The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-12-31
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Company E, M. N. g., of Elkton, has
organized basketball team.
William Whiteman was sentencedto to 80
days in Elkton Jail Tuesday for disorderly
conduct Christmas night.
The 6I4-acre B. F. Merchant farm at
Galena, Kent county, has been purchased
by Aldry Clemens for $3o,3so.
George McCool, of Elkton, was severely
injured Wednesday morning by being
kicked in the abdomen by horse.
Walter w. Wescott, of Oxford, has
been appointed Inspector of Steam Boilers
for Chester and Lancaster counties. q.
1t is reported that Charles Duer, of
Philadelphia, has bought the Oscar
Fowler place on Elk river near Elkton.
Julian Smith, of Elkton, second lieu
tenant in the Marine Corps. has been or
dered to report on board the battleship
Rhode Island at New York.
The directors of the First National Bank
of Havre de Grace have declared per
cent semi-ahnual dividend, payable on
and after January rst, 1910.
| Mrs. Letitia Lovett and daughter, Miss
Mary Lovett, of Oxford, and Miss Jennie
Maxwell. Of Port Deposit, were Xmas
guests of DR.. G. S. Dare and family.
Rev. W. c. Babcock, pastor of Havre
de Grace M. E. church, has been granted
leave of absence for the remainder of the
Conference year and has gone to Colorado
to recuperate.
Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson fell at her
home in Oxford Christmas morning and
fractured her hip. Her sister, Mrs. Pris-
ella Harlan, fell in Philadelphia several
weeks ago and broke her limb.
Young Friends Association will be held
in Rising Sun, Sabbath afternoon, Ist mo.
2d., at 2:3o- o'clock, to be addressed by
Charles Alexander, of Boston, Mass.
Subject. Optimistic Side Of Negro
Progress. Free to all
Clement Ryan, IS years old, carpenter
of Perryville, returning from Havre de
Grace, early one morning last week. fell
twenty feet from the P. B. & w. R. r.
upon the G. & P. D. tracks. but fortunate
| ly escaped serious injury.
The Delmar Lumber Mfg. Co., which
conducts lumber business and operates
box factory at Havre de Grace, has
purchased the land upon which its plant
stands from S. ]. Seneca, and will make
extensive improvements by the erection of
additional buildings, etc.
The first automobile to cross the new
vehicular bridge over the Susquehanna
river at Perryville is owned by Senator
elect Omar D. Crothe,s, and in it were
Governor Austin L. Crothers, Omar D.
Crothers, Charles r. Foard and DR.. VIM.
D. Cawley, all of Elkton.
A movement has been inaugurated to
mark the exact spot on the North Point
road below Baltimore. where General
Ross was killed by Wells and McComas
during the battle of Baltimore in 1874.
The old Kell house near Orangeville, was
headquarters for the British general.
Rev. H. D. Martin, former rector of
ST. Johns Protestant Episcopal Church,
Havre de Grace, has presented to that
church handsome brass lectern as
memorial to his wife. L. A. vosbury has
given to the same church an oak chancel
rail and will put on it brass memorial
plate in memory of his father.
In some manner stove in the Office of
Octoraro House stables. Oxford was
overturned early Wednesday morning of
last week, by Harry Mccomsey, who had
been sleeping in the'room. Athreatening
blaze was in progress in. moment, but
was fortunately extinguished when aid
was summoned and probable disastrous
conaagration in the very heart of the
town averted.
The Eyre-Shoemaker firm of contrac-
tors, who have just finished the work
of building the piers for the new Baltimore
& Ohio railroad bridge over the Susque-
hanna river. and have quarry at Cecil
county end of the bridge, have secured
contract from the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company for double-tracking the New
York, Philadelphia and Norfolk branch of
the Pennsylvania, near Cape Charles,
Va. About so miles of track viii be laid,
culverts arched, and many fills made.
The work will he sfarfed ~ nnce