The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-11-17
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

the will of the late James Van Horn.
| The Delaware Corn Growers Associa-
ton will hold its annual meeting and
exhibit at Dover, December Ia and IS.
The reassessment of property in Kent
county will result in increasing the tax
able basis for next year from $s. 500, 900
to about $40, 10000.
Another oil pipe line to carry oil from
the wells in the western part of Pennsyl-
vania, is being laid through Chester and
Delaware counties. to Chester. Pa.
Playing with matches the little daughter
of Harry c. Lawder. of Havre de Grace,
set fire to stable. but the flames were
discovered in time to save the building.
Quarryville postoffce, of which H. W.
Gilbert. is the efficient postmaster. has
been designated postal savings depos-
tory, to become operative December Sth
The Delaware Masonic Grand Lodge
has purchased the Higbfeld farm on the
Lancaster pike near Wilmington, for $Io,-
600 and will establish a Masonic Home
there.
Five turkeys and three sheep killed and
one COW struck twice. was the butchering
record of one round trip by the train be-
tween Newark and Pomeroy on the New
ark and Pomeroy railroad.
Everett c. Johnson, proprietor and ed-
tor of the Newark Del, Post, weekly
paper, has opened well-equipped print
ing Office in that town. The Post has
been printed in Elkton for two years past.
Bishop Luther B. Wilson. Of Philadel-
phia, will preside over the next session of
the Wilmington Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, which will
be held in Wilmington. opening on March
10, 1912.
| Rev. Gamble of Port Deposit will oc-
cupy the pulpit of Mt Pleasant M. E.
church in the absence of the pastor. Rev.
B. L. Mcfarland on Nov. Io. at II a. M
Mr.. Mcfarland will be at Easton for two
weeks assisting in the revival services
there.
| Quarryville Cornet Band has elected
the following officers: President. Charles
H. Aument; vice president. B. Clair
Aument; secretary. S. Maurice Haver-
stick; assistant secretary, j. Henry
Haverstick; treasurer, Howard Reynolds;
leader. Carl Shenk
Or. John M. T. Finney, of the Johns
Hopkins Hospital. one of the most noted
surgeons in the United States and one of
the men recently removed from the school
board by Mayor Preston, has been offered
the presidency of Princeton University, in
succession to Governor Woodrow Wilson,
of New Jersey
A party Of State surveyors are stationed
at West Grove. laying grade and
securing data of Route I31. one of the
number to be macadamized under the
provisions of the State Highway bill. The
route runs from Media to Sylmar, passing
through Concordville., Chadds Ford, Ken
nett and Oxford.
James A. Patten, the wel-known
Chicago wheat and cotton speculator,
visited Jacob Tome Institute, Port De-
Iposit, this week to inspect the dormitories.
He is trustee and generous benefactor
of the University of Chicago and proposes
installing dormitories at the University
similar to those at the Tome school,
Accused by her present husband of
having FIVE living and undivorced hus-
bands, including himself, and of attempt-
ing to get another in Philadelphia, Mrs.
John M. Roach. of Baltimore. IS held
under arrest in Camden. N. j., police
fstation. awaiting requisition papers to
bring her to Maryland. The couple for
melly resided in Elkton. where Mrs..
Roach deserted her husband.
Miss Ola Bidwell, the baritone ballad
singer, concert violinist and reader, will
be at Mt. Pleasant M. E. church Nov. 81
and 2S, at p. M, to give her noted en-
tertainments. Miss Bidwell possesses
the lowest voice among the women vocal
lists of the world, her low tones being three
tones below that of her rivals. Her en-
tertainments are unique in that she alone
occupies the whole evening. apparently
as much at home in one roll as in the
others. Admission, rs cents andIs cents.
All are welcome.
| The second floor is attracting much at
tention and comment. The large assort
ment of Ladies' ready made garments
and shoes is far beyond the ordinary. Go
Ito Bufington's.