The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-12-13
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs Of Recent Events of
Interest to Our Readers
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

VIM. Broadway, son of the Rev. and
Mrs. L. M. Broadway of Perryville,
broke his left arm above the elbow,
while playing leap frog. He was taken
to Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore.
Trolley service on the lines to Coats
vile and to Kennett Square, Pa, has
been discontinued. In statement is
sued by the trolley company itncited
that permission to substitute busses for
trolleys had been granted by the Pub
llc Service Commission, after it had
been demonstrated that trolley service
did not pay.
The Northern Md. Power Co. has re-
organized its office force in Elkton.
Geo. B. Passmore has been transferred
to the Oxford, Pa, office OF the South
ern Pennsylvania Power Co., and f..
Howell Evans, OF Oxford, made man
ager OF the Elkton office. j. d. Craig,
OF Rowlandville, is added to the staff In
the Elkton office.
Camp Rodney, the Boy Scout prop
erty along the Cheapeake bay, below
North East, is to have care taker to
afford protection for the camp, its
buildings, etc., throughout the winter,
and also to protect the holly and ever
green's, which are subject to consider
able damage every year by gatherei s
OF Christmas green's.
The little three year old son of MIR.
and Mrs. Woodward Brown, of Porters
Bridge, was very seriously scalded by
q pan of hot water on Friday last.
Preparations were being made to butch
sr, and pan of boiling water had been
dipped from the scalding barrel ana
paced on the ground. The little fellow
was u ing about with his sled and fell
into pan OF water, being terribly
ahwsN rfr lcgs 1nI L>es5~ zIs-
ten to the hospital, his condition
- erious.
JohP M. Clayton has purchased at
assignee's sale, the Ireland property
at Calvert, embracing 81 acres. for
$1,500.
Mrs. Efie Kidd, OF Calvert. who
some weeks ago fell and broke both
wrists, has been compeiled TO have
them put in: casts agaIu as they did not
knit.
The contract to paint the Pennsyl-
vania railroad buildings at Rising
sun, Port Deopsit. Perryville, North
East and Elktno, has been awarded
Howard S. Vincent, of Elkton.
Extensive improvement aAd en-,
largement of the Baldwin Manufac-
turing Companys textile plant at
Elk Mills, isplanned. Another unit
Is to be added in the form OF an ad-
ditional large mill.
..
Port Deposit, has been granted dl-
vorce from her husband, William Win
cAester, on grounds of desertion ana
non-support. by Judge Preston, in
hartford County Court.
A marriage license was granted at
Elkton on November 27, to Joseph
Howard Barber, aged Al years. and
MRS. Rachel A. Burns, aged 81
years. They were married by Rev.
P. P. Arnd. of the Elkton Catholic
church.
1t is reported the appeal case OF
the $2.349,300 assessment placed by
the State Tax Commission on the the
Cowowingo Power Plant, in Hartford
county, will be carried to the Court
Of Appeals. Judge Preston filed an
opinion confirming the valuation
placed by the State Tax Commission.
R. E. Taylor, employed on the
new Columbia and Wrightsvile bridge
across the Susquehanna river, was
struck by +inkey engine nthe tenn
porary brid Thursday afternon last
and killed. body was knocked
into the river uut was recovered by
fellow workmen. This is the third
fatal accident that has occurred on
work. About one half of the con-
strcction work on the new bridge has
been been completed.
Improvement to the Elk River, to
provide for a channel seven feet
deep and forty feet wide, with WI
dening at the bends. from near
Cedar Point to the Bridge street
bridge, Elkton, at an estimated cost
of $4,000, with $4,000 annual
maintenance, is one of the projects
Representative T. Alan Goldsbor-
ough will ask Congress to approve.