The midland journal., 1910-08-26

The Hartford County Teachers Institute
will meet in Belair September to 9.
Fifty carloads of cantaloups were ship
ped from Laurel, Del, the past week.
Company K. M. N. G., Of Havre de
Grace, is arranging to hold a tournament
on Labor day.
Despite the prophecies Of failure the
Delaware peach crop this year will run
over 2,ooo, 900 baskets.
A jury has granted a new county bridge
over White Clay creek near Phillips mill
in Londopgrove townships
The 37th annual Grangers' Picnic will
be held at Williams Grove, Pa, from
August 2o to September 8.
New Castle county fair will be held at
Gentlemen's Driving Park, Wilmington,
August 80. 81. Sept. and 2.
The II7-acre farm of Nathan Maule. ia
Highland township, Chester county, has
been purchased by w. j. Reynolds.
The Odd Fellows Of Cecil, Hartford and
Kent counties are arranging to hold re-
union at Havre de Grace in October.
A horse and wagon were stolen from
Thos.. Kent, Centreville. Del, Saturday
afternoon. by colored man, and have
not yet been located.
A Farmers Institute will be held in
Fairmount Grove. Pa, on Wednesday and
Thursday, August 24th and a5th, through
the day and on the evening of 24th, in
Oakryn Hall.
| Hartford County School Board has ap-
pointed Lucy T. Boyd, of Tennessee. do
mestic science principal and Beulah Sol
sam, of Hagerstown, commercial princi-
pal at Havre de Grace High School
The Princeton Leader, a semi weekly
published at Princeton, Kentucy, has been
purchased by D. R. Forbes, of Quarry
Iville, who with Fred Reynolds established
the Quarryville Sun some years ago.
A two-story frame house, with barn, in
Little Britain township. Pa, belonging to
M. A. Carroll, was sold at Sheriff's sale on
Saturday to Andrew Jackson The prop
erty brought $I3, subject to a mortgage
of $500. 81
Sixteen head of cattle belonging to
Allen L. Sunday OF West Manchester
township, York county were killed last
week by order Of the State Live Stock
Sanitary Board. They were infected with
tuberculosis.
| Dr.. c. w. G. Rohrer, of the State Board
fof Health, at the request of the Town
Council of Elkton and the County Health
Officer, DIR. H. A.. Mitchell, visited Elkton
last week for the purpose of making a
sanitary survey, with special reference to
the towns water. supply.
It is said that the bondholders' COM
mittee of the Chester County Electric CO.,
including the Kennett plant which is to be
sold at auction shortly under foreclosure
proceedings, has been for some time con-
sidering the advisability of buying the
property and recognizing.
| A hospital now seems assured for
Havre de Grace, committee composed of
Murray Vandiver, chairman;S. ]. Seneca,
treasurer, and Leo M. Moore. secretary,
having been appointed to investigate the
subject thoroughly and take steps looking
to the erection of building.
Hopewell. Pa, Lyceum fttingly cele-
brated its thirty-fifth anniversary on
Thursday of last week. About eight
hundred persons assembled in Sloan S
meadow, where the exercises were held,
to enjoy the occasion, which was mem
orable one in the history of the Lyceum.
The Conowingo quarries, operated by
Pennsylvania Water Company, closed
down on Saturday. 1t was from these
works that the material for the big dam
at McCall's Ferry was obtained. The
work at the ferry being about completed,
It is likely the plant at Conowingo will be
disposed of. z
Over one hundred and thirty persons
attended the reunion of the Wood descend
ants, Thursday. Aug. IS. on the farm OF
their ancestor, Joseph Wood, in Chester
Icounty, along the Octoraro Greek near
Kinseyville. The property was settled by
| Joseph Wood in 1888. 1t IS now owned
Jesse Wood.
The large barn on the farm of ].
Thomas Baker, near Avondale, was
totally destroyed by FIRE one morning last
week, together with all this year 'slcrops
and most of the farm machinery. The
loss reaches $1,000, with an insurance of
$4,000. The dwelling on the same prop
erty was burned about four years ago.