The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-09-17
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The Delaware State Corn Show will be
held in Dover on November IS.
A. P. Shuer, of Darlington, has been
appointed an inspector in the Federal
Geological Survey.
The Milford, Del, public schools have
been supplied with individual drinking
cups for each pupil.
So many hogs having died in Kent and
| Queen Annes counties from cholera this
summer, butchers fear local pork will be
scarce and high.
At meeting of the directors of the
Conowingo Dairy Company, of Lancaster
county, semi-annual dividend of three
per cent was declared.
A certificate increasing the stock of the
Bel Air Electric Company from $4,000
to $50, 900 has been filed for record in the
clerks office at Bel Air.
A mule belonging to Eastburn Brown,
East Nottingham, dropped dead in the
road Saturday while hauling load of
tomatoes to the cannery at Nottingham.
The ballot to be voted in Pennsylvania
this year is an immense affair, measuring
42x24 inches. 1t contains a number of
proposed amendments to the constitution.
The new Hudson-Fulton postage stamp,
commemorating the discovery of the
Hudson by the former and its first navi-
cation by steam by the latter, will be
ready for distribution by September rs.
John Macomber, of Delta, Pa, has in
his possession pair of drum-sticks used
by his father in the Revolutionary War.
The sticks are considerably larger than
those in use at present and bear the marks
of rough usage.
Because he will shortly reach the age
limit of 10 years, Stephen N. Rouse, of
Havre de Grace, foreman of carpenters in
the employ Of the p, B. & w. railroad,
will be retired after nearly 43 years of
continuous service.
Rosh-ha-Shonah, the Jewish New Year,
fell on Thursday, of this week. and marks
the beginning of sacred period of Ten
Days of Penitence, the last of which, the
Day of Atonement, is the most solemn
day in the Jewish year.
A. Buchanan & Co., of Chambersburg,
Pa, have been awarded the contract for
the erection of an inter-county bridge over
the Octoraro creek, at Ferguson's Mills,
by the Commissioners of Lancaster and
Chester counties, for $3,5o7. q
The managers of Oxford Fair have
signed contract with John Mack, for
balloon ascensions on Thursday and
Friday afternoons of the fair. Arrange
ments have been made for special train
Fover the Baltimore Central Division from
the south, on Thursday and Friday morn
ings, arriving in Oxford at 1890 o'clock.
Hopewell M. E. church, Woodlawn,
Rev. J. Howard Gray pastor. Sabbath
services Sept. Io Sunday school at
o:3o; preaching at 1890, subject my
Signature" Epworth League and preach
ing at 1880 p. m, subject "The Story of
a Mothers Love-" preaching at Asbury
at p. M; Sunday School at p. m. All
welcome.
IT ca,1eh,~y of p;dcaI,, ,,ho H..
the most complete collection of antique
furniture on the Eastern Shore, has added
Teaster bedstead, nearly 200 years old.
He has grandfather's clock, los years
old; banjo clock no years old, and a
desk over 200 years old. Every room in
his house is furnished with antique fur
niture.
The pouring of coal oil on bonfire in
which number of children were cooking
corn and pototoes caused the serious
burning of Semple Evans, aged II, and
Lawrence Nolan, aged 10 years. at Aber-
deem last week. Mrs. Evans managed to
smother the flames by rolling the boys on
the ground, but not before both were
terribly burned.
Fire was discovered Saturday, about
noon, in the hay NOW of the barn on the
farm of Wesley w. McFalls, near Smith
vile, Lancaster county. The early dis
covery of the FIRE gave hastily formed
bucket brigade an opportunity to do eff
fective work, and the flames were con-
fined to the NOW in which first discovered.
Several tons of hay were burned but the
building was saved. Spontaneous COM
bustion is believed to have been the cause
of the blaze.
Frank E. Williams, of Elktou, repub-
lican nominee for Comptroller of the
State, was formally notified of his nomi.