The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events IL the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Elkton's street lighting has been award
ed to the Gilpin Falls Company.
The Baptist church at Hopeland, Lam
caster county, was struck by lightning
Sunday night and burned, entailing a loss
of $4,000.
After several weeks suspension on ac-
count of the ice, the work of dredging the
channel Of Big Elk Greek, near Elkton,
has been resumed
| The farm of the late Martin Stapleton,
near Bear Station, containing 2o7 acres,
has been purchased by John H. Rodney,
of New Castle, for $1,000.
1t is reported the Conestoga Traction
Co. is negotiating for the purchase Of the
l., o. IS. railroad. which would be con-
lverted into an electric line.
d. E. Hale, who has been manager Of
the American Telegraph and Telephone
Company in Oxford, will, after the 6f-
feenth Of March, be transferred to
Baltimore
Perry Gibson, of West Nottingham,
has entered suit against Cecil County for
$4,000 damages for the alleged loss of a
spring which became dry upon the COM
pletion Of the Gathers Corner-Rising Sun
macadamized road.
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| Thomas Worrilow, who lived at Irish
town, in Elk Neck, dropped dead of heart
failure on the street in North East, Mon
Eday. He wasea plasterer by trade and
was about 81 years of age. His wife and
several childrenssurvive him:
Hopewell M. E. church, Woodlawn,
Rev. ]. Howard Gray, pastor, Sabbath
services March I3: Sunday school at 10.
preaching at II a. m. Epworth League
and preaching at 1890. Preaching at
Asbury at 8 p. m. All welcome.
William Reed, son of Robert Reed, of
Pencader Hundred, was held up by two
negroes at:sWilson's Station on the Newark
& Delaware City branch railroad while
returning home from Newark, on Satur-
day night. The highwaymen relieved
him of SIS.
The "Black-Eyed Susan" or Ox-Eyed
Daisy has been chosen as Maryland's State
flower by majority of the votes cast by
100000 school children. The flower
makes the nearest approach to orange and
black, the Calvert colors, shown in the
great seal. The goldenrod was its closest
competitor.
A large rick of fodder on the farm of
Louis A. de Coll, near Van Bibber, was
burned few nights ago. Notwithstand-
ing the fodder was only few feet from
the barn the building did not catch fire,
as a strong wind was blowing from fav-
orable direction and kept the flames from
the structure.
The National Tube Company's large
plant at New Castle. Del, built by Morris
& Tasker, of Philadelphia, in 1874, is to
be razed SO as to escape payment of taxes.
The plant was dismantled several years
ago. Millions of bricks and several thous-
and feet of lumber will be sold when the
buildings are dismantled.
| The Avondale, Pa, Lecture Course,
which was organized sixteen Years ago
for the purpose of arranging lectures and
entertainments for the town, will wind up
its affairs at the close of the present sea-
son. During the existence of the Lecture
Course some of the best talent in the
country has appeared in the town.
Fines totaling $40 and costs were i'm
posed at Elkton upon Frank Jackson and
Harry Blackwell, of North East, and
Harry A. Moore, Ulysses S. Way, George
McCloak and Richard Mccall, of Havre
de Grace, on charges Of violating the
cunning laws on the Susquehanna Flats,
Appeals to the Circuit Court were taken.
F. J. Frink, advance agent of the AL. F.
Wheeler New Model Shwos, which win
tered at Oxford, has started on a prelim-
mary tour of the route which the circus
will cover this summer He will 90
through Eastern Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and New York. arranging the
schedule. The season will open about
the middle of next month.
Owners of crossings of the tracks of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company in Port
Deposit, have been approached by repre-
sentatives Of the company in regard to
purchasing the right of ways across the