The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-11-08
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL. HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

put up sweet potatoes.
The Baltimore Star is responsible fol
this:-If Perryville opened bank, would
Port Deposit.
The Middletown, DEL, cannery pack
ed SO, ZIG cases of tomates this season. a
total Of r,Ioo,2 256 cans.
Members of the Wilmington Ministerial
Union have agreed to assist in the cam
paign to secure 100000 for the Della
ware Hospital.
Edward Stubbs has filed in the Circuit
Court of Hartford county. bill asking for
divorce from. his wife. Florence K. Stubbs.
alleging desertion.
On the grounds of desertion John c.
Coleman. of Galena, has been granted an
absolute divorce from his wife. Mrs.
Bessie Coleman.
The Delaware College team that tool.
part in the intercollegiate dairy cow judg-
L ing contest at Chicago finished eleventh
among IA college teams.
The annual meeting of the Medical and
Chirurgical Society of Maryland will be
held in Cambridge on Tuesday and
Wednesday, November ~ and 10.
While cunning near Michaelsville,
Claude Reasin, of the Aberdeen baseball
team. accidentally shot himself in an arm
SO badly thatit may have to be amputated.
But for his glasses. Rev. w. G. Rooms.
pastor of Lcwes Methodist Church.
would have lost his eyesight, when box
of rat exterminator exploded in his hands.
Silas c. Beachy, of Garrett county,
recently sold drove Of 1903 head of steers,
two and three years old. to D. B. Zim-
merman, Of Somerset county. for sum
close to $1,000.
Mr.. VIM. H. Bright has s~resigned the
management of the Hampstead Enter
1 prise and is succeeded by Ed. Belt. Mr..
Bright win be missed in the Maryland
journalistic field.
The State Board Of Law Examiners will
Iexamine applicants for admission to the
bar in Baltimore on Monday and Tues
I day. November rs and 26. Applications
must be filed on or before Nov I2th.
Fire on Sunday last destroyed the barn
| on the farm of VIM. E. Oliver, near EN-.
morton, Hartford county. All the stock
was rescued but the entire years crops
were burned. together with machinery,
etc. There was a partial insurance on the
barn and contents.
At the fcrty-sixth annual encampmeni
of the National G. A. r. held in Los
angeles. California. in September, Capt.
Richard E. Bouldin. the ex-Postmastel
of Bel AR. was made the Maryland
member of the National Council of ad.
Jministration of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
Charles L. Herzog, third baseman oil
the New York Giants. has entered Cor.
nell University. taking course in the
State Agricultural College. Herzog is an
ardent scientific farming enthusiast and
spends the part of the year that is not de-
voted to base ball on his Eastern Shore
farm near Ridgley.
IT.. ..,;t. an.;..e ~. T...- al -
pany for $2s. 900 each. entered in Salisbury
circuit court by w. J. Wherrett and
Thomas M. Saunders for the death OF
their daughters from kerosene alleged to
contain large percentage OF gasoline
sold by said company. have been sett led
by the payment of $500 in each case.
Charged with violating the duckine
laws on the Susquehanna fats. George
Cooper and Harry Barnes. of Charles
town and Jesse Poplar. Joseph Dye.
Harry o. Moore. U. S. Way. William
Poplar, Archer Fletcher and William
chesney. of Hartford county. viii be
given hearings in Elkton this week.
Three prisoners escaped from Chester
town jail on Monday by means of du-
lplicate key. AS soon as the men had es-
capped they went to the stable of former
Sheriff Medders, for whom one of them
worked before his arrest; picked the stable
door lock. stole the horse and drove to
Betterton. where it is supposed they took
the a o'clock boat for Baltimore.
A cut of the fine residential property of
the late H. H. Haines. on the corner of
4sth street and Springfield avenue. Phila-
delphia, appeared in Sundays Record.
with the reported sale of the property to
the Methodist Episcopal Church OF Phila-
delphia. for $4,000. As soon as repairs
and alterations can be made to the resi-
dence il will be occupied by Bishop
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