The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-07-14

Children's Day exercises will be held al
Porters Grove church Sunday evening,
July %, at 1880 o'clock.
The National Bank of Avondale. Pa,
has declared its regular semi-annual
dividend Of S per cent.
! The citizens of the town of Newark are
preparing for Fireman's Carnival TO be
held in that town early in August.
]. Will Perkins. of Elkton, has been
presented with a '25-year Odd Fellows
jewel" by members of the Odd Fellows
lodge of that town.
The George w. McVey property in the
Ninth district was sold Saturday at tax
sale by Sheriff ]. w. McAllister 10 Neyin
o. McVey for $3.50.
/ Struck by donkey engine, Storian
Youskewitz. employed on the new Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad work at Havre de
Grace was probably fatally injured.
George Henry, colored lad was drown
ed last week in clay pit near Kaoln.
His body came to the surface three days
later and was inferred at Embreville.
| Leroy England, of near Zion, lost
horse Monday from heat prostration. The
animal was hitched to moving machine
and was overcome and died in the field.
Sheridan Warrick, young colored
man, son of Henry Warrick, of the
Second district. died Sunday evening at
Union Hospital, Elkton. of typhoid fever.
While starting a gasoline engine in
Milford, Del, printing Office, Harry
Daniels was hit in the mouth by crank
handle and had several of his front teeth
knocked out.
A cloudburst at the Mccall Ferry dam
on Friday evening of last week caused a
landslide and washout that stopped all
traffic over the Columbia & Port Deposit
railroad for SO hours.
Alfred Taylor. colored, has been held
for Court by Magistrate Robertson, of
Wilmington, accused of malicious mis-
chief and barn burning. Taylor is charged
with cutting the throat of horse owned
by Edward Green, near Iron Hill, and
setting fire to his stable.
| Oxford merchants. some time ago in
augurated voting contest, whereby
buyers visiting their stores were permit-
ted 10 vote on the distribution of prizes of
fered. The Nottingham, Pa. Presby-
terians won the first prize of $75 in gold,
Oxford Baptists second, SIS in gold. and
Union Presbyterians Oxford, third, SIS
in gold.
A horse and buggy belonging to Abram
Rhoades, of Dry Wells, between Collins
and Quarryville. and driven by his son,
jerome, was stolen in Quarryville Satur-
day evening. The thief was captured
after an automobile chase and lodged in
the Quarryville lookup but on Monday
escaped from it and has not been appre-
hended since.
District Attorney Gawthrop of West
Chester, has brought suit against William
w. Long, editor of the Coatesville Record,
asking $4,000 damages because of an
editorial published July 3rd, intimating
that the District attorney accepted money
unlawfully and made possible the release
H0f &c
against young woman.
At the meeting OF the County Com mis-
sioners on Tuesday, large delegation of
taxpayers from Perryville appeared before
the Board, presenting largely signed
petition asking for the opening of the
Old Post Road to the Susquehanna
River and landing made for the COM
merce of the public. The Commissioners
decided to visit Perryville on July IS.
The State Board of Education has pre-
pared schedule of institutes for public
school teachers for the scholastic year 1911
and 1eI2. the meetings beginning late in
the summer and extending into the
winter months. The dates chosen for
Cecil county are September to 8. The
visiting superintendents will be Nicholas
Ofem and George w. Joy; normal in
stTuctors, Misses Ella v. Kicker and
Sarah E. Richmond.
Great damage was done in Hartford
county by the terrific thunder storm Fri
day. The Maryland and Pennsylvania
Railroad Company suffered thousands of
dollars damage. There was complete
and serious tieup of its trains on the upper
part of the line. Five trestles were
washed away by swollen streams. several
miles of track undermined and numerous
washouts occurred. The trestles were
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