The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-04-24

Hartford county, was blown down
by the high wind on Saturday,
11th inst.
Thomas Drennen, of Havre de
Grace, has signed for the season
with the Gloversville Baseball
club, of the New York State
League.
The falling in of a portion of the
foundation wall of the new K. of P.
hall, at Lewisville, has delayed the
progress of the work and caused
considerable loss.
Charles 81. Jacobs has been
chosen president; P. l.. Baker,
secretary and treasurer, and
Charles A. Aaronson, chief of Aber-
deen Fire Company.
A Havre de Grace paper reports
that work on the old Pennsylvania
railroad bridge, converting it into
a drivebridge will be commenced
in about four weeks.
Frightening at baby carriage
the horse of Charles Davis, Of
Street, Hartford county, ran away
and colliding with tree was killed,
its neck being broken.
A meeting for the purpose of or
ganizing a Poultry and Pigeon
Association for the state will be
held at Lehman's Hall, Baltimore,
Thursday, April 3Oth. A state
exhibition will be held next winter.
Ministers of the 11,OOO Presby-
terian churches in the United
States have been requested by the
Department of Church and Labor
to observe Labor Sunday on May
10. A special souvenir programme
has been prepared.
A little Kennett Square girl tried
the experiment of putting large
fire cracker on a hot stove a few
days since and was badly injured
about the face by the explosion,
while neighbors thought the house
had been dynamited.
Reports from the vicinity of the
Mccall Ferry power plant say that
shad are swarming up the Susque
hanna river by the thousands and
that at Mccall Ferry fishery, a
short distance below the dam, many
great hauls are being made.
After declining to receive the
cattle purchased at the McCamant
Esale of Guernseys at New London,
February 25th, Jones & Fox, the
Wisconsin breeders visited the
Hollingsworth herd in New Garden
and bought seventeen head, paying
in cash $500.
| The st. James Dramatic Club
will present a three act comedy,
entitled "Men, Maids and Match.
Makers" in Port Deposit hall on
Monday evening, May 4. The
play will be followed by a dance,
Admission to both, % cents, re,
served seat, 35 cents. Tickets at
Carson's drug store.
The verdict of Hartford County
Court of $4,000 damages for inju.
ries received by Mrs. Adriana L.
Mitchell, of Havre de Grace,
against the p, B. & W.lrailroad
company, for being struck by a
hammer which fell from the bridge
as she passed underneath, has been
affirmed by the Court of Appeals.
John B. Holt has purchased the
Harris property of ten acres, near
Mechanics Valley, for 5000.
The farm recently occupied by
w. T. Reynolds, in West Noting
ham township, Chester county, has
been purchased by VIM. Ashdown.
The property in North East,
occupied by the late Fletcher Ford,
has been sold by trustee T.. M.
Haines to P. s. Terhume, of New
York, for $3.50.
The Alexander farm of 20 acres
in the Eighth district, was sold at
the Court House door, Elkton, on
Wednesday, by Homard Terry,
Assignee, to Harry Regan, for $500.
fredericksburg, in Caroline county,
with only a population of 1000 has
three miles of concrete sidewalks.
-Ex.
Rising Sun with population of
hardly 400 and borough tax rate
of 80 cents on the S100, can show
two miles of it, stone tagging
sidewalks, every street in the town
being paved in this substantial
manner.