The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-08-21

IIOunQ on the Tarm OF DlCKlnSOn N
Gilbert near Quarryville.
! The 1900 ton barge Dixie, built
for the Southern Transportation
Company, was launched at Elk
Landing, Saturday evening.
i The Comptroller of the Currency
has extended the charter of the
Second National Bank of Bel Air,
which expires in September.
"Swipesn Green, of Elkton, has
been sentenced to two years in the
House of Correction for threatening
toshoot an Elkton liveryman.
An old clipper casting weighing
II tons was broken up into scrap
from one day last week at the pulp
mills, Elktop, dynamite being used
for the purpose.
The Oxford trolley talk now is to
the effect that the Peach Bottom
road is to be converted into an cleo
trio line at an early date, power
being furnished by the Conestoga
Traction Company.
The Bell telephone pay station
! at Oxford was robbed of about $40
one night last week by parties who
carried off phone and all. The in
strument was found in q cornfeltl
near the town, but the cash had
been removed from the money box.
A new daily paper made its ap-
pearance in Baltimore on Monday
evening. The new journalistic
venture is "The American STAR"
and is published at the Baltimore
American Office, being virtually an
afternoon edition of the American.
Prof. j. William Holloway, who
was recently elected Principal of
the Havre de Grace High School,
will not accept the position, having
been appointed superintendent Of
the public schools of Wicomico
county, much better position with
a larger salary.
W.. S. Strausburg, of near Aber-
deem, was put off aP., B. & W.
passenger train a few nights ago for
drunk and disorderly conduct. He
has brought suit, charging that he
was thrown to the platform and
suffered broken collar bone,
through roughness of the officer.
Harry FARRELL, of Kennedyville,
Kent county, and his sister in law
Mrs. Lillian FARRELL, wife of j.
Oscar FARRELL, of Rochester, N. Y,
died last week in Rochester from
eating toadstools picked in park
by mistake for mushrooms. The
Jarrells are well known in upper
Kent county, and are well.to do
farmers.
| D.. G. Wharton Smith, formerly
of Darlington, has given to the
Ladies' Aid Society of Grace
Memorial Protestant Episcopal
Church Of Darlington five per cent
bonds to the extent of $4,000 as an
endowment fund. $50 of the in
come is to go to the vestry of the
church, and 800 to be devoted to
keeping the grounds in repair.
John Davern, of Barnsley, in at.
tempting to. jump on the Atlantic
City excursion train Tuesday at
Kenneth Square, as it was pulling
away from the water tower, missed
the hand rail and fell down ten
foot culvert. The train was stop
ped and Davern picked up little
the worse for his rough experience,
which was a very narrow escape
from death.
The packing season of 1908 is
in full swing, with indications
that the tomato pack will be
normal, the season opening about a
week earlier than usual. The re-
cent drouth has tended to
materially lessen the yield through
ont the canning districts. 1t is
estimated that the total pack of
tomatoes in Maryland, Delaware
and New Jersey this year will BE
$500, 900 cases, two dozen cans per
case.
i David Toy, son of Mrs. Mar
garet Toy of Oxford, was struck by
a low bridge at 43th street, Phila.
last week, and seriously injured.
The young man.is a fiagman on a
freight, and was struck by the
bridge while on top of his train.
Being on the front end of his car,
he was knocked down but rescued
by a fellow. trainman before he