25 Years Ago Ice disrupts ferry traffic on the bay
A 25 year old item notes heavy ice breaking up in the Susquehanna and drifting toward the bay disrupting Baltimore to Eastern Shore ferry service. Dense fogs slowed navigation and several community notices follow about local schools, obituaries, club meetings, and a Middleton era civic agenda.
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Susquehanna
Bay
Baltimore
Williston School
Leo Blazejack
Henry Blazejack
Benjamin Maloney
Robert Maloney
Leon Messer
Frederic Rice
Albert Seiler
Daffin Lane
Beile Lane
Anna Rice
Dorothy Neal
Margaret Maloney
Pauline Blazejack
Mary Blazejack
Elizabeth Cox Jenkins
Jenkins
Federalsburg
Mollie Day
St. Lows
Thomas F. Cox
Council of
Junior American Mechanics
Methodist Protestant Church
T. Alan Goldsborough
J. A Leach
Wilmington
Harvey Burgess
Harrington
W. R Smith
Washington
C A E Fentz
Smith
Alaska
Burrsville Parsonage
Muss Rosa H. Carey
John W Porter
E. N Wright
Catherine R. Franks
the Victory Sparkler and Specialty Co
Circuit Court
Caroline County
Court of Appeals of
Maryland
Williston 4-H Seeks Officers At February Meeting
Williston Junior 4-H met February 15 at Barbara Hager’s home with Elma Jean Reed serving refreshments. Members sang with Williston Senior girls and recited the 4-H pledge. Ella Willey, secretary of the senior group, led a roll call as officers had not yet been elected.
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Williston
Election of officers at 100m meeting
We named our pets and then our leaders Barbara Haver and Elma Jein Reed led the girls to elect officers. President Jo Len Reed, Vice-President Myra Hubbard, Secretary Barbara Breeding, Treasurer Janet Neal, Music leader Beverly Long, Reporter Ellen Wilson, Recreation leader Ruth Heinel, Sunshine chair Anne Depew. Meeting adjourned until March 1.
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Barbara Haver
Elma Jein Reed
Jo Len Reed
Myra Hubbard
Barbara Breeding
Janet Neal
Beverly Long
Ellen Wilson
Ruth Heinel
Sunshine Committee
Anne Depew
Elma Jean
The Hickory Grove Low Down on REA Skepticism
A Hickory Grove column criticizes Congress for slow action and labels the Rural Electrification Act as a tax free, multi million affair. The piece frames REA as a deceitful scheme cloaked in legitimacy and urges scrutiny of federal funds.
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Congress
Greenhorns urged to resist TVA style power plan
A reader cites past remarks by Sam B. and condemns REA plans near Kansas City as a tax free socialist co op steam station. The author accuses officials of using electricity as a by product from flood control and calls on Congress to act, urging informed action and warning against naivety.
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Bush
Sambo
TVA
Con- Bess
REA
Socialist Co-Op
Kansas City
Congress
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Journal of
Victory Sparkler and Specialty Company
William J. Richards
Denton
Vernon Cook
Tyler & England
Victory Sparkler and Speciality Company
W. Brewster Deen
J. Qwen Knotts
Wesley E. Thawley
Wm. L. Rawls
Wm. Pepper Constable
Sallie Stevens Webster
Z. H. Webster
William Stevens
Lacey Stevens
Nadal Jones
Amanda Willoughby
Lola
James Willoughbs
Andersontown- Hlobbs
Federation
Preston
Willey
Loo
Thomas
D R Johnston
Will Murphy
Orme
Evelyn Neal
M Todd
Thawles’s
W C. Reed
Thomas Clopper
Ralph Meredith
Madge Higgins
Dorothy Hsnson
Franklin Meredith
Miles Reed
Beulah Clopper
Hilda Reed
Cradle Roil
Hilda Cade
Mrs. Clopper
Freeland Clopper
N J Cade
Wallace Clark
E. C Wright
Frank Rickards Howard Wright
William Swann
Leo J. Walz
Greensboro
Salta
Ott Vane Sh
Rover & Barto
North Sixth Street
Denton, Maryland
Easton, Maryland
Ewarene
Loudonville Milling Company
Loubonville
Arte
Loudon LE Milling Co
Hickory Grove
JO Serra
Crosley
James T. Butler
Tole Frays
Lour
The
Four Maples Gift Shop
Tel
Koenig
Emerson
Pasad Dial
Atk
Television Best Buy
J Denton
Marylan
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