The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-04-01

on Tuesday evening. The class contain
ed eleven graduates.
The forty-fourth anniversary of Min
nehaha Lodge of Good Templars was
appropriately celebrated at Chrome on
Wednesday evening.
In premature explosion at the Glen
Mills, Pa, stone quarries Monday after
noon a dozen laborers. mostly Italians.
were fearfully injured.
Henry H. Heidelbaugh has sold his 5s
acre farm near Quarryville, in East
Drumore township, to his son, Milton ].
Heidelbaugh, for $50 an acre.
The License Court of Chester County
refused last week the application Of
Thomas P. Kennedy for license at West
Grove, upon the grounds of no necessity.
VIM. ]. Wilson, Havre de Grace, while
going under the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road bridge in launch, struck some piling
under the water and his craft was badly
damaged
The Milk Producers Protective Asso-
citation has been formed in Oxford, with
John M. Drennen president, and Linford
Webster, secretary. The Association aims
to secure and maintain fair prices for milk
supplied to dealers.
+ Henry M. Mccullough, as attorney for
the Home Building and Loan Association,
lof Cecil county, sold at the Hartford
House, the residence property owned by
the late D. Craig Jones, in Havre de
Grace, to Joseph Dye, for $r,41o.
Shad have been coming up the Susque-
hanna river this week, the run this year
being two or three weeks earlier than
usual. The Mccall Ferry dam stops the
run at that point, as none of the shad can
get up the ishway to the waters above.
The jury in the suit of Albert Lake for
$4,000 damages. against the COLCHESTER
Steamboat CO., for alleged injuries result
ing from fall overheard at the Com
pany's wharf in Havre de Grace, in No
vember, 1908, awarded the plaintiff $s75
damages.
The Cherry Hill Band elected the
following officers at their meeting Mon
day evening: Leader, Richard Buddell;
Assistant Leader, R. S. Smallwood; Pres
ident. Harry Collins; President, H.
]. Davis; Treasurer, w. C. Miller; Secre-
tary, R. S. Smallwood; Directors, Jesse
Rose and R. S. Smallwood.
The actual, enumeration for the new
Census will begin on April IS. 1t is the
duty Of every person approached by the
enumerators to answer all questions con-
cerning family and residence, and any
adult refusing to do so is subject to a
penalty. This information is not to be
made public and heavy fines are provided
for any of the Census officials who NAV be
lindiscreet in this regard
A gift Of $4,000 has been made TO
Middlebury College. Vermont, contingent
on that institution raising 500. 900 by next
June. by Ex-Governor of Vermont, John
g. Mccullough. Mr.. Mccullough was
student at Delaware College, where he
graduated in 1855, taking first honors.
Born in Pencader Hundred, Del, in 1S3s,
ne located in Vermont in early manhood,
accnmulating fortune by railroading
and banking.
Baker Brothers, of Aberdeen, who
operate cannery at Middletown, Del.
have contracted with the farmers of that
section for 500 acres of corn at $g. so PER
ton.
The members of this district of the
Wilmington Methodist Episcopal Con.
ference, presented their retiring District
Superintendent. Rev DR.. A. S. Mowbrav.
with purse containing $Ioo in gold
At meeting of number of residents
of the First. Secoud. Third and Fourth
districts, held in Elkton. resolutions were
passed urging the immediate improve.
ment Of the Fair Hill Elkton. Chess peake
City road. The sense Of the meeting was
that the road should be constructed of
gravel and not stone.
Mrs. Lucy Bolton and her family of
seven children. ranging in age from ID
years to seven months old infant. living
between Newark and Iron Hill, were
last week found in destituted and pitt.
able condition by the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The
woman stated her husband had deserted
her and she was unable to provide for her
children. She was placed in the New
Castle County Hospital, and the children
taken 10 the Home for Friendless and
Destitute Children.