The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-10-09
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Centreville is becoming hobby
conscious and the announcement OF
its Hobby Fair is expected within
the next several weeks. Bridge
ville's Hobby Fair, September 23 and
"a, in connection with the Flower
Show was a decided success. The
Kiwanis Club sponsored Hobby Show
at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in
Baltimore will be held during the
week of October 1919. All EXPOSE
tions are temporary hobby show
bringing to the spectators grand
collection of this and that from here
and there.
Nearly two million people have
passed thru the gates of the Cleve-
land Great Lakes Exposition this
summer. More have been to the
Texas Centennial and the New York
Exposition in 1898 is expected to be
the greatest world exposition ever
held. Temporary collections lead to
permanent collections and permanent
collections make museum. A gorup
Of boys in Washington, N. c., started
collecting bugs few years ago. To-
day the town has nationally known
institution-they call it the Bug
house" Museum. Last April an eff
fort was made to establish museum
at Easton, but the sponsors were not
able to get the necessary support
There is not single museum on
the whole Peninsula. The New York
idea of a portable museum sponsored
by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
moved around through the State and
was visited by nearly half a million
people during 1885.
DR.. William B. Moore, of the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology, col
lects election ballots. He has the
first one printed in this country when
Polk ran for President in 1874. Jack
Ellis, of the Kansas City police, has
more than a hundred police badges
from all parts of the world. So does
Ed Wynn-read about Wynn's Hob
bies in the October American Maya
zine. A well-known ice manufac-
turer is planning to paper a room
with his collection of rubber bank
checks,
Down at Snow Hill, S. G. Downs
has hobby of local statistics. He
knows how many times rain fell in
Snow Hill during the month, the
birth rate, the death rate, and prac-
tically everything else of interest
about the town. Another man over
in Alexandria, Va, who hobbies with
figures claims that postman work
ing forty-six years would wear out
% mail bags, 1873 pairs of shoes,
walk 100000 miles and deliver 49,
100000 letters.
Now that winter Is approaching,
silhouette cutting will absorb many
an hour when the youngsters have to
stay indoors. Samuel Morse was a
professional portrait painter by day.
At night his hobby was electricity
telegraph. Fred Stone, famous CO.
median, spends his spare time at the
anvil making ornamental iron novel
ties, and out in Milwaukee, Gail P.
Deitz has collected $50 different
models of >typewriters. He says that
$40 different kinds of machines have
been marketed since Sholes and Gid
den invented the typewriter in 1873.
Miss Adelaide ]. Pratt, Director of
Maryland State Library Commission,
has valuable collection of signed
pictures of Maryland writer's. Henry
H. Nuttle, of Denton, President of
Maryland Farm Bureau has a fine
hobby of farm organization. DR..
Guy Steele, Cambridge surgeon, col
lects old grave history. He has
made many interesting discoveries.
Lloyd Deneau, Hurlock garageman,
spends his time fiddling with the best
known Hill Billy Band on the PENN
sula. Mark Atkinson at Delmar col
lects High School tests. Betty Col
linson of Easton has a marvellous
collection of toy dogs and Donna
Hoyt has the finest collection of
matchbox covers in Easton.
Get yourself a hobby and ride it
hard If you want to keep young and
get the most out of life.
BOOKS: Hydan-Bye-Paths in Col
Letting; Robe - Quest of the
Quaint; Harrington - Collectors
whatnot; Teall-Pleasures of Col
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