The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-08-25
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

established at Oxford postotilce on sep
tember Io.
Ground has been broken in the town Of
Perryville for four new houses to be erec-
ted by A H. Owens.
While swimming in an abandoned
quarry hole near Quarryville on Thurs
day last. Albert Moffett. aged IA years,
was drowned.
The dwelling and lot of the late
Sylvester W. Mahan, at Nottingham, Pa,
has been purchased for Salts by E. c..
Phillips of Hopewell, Pa.
Norway naples or pine oaks are the
only kind of trees Wilmington's Street
and Sewer Department has decided to
allow planted along the streets.
A party of New York sportsmen have
purchased large tract of land near
Ocean View, Del. and will erect a club
house for duck and quail shooting.
A party of thirty residents of Quarry
vile and vicinity left Oxford in special
car over the Baltimore Central railroad on
Tuesday, enroute for Washington on a
sightseeing tour.
A reward of 5000 has been offered by
Captain S. D. Gladding, of Centreville.
for the recovery of the body of his son.
elias NH, ,v,s ,v,ehad .<vart<,a ri fror,
his fathers boat in the Chesapeake Bay
last Thursday.
So far this season. from patch of
garden containing only about one
twentieth of an acre, planted in radishes,
James E. Biery, proprietor of the Hotel
Biery, Bertstown, York county, has re-
allied more than $Ioo.
Miss Ada Tilotson, while on her way to
the Lansdowne laundry, where she was
employed, was struck and killed by a
Baltimore Central passenger train Tues
day morning, at Fernwood. She attempt
ed to cross the tracks in front of the train.
]. G. Harrison & Sons, nurseymen,
sold on the siding, at Berlin. Md, on
| Monday from their orchards, two car
loads of Alberta peaches at $2.4o per
bushel They were the best peaches that
have been shipped from the Eastern Shore
in years. The Harrisons have 1000 trees
of Ray peaches in their orchard.
4
/ Under the auspices of Cooch's Bridge
Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, the one hundredIand thirty
fourth anniversary of the Battle of
Cooch's Bridge, where the Stars and
Stripes were first unfurled in battle, will
be observed on September q with a
basket picnic. The real anniversary is
September 8, but as that date falls ON
Sunday, it was decided to hold the cele-
bration the next day.
The inhabitants of Sylmar are con-
siderably incensed at the action of one of
their number in deliberately shooting
down two of John Churchman'S cows,
which had accidentally broken through
his fence. Instead of taking them in and
holding them for damage. as is the usual
proceeding, he loaded them full of buck
shot SO that they are in serious condi-
ton. 1t is understood that lawsuit will
be the outcome of this unpleasant affair.
l-Oxford News.
Arrangements for the "Commemora-
ton of the Christiana Riot and Treason
Trials, of 1851" to be held in Christiana,
Pa, on Sept. 9th, are being perfected,
when monument will be dedicated.
Governor Tener, of Pennsylvania;
Governor Crothers. of Maryland; Ex-Gov.
ernors Pennypacker and Stuart; Con-
gressman Griest, of Lancaster; Butler, of
Chester; Olmstead. of Harrisburg; Lafean,
of York, Talbot, of Maryland, and many
other distinguished public men are ex-
pected to be present and to speak.
Ed. Hidebrand, at New Providence,
has growing in his garden vine that is
called the South African Pipe Calabash,
that has dozen or more pipes on it. 1t
is claimed that they are the only pipe
that color equal to the finest meershaum.
The use of the calabash as a pipe was
discovered by the Beers and after the
Boer War the fashion of using these pipes
was introduced into England. whence i:
has reached this country. Knowing that
SO long as seeds were not sent out of the
country they might hope to hold the
culture as monopoly, it is reported that
the Beers tried to prevent the expectation
Of seed. but as has been the history of all
such things sooner or later few seeds
were exported and to-day there are in
America enough seed to produce all the
gourds that it would be possible to market
lin this country.-Quarryville Sun.