The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-04-29

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days.
The Havre de Grace Banking and Trust
Company, chartered by act of the recent
Legislature, will begin business July 1.
Nathan !. Haines, who recently pur-
chased the 75-acie Haddock farm, near
Oxford, for 81, 500. sold it on Saturday to
Edwin H. Pugh.
Town Bailiff Walter Smith and Deputy
Bailiffs George Cooling, Edward Saunders
and William Thomas, of Havre de Grace,
thave resigned.
The voters of Betterton will decide on
Saturday whether or not the Town Com
tmissioners shall issue $1,000 in bonds for
sidewalk improvement.
County Treasurer-elect William ].
Shanahan, of Hartford county, who will
assume charge of his Office on May 2, has
selected David H: Silver and William
Anderson as his assistants.
Winfield ]. Bolts, of Havre de Grace,
has been awarded a patent for figured
toy. A copy of the patent may be had by
sending ten cents in postage stamps to C.
A. Snow & Co., Washington. D. C.
While the AL. F. Wheeler New Model
Shows were exhibiting in Ardmore. Pa,
last week, Jerry Mayhem, of Oxford, a
colored man, aged about IS years. who
accompanied the circus when it left Ok
ford. had his leg broken in collision of
teams on the circus grounds.
A prize of a $40 gold piece has been
offered by Lieutenant Colonel Harry G.
Cavenaugh, of New Castle, formerly an
instructor at Girard College, Philadelphia,
to the best-drilled squad of any company
in the Delaware militia, the award to be
made by disinterested officers.
The barn of Oliver E. Erb, at Pequea,
Lancaster county, was destroyed by FIRE
of unknown origin on the night of April
lI7. In cleaning up the ruins after the
| fire, bones were found, supposed to be
those of a person. 1t is thought the fire
was caused by tramp who was sleeping
in the barn and lost his life.
A large scow belonging to the Southern
Transportation Company, engaged in
carrying crushed stone from the Standard
Stone and Lime Company quarry on the
lSusquehanna to the Baltimore sewerage
disposal plant, on Back river, was sunk
"Wednesday night of last week, by being
driven by wind in cross current into the
draw pier of-the Perryville and Havre de
Grace road bridge. 2
Oxford has formed Business Mems
League which will boom the town in
numerous ways. The League has desig-
mated May II as Town Housecleaning
Day'Nand will urge general cleaning up
of yards and streets on that date. An
effort will be made to have President
Taft stop in Oxford a while on the occa-
sion of his visit to Lincoln for the Com
mencement exercises of the University.
| Justis Stain, Baltimore astronomer is
of the opinion that the visit of Halley's
comet will be followed by an unusually
hot summer. per...ules of the comets tail
discharged into space, he believes, will
cause increased evaporation from rivers
and oceans. AS each particle will form a
nucleus in which vapor will be condensed
RI ~afa he lie e.
marked by great heat and plenty of rain.
In order to get out enough stone for
their men to work upon during the erec-
ltion of a new building to take the place of
one recently burned, the Avondale Marble
& Granite Company last week set off a
blast of four tons of dynamite at one time
and enough loose stone was broken to fill
100 cars. Holes were drilled thirty feet
deep to hold the dynamite. and though
the noise was terrific and the entire coun-
tryside shaken, the force of such large
amount of explosive was considerably
deadened by the great care exercised in
the preparations made for its setting off
.I-Oxford News.
A meeting was held Wedn esday in Bal
timore. by the Republican State Central
Committee for the purpose of deciding on
dates for Republican primaries in the six
Congressional districts of Maryland
Representatives of each district will fix
the date to suit the voters and, the COM
mittee, as whole, will ratify their
selections. Ex-state Senator Joseph L.
France is mentioned as the possible NOM
inee from the First Congressional District
When the new primary election law was
prepared the primaries for Congressional
districts, judicial districts and the Sena-
torial contests were omitted from its pro-
visions SO neither party has to make a
study of the new law in connection with
the elections of next fall.