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TOWN AND COUNTY. Short Paragraphs of Events in the County During the Past Week LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED The tax rate for the town of Havre The cherry crop. while not as heavy as Grace for 1909, is 60 cents on the $100. last year is a good one. The ice cream and soda water business Falling from a tree, 12-year-old Frank Scarborough fractured a limb, at Childs. has been thriving during the present heated The gross receipts of the festival held last week by Nottingham cornet band C. T. Snyder has shipped his merry-gowere about $180. round to Betterton, where it will be set up and operated. The 154-acre farm of Jos. Fisher, near Kirkwood, Del., has been purchased by G. G. Hopkins had the misfortune to J. F. Elliott, for $5,200. lose a horse from cebro-spinal meningitis Monday night. According to the Insurance Press the life insurance paid in Maryland last year Monday, July 5, 1909, will be observed amounted to $7,000,000. as a legal holiday by the National Bank of Rising Sun, as July 4th falls on Sunday. The Ladies Auxiliary Committee of Union Hospital, Elkton, netted $127. by The hay and wheat harvest began in the festival held last week. this section last week, and now in full swing. Both crops are reported to be James A. Lee has bought the Thomas average ones. Y. Wroth farm in Quaker Neck, Kent county, containing 172 acres, for $11,300. Plenty of daisies and hite-top in the grass this year. Farmers say this should The Pennsylvania Railroad Company be cut before the stalk woody and has decided to run its annual excursions stock will eat it. to Tolchester, on July 21, August 4 and 18. Mrs. Ella Pyle has purchased from E. George W. Williams, of Seventh disH. Reynolds, the lot on Cherry street adtrict, has announced himself a candidate joining her property, upon which the for the Democratic nomination for House merry-go-round of C. T. Snyder at present of Delegates. stands. The Cherry Hill Citizens Band will hold The Glorious Fourth falls on Sunday, an ice cream festival on the school house and as a consequence Young America grounds, Friday and Saturday evenings, will celebrate on two days, Saturday and July 9 and IO. Monday, this year, instead of one day as The Red Men's Cornet Band, of North customary. East, will hold a festival on Simper's lot, All persons interested in the grave yard in that town, on Friday and Saturday at West Nottingham are requested to meet evening, July 2 and 3. with Friends preparative meeting in The "Pentecostal Church of the NazaRising /Sun next Sabbath 4th inst., at rene" will hold a "Holiness Campmeetusual meeting hour. ing at Copson Park, near North East, The King's Daughters, of North East, from July 15th to the 25th. will pay for and maintain one of the two One of the largest verdicts of the kind beds in a private room at Union Hospital, rendered for some years in Balto. Co. has Elkton. The ladies of Elkton M. E. been obtained by John C. McComas for Church have assumed the expense of the $8,000 against Wm. Wilson. other bed. Bitten on one hand by a pet dog, a Owen Murphy, of Charlestown, was the three year old son of Parker Mitchell, of first heat victim in Cecil county, being Havre de Grace, was sent to the Baltimore prostrated on Sunday and death occurring Pasteur Institute for treatment. in a few minutes. The deceased was 72 The Executive Committee of the Philyears of age, and is survived by several children. adelphia Milk Shippers' Union has fixed the wholesale price of milk for July at 4 W. T. Warburton, president of the cents a quart for Chester county. Second National Bank of Elkton, was elected one of the vice-presidents of the The directors of the First National Bank of Havre de Grace have declared-a semiMaryland Bankers' Association, at the annual meeting held at Blue Mountain annual dividend or four per cent. clear of House last week. taxes payable on or after July Ist, 1909. Kicked in the face by a horse, on SaturTwenty thousand black bass, consigned to members of the Chester County Game day, Wilbur Maxwell, of West Nottingham, was painfully injured. Albert and Fish Protective Association, have Blackburn suffered a similar injury the beed placed in Brandywine and Ridley Creeks. same day, having several teeth knocked out by a kick from a horse. Evan L. Deckman, of Dublin, Harford The Commissioners of Rising Sun have county, has applied for the benefit of the been engaged for the past month in rebankrupt law through H. A. Whitaker, vising the tax list of the town, separating attorney. His liabilities are stated at real and personal property, and when the $500 with no assets. work is completed it will show a material The ballots cast at the November elec increase in the taxable basis here. tion were taken to the Radnor Pulp Mill, in Elkton last week, and burned in the The Cecil County Commissioners have presence of the Orphan's Court Judges, made the following appropriations to inthe Supervisors of Election. corporated towns Elkton, $600; Perryville, $175; Cecilton, $250; Charlestown, Wednesday, July 21, will be Governor's $100; North East, $250; Rising Sun, $400; Day at the brigade encampment of the Port Deposit, $550; Chesapeake City,$325. Maryland National Guard, to be held on the almshouse farm, near Westminster, A lawn fete will be held on Saturday from July 18 to 25 inclusive. evening, July 10, at the residence of Mrs. Margaret E. Dunn, near Pilot, for the Hopewell M. E. church, Woodlawn, benefit of Pilot M. E. church. Ice cream, Rev. J. Howard Gray pastor. Sabbath cake, lemonade, etc., on sale. A handservices July 4; Sunday School at 9:30. some quilt will be awarded to the person Preaching at 10:30. Epworth League and holding the lucky number. preaching at 8 p. m. Preaching at Asbury at 3 m. All welcome. Fire originating among some Fourth of The new Farmers and Merchants NatJuly goods in the store of Walter H. ional Bank, of Bel Air, opened its doors Taylor, at Elkton, Monday evening did considerable damage. The Singerly Fire for business on July I. The Board of Directors is composed of eleven members. Company responded to the call and soon Col, Otho S. Lee has been chosen presiextinguished the flames. More damage was done really by smoke and water than dent, Wm. E. Robinson, vice-president, Clinton L. Reckord, cashier and C. by the flames. Webster Whistler, bookkeeper. J. Willett Ewing, of Calvert, attended Each Democratic candidate at the rethe Grand American Handicap target cent democratic primaries in Baltimore shoot, at Chicago, last week, one of the and Harford counties were assessed as most important shooting events in the follows: Baltimore county-Clerk of the United States. The best shots in the Circuit Court, $405; sheriff, $135; treascountry participated in the contest. urer. $135; county commissioner, $81; Ewing was among the first twenty of the surveyor, House of Delegates, 12 1/2. five hundred contestants, with a score of Harford county-Clerk, $25; treasurer, 91 out of 100. 20; senator. $25;;sheriff, $20; House of Delegates, $10; county commissioner, $5. The extended heated term, which conThe report is now that Conowingo tinued all last week, was broken Sunday bridge, which was destroyed by fire in evening by one of the heaviest electric June, 1907, and is being rebuilt, will be storms that has visited this section. The opened to travel on September I. This is downpour of rain soon converted small good news not only to the residents of streams into torrents that overflowed their Upper Cecil and Harford, but will be of banks. Fields and roads were badly interest to automobilists as well, as the washed, the damage being considerable. bridge is a connecting link on a route that The gusts on Friday afternoon were is almost a direct line from New York and heavy ones, but the rainfall did not comPhiladelphia to Baltimore and Washington. pare to that of Sunday evening.
