The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-27
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


Matinee races will be held on the Elk
ton Fair Grounds Saturday afternoon
Aug. 2s.
Rosebank M. E. Sunday school will
picnic in Friends grove, at Calvert, OF
Saturday.
The goth annual Grangers' Picnic exhi
bition will be held at Williams Grove
Pa, Aug. 80 to Sept 4.
The Post Office Department has changed
the name of the Rural Free Delivery
mail service TO 'Rural Delivery"
The New Castle county fair will be hele
at the Gentlemen's Driving Park, Will
mington, Aug. 81, Sept. 1, 2 and 3.
A new bicycle owned by Eugene Gonc'
was stolen from the back porch of hi
parents residence, on East Main street
Elkton, Monday night.
A macadam road is to be constructed
by the Pennsylvania State Highway De
partment from Barnsley High School te
the Upper Oxford line.
The great Tri-County,-Kent, Queer
Anne's and Cecil-Fair at Tolchestel
Beach will be held this year on Aug
3Ist, Sept. Ist, I'd and sd.
The barn on the farm Of Daniel Stokes
near Rawlinsville, Pa.,swas burned one
night last week with all contents. The
origin of the fire is not known.
The Epworth League o; Mt. Pleasant
M. E. church will hold Box and Neck.
tie Social on the church lawn on Sept. Ist.
If stormy next clear evening. All invited.
To accept the principalship of mill
tary school at Winston-Salem, N. c.,
Professor j. w. Tinsley has resigned as
principal of Havre de Grace High School.
As the result of injuries received while
tussling with his brother, Paul Cassidy,
aged II years, son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Cassidy, of Collins, Lancaster county,
died on Saturday night.
Rev. Samuel c. Wasson, who for the
past fifteen years has been pastor of the
Presbyterian Church, at Churchville. has
accepted call given him by the Govans
town Presbyterian Church.
The Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove,
the largest rose growers in the country,
have purchased the extensive green
houses and business of Heller Bros. !, at
New Castle, Indiana, and will supply their
Western trade from that point in future.
Hopewell M. E. church, Woodlawn,
Rev. ]. Howard Gray pastor. Sabbath
services August 2o: Sunday school at
o:3o; preaching at 1890 by Rev. Amos
Brown. Epworth League at s; preaching
at p. m. at Asbury, by Rev. Amos
Brown.
Miss Dorothy Parker, of Philadelphia,
who was employed in the department
store of Strawbridge & Clothier, was
struck and killed by trolley car at the
corner of nth and Arch Streets, in that
city, on Friday evening last, while return
ing to her home from work. The Parker
family formerly lived in Oxford.
Parties who purchased the buildings at
Safe Harbor, Pa, sold by the power com
pany. and began teating them down for
the lumber that was in them, have dis
covered they paid dear for their bargain,
as the Sheriff has levied on all the lumber
for unpaid taxes, and purchasers have
had to pay for the buildings a second
time.
D. M. Taylor, A. H. Ingram and ]. S.
Niblock of Oxford, the jury appointed by
court, visited Kennett on Tuesday to
view East South street in that town,
which certain petitioners desire to have
widened. The jury granted the street as
surveyed and awarded damages to prop
erty owners amounting to 1856.
Miss Reba Carey, of North East. who
for several years past has been a teacher
in the Cecil County High School, Elkton,
will, it is reported be appointed at the
next meeting of the Cecil County School
Board, vice principal of the North EAST
High School. Stanley Evans, of Elkton,
will be appointed principal, to succeed
Prof. E. B. Fockler, elected principai-o OF
the Elktoa High School.
On complaint of Woodlawn Campmeet,
Ing Association William Linton oi
Woodlawn, and John Rutter, of Leslie
will be brought before the Cir.
cult Court of Cecil County charged with
the selling of foodstuffs within a radius Of
two miles of the camp grounds on Sunday
contrary to law. Linton reside: