The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-20
Briefly Noted News

Struck in the eye by shot from
a BIB rifle Bruce Baldorf, aged 10
years. of Kirkwcod, Pa, is a patient
in Lancaster General Hospital
Albert Constable, Esq, of Elk
ton, has rented an Office adjoining
the Marker barber shop, for the
practice of law in this town.
With the aid of a WPA grent the
public playground in Port Deposit
has been enlarged by extending 8
pier out into the river about fifty
feet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll C. Short, of
Cecilton, have purchased from the
heirs of the late j. Lavender Rowan,
the latter's drug store and business
at Cecilton.
A number of our residents attend
ed the inaugural ceremonies of the
new Democratic Governor, Herbert
r. O'Conor, at Annapolis. on We'd
nesday of last week.
MIS-. hdIul 0OOuyO oA VIM AA'O'
on the Singerly Road near Elkton,
was arrested Saturday by Sheriff
Randolph on charge of having un-
taxed liquor in her possession.
The Presidents party for Cecil
County will be held in the Elkton
armory Jan. 81. Lieut.. Harold T.
Perkins has been appointed chair
man of the general committee.
Fridays snow covered the ground
to a depth of between three and
four inches, and brought colder
weather. Saturday morning thermo-
meters in the neighborhood record
ed eight degrees.
j. Paul Slaybaugh, headnaster at
West Nottingham Academy, was the
guest speaker at the annual lunch
eon meeting at the Howard Hotel,
Elkton, Monday, of the Historical
Society of Cecil County.
At the town election held Jan.
9Th, the voters of Charlestown elect
ed the following men to act as town
commissioners: Frank Murphy, Isaac
Heisler, John Owens, Clifford CO.
oper, Alfrtd Lynch.
Paul Mullinix, manager of the
Southern States Service at Bel Air,
has been promoted as District Man.
ager for Hartford, Cecil. Kent and
Queen Anne's counties. &lr. Mumnix
will reside in Elkton.
A steer belonging to Joseph Eshl-
erman, Of Drumore Center, Lancas-
ter county, broke from the pasture
field and strayed onto the highway,
where it was struck and killed by
an auto driven by Robert Metzler,
of HOLLYWOOD.
DR.. James T. Magraw OF Perry
vile has conch shell about the
size of mans hat, which Is said
to have been used in the old days of
the Perryville-Havre de Grace ferry
to call the ferrymen from either
side of the river.
Wheeler & Grier, Realtors, Oxford,
have sold for Charles C. and Ethel
Krauss, the % acre farm near Toy
loria, Lancaster county, formerly
known as the Oldham farm, to Will
ey A. Heck of Nottingham, Pa, who
will take immediate possession.
Mr.. and Mrs. William T. Demsey
and daughter, of Newark. DEL, have
purchased the 35-acre farm of Mrs.
Sarah K. Lort, near Union, Cecil
county, and will move to the prop
erty. Mr.. Dempsey was the former
of grounds at the
Red Mems Home in Newark.
Miss Julie Carr, student at Ris-
ing Sun High School, and Miss
Ginger Morris, of Bel Air High
School, were given additions over
WORK, York, Pa, radio station.
The additions were successful and
the two girls are now broadcasting
ON Wednesday evening over the
same station with Cousin Lee"
A special feature of the service
conducted by the young people OF
the M. e. church here, ON Sunday
evening, was the singing of several
selections by the West Nottingham
Academy sextette. and a talk by
Jack Warner, of Bombay, India, a
student at the Academy. Tho speak
er told of the customs in that tar
country, and stressed how the
caste" system that prevails forbids
the general intermingling of people
in India, and hampers progress.