The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-06-25
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED,

Riding bicyclejbarefooted, r4-year-old
Richard cronin, II Aberdeen, servered a
great toe. G
A prize. offe ed by the principal of
Hanna More Academy for kindness and
goodwill was won by Miss Lucy Kimball
of Darlington.
i TheS Hartford County Commissioners
have awarded the contract for building the
Black Horse-Shawville permanent road to
Deckman & Forsythe.
The fourteenth annual convention of the
Maryland Bankers Association was held
at the Blue Mountain House, on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday of this week 4
The State Road Commission has re-
jected all bids for the construction of two
miles of macadam road from Hickory to
Forest Hill in Hartford county. The low
est bid was $II,ooo per mile.
The forty-second annual meeting of the
Maryland State Teachers Association will
be held at Mountain Lake Park, Md,
june 20 to July 2. Governor Crothers
will deliver aneaddress on June 80.
have declared the tax rate to be SIPS per
$Ioo. This is 10 cents more than for the
last two years owing to increased work on
roads and other necessary expenditures.
| w. s. Deibert & Co., Elkton, have pur-
chased the machinery in the weave mill
bat Elk Mills, owned by the Elk Art Square
Co., and leased the building for term of
years. The new firm will take charge the
first of next ponth.
| Woodburn Toomis, colored, who was
convicted, in Hartford County Court, of
sending a threatening letter, demanding
money from A. Henry StrasbapghS has
BEEN sentenced to confinement in the
peniffntiary for a period of ten years.
| A decision in the case of Miss Nellie
BakehSof West Grove, who charges Lin
wood Haines, of Philadelphia, with
making Misrepresentation regarding the
sale Of stock of the bankrupt Chester
County Electric Light Company, will be
rendered by Magistrate S. M. Paxson, of
West Chester, on June goth.
Mrs. Lidie Lee, has through her counsel
Henry A. Whitaker, fled a bill in the
Hartford County Circuit Court, asking for
a divorce, from her husband, Harry w.
Lee: They were married in November,
1904, at Bel Air, by Rev. R. A. Castle
man.. and he deserted her in May last.
lShe also asks for alimony and counsel
flee.
Hopewell M. E. church, Woodlawn,
Rev. ]. Howard Gray pastor. Sabbath
services June a7: Sunday School at 9 80
preaching at 1890 by c. E. Burchenal,
Iof Wilmington. Epworth League and
preaching by pastor at SIP. m. Subject.
third of series: Hero Tales from Sacred
Story Preaching at Asbury at p. M,
by c. 3. Burchenal. All are welcome.
The annual stockholders meeting OF
the United Fire Brick Co., of North East
was held last week. The old board o1
directors was reelected, as also the
officers as follows: A. W. Perkins
President; David A. Klein, Vice-Presi
dent; E. M. Buck, Treasurer and General
Manager, and w. L. Coudon Secretary
The business of the past year was very
satisfactory.
State Superintendent of Education M
q B. Stephens, has recommended the fol
lowing high school pupils for scholarship:
in the Tome School for Boys, recently
offered by the Board of Trustees of the
latter institution Walter Clark, Elkton
Wilmer o. Lankford, Princess Anne
Howard Phillips, Cambridge; Luke
Vickers, Cambridge; Neville C. Courtney
Aberdeen; Willard H. Day, Havre ds
IGrace; Eugene Anderson, Denton
Ghiselin Sasscer, Upper Marlboro.
Given decoction containing strychnint
in mistake for the medicine she was te
have, the 4-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bloom Lake, of the Second district
narrowly escaped death Sunday evening
AS the child did not improve, some
time later she was given another dose ol
the same medicine. In few minute:
she became violently i'll, and it was ther
discovered that she had been given tht
strychnine medicine. 1t so happened tha
DIR. Teale, of Baltimore, brother-in-law
of Lake, was visiting relatives close b,
and he was hastily summoned and re
vived the child.
Still they comel Pine Apples. Oranges
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