The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-06-19
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The bass fishing season in Penn
Isylvania opened Monday, June Is.
A steel drag is being tried on the
roads by the Lower Oxford Road
Supervisors.
A portable sawmill has been put
in operation in the tract of wood
land on the farm of Joseph Yerkes,
near Lombard.
Seven Dover, Del, boys, ranging
in age from 10 to, IA years, were
each fined 81 % for breaking into
a railroad car and stealing and
drinking beer.
A lot of fishing nets were stolen
from the Seneca warehouse at
Havre de Grace, a few nights ago,
for the recovery of which a reward
of $50 has been offered.
At the annual meeting of the
State Council of Maryland, Order
United American Mechanics, held
in Baltimore last week, Lyman
Spencer, of Elkton, was elected
State Inside Protector.
The gross receipts of the festival
held on the lawn of the Union Hos
pital, in Elkton, last week, were
500. The Elkton lCornet Band
contributed to the enjoyment of
the affair by rendering music.
Children's service will be held at
Porter's Grove church on Sunday
evening, June %, at 7:30 o'clock
| A welcome is extended to all.
Preaching in the afternoon, at 3
O'Clock, by Rev. F. S. Cain, pastor.
An electric motor boat is now
running between Mccall Ferry
dam, and a point half a mile below
York Furnace, making round trip
every hour. The starting point is
within short distance of Pequea.
| During Mondays storm the
frame work and portion of the
foundation wall of the new barn
being erected on the farm of Phares
Habecker at Mechanics Grove,
were blown down, causing heavy
loss to the owner.
Walter White, of Little Britain
who conducts the farm of his
father in law, DIR. e. w. Wright.
was badly injured Sunday evening.
While in the barn he fell down a
hay funnel and suffered a broken
shoulder blade and other injuries.
The old passenger station of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Co., at
Havre de Grace, which has been
lying idle for some months, is to be
used as freight station and the
\ old building either abandoned or
moved and used as an annex to the
new depot.
| George Klair, a farmer living
near Marshallton, DEL, will be 80
years of age in November. He was
born just over the line on the
Pennsylvania side, but he went to
the farm on which he now lives
when he was six months old, and
has lived there ever since.
Joseph McFarlan, of Oxford. won
three prizes at the WissahickoD
dog show on Saturday. "Buster
Brown" took first in puppy class
for beagles, and "Walnut Boy"
u first in the open class. Walnut
Boy was also adjudged second best
dog among S77 at the exhibition.
/ The partnership existing between
Harry NJ. Clifford and w. A. Will,
son, commercial printers and tag
makers of Philadelphia, has been
dissolved, and the business will be
continued by Mr.. Clifford who is a
native of this section, being son
of James A. Clifford of near Sylmar,
E. G. Wivel, butter maker at the
Fulton House creamery, Lancaster
ecu nty, has been awarded hand.
some silver cup by the Pennsyl
vania State Experimental Farm,
for making the best butter in the
State of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Wivel
received a mark of 923 for his
butter.
DR.. Joshua W. Herring, Comp
troller of the State Treasury, on
Monday made public a quarterly
distribution of the State school tax.
The total distribution is $346,.
36S.26 and the amounts are pay.
able on or after June 20. The ap.
portionment for Cecil county is
81, ,073.32.