The midland journal., 1909-06-18
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
CAE HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Pickpockets relieved Harry Keen Of
White Rock, Pa, Of $14 at Oxford Fair
on Friday.
Former Governor Warfeld will address
the graduating class Of the Aberdeen High
School June rs.
Elkton merchants have decided to close
i their stores at o'clock each evening
during the summer.
George M. Jewett, Hartford county
farmer, has planted four acres of spring
wheat as an experiment.
St. Johns Protestant Episcopal vestry,
Havre de Grace, has extended a call to
Rev. Walter G. Haupt, Of Philadelphia.
j The contract for improving the streets
of Havre de Grace has been awarded E.
M. Good, of Lancaster, Pa, for $2I,I2S,
! Albert Taylor, colored, has been ar
rested at Galena, Kent county, charged
with stealing a horse and buggy from J.
P. Cochran.
The Shell6sh Commission has establish
ed 585 State buoys to mark off the natural
oysters bars in the waters of the lower
Chesapeake Bay.
Children's Day exercises will be held in
Mt. Pleasant M. E. church Sunday eve
ming. Baptismal services will be held
Sunday morning.
George Kitchens, employed at the
Enterprise Machine Shops, in Elkton, had
his hand crushed by heavy piece of
iron falling upon it..
l The strike at the West Grove marble
works has been 5amicably adjusted and
the employees have returned to work
after having been out for one week.
/ DIR. Joshua w. Herring, Comptroller of
the State Treasury, has announced a
quarterly distribution of State school tax.
The apportionment for Cecil county is
$356o.28.
Willard Hammond, Of Havre de Grace,
and Miss Neville c. Courtney,>of Aber-
deen, have been recommended for free
scholarships at Tome Institute, by State
Superintendent Stephens.
Owing to the stormy weather. Chill
dren's meetingat Ebenezer M. E. church,
which was to have been held Sunday
afternoon, will be held next Sunday eve
ming, June 20, at 7:3o O'clock.
The Civic Club of West Grove, in order
to prdmote a rivalry among the residents(
of that town has offered a number Of
prizes ranging from $40 to 81, for the best
kept lawns and gardens during the
summer.
In the legal sffort to open the doors Of
Wesley M. E. Church, Dover. Del. to
Rev. E. M. Hoffecker;< the complainant
minority of the trustees has retained
former Attorney General Richards as ad-,
ditional counsel.
A unanimous call has been extended
IOscar Brownback, of Princeton Theolo-
lgical Seminary, by the congregation of
Nottingham, Pa, Presbyterian church
Mr.. Brownback has notyet been ordained,
but will be in, a short time -
divorce has been granted by the
Courts to Belle Patchell from Harry C.
Patchell. of Oxford, on the grounds of
personal abuse on the part of the respon-
dent. The couple were married on June
I2th, 1895, but had not been living to-
igether for several years.
i Hopewell M. E. church, Woodlawn,
Rev. ]. Howard Gray pastor Sabbath
services June 20 Sunday School at o:so;
lpreaching at 1890. Preaching and Ep-
worth League at 8 p. m. Subject, sThree
men with courage of their convictions.
Preaching at Asbury at 3 p. M.
| A bill for divorce from his wife, has
been filed in the Circuit Court of Hartford
County by Grover Hamilton, through his
counsel, Harry S. Carver. The parties
were married in Bel Air, in 1904 by Rev..
Dorsey Blake and have one child. The
Eground for the divorce is desertioh.
i The large fy-wheel of the engine in the
i clipper room of the Elkton pulp mills,
burst on Saturday morning, one piece
being hurled through therbrick wall and
another through the floor Fortunately
no one was injured although several
workmen were near the wheel when it
flew to pieces.
F In shoot held at St. Louis on Mon
day <by the Missouri State Sportsmen's
Game and Fish Protective League, Lester
German, Of Aberdeen, Md, was high.