The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-12-10
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

| chicken and turkey daily.
A disease resembling cholera has bro
ken out among the hogs on several farms
in the neighborhood of Kemblesville, Pa.
Seven horses persisted in fire which
destroyed the barn on the farm of John
Moores in Hartford county, Monday night.
Mrs. Martha B. Curry has beeu APP
pointed postmistress at Upper Cross
Roads, Hartford county, vice ]. Miles
Curry, deceased.
The young ladies of this years gradus
ating class at Tome held bazar in Port
Deposit Friday afternoon and evening and
cleared over 500.
\ The Little Britain Detective Association
met at Oak Hill Saturday. The assoc
citation has membership of over eighty
and has 1884 in the treasury.
A Delaware paper reports that the only
sorghum molasses mill in operation now
in Sussex county is one near Lincoln,
where it is turning out goo gallons a
week.
Two large barns on the property of. Jas.
R. Mclaughlin situated near Prospect,
Hartford county, were totally destroyed by
fire on Sunday, Nov. 20, together with
their contents.
While waiting at the passenger station
in Middletown to take train, Miss Ella
Stats, Cecil county school teacher, was
robbed of her suit case. A negro named
Townsend was arrested.
The B. & o. railroad which built
spur of track across the Hopper property.
near Havre de Grace, to stone quarry,
without the permission of Mr.. Hopper,
has settled the matter by purchasing four
acres from him for $1,000.
While Parker Lusby, farmer of the
First district, was riding on two-horse
wagon load of wood Wednesday morning
one of the wheels gave way, throwing
him to the ground with the wood on top
of him, fracturing one of his legs.
The annual meeting of the Cecil De-
tective Association was held at Calvert on
Wednesday. One hundred and thirteen
members partook of the dinner provided
by the ladies of the church who cleared
$54. 90 from the dinner and supper.
Mov,10xya nousc a fkx,~ e.,
er, committed suicide at his home in
Middletown. Del, on Nov. 80, by shoot
ing himself with revolver. He was 81
years of age and in feeble health, and
feared he would become charge on his
relatives.
Walter Kimes, aged 20 years, was killed
and Clarence Conley and Clinton Basker
injured by the explosion one day last
week. of four hundred pounds of powder,
used for making signal lights in the
mixing room of the TAFT Railway Signal
factory, at Coatesville, Pa.
The railroad station at Lenape, Pa,
was burned to the ground Thursday
morning of last week, and the car barn of
the West Chester street railway, nearby,
practically destroyed. The loss is esti-
mated at $1,000. It is believed that an
overheated furnace at the station set FIRE
to the building.
VIM. III. Rawhouser, of Aberdeen, has
been elected vice-president of the Mary
land Bee Keepers Association; Joseph
Hopes, of Bel Air, president of the
Cereal and Forage Crop Breeders Asso-
citation, and ]. Alexis Shriver. of Bel Air,
secretary and treasurer of the State
Dairymen's Association.
Hopewell M. E. church, Woodlawn,
Rev. ]. Howard Gray pastor. Sabbath
services December IL Sunday school at
1000; peaching and League at II:oo-7:3o;
preaching at Asbury at p. m. Morning
subject Hope as an Anchor" Evening
subject Saved to Uttermost" All well
come. P. S.-Revival in the evening.
William Morris, the young man who
was convicted at the November term of
Quarter Session Court. Lancaster, of COM
hitting rape upon Miss Lula Brown, of
Little Britain Township. was sentenced
on Saturday to pay fine of $roo and
undergo Imprisonment in the Eastern
penitentiary for term of not more than
twelve years or less than three years.
Nottingham Detective Association held
its annual meeting and turkey dinner at
Oxford on Saturday. The association
has a membership of 2a5, with the tidy
sum Of 1888 in the treasury. Four hum
bred persons ate dinner, which was pro-
vided by the ladies of the M. E. church.
w. c. Andrews was re-eltrted president.
and H. P. Passmore secretary and treas.