The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-04-17
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The Permanent Building Asso
citation of Hartford County has de-
clared a semi annual dividend of
three per cent.
The annual meeting of the Mary
land State Bar Association will be
held at Annapolis on June Is, 10
land 20, inclusive.
The twenty eighth annual en-
campment of the Department of
Delaware, Grand Army of the
Republic, will be held in Whining
ton May Z.
Ten car loads of tobacco were
shipped this week from Quarry
vile to Lancaster, Michael Hoff
man and Bach & Sons being the
purchasers.
| The question of whether cows
will be allowed to run,at large on
the streets of Havre de Grace will
be. voted on at the election in that
town next month.
Caught by a log chain while a
team of mules were ia motion,
William Vickers, of Georgetown,
Del, was dragged several yards
and seriously injured.
| A pew trial was refused on Mon.
day by the Judge in the case of
Irwin Lewis, of Landenbnrg,
charged with the murder of his
step daughter, Mary Newlin.
The old Snow mill, near Van
Bibber, Hartford county, was des-
troyed by fire last week. The mill
had been abandoned for some time
and the fire is supposed to have
been of incendiary origin.
4 Captain Shuses was knocked from
his schooner into the Chesapeake
bay last week, by the shifting of
the sail, and drowned. The schoon
er was loaded with salt for the
fishery of Joseph B. Spencer.
| A summer art school is to be es-
tablished in the old Pennock home
stead, at Pine Grove, near Oxford.
The work Of remodeling the build
ing is under way, and it is expect
ed the school will open in June.
| The blind people of Delaware
are preparing to issue an embossed
book such as is read by the blind
giving the life of the late Bishop
Coleman, followed by "The Good
Bishop" an extract from Victor
Hugo's "Les Miserables.
i The two masted schooner Daisy,
owned by Frank B. Howard, in
charge of Captain Solomon Pinder,
while bound for Baltimore, sank in
the Chesapeake Bay. together with
its cargo, valued at $4,000. The
vessel was valued at $500.
J, Hartford county has complete
: rural mail service which will be
effective June 1st. The service
consists of 26 routes, of which
are new: Aberdeen, route No. 3;
Bel Air, routes Nos. 2 and 3;
Darlington and Joppa, route No. 1,
and Perryman, route No. 2.
i In the snit brought on April 4,
by Elk township School Board
against Harry @. Yerkes, before
Justice Of the Peace Rose, of
/ Kembleville, for violation of the
Compulsory Education law, fine
of 1902 was placed on the de.
fendant, who will appeal to Court.
The commencement exercises of
Nottingham, Pa, High School
will be held this evening in the
Presbyterian church. The grad
yates are Miss Greta r. Brown,
Miss Mary E. Morris. Miss Mary
S. Phillips, Miss Rhoda L. Steele,
F Cedric E. McCrery and 81. Elliott
Wells.
The dam at Husbands Flint
Mill on Deer Greek in Hartford
county, is being repaired and
heightened. The mill which was
destroyed by fire some time since,
will be rebuilt and the capacity en-
larged. The flint ground at this
mill is said to equal any on the
market.
AS result of numerous com.
plants of post cards being defaced
by postmarking, the Postmaster
General has ordered discontinuance
of the postmarking OF cards at the
Office of address.