The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-11-24
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

held by them.
The Kiamensi silk mills, at Marshall
ton, Del, were burned to the ground one
night last week
The government crop report shows that
the average yield of corn per acre in
Delaware was "a bushels.
Miller A. Carroll, Little Britain, has
been granted divorce from his wife. Jen-
ME Carroll. on the ground of desertion.
The PHI 'adelphia. Baltimore & Wash
ington Railroad Company has made ex-
tensive surveys looking to the elimination
of the draw-bridge over Rush river.
Gus Fedora, aged 81 year was instant
| ly killed last week by the bursting of
steam pipe at the quarry of the Pennsyl-
vania Marble Co., near West Grove.
The freight station of the P B. & w. r.
R., at Lenni was burned together with
large amount of freight consigned to par
ties in the vicinity, on Tuesday morning
of last week.
The Downie and Wheeler circus which
wintered last year on the Oxford fair
grounds, will spend this winter at Val
D'Aosta Georgia, were quarters have
been secured.
The annual meeting of the School Com
missioners' Association of Maryland will
be held at the State Normal School Build
ing, Baltimore. on Thursday and Friday
December 7 and s.
Asphyxiated by gas from coal stove,
Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Williams, an aged
couple of Colerain township. Lancaster
county, were found in a dying condition
in their home one morning last week by
neighbors.
John S. Watts, aged nineteen years,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. c. Watts, of
Bel Air. was accidentally shot last week
by Grain Smoot, aged eighteen years
while shooting in a Baltimore rifle range
and instantly killed.
| A charter has been granted to the
Little Britain Preparative Meeting of
Friends. The purpose is the support of
public worship according to the faith of
the Society of Friends. The trustees are
Day Wood, William P. King, L. B. Kirk.
Fred L. Brown and Lewis K Stubbs.
| A petition has been filed before the
Public Service Commission praying that
the Delaware, Maryland, Delaware & Vir-
ginia and Philadelphia, Baltimore &
Washington Railroad Companies be COM
PEELED to join their tracks at Centreville
Kent county, and adopt schedules which
would not delay passengers in changing
| from one line to another.
Pennsylvania State Fish Commissioner
N. R. Butler on Wednesday made an Off
cial inspection of the McCalls Ferry
power dam, with view to solving the
problem of an adequate fshway. Com
missioner Butler was accompanied on his
visit by Congressman D. F. Lafean. Rep
resentative James A. Dale, Representa-
tive Robert Frey, ]. Edward Vandersloot
and Postmaster S. S. Lewis.
Young Friends Association will be
held Sabbath afternoon. I2th mo. 3rd, at
l2:3o o'clock, to be addressed by Edith
Winder of Swarthmore College. Subject,
Margaret Fell and the First Friendly
Centre" Address, Charles Coates, sub
ject Impressions of Swarthmore
Summer School," Followed by general
comments
ALBERT L. BURLINGTON, Supt.
| The property of D. F. Nesbitt. near
Woodlawn, has been purchased at public
sale by Clerk of the Court Cecil Kirk.
| Mrs. Rachel Scott has sold her farm OF
I25 acres in Colerain township. Lancaster
county. to her son-in-law, James Stewart.
for $1,000.
H. Graham Rambo has sold tract of
400 acres of land. near Coatesville, tc
New York and Lancaster capitalists. The
price is said to be in excess of 500, 900.
Lawrence Tucker, of Hartford county,
has been awarded verdict of 81, 200 in
the Circuit Court at Towson for personal
injuries in June 1908, by being elected
from car at the North Avenue Station,
Baltimore, of the Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania Railroad COMPANY. Tucker claim.
ed that he was forcibly put out of the
car, assaulted by the brakeman of the
train and was injured by falling on
the platform. The case was tried once
before and verdict of 81. 500 was given,
but it was taken to the Court of Appeals
and the decision was reversed and retrial
ordered. The case was removed from
Harfordlcounty.