The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-06-23
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The Oxford Fire Company is consider
ling the purchase of an auto-chemical
engine.
A Homing Pigeon Club has been or
gained in Bel Air. with c. C. Hanway
as president.
Susquehanna Tribe of Red Men will
hold festival at Colora Saturday eve
ming, July I.
Co. E, Md. National Guards. will par
ticipate in the State encampment near
Frederick, July 1928.
Candy Balderston, of Colora, had the
misfortune to lose valuable two-year old
colt by death few days ago.
The Red Men of North East admitted to
membership of their order on Tuesday
night twenty-five new members.
The property of the late T. ]. Cleaver.
in Chesapeake City, has been purchased
by Thomas ]. Conrey for So, 500.
| The United States Postal Savings Bank
Department of the Bel Air postofice will
open for business on Monday, June 27.
H. L. Glacken is going about on
crutches, the result of bad injury to his
foot, which was trampled upon by a colt.
At the annual meeting of the trustees
of Delaware College former Governor
Preston Lea was elected president of the
board to succeed the late Chief Justice
Charles B. Lore.
The receipts of Oxford Spring Fair
amounted 10 $2oo5.oo and the expendi-
lures $2562.o7, leaving a net profit of
Saga. .o2. OF this sum $I6I.12 was spent
in permanent Improvements during the
year.
/ The following item from Kent county
shows the possibilities of an alfalfa crop:
"Col. S. L. Vannort has harvested 1000
pounds of alfalfa at first moving on less
than an acre of land located near Wash
ington College, Chestertown."
Mrs. Ida cosden De Socio, daughter
of Mr. George w. Cosden, OF North East,
graduated last week from the Broad Street
Conservatory of Music, Philadelphia, re-
ceiving diploma for the Piano and
Theory Departments.
James R. Miller, of New York, and his
chauffeur had a thrilling experience late
Tuesday afternoon on one of Harford's s
roads, near Bel Air, when his large tour
ing car was destroyed by fire and the two
men narrowly escaped being burned.
Warburton & Warburton, attorneys,
sold at mortgage sale, at the Court
House door Elkton, last week. the inter-
est of John Stump. in the Stump farm of
2o2H acres, at Belvedere, near Perryville,
with improvements, to Homard Terry, of
Colora, for $435o.
The quarterly distribution and appor-
tionment of the public school and the free
book funds to the various counties of the
State was made by the Comptroller on
Friday. Cecil county receives So, ,534.I5
from the public school fund and $sI2 "a
| from the tree book fund.
The fishermen at McCall's Ferry have
organized for the purpose of getting the
Pennsylvania Legislature to compel the
Water and Power Company at that place
to construct an adequate fishway at the
dam, as they claim present conditions
there are running their fishing business.
The Dover. Del, Fruit Juice Co., has
been incorporated with capital stock of
$Ioo, 600. A factory will be built at
Dover for the purpose of putting up
strawberry and raspberry conserve,
commonly called crushed fruit" to-
gether with grape juice and by-product
of denatured alcohol.
John Kreider, of Mount Nebo, Lancas-
ter county. was drowned in the Susque-
hanna river below Mccall Ferry dam. on
Monday. He had gone to fish and was
attempting to swim to rock some dis
tance out when caught in the swift current
and swept past, drowning before help
could reach him. The river was very
high from the recent rains.
We have received copy of the hand
some 1911 catalogue of Goldey College,
Wilmington. The advertisement of this
well-known institution appears in our
columns this week.
Founded in 1886 by H. S. Goldey. with
five pupils. 1917 finds the school with
a large faculty. thousands of graduates.
and reputation for thoroughness, eff
cheney, and integrity throughout the coun-
try. In the catalogue the courses of
theoretical and practical study are clearly