The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-21
BRIEFLY NOTED
HAPPENINGS
Short Paragraphs OF Recent
Events In Town And
County

New wheat is being received at
the warehouses here, and is bring
ing $1.10 per bushel, delivered.
The fire siren, that has been out
of commission for several weeks,
has been repaired and is again in
service.
Raymond D. Kinsey, chief of pub
lie health at Perry Point, has been
transferred by the government to
Richmond, Va.
Wright S. Coopage has been
awarded the contract for carrying
the mails between Elkton and Ches-
apeake City, succeeding Harry C.
Kirk.
Leonard c. Wilson, who recently
purchased the dwelling in Zion be-
longing to the Martindale estate,
has moved to it, after greatly i'm
proving the property.
Rising Sun Girl Scouts, under the
leadership of Mrs. Everett Johnson,
neld festival on the Pogue G Rob-
srson lot, Saturday evening, July 8.
the receipts being $40.
Miss Edna Boyd, for the past four
years in charge of the Good Will
Rest Home at Port Deposit, has re-
signed and will leave for San Fran
cisco to engage in social work.
Helen, young daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Reed, of Rowlandville,
met with a painful accident while
playing with an automobile pump,
the end of one finger being almost
severed.
A number of ladies of the county,
assisted by Miss Perscilla Pancoast,
Home Demonstration Agent. are
canning, surplus vegetables that will
be donated to welfare work for the
needy.
The contract for coal for the
County buildings has been awarded
by the Board of County Commits
sioners to c. A Benjamin & Co., of
North East, at SS.9S per ton of
1000 pounds, delivered.
Francis Reed Hartnett, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John ]. Hatnett, of Elk
ton, who was high man in the COM
petitive examination, has been
awarded the scholarship at Char
iotte Hall, by the Board of Educa-
ton.
Bitten by a copperhead snake S..
e. Campbell, of Pequea, Pa, went
TO the ST. Joseph's Hospital, Thurs
day for treatment. His hand is
somewhat swollen. Mr.. Campbell
killed the snake after he had been
bitten.
George D. Vaggi and Gus Sclavos,
who have conducted the Howard
Hotel in Elkton for a number of
years, have dissolved partnership,
Mr.. Vaggi purchasing Sclovas' in
terest in both the hotel property and
business.
Robert Gallaher, ticket agent at
the Newark, Del, station of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, has
completed 40 years of service with
that railroad. Mr.. Gallaher has
been at the Newark station for the
past thirty years.
William Short, of Iron Hill, while
driving in Wilmington, accidentally
struck John Wilding, of that city.
knocking him down and fracturing
his skull. After taking the injured
man to the hospital Short gave him
self up to the police.
Charles Denny, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Denny, of Elkton, in
attempting to free a clogged sewer,
suffered crushed hand when it
was caught between the cover and
the concrete. Part of his thumb
had to be amputated.
Magistrate Manly Drennen, of
Elkton, sentenced three colored
men, Francis Johnson, Garfield
Minker and Robert Wallace, all of
Elk Neck, to six months each in the
House of Correction for assault,
disorderly conduct and destroying
property of Mrs. Lillian Lane, in
Elkton.
The fourth annual regatta of the
Havre de Grace Yacht Club will be
held ON Friday and Saturday of this
week, the races starting at ten