The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-06-11
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

Next Monday, June I4th, is Flag Day.
Show youi patriotism by flying cold
Glory"
Miss Hattie Miller, of Leeds, has re
signed as principal of Butler school, near
Greenhurst.
A free scholarship at Western Maryland
College is open to some bright Cecil
County girl.
The annual excursion of the Port De-
posit M. E. Sunday School to Colchester
will be held Saturday, June 10.
George Foster, aged I6 years, of Elk
Neck sustained several broken ribs on
Saturday when kicked by colt.
The trustees of Hopewell M. E. church
will hold festival on the church lawn
Tuesday evening, June IS. All welcome.
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee for Cecil County on Tuesday
decided to call the primaries for Saturday,
July II.
Potato bugs have made their appear
ance in greater numbers that usual, is the
general complaint of growers in thi
vicinity.
A number of memorial and other hand
some stained glass windows have been
placed in the Elkton Methodist Church at
cost of $500.
The general store business of w. W..
McGuigan, at Conowingo, has been pur-
chased by Albert Caldwell, who will con-
duct it in future.
The Hartford County School Board has
fixed the salary of the teacher of the COM
mercial department of the Havre de
Grace High School at $500.
Mrs. Rebecca Reynolds this week pre-
sented the JOURNAL with a box of lovely
roses from Hillside Farm as remem-
brance of gentle spring in the old Eighth.
Frank Barton Evans, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William S. Evans, of Elkton, grad
uated from the Law department of the
University of Maryland, Baltimore, last
I week.
Twenty-six of the 80 fire insurance
companies which had risks on the textile
mills of the Deibert & Wilson Company in
Elkton, have agreed to settle the claims in
litigation.
Millard Beaumont, formerly of Aber-
deem, has been arrested at Sparrows
Point, charged with numbering an un-
known man whose body was found in a
clump of bushes near there.
Millard E. Tydings, of Havre de Grace,
for the second year in succession has been
awarded the William Pinkney Whyte
medal in the annual oratorical contest at
Maryland Agricultural College.
made, fishermen at the mouth of the Sus-
quehanna having landed hauls of 800 and
goo pounds. Hook and line fishing up
the river is also good, several big fellows
having been caught.
By the annual adjustment of the
salaries of post masters by the Depart
ment at Washington, Aberdeen has been
increased from $1,000 to $I,7oo. This
was the only office in Hartford that was
affected by the adjustment.
A new crop of candidates has appeared
on the surface since the June showers
have moistened the political soil. 1t is all
of the Delegatum variety and is classified
as follows: Adam Peoples, S. ]. Keys, D.
F. Clendenin, Harvey Gray and G. W..
Cosden.
Dr. A. w, Lightbourne, the deposed
Methodist Episcopal minister of Dover,
DEL, has been called as pastor of The
Peoples Church, which has been organ
lied by the citizens of that town, as re-
suit of the action of Conference. Ser
vices are held in the Dover Opera House.
Miss Edith c. Holt daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. |. Lum Holt, of Elk Neck, and
Miss Anne Airline White, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. ]. H. White, of North East are
members of this years graduating class OF
Western Maryland College. The 3eth
annual commencement will be held June
II-I6.
Thirty-two Italian laborers reached
here on Friday and were put to work
Tuesday on the Rising Sun-Cathers
Corner road, which is to be macademized
by the Horrigan Construction Co., Of
Wilmington. A carload of road machin-
cry has also been received and several
work teams and carts, Barracks have
been erected on the farm of H. L. Glack-
On, for the accommodation of the laborers,
and work will be pushed with vigor. II
is expected to have the three miles of road
completed by fall, The contractors have
leased room in the Hunt building for an
Office during the progress of the work.