The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-10-06
BRIEFLY NOTED
HAPPENINGS
Short Paragraphs OF Recent
Events In Town And
County

William Featherman has sold his
store property at Nottingham, Pa,
and purchased the 123 acre farm of
]. Pennock Holton, at Kinks Bridge,
Penna.
Arthur Kennedy, of Calvert, lost
one of his cows last week, when the
animal got in corn field and gorged
itself with green corn, causing it's
death
John R. H. Price, of Warwick, met
with painful accident one day last
week. when a stable door blew back
and struck him, fracturing a small
bone in one of his hands.
Willis l.. Ely, real estate agent,
sold on Thursday, September % to
VIM H. Farmer, of Liberty Grove,
the 169 7-acre farm of~Geo. C. and
Mary E. Shelor, at Calvert.
Mrs. Rufus McPete, residing at
Corner Ketch, attempted suicide one
day last week by taking poison. She
was hurried to Hayre de Grace hos
pital, where her life was saved.
The four hundred and thirty-sec-
ond stated meeting of the New Castle
Presbytery was held at Wicomico
Presbyterian Church, Salisbury, on
Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 2 and g..
The farm of eighty acres in Pc
quea Township, Lancaster county,
Pa, belonging to the heirs OF Jonas
Harnish, has been purchased by
Ralph Kaufman, of West Willow,
Pa, for $4,000.
Dr. Hullihen, president of Della
ware University, at Newark, announ-
ces the total enrolment of students
as 1856. Of this number 4S2 are in
Delaware College and 254 in the
Women's College.
A. C. Wilson, East Nottingham,
Pa, as representative of the E. A.
Strout Agency, has sold for William
F. Davis, his farm of ~ aces near
Warwick, Cecil county, to a Mr..
Owen, of Wilmington.
C. Hal Johnson, for the past ten
years postmaster at EdgeWood, Har-
ford county, has rendered his resig-
nation, to take effect upon the ap-
pointment of his successor. Mr..
Johnson is a former resident of Elk
ton.
A new $4,000 church is to be
erected at Galena, Kent county Md,
by the congregation of ST, Denis r.
c. Church. The present frame
structure is to be torn down and re-
built as parish house for social
gatherings.
Fire, of undetermined origin de-
stroyed the large double-deeker barn
on the farm of Wayne Durborow
near Hopewell, Pa, on Wednesday
morning last. This years hay crop
stored in the barn, was burned, but
the livestock was gotten out in
safety.
Lloyd Rosensteel, of Edri, Indiana
county, Pa, recently threshed his
timothy seed, the total production
being S3 bushels, which was an
average yield of seven bushels pei
acre, and one of the best timothy
seed crops reported in the State OF
Pennsylvania.
Ernest Logan, Calvert High
School student had an arm broken
in fall down the school house steps
one day last week.
Samuel Keim, of Colora, a student
at Rising Sun High School, suffered
a dislocated shoulder by falling
while playing soccer.
Two valuable farm horses belong.
ing to Joel W. Silver, of near Havre
de Grace, were gored by bull last
week, and badly injured. The hors,
es were in field with the bull, when
the animal became enraged and at.
tackled them. The bull was sold by
its owner and shipped to Baltimore
The Woman's Christian Temper,
ance Union of North East, ms elect.
ed the following officers for the en-
suing year: President, Mrs Robert
C. Shippers; Vice-president. Mrs
Robert Biddle; corresponding secre
tary, Mrs. Charles E. Biddle; record
ing secretary, Mrs, w. K. Blake;
treasurer, Mrs. Walter Hall.
The Elkton Kiwanis Club has un
der consideration the organization OF
a harmonica band in Elkton. Six
teen boys have signified their inten,
tion Of becoming members. il the or
T.