The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-08-11
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The Havre de Grace hospital is to be
opened October I.
Robert L. Armstrong has been named
by President Taft as postmaster at
Newark, Del.
The Red Men of Newark, Del. have
organized military band composed of
twenty-four pieces.
A farmers institute will be held in the
grove at Fairmount. Pa, on Wednesday
and Thursday next.
At the public sale of Holstein COWS
held on Saturday at Strasburg. Pa, a
carload of twenty averaged $oo.o5 head.
Many farmers around Georgetown,
Del, are refusing to sell their potatoes at
g. barrel and are holding them for
| SIS in anticipation of shortage.
Prof. Ernest v. Vaughn, of the Univer-
| sity of Missouri, has been chosen for the
newly established Chair of History by the
trustees of DelNEare College, Newark.
The Summary Court at the armory of
Company x, Havre de Grace, fined Pri-
vate Carroll Smith $40 for quitting the
recent State encampment without leave.
| Despondent over a love affair Miss
Beatrice McClenagan, of Quarryville, Pa,
swallowed carbolic acid one night recently
with suicidal intent. Her life was saved
| by heroic treatment.
| James Rice, of Bethesda, Pa, was
fined $I47o by Quarryville Justice of
the Peace on the charge of circulating re-
ports injurious to the reputation of Vim.
Miles, of Rawlinsville.
The Natural Taste Canning Company
has been incorporated at Bel Air, with a
capital stock of $4,000 divided into 100
shares at $Ioo each. Fruit and vegetables
of all kinds will be canned
| The Delaware Corn Growers Associa-
ton will hold their fifth annual State Corn
Show in Dover, December ID and IS.
Corn and other grain and seed will be
exhibited and cash prizes offered.
| H. Galen Fritz and A. D.. Conner of
Quarryville have sold the Blackburn farm
in Colerain township. to Baker and
Henry Keen of Eden township for $67so,
possession to be given the first of April.
Fire of unknown origin, early Saturday
morning, totally destroyed slaughter
house on the farm of Isaac w. Hopes
near Kennett, causing loss of $40, 900.
The building was large stone structure.
The fight for the appointment of post
master at West Grove still wakes hot.
Those who are hoping to be struck by the
lightning are William T. Dantz, E. R.
Criswell, Walter c. Speakman and DR..
c. E. Herald.
Surena. the horse that trotted without
driver and that was one of the attrac-
tions at oxford fair, died suddenly Fri
day afternoon last after appearing on the
track at Tasley, Virginia. The horse
was valued at $4,000, and had record
of 2.osH.
The Chester County Trust Company
has been appointed guardian for Mary
and William, minor children of John c.
Mcnamara, of the Lewisville section,
whose slayer, William Burke, is to be
hanged at West Chester on August 81.
Their share of their fathers e state is $4s4
each.
The Root Dairy Supply Company.
West Grove, will change its location
about the close of the year 1917. to
Chester. Pa. The people of Chester
have offered inducements in the way of
building and capital, and the manage
| ment of the concern has decided to re-
move to that city.
Harry P. Little, the defauting con-
tractor and builder, who abandoned wife
and home and fed from West Grove
October g. 1908. in company with Miss
Emily Beaver of Philadelphia, has been
discovered living in Seattle, Wash, where
he is follow ing his trade as a carpenter.
The woman who accompanied him in his
fight is still with him. Mrs. Little has
taken steps to secure a divorce on the
grounds of abandonment.
Bondholders of the susquehanna
Power Company, the site of whose plant
is to be on the Bell farm at Conowingo
have obtained from Chief Judge Pearce a
preliminary injunction restraining the sale
of the property which the trustees,
Messrs. S. A: and F. R. Williams had
advertised to take place at Perryville, on
July rs. The defendants are given till