The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-04-13
Around Town Will
The Editor

nights annual Chamber of Com
merce banquet, / was unable to write
it up for this issue.
All l can tell you about it now
is: that it was attended by close to
three hundred members of the
Chamber and their wives and guests;
that John Shockey, the retiring pres
ident, kept it going like clockwork;
that Arley Sica, the incoming presi-
dent, gave one of the finest-albeit
the shortest-speech any president
has ever made; and finally, that the
speaker, DR.. James Shelby Thomas,
gave an extemporaneous address -
both humorous and thought provok
ing-that hope to comment on in
next weeks issue.
When the Council voted at last
weeks meeting to instruct the city
attorney to take proceedings to force
the Four States Livestock Sales Com
pany to move outside the city limits,
l think they were just little bit
hasty.
To begin with, city attorney Urner,
when the matter was brought before
the Council meeting some months
ago, stated quite emphatically that
it would be very difficult matter
for the city to prove in court that
the company constituted public
nuisance, and his advice at that time
was, that the people in the vicinity
of the stock yards, who were COM
planning, should themselves bring
suit against the Company on the
basis of private nuisance.
And secondly, it now appears that
there is no city ordinance under
which the city could proceed against
the organization, although I suppose
an attempt will be made to put
through such an ordinance at the
next meeting of the Council. In my
opinion it would be bad precedent
to put through an ordinance aimed
specifically at one concern, and I
hope that the difficulties between the
Council and the Four States Com
pany can be settled without taking
such drastic action.
am still getting big kick out of
all these political trial balloons,
most of which will burst long before
the primaries in September. Every
now and again someone stops me to
ask what l think of this possible
candidate and that one, and my ans
wer is always the same: Read this
column along about next July or
August and you will find out"
The Sunday School of DR.. Berry
Plummer's St. PauIs Evangelical
United Brethren Church set a re-
markable record on Easter Sunday
morning when, at the annual Spring
Rally, they gave cash offering of
$13,506 for the building fund.
The attendance for the rally was
1,214, with $50 in the Busy Mems
Bible Class.
The Spanish-American War has
been responsible for lot of things,
but did you know that it was re-
sponsible for changing the spelling
of a mans name? Well it did, and
here's how it happened:
City attorney Kerney's brother,
who recently died, served in the
Spanish-American War, and through
a mistake his name was spelled in
his Army records, Kearney instead
of Kerney. In giving this informa-
ton, Eden Kerney told me that his
brother, rather than go to the trouble
of having all his war records chang
ed, kept the "a" in his name for the
rest of his life.
/ have heard a lot of funny things
in my time, but Max Greenwald told
me of an incident the other day that
tops them all.
1t appears that Max bought suit
of clothes from a local store last
week and when the suit was deliv-
cred, he discovered that the pants
were missing.
/ know that for sometime it has
been difficult to buy suit of clothes
with two pairs of pants, but this is
the first time / have heard of buy
ing suit without any pants at all
PSI know Max finally got the
pants, because happened to be
with him when it happened.