The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-07-08

Church.
William H. Watkins, of Betterton, has
been granted an absolute divorce from his
wife. Daisy E. Watkins, of Rock Hall.
Governor Crothers has announced his
determination to prevent the exhibition OF
the pictures of the Jeffries- Johnson fight
in Maryland
The Civic Association of Darlington has
bought The Town Hall from Tome Insti-
tute and will put it in shape for public
amusements.
Friends of Hope H. Barroll, of Kent
county, have started boom for him for
Chief Judge, to succeed James Alfred
Pearce, in 1912.
Struck by southbound freight, an un-
identified Italian was struck and killed
while at work on the tracks at Edgewood,
Hartford county.
Rev. Charles Martin Elderdice. of Fred
ericksburg, has been nominated by the
Prohibitionists of the First Maryland dis
trict for Congress.
Injuries sustained month ago while
climbing over a fence resulted in the
death of Mrs. Thomas Lochary, of Har-
ford county, Tuesday night
Gordon G. Haley, of Phillipsburg, N. ].
student at Delaware College, died last
week at his home of typhoid fever. He
was stricken i'll while at college.
The 25o-acre farm near Forest Hill,
Hartford county, of the late William E.
Hanway has been bought by A. H. Ober-
myer, of Culpeper county, Va, for
$40, 900.
Plans have been made to establish an
agricultural high school at Ridgley, Caro-
line county. The school at Calvert Cecil
county, is the only one of these schools in
Maryland.
Under the will of William s. Kennedy
DECEASED, late of Kemblesville, $Ioo is lef,
to the New London Presbyterian church.
the interest to be used in keeping the
family graves in repair.
| John B. Mackay, of Lewisville fell
from load OF hay while in his barn or
Wednesday of last week and was rendered
unconscious. Mr.. Mackay is more thar
10 years of age and fears are entertained
that his fall may prove serious one tc
him.
| A joint convention of the Maryland
and Virginia Bar Associations will be
held at Hot Springs, Va, on July 20. q
and 28. This will be the first meeting. Of
the kind in the history of the Maryland
Association which numbers 500 members
the Virginians numbering about GOO.
Wilson D. Wallis. of Forest Hill, Har
ford county. who has held a Rhodes
scholarship for three years at Oxford Uni
versity. has been awarded a scholarship
to the University of Pennsylvania worth
$500, in recognition of his literary ability
He will complete his course for the degree
of Phi. D., the coming year.
The A. Jedel Company, manufacturers
of fire-work novelties, whose plant in
Newark, Del, was recently destroyed by
fire. are making preparations for the
erection of new plant much larger thar
the one burned.
They have purchased the farm belong.
ing to William ]. Barnard, on Depot
Road and will build the new plant there
1t is expected to be in running opera
ton by the end of the year with force
of 200 men.
Policeman Riley, of Kennett Square,
was badly cut with razor in the hands oi
George Green, colored, on Saturday
while on duty in that town. The negro
cut two gashes in the officers arm, and a
deep cash about seven inches long reach
ing from the shoulder blade around under
the arm. When attacked, Riley used his
revolver and put two bullets into Green,
one shot taking effect in the shoulder and
the other in the hip. The negro escaped
and has not been located.
The Directors of the National Bank oi
Chesapeake City, at their meeting on
June 80, declared the usual semi-annua
dividend of ~ per cent, on the capita
stock, and added 81 200 to the surplu:
fund.
The First National Bank, of Havre de
Grace. has declared semi-annual divi
dend of a per cent, and the Citizen:
National Bank IN per cent; the Hartford
and Second National, of Bel Air. and
~ per cent respectively.