The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-08-02
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in. the County
During the Past Week
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


| Rawlinsville camp.meeting will open
August I3.
Oxford Fall Fair will be held Septem-
Der rs. Io and 20.
The carnival held Friday and Saturday
last on the lawn Of w. L. Fell. Kembles-
vile, netted $Ioo.
]. S. Baer has sold the Edel farm, near
High Point. Hartford county. to w. Seigle.
Of Virginia. for $Io,ooo
William Cherry entertained about
Twenty Of his little friends on Saturday
afternoon in celebration Of his birthday.
Hog cholera is playing havoc with
swine in Kent county. One farmer near
Colchester has lost fifty hogs from the
disease.
Elwood, young son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harvey Crothers. of Liberty Grove, fell
out of bed on Saturday and fractured
his arm.
A colored woman named Jane Max
fluid, living near Ciearmont Mills. Har-
ford county. is said to be over one hum
dred years old
During the storm on Monday afternoon
the small railroad station building at PEN
cader was demolished. The grandstand
at the Newark ball grounds was also
blown down.
VIM. T. Warburton, Esq. Of Elkton,
has accepted an invitation to address the
State Camp. P. 0. S. of A.. which meets
in annual convention at Chestertown,
August I4-I5.
Blue Ridge College, Union Bridge.
Carroll county, has been sold to the
Tidewater Portland Cement Co., for $780,
900. The college adjoins the plant of the
cement company.
Alleging desertion, Mrs. Mary E. OFT.
of Elkton, has entered suit in the Cecil
County Court for divorce from her hus-
band. Richard OFT.
The festival held Friday evening on the
lawn Of Reuben Reynolds. near Rock
Church, was success. over $7s being
realized for Union Hospital. Elkton.
i Harry Northaker, who committed sui
eide few days ago at his home in VIII
mington by taking carbolic acid, was en-
ployed for some months by Turner &
Wescott, Of Glen Roy in operating their
auto-truck.
State Health Officers bulletin shows
that during the month of June there were
IIS deaths from infectious diseases in the
counties Of Maryland. OF this number
7o resulted from tuberculosis. as COM
pared with 1877 in May.
i The West Chester Star. new daily
that will be published at the Chester
County Seat. will make its first appear
ance in August. A company of citizens
of West Chester is backing the new enter
prise. with Herbert Worth asthe president.
George Gilbert, proprietor of the Depot
Hotel at Columbia, has been awarded the
title of champion fisherman for catching
with rod and line the largest salmon taken
from the river at that point in many
years. The fish measured ~ inches and
weighed 6K pounds.
| Mrs. Edna Anna Wise and Russell
Hickey. both of Hartford county. who had
been arrested by the Charles S. White
detective agency at York, charged with
elopipg, were released from custody. the
husband of the woman stating that he
only wanted to secure evidence in order
to get divorce.
The 9TH annual reunion of the Coulson
family will be held in McCulloch Park.
Muncie. Indiana. Thursday. August IS.
All bearing the name Coulson are in
vited. Communications are welcome
from those who cannot be present. Mrs.
Anna Coulson Miller. Sec'y.. r. r. D. 4.
Portland. Indiana.
Joseph L. Woodrow. who was accused
of stealing the horse of William Coates
some weeks ago, has been arrested and
sent to West Chester Jail.
1t developed at the hearing that for a
number of years Woodrow had been an
inmate of the Asylum at Norristown and
had escaped from that institution last
Spring.
The I2th annual reunion of the Reeder
family will be held at Sam Whimery's.
living on the New Garden and Salem
road. two miles north of New Garden and