The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-20

to $4,000.
Hartford county has no applicants for
the vacant scholarship to the Maryland
Agricultural College.
J. B. Parrott, T. S. Bradley and C.. B.
Krusen have been elected Town Com
missioners of Still Pond, Kent county.
Rev. M. ]. McManus has sold for 81, 500,
the portion of the Margaret Smith estate
in Port Deposit. which he recently pur-
chased.
Because many negro children work in
canneries, Cecil County School Board has
ordered number of colored schools not
to open before October 4.
Old St. Johns Church, Havre de Grace,
will celebrate its century anniversary this
year and plans are being prepared by the
pastor, Rev. w. G. Haupt.
Rudolph S. Allen, son of ]. R. Allen of
near town. has been appointed to the
vacant scholarship at Washington Col
| lege, Chestertown, from Cecil county.
Joseph H. Steele, of Chesapeake City,
has been reelected president, and John
M. Tucker, secretary and treasurer of the
Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Cecil
county.
Mrs. Ida B. Schirling has filed bill
| in the Circuit Court of Hartford County,
asking for divorce from her husband,
Michael J. Schirling. The charge is
desertion. They were married in 1901
and have two children.
Casper Tollinger, an inmate of the
Chester County Hospital for the insane,
escaped from that institution last week.
He was re-captured at Wakefield by Con-
stable Ringler, of Oxford, and turned
over to,the proper authorities.
Hopewell M. E. church. Woodlawn,
Rev. J. Howard Gray, pastor. Sabbath
services Aug. 22: Sunday school at o.3o,
preaching at TO- 80, Epworth League and
Preaching ats p. m. Preaching at As
bury at p. m. All welcome
Miss Anna Virginia Atkinson, the S
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry
Atkinson, of Richardsmere, became
saddenly i'll of acute indigestion Wednes-
day evening of last week, and died
before a physician could be summoned.
The funeral was held on Friday.
A quantity of shoes, silk shirts, neck
ties, handkerchiefs, etc., stolen from
freight cars, were found in the dwelling
of Fred Thalman of Havre de Grace, by
railroad officers, and the arrests of Horace
Bullock, and Joseph and Lloyd Stape fol-
lowed, charged with the theft of fhe
goods.
| Havrien Aerie, No. 1896, Fraternal
Order of Eagles, which purchased the old
Catholic Church property, in Havre de
Grace, has awarded the contract for re-
modelling it for lodge purposes to N.
Munson Sentman. The lower floor will
be utilized for commercial purposes, while
the second story will be devoted to lodge
uses.
George Murray, of Mt. Nebo has pur-
chased the, old blast Furnace at Safe
Harbor, Pa, and is tearing it down for
lumber and slate. There are about so
y house belonging to the Safe Harbor Com
|pany all of which are to be sold. Some
have already been purchased for the lum-
Der that is in them. The prices range
from $40 to $50.
The West Grove Fire Company will hold
street carnivalin that town from August
2S to September A. Firemen from all the
surrounding towns have been invited to
participate in the carnival, which is eX,
pected to eclipse anything of the sort ever
held in West Grove. The proceeds of the
affair will be devoted to the purchase of
uniforms for the Fire Company.
Since the vacation season began the fol-
lowing new teachers have been added to
the faculty at the Jacob Tome Institute,
Port Deposit: DR.. Frederick B. Harrison,
from Yale University, to have charge of
young boys; Professor Frederick S.
Henry, master of German and Epglish
Roy B. Chamberlain, sub-master in Latin
and Greek; Ernest A. Zeliadt, commercial
teacher.
, Assistant Game Warden Jones was in
| Elkton this week and investigated the
alleged pollution of Elk River and the
| killing of thousands of fish by pulp-mill
washings, containing acids. He saw
hundreds of dead FISH lying along the
shore, and took sample Of the washings
that are run daily into the river from the
> pulp mills. States Attorney Albert Con-
stable will assist in putting stop to the
pollution.