obtained up to the first of last week.
Yellow perch eggs had been gather.
ed TO the estimated number of
4 1919, 100000, and 32O, 900, 900 white
narch apOa