The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09
Briefly Noted News

Lincoln.
Lent began on Wednesday of this
week, the 18th, Ash Wednesday. Eas-
ter falls on Sunday, March gath.
The Iron Hill postoffice is to be
discontinued and patrons in that
section served by rural delivery.
Miss Nettie Mcvey had the mis-
fortune to slip and fall on the street,
suffering a painfully injured knee.
The work of cleaning and redecor-
ating the interior walls of the Ma
tional Bank of Rising Sun is in pro-
gress.
James Richardson and family
moved on Friday from the Cum
mings dwelling on Cherry street, to
Oxford, Pa.
Harry Fisher has purchased new
Chevrolet truck Mr.. Fisher has rec
emily received a large shipment of
horses at his sale stables.
His right hand coming in con-
tact with circular saw, Robert X.
Fears, of Chesapeake City, referred
three badly lacerated fingers.
The Bucknell University Mems
Glee Club, 70 voices strong gave a
concert in the Elkton High school on
Monday afternoon, February 5.
Ground Hog Day was drab and
cloudy, and we don't know whether
the little so-called weather prog
nosticator ventured out or not
The card party given by the
Senior Glass of Calvert High School
in Bay View Hall was we'll attended.
About $1,000 was cleared by the
class.
The young people of James Meth
odist church held their monthly
meeting on Thursday evening last,
after which refreshments were
served.
A. ]. Dinsmore & Bro, whose
large garage in this town was swept
by fire on Tuesday, Jan. %, have
placed their loss at $21,250, with in
surance of 5000.
John Clements of Conowingo,
who was seriously injured in an
automobile accident at Kilby Corn
er, near Conowingo, died on Tues
day afternoon of last week, at Union
Hospital, Elkton.
The card party under auspices of
the Eastern Star, of Port Deposit,
held at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
]. Earl Tyson on Friday evening last,
was very successful. Twenty tables
of bridge and five hundred were
played.
Mrs. David r. McCauley, Lone
Troop Consultant for Cecil county,
Girl Scouts, has returned from a
three-day Training Course given at
the National Girl Scout Little House,
Washington, D. c., as the guest of
the Regional Committee.
Leslie Bowe, aged about 3S years
of Elkton, was arrested and lodged
in Jail on Thursday, charged with
stealing furniture stored in the old
Elkton High school. The furniture
belonged to Mr. Guy Johnson, prin-
cipal of Elkton high school.
The Fifth Grade and teacher of
Rising Sun Elementary School re-
membered their classmate, Mary
Edmondson, who is patient in
Union Hospital, Elkton, by sending
her letters and fine basket of
fruit.
Mrs. Ethel Loller has succeeded
her mother, Mrs. Mary Duhammel,
as postmistress at Earleville, Cecil
county. Mrs. Duhammel, who is S3
years of age, was recently retired
after serving seventeen years as
postmistress, having succeeded her
husband in the office.
A two story frame house, near
Elkton, on the right of way of the
proposed new dual highway, was
burned by order of the State Roads
Commission one evening last week.
as the easiest means OF removing it..
The building was in delapidated
condition and could not be moved.
Miss Orvilla A. Gilpin, of Elkton,
an outstanding poet of Maryland,
has been accorded honors in the
National Poetry Center of the New
York Worlds Fair, where her work
was exhibited in the Largest Book
OF Poetry in the World" and which
was also part of the Panorama OF