The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-11
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

OCCu q IdlAuIC lOI SCVCIal years..
There is move on foot to extend the
railroad from Fawn Grove to Delta, Pa,
and to Darlington, Hartford county,
The Hartford county School Board has
decided to hold the next teachers Institute
at Belair during the week beginning Sep
tember S.
Nellie Brown, Little Britain township.
Pa, has been granted divorce from her
husband, Silas Brown, on the ground of
cruel treatment.
The Board of Trade of Havre de Grace
has elected Joseph c. Parker president;
Walter T.. Jackson, secretary, and Joseph
Simson, treasurer.
William ]. West, and Theodore ]. Hall,
two blind boys. from the Maryland School
for the Blind, Baltimore, will open a
small broom factory in Havre de Grace.
| The pack of tomatoes in the United
States in 1909, was Io.oS4,ooo cases.
There were $4,000 cases of corn packed,
of which $4,000 were put upin this State.
DR.. George Morris Philips principal of
West Chester State Normal School, re-
ports 1913 students enrolled-the largest
number since the school was founded in
1870.
/ Senator Crothers offered this week a
measure to incorporate the Cecil County
Live Stock Improvement Company, of
Elkton, which was referred to the Corpora
tions Committee.
/ Petitions have been circulated and num-
erously signed protesting against the
passage of bill now before the Legis-
lature to make it illegal to fish poundnets
in Hartford county.
The directors of Oxford Agricultural
Society have selected June s, and 10 as
the dates for the Spring exhibition this
year, and September 27. 2s, 20 and 80 for
| the Fall exhibition.
Notwithstanding the Avondale Herald
printing plant was destroyed by fire ON
Sunday, Jan. 80, editor Anderson showed
his hustling qualities by issuing the
paper on schedule time Friday last.
Governor Crothers has completed two
years of his term as Chief Executive of
Maryland without having signed one
death warrant. This record is believed to
be without precedent in the history of the
State.
A progressive and up-to-date farmer in
Talbot county. Md, has purchased a
gasoline engine with plows attached and
with this new machine he proposes to-
show his neighboring7 farmers the way
around the furrow.
The match factory building near the P.
B.. & w. R. R. station at Newark, long
unused. has been sold to the A. Jedel
Company, of New York, who will make
additions and establish fireworks
factory in the building.
/ AAORCWGA IVA G.kNsCHuL(u, VOOQtAWu,
Rev. ]. Howard Gray pastor. Sabbath
services Feb. 10, 1910: Sunday School at
10; preaching at II; Epworth League and
preaching at 1890. Preaching at Asbury
at p. m. All welcome.
Charles Reeve vanneman, son of Mr..
and Mrs. R. K. Vanneman of Havre de
Grace, has been appointed by the New
York Public Service Commission, as State
Steam Railroad Inspector, to take effect
March Ist. The salary of the Office is
$1,000 year.
Edward Hedrick, of Castleton, had two
very fine boats at the head of Gray Rock
falls when the river broke up on January
22nd. The heavy ice that was around
them broke the ropes and chains that
held the boats and carried them south to
Conowingo bridge where the ice smashed
them into splinters.
John Walder, of Bear Station. Del,
who was bitten one day last week. by a
horse owned by Noah Higgins, of Hares
Corner, is taking the Pasteur treatment
daily at Delaware College. The animal
bit pieces of flesh from its legs before it
was killed, and an examination of its
brain showed that it was rabid.
The assessors book shows that the
total amount of real estate assessed in
Kennett Square 1913. 100. Of this $780,
$50 is assessed to los women, $567. $50 is |
assessed to I67 men, and there is $I3o. 400
worth of property such as church parson-
ages. National Bank and Trust Co. build |
ings. etc. in which both men and women
are interested.