The midland journal., 1915-05-14
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The Great Council of Red Men of Mary
land will be held in Elkton next year.
Considerable hail fell Saturday night
during the heavy gust that visited this
section.
aas marriage licenses were issued at the
Clerks Office in EIkton during the month
of April.
A 6fty-foot steel flag plole, with base OF
concrete, has been erected on the Oxford
High School grounds.
Charles B. Osborn, of Aberdeen. lost
three steers which licked painto out of cans
thrown in field by sign painters
DR.. G. s. Dare is another of our towns
men to enter the ranks of the autoists.
having purchased Ford touring car.
A Caroline county farmer has Dutch
Belted COW that has a record of 2I7 pounds
of butter from November until April.
The tax rate of Hartford county for
\ro1s has been raised FIVE cents over that of
last year, and is $I.I5 on the hundred.
D. C. Bunting was struck in the face
and painfully injured by a piece of stone,
last week, while watching blasting opera
tions on the Webster farm. near Oxford.
Miss Mary Harvard. for the past year
chief stenoerapher at Tome Institute, Port
Deposit. has accepted position on the
staff Of the Baltimore Sun and entered
upon her new duties.
William Hansen. the young man who
some days ago took asbichloride tablet by
mistake, has returned from the hospital to
his homein Oxford. apparently none the
worse from the dose of poison.
Newton Gallaher, aged about forty
wears. fell from a bridge on the B. & 0
Railroad near Childs while on his way
home one night last week. He suffered
broken arm and other injuries
The Elkton Gas Works partly owned by
the late DR.. C. NJ. Ellis. was offered at
public sale in Elkton on Tuesday by the
executors Of the Ellis estate and with
drawn. owing 10 an insufficient bid
Al the annual stockholders meeting of
the Elkton Banking and Trust Company
held Tuesday. John M. Tucker was re-
elected president and Irwin T. Kepler.
treasurer and trust officer for the ensuing
year.
Convicted in the Circuit Court for Kent
county, on the charge of stealing horse
from Holt Woodall. near Galena Rich
ard Parker. alias Robert Poor. has been
.seotenced to three years in Maryland
Penitentiary.
Automobile Commissioner Roe. has
ruled that three months practical exper-
ience in operating motor vehicles must be
had by those applying for chauffeurs II
cense with the purpose OF driving jitney
buses in this state.
A COW and calf belonging to Huston
Flemming. of Oxford, were killed by
lightning during the electrical storm Of
Saturday night. The animals were in the
pasture field on the farm of /. Wayne
Reynolds, near town. when struck
The Sunday excursion to Washington
over the Central Division was taken ad-
vantage of by large crowd to visit the
National capital. Eight coaches were re-
quired to accommodate the excursionists.
But eight tickets were sold at this station.
The town election for FIVE Commits
sioners of Rising Sun. on Monday was a
very quiet one. But eighteen votes were
poled, all being for the old Board
chas. s. Pyle. J. M. Sterrett. N. C..
Brown. Eli T. Reynolds. and W. Louis
Ryan.
Delaware College has received an in
vitation from Secretary of State William
]. Bryan, inviting the College to send one
or more delegates to the Second Pam
American Scientific Congress. to be held
at Washington. December 27. IoIs-Jan. 8
1916
De Mar. the we'll known Philadelphia
Record cartoonist, assisted by Mr. Lippen-
colt. reader, will give an entertainment in
the public hall, Rising Sun. Wednesday
evening, May 10. Tickets are on sale at
Buffngton's. The proceeds will be de
voted to church purposes.
~ At the annual meeting Of the Directors
Of Union Hospital, Elkton. the following
officers were elected:-President, Frank
B. Evans. Esq Secretary. DIR. Howard
Bratton; Treasurer. John H. Terrell.
81 The Directors have had handsome
2erskie. hung in the Directors room at
the Hospital.