The midland journal., 1917-02-23
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
,AL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
began on Wednesday.

began on Wednesday.
ther snowfall early Thursday
hg OF this week.
Riale, of Colora, has a
h COW that gave birth to twin
on Monday.
bert Pennock of Kennett
has been signed for the COM
son by the Boston base bali
annual fall fair Of Chester
Agricultural Society will be
West Chester on August %,
and 25.
rd G. Whitehead, of near
k, had one of his legs crush
The wheels of a farm wagon
over it.
Stratford Operate Co drew a
Id house on Friday evening
and their rendetion of the
0 was much enjoyed.
concluding heat of the three
ed shoot between Rising Sun,
and Providence will be shot
lrday, oath inst, at OXFORD.
Ter county last year paid $609
hty for noxious animals. The
portion of this was for weas-
rs of these having been
Il before the Justices.
sa, the young daughter of r
zelere, of North East, fell or
while skating on the brick
tond in that town last week.
lctured her leg.
contract price for the Rising
lmar road of one and one
miles recently awarded by the
Roads Commission to E. r.
b. was $1S,822.11.
OF, an unknown origin totally
lyed the bungalow located
Elk River, near Welsh FONT,
by Chancellor Charles m.
q xry.I,..s,,rtnr nol
and C. H. Cole, of Perryville,
offered their power-boat il
for protection, in case OF war
barring for same, in a letter tc
tor Ryan, of Baltimore.
liam Dowingham, aged 81
formerly of Elk Mills, a Civil
keteran, employed at the Krebs
cal plant, at Newport, dropped
there of heart disease, Feb; s
I'm the recommendation of the
court, the board of county
ssioners have appointed James
ans and Joshua Clayton to
the public local laws of Cecil
huel Hammond, Jr., of Elk
4 who was crippled some months
by an injury to his knee, was re-
" taken to a Philadelphia hos
where amputation OF the leg
found necessary. -
|e board of trustees of the pooi
insane for Cecil county in specla!
on Tuesday elected James Hart
as almshouse superintendent;
Hartnett, matron; DR.. William
awley, physician.
most every one of the 50
oes brought from the South last
ner to work on the new bleach
in Elkton, have returned to the
hland, declaring this climate
too cold for them.
,e P. J. Ritter Conserve Com
is Offering tomato growers IN
neighborhood of Newark, Del,
90 ner ton. A premium OF
O per ton extra is offered for all
.toes delivered prior to Sept. IL
ayiyal services will commence,
ing preventing. Ill The Rowland
M. P. Church Sunday. Feb. 2b'
pastor will be assisted by Rev.
v. Sheridan, of tie Md. Confer
and Rev. Eben N. Baldwin, OF
mont, Delaware.
IN. H. Hipkins, who was con-
I'd OF manslaughter in the Har-
County Circuit Court, on Janu-
! 5th last, was sentenced by
&c Harlan, to pay $500 and the
$ in the case. The latter
united to 5000. The jury rend'
q a verdict .of manelaughter
|mmended clemency. He wa:
ased upon the payment of $4O0
/ order to make it unnecessar!
automobilists using the State
|, to cross the tracks of thu
ladelphia, Baltimore and Wash
on railroad twice in Elkton
n travelling between Baltimore
Philadelphia, the State Roat
1mission has had a corps of sur
ors at work laying out a ney
I across the Cantwell estate ol