The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-08-16
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Shon Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the, Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

grade Jersey heifers TO the Virginia
Experimental Farm.
The road from Barnsley school house
to the town limits of Oxford is to be
macadamized this fall
Mrs. Lillian M. Sheetz has flied suit for
divorce from her husband, Benjamin r.
Sheetz, in the Chester County Court
Robert N. Griffith has sold his grocery
business. on South Third street. Oxford
to James Miller, Of Newtown Square.
The Newark. Del, Fire Company, after
paying all bills has the sum of So, ,4o6 oo
left as net receipts from the recent
lcarnivaI.
| Fire on Wednesday night of last week
destroyed box factory and fve stables in
the town Of Spring Grove. York county.
The loss was over 5000.
Ten new greenhouses are being erected
by the Dingee & Conrad Co.. at West
Grove. The houses are the largest at
the extensive nurseries. each being $50 feet
in length.
F. II. Buch. of Lititz. Pa, accompanied
by two Lancaster men, spent Monday
land Tuesday at Peach Bottom. along the
Susquehanna, where they trapped twenty
mine groundhogs, among them one
that weighed eighteen pounds.
In severe electric storm at Crisfeld,
John Sterling was killed and a young
woman in the same room rendered un-
conscious. The bolt struck Sterling S
head as he sat in chair. and broke his
meek. His clothing were in tatters, but
his body bore no marks.
Herbert F. Good. of Philadelphia, a
Ibaggagemaster on the Central Division,
has patented type Of steel railroad tie,
that will be tested by the Pennsylvania
Railroad. "A thousand of the ties will be
made in the Altoona shops and placed on
section Of track yet to be chosen.
The Maryland State Sportsman's Asso-
citation will hold its second annual tour
nament at Prospect Park. Baltimore,
August a7-2o. The Elkton and Rising
Sun Gun Clubs are members of the AS
sociation. H. Linn Worthington, of
Rising Sun. is member Of the Board Of
Directors.
1 The large barn on the Lewis Staffney
tarm, near Marshall's bridge. Chester
county, was destroyed by FIRE early
Sunday morning. All the seasons crops,
farm implements, and horse valued at
$500, were burned. The barn is supposed
to have been set on fire. The property
was insured for $1,000.
The Avon Packing Company is the
name Of new enterprise just launched a,
Avondale: Pa. by T. H. Smith. The
business consists Of chipping dried beei
and packing it in cartons containing a
quarter pound each, he WHOLESALERS it to
the stores and restaurants and has already
established nice trade.
L
Edward A. Corey, of near Fairlee, is
said TO be the potato king of Kent county,
Md. He has dug and marketed crop
|of 5000 bushels from thirty acres, re-
ceiving 10 cents bushel. Mr.. Corey
estimates his expenses in growing and
marketing the crop at about $2.2o He
viii, therefore. net "a, 100 from his thirty
acres.
Hammond Scott. colored man who
had been living in Elkton. for some time,
was arrested last week. charged with as.
saulting white woman in Virginia,
over year ago. Scott has been working
on the new Baltimore and Ohio railroad
construction at Joppa. He consented to
return to Virginia, wit hout requisition
papers.
| A Sussex county. Del. farmer has hit
upon novel plan to prevent the scaldine
Of this tomatoes. His tomatoes were SET
out early and some of them have already
ripened. When the fruit began to form
on the vines he scattered loose straw and
hay over the plants, shielding them from
the direct rays of the sun. and he claims
that this has given good results in pro-
tecting the fruit from scalding. This plan
is adopted for many kinds Of fruit in very
hot countries.
| The Pennsylvania State Fish Commis-
sion has decided upon new ishway at
McCall's Ferry dam. to be constructed on
the York county side. The Rshway will
be seventy feet wide where il leaves the
breast of the dam. aud willextend at least
1000 feet down the river, It will be filed
with artificial rocks and bonlders and win
be as near like natural rifle or falls as
il is possible to construct il. 1t viii widen
: Ut as it extends down the river.