The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-04-09
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

w. Palmer McFadden, of near
Elkton, was badly bitten.
A number of Georgetown, Del,
boys have formed camping club
land propose to spend most of their
lsummer tentiDg along the Indian
River.
The work of removing piling
from under the 517-foot span Of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
bridge, on the Cecil county side of
the Susquanehanua River, has
begun.
Falling from a bridge into the
Black river, at Watertown, N. Y,
Thomas B.. Powers, aged 81 years,
was drowned on Friday. He was
a brother of James F. Powers, of
Elkton.
Rev. B. F. Jester, who recently
was assigned by the Wilmington
Conference to Elk Neck charge,
has resigned, and will become
pastor of a church at East Wor-
cester. N. Y.
Aberdeen has an automobile club
with the following officers: Harry
P. Strausbaugh, president; Mitchell
Osborn, vice president; ?. Tevis
Baker, secretary, and Malcolm W.
Mitchell, treasurer.
A jury verdict for $758 was
rendered in the suit of George E.
Wright against F. x. Hopper be-
fore Hartford County Court, Wright
claiming injuries due to Hopper's
auto soaring his horse.
Singerly Fire Company, of Elk
ton, has elected the following dele
gates to the State Firemen's Con
vention at Cambridge in June |:
Herman Jeffers, Taylor Mckinney,
j. +. Frazer and j. J. Minister.
Rev. J. M. Arters will preach at
Rowlandville M. P. church on
Easter Sunday at 1890 a. m. and
7:45 p. m. He will also preach at
Bethesda church, Oakwood, at 2:30
p. m. Public cordially invited to
attend.
Packers in the neighborhood of
Easton, Md, are contracting with
farmers for the growing of corn at
$40 per ton, and tomatoes 80 per
ton. This is the highest price ever
paid fortcorn and tomatoes in that
section.
The Cherry Hill and Singerly
(united) Cornet Band was organized
on Friday evening, with the follow
ing officers: A. T. Abernathy, pres;
R. S. Smallwood, vice pres; G. M.
Egner, sec.; Richard Buddell, treas.
and instructor. The band numbers
% pieces.
The Abbott Alderney Diaries
will install bottling machinery at
the Oxford branch and all milk
received thereafter at the station
will be pasteurized, bottled and
shipped by refrigerator car to Phil
adelphia, to be delivered by
wagons to the consumer.
Mrs. Charlotte Newell, Dean of
the Girls High School of The Jacob
Tome Institute, has been appointed
by Governor Crothers, repre-
sentative of Maryland at the
Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition to
be held in Seattle, Washington,
beginning the first of June.
Rural mail carrier Jester has
purchased a Maxwell automobile
runabOut and will use it in the de.
livery of mail on his route between
Easton and Royal Oak, in Talbot
county. This is the first instance
where an automobile has been used
in this service in the State.
Mrs. Deborah Strong, of Bel Air,
has through her counsel, Joseph
w. Chamberlain, filed in the Cir.
cult Court of Hartford County, a
bill asking for a divorce from her
husband, VIM. II. Strong, of Aber-
deem. They were married in May
1899 and have three children.
Hopewell M. e. church, Wood
lawn, Rev. j. Howard Gray, pas
tor. Sabbath service, April IL:
Preaching>at 1890 a. m. and s p.
m. Morning subject ;-Easter SER
mon and Holy Communion. Ep-
worth League at 1880. Preaching
at Asbury at 8 p. M, subject -
Easter sermon and Holy Com