The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-06-07
Briefly Noted Hap
penings

Mrs. Stella Murphy, of Cecil Inn
near Perryville, is in serious con
dition from burns sustained when
she fell in a tub of scalding water.
Fire of unknown origin totally
DESTROYED the A. M. E. Church on
Market Street, Oxford, Pa, Wednes-
day noon, entailing loss of about
$500.
Governor Harry w. Nice has APP
pointed DR.. w. G. Jack, of Row
landsville, as member OF the
Board of Visitors and Governors of
Washington College.
Children's Day services will be
held in the Presbyterian Church at
Zion, Sunday morning, June 16, and
in the M. E. Church of that place on
Sunday evening, June 16.
Under the auspices of the Third
District Women's Auxiliary of Union
Hospital, a Strawberry Festival will
be held on the lawn at the hospital,
in Elkton, on Saturday evening,
June s.
A play entitled Engaging Janet
will be presented by the Cheerful
Workers Sunday School Glass of
Hopewell M. E. Church on Friday
evening, June 14th, at s o'clock, at
the Hopewell Hall.
w. Sterling Evans, of Elkton, has
a homing pigeon which was liberated
at Spartanburg, S. c., Sunday morn
ing, May 26, at $40 o'clock, and
arrived home that night at 6.27,
after a flight of 500 miles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph England have
moved from the Presbyterian Manse
in Zion to the Tyson house at West
Nottingham Rev. Mr. Weir, pastor
of the Zion Presbyterian Church,
will shortly move from Prices Cor
ner to the Manse.
President Roosevelt has approved
the ALLEGATION of $5,147,000 for two
waterway projects. OF this total
S5,1O7,OO0 was an initial allotment
toward the conversion of the Chesa-
peake and Delaware Canal into a
deep-sea waterway.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union will meet with Miss A,
Mabel Reynolds Thursday, June 49,,
at 200 D. M, she and Mrs. A. b.
Frye, hostesses. Devotional leader,
Mrs. William Henry; program leader,
Mrs. VIM. M. Pogue.
A stucco bungalow, garage and
outbuildings, with all contents, were
completely destroyed by fire of I'M
known origin on Tuesday last, en-
failing a loss of $4,000. The prop
erty belongs to Clinton Tweed, and
is located near Newark, Del.
Struck in the eye by a base ball
during a game between Cecilton and
Warwick, Sidney Argo, of Cecilton,
lost the member completely, as it
was found necessary 20 remove the
eye, when he was taken to the
Homeoathic Hospital, in Whining
ton, Delaware.
Singerly Fire Company, of Elkton,
has had the Hale fire truck thorough
ly overhauled by the Hale Fire
Pump Company, of Conshohocken,
Pa, the repairs including a new mo-
tor, new booster brakes, and the re-
modelling of the pump, at a cost of
about a thousand dollars,
County Commissioners Mauldin
Lum and Lawson c. Tosh, accom-
panied by Clarence w. Ashby enjoyed
a fine days fishing on the Susque-
hanna, Monday, all making good
catches. Mr.. Ashby was high man
in the party. the largest fish in the
string being his ten-pound rock fish.
Miss Ann Carver. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Nelson Carver, Of Aiken,
Cecil county. was selected Miss
Maryland. 1886" by a New York
artist from a group of ten finalists
elected a. the University of Maryland
under the sponsorship of The Terra
pin, the University year book. Miss
Carver was graduated from Jacob
Tome Institute, Port Deposit, with
honors, last June.
Mrs. w. B. Bechtel, Mrs. E. F..
Mearns and Mrs S. j. Gather met
with an auto accident on Tuesday,
near Harrisburg, Pa. Their car skid
ded during the heavy rain that pre-
vailed at the time, and ran OF the
road into the bank. The ladies
fortunately escaped injury but the
auto was so badly damaged that 1t
had to be left at garage for repairs,
and Wilson & McNamee, OF this town,
oaw h~;n~ @I,o otroudaA