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Newspaper
The Midland Journal
Location
Rising Sun, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1905
Page
1
Moonlight nights and summer fun mark the week with Strawberry festivals and Children’s Day at Sylmar. Rising Sun hosts concerts and a large Oxford Fair turnout. local churches, schools, and clubs plan programs, picnics, and exams while officials announce appointments and legal actions.
Miss Clara Fuller wed Robt. Wallace at Freemont M. B. parsonage on June 6 in a ceremony led by Rev. W. L. Cann. Other unions include Miss Ida Bullen and Franklin W. Lort, Mrs. Carrie Kline and Andrew Wilkinson in Cecil county, and Mowbray Will with Lura Will at West Denton with Rev. W. R. Mowbray officiating. Dr. Alpheus Mowbray, prominent Wilmington Church leader, presided over the West Denton ceremony and will reside in Wilmington after a trip to Asbury Park and New York.
A stable at the Bibb Stove Foundry Company in Port Deposit burned early Wednesday. All livestock were removed except one mule badly burned. Surrounding property was endangered but the fire company contained the blaze. Estimated loss is about $300.
A group of Third District Democrats organize the Amendment Club in Elkton with Albert Constable as president and H Winfield Lewis as secretary. The club aims to educate voters on the Poe Constitutional Amendment and push for its passage at the upcoming election.
Executors Elizabeth C. Walmsley and Indiana C. Davis report sales of John P. Walmsley property in Frederick town and along Sassafras River. Wharf and granary sold for 3100 dollars to Crukshank, home place resold to Mrs Walmsley for 3100 dollars. Schooners Emma V Wills and Henry A Jordon sold to Bacchus, Asilton and to John C. Davis, who also bought a white cedar skiff.
J. L. Kidd of near Farmington reported to the Midland office last week with fine alfalfa cut for a second time. Stalks exceeded 24 inches, on about half an acre of dense growth. He plans two more cuttings and credits inoculation from the Agricultural Department in Washington for the fine stand.
Fire bells and whistles woke Elkton residents as Singerly Fire Company tackled a fire in a freight car at Keys and Miller's coal yard. The sugar laden car, en route to a Baltimore grocer, was started by an overheated journal and burned extensively before water could halt the blaze.
The Orphans Court of Cecil County admits the will of Henry J. Lofland to probate. The widow Isabel M. Lofland receives income from estate during her life, then residue goes to church and family. Executors named Walter E. Patten. witnesses CO. R. Cooley and Samuel T. Roman.
West Chester resident Wm. C. Armstrong formerly of Oxford reports a trotting horse injured last week when its tongue caught in a stall partition crack. The animal tore about four inches of its tongue and can only eat semi liquid foods.
During a heavy thunderstorm last Wednesday a valuable pacing mare belonging to S. T. Simpers of North East was struck and killed in the pasture. A cow in a field near Leslie also died from lightning during the same storm.
Miss Almira Wright of Bel Air won second prize in four essays on Cecilius Calvert for Maryland public school pupils. Miss Mary L. Brown of Ellicott City took first prize. The Society of Colonial Wars plans a bronze Cecilius Calvert statue in Baltimore costing $5,000.
Delaware College has received 400 dollars as its share of a 10000 dollar endowment left by the late Philo Sherman Bennett of New Haven Connecticut. The fund is to be divided among twenty five colleges and universities and the income used to pay an annual prize for the best essay on the principles of free government. Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan is named executor.
Miss Alice Cassilly daughter of Thomas A Cassilly of Belcamp Harford county committed death by own action last Friday afternoon by shooting herself in the left breast twice with a 32 calibre revolver in a grove near her home. No cause can be ascribed except temporary insanity due to ill health. She was 27, bright and popular with many friends, and survived by her parents and two brothers.
Levi E Patterson wins the Perryville station contract on the P B W railroad. The brick Colonial design sits 200 yards north of current site, 75 by 22 feet, one and a half stories, with two waiting rooms, a ticket office, and a yard-master office. Patterson's bid is 13345 dollars.
John M. Michael built a 480 foot bridge over Swan creek in Harford county to connect his Oakington home to Aberdeen post office and ease hauling from his west side cornfields to the east side packing house. The $3000 structure saves about five miles of driving in each direction and includes a 16 foot draw and nine foot depth.
Mrs. Emily E Huff sues Columbia and Port Deposit railroad for 20000 dollars over her husband’s death near Rowlandville Cecil County two years ago. The case moved from Cecil to Harford to Baltimore County Court for trial after removal. Her husband, returning home to Harford, was struck and killed at a railroad crossing near Rowlandville.
Pupils presented a cantata that netted 330.50 dollars for the Annex Fund. Teachers at Havre de Grace High School report 700 dollars on deposit from various efforts to furnish the annex once it is built.
At a Tuesday meeting the County Commissioners authorized 9500 for a new North Fast school building. The board awarded HE Ward Brown a road contract for the Rising Sun to Farmington mile at 5512.88, above the estimate by 310.58. They also approved a 2000 hospital appropriation payable from the 1906 levy after hearings.
The Cecil County Board of School Commissioners met Tuesday. Bids for the new North East school house ranged from 9 500 to 13 500 dollars with A M Strickland's bid accepted conditionally. W J C Dulaney Co won the books and stationery bid with a 16 percent discount. C B Finley Jr resigns as Cecil County High School principal. Frank B Evans elected as successor for one year. Bills totaling 160.40 dollars were approved for payment.
The Orphans Court of Cecil County held a regular session with Judges Blake Miller Clark present. Sundry claims against estates were examined and passed. bonds for executors and guardians approved. several accounts and distributions approved. court adjourned to meet July 11. William H. Pentz resigns as Aberdeen public school principal.
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