The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-05-22
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

| Daniel Carroll, of Hartford coun-
lty, has been re appointed clerk Of
the Shellfish Commission.
e. T. DeGour, of Philada., has
leased the Oxford race track, where
he is putting a string of trotters
and PAGERS through their PAGES.
Harry Trimble, of Bay View, nm.
derwent an operation for appendi
citis in a Philadelphia hospital on
Saturday, and is now in a greatly
improved condition.
A number of Lancaster county
dairymen have formed an organi-
zation and are preparing to erect q
creamery at Quarryyille, to he con
Quoted on the cooperative plan.
While running a weeder over a
corn field on his fathers farm, near
Millington, Saturday afternoon,
James s. Pennington unearthed a
silver half dollar coined in 1896.
While playing around the Cam
bria brick plant, near Cardiff, Har-
ford county, small child of James
Heaps fell into the grinding
machine and was crushed to death.
William Green, employed at the
box factory of the Del Mar Lum
ber Co., in Havre de Grace, had
two fingers severed by his hand
coming in contact with a circular
saw.
Pleading guilty of shooting
Calvin P. Addison, of near Havre
de Grace, when ordered off his
farm, Joseph Martin, colored, was
sentenced to three years in the
Penitentiary.
A landslide on the low-grade
freight line near Quarryville, ne
cessitated the calling out of a steam
shovel to clear the tracks, about
130 car loads of earth and rock
being removed
VIM. 81. Brown was awarded a
verdict of $31 40 in the Circuit
Court for Hartford County, last
week, against the Western Union
Telegraph Company, for failure to
deliver message.
Jacob A. Dozen has been ap
pointed receiver for the hardware
firm of Hanway s. Barnes, of Bel
Air, and has given bond for $50
900. The firm is one of the Oldest
in their line Of business in Hartford
county.
The Court of Appeals has affirm
ed the decision of the lower court
awarding r. T. Price $12, 900
damages for injuries received by
being struck by an iron bucket at
the Company's sand wharf at Port
Deposit.
Baseler, Lawrence & Heineken,
of Philadelphia, manufacturers of
electric supplies, who will locate in
Havre de Grace, have awarded a
contract for the erection of build.
ings in that town to cost in the
neighborhood of 81, 900.
The executive council of the
Maryland State Bar Association
has decided to hold the annual
meeting of the association at the
Blue Mountain House, on July s,
8 and 10, instead of at Annapolis
in June as heretofore announced.
The Vestry of st. Johns Prot
estant Episcopal Church, of Havre
de Grace, has extended a. call,
which has been accepted, to the
Rev. Mr.. Oakford, assistant rector
st. Luke's Church, New York City,
and he is expected to assume charge
of the Parish on June list.
During an alteration among
some Italians in Havre de Grace,
Antonio Tantono was shot in the
neck by Antics Sabatino, with a
revolver, and seriously wounded.
Sabatino has been indicted by the
Hartford County Grand Jury for
assault with intent to kill.
Messrs. Roy P. McClenahan and
Oliver P. Haggerty, of Port De.
posit, have lately been elected
directors of the Cecil National
Bank of Port Deposit. Since the
reorganization last February the
business of this bank has greatly
increased in volume. The Presi
dent, Mr.. E. ". Stockham, has
been a director for a number of
years and represents stock holdings