The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-31
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
Dufing the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


season which opens Aug. /.
The property of Mrs. Annie
Craig at Calvert, has been pur-
chased for $1,000 by Calvin Watson.
Joseph 81. Hossinger has retired
as cashier of the National Bank of
! Newark, and Robert S. Gallagher
has been appointed to succeed him.
The August meeting of the School
Commissioners will be held Tues
day next, 4th inst, instead of on
the 11th, the date of regular
meeting.
DIR. f. R. Lane has resigned as
Director of the Jacob Tome Insti
tute, Port Deposit, and will shortly
remove from the Directors resi-
denceon the Hill.
jeremiah G. Price has sold his
3S9 acre farm in the First district,
near Earleville, to former Sheriff
IF. Ambrose Price for $4,000,
The farm is one of the finest in the
county.
Struck in the eye by piece of
galvanized spike, Adolph Kempa,
an employee of Deibert's Boat
Yards, near Elkton, had to be
taken to a Philadelphia hospital
for treatment.
The roof and woodwork around
one Of the large kilns of the United
Fire Brick Co., at North East,
caught fire one evening last week
and did damage to the extent of
$l0O before being extinguished.
w. R. Cameron has purchased ii
frame dwelling house of DR.. Rich
ardson, at Calvert, and will tear the
building down and re erect it near
Pennington. on the foundation Of
the tenant house which was burn.
ed last winter.
= The horse stolen from Harvey
Sentman, of Fair Hill, about two
weeks ago has been located at
Media, Pa, and the thief lodged in
jail. The arrest was made by de
tectives who were tracing a wire
thief, the man with the stolen horse
proving to be the party wanted.
John j. Laurence, of Elk Mills,
has sold his boats and boat house
near Scott's bridge, Elkton. The
boat house was bought by DIR. Il
Arthur Mitchell, for 800; a small
launch by j. Myron Miller, for $40;
and steele rowboat by Thomas
Kline, for $17.
Prof. Charles 81. Dye, principal
of the Havre de Grace High School
for the past year, having resigned
that position, the trustees have
filed the vacancy by electing Mr..
j. W. Holloway, of Baltimore,
where he has taught for the past
five years in the State Normal
School.
Overcome by the heat on Thurs
day of last week Baggage master
George Newig, of the Central Di
vision, fell from the door of his car
at Concordville, and was badly cut
and bruised about the head and
shoulders. He was taken to his
home in Oxford, after being re,
viyed, and has since fully re-
covered.
Hopewell NJ. E. Church, Wood
lawn, Rev. J. Howard Gray, pastor.
Sabbath service Aug. 2: Sunday
school at $3.50; preaching at 1880
a. NJ, and s p. m. Morning sub.
ject, "Put that on Mine Account"
evening subject, ga Youthful
Hero" Epworth League at 7:30.
Preaching at Asbury at p. m
All welcome.
George w. Johnson, the veteran
oarsman, who passed through the
Chesapeake & Delaware canal some
weeks ago, has reached New York
after rowing all the way from st.
Augustine, Fla, IN boat of news
papers, and will soon return to
Florida by way of the Hudson
river, Erie canal, to the Great
Lakes, and thence down the Miss,
issippi river.
| We in receipt of three bulle-
tins from Maryland Agricultural
Experiment Station. The topic
treated on the "Manuring and
fertilizing Truck Crops, y "Miscell
aneous Greenhouse Notes. and
"The Effect of Animal Digestion
and Fermentation of Manure on
the Vitality ofSeed." Copies may
be procured on application to the
lofofion