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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1933
Page
3
In a Waynesboro incident a man tried to raise funds by posing as a distressed father claiming his daughter died in an automobile crash. He sought help from a minister and a Waynesboro attorney, then fled after being confronted. A second lawyer was lured by a similar ruse but stopped before paying. The victim recovered £3 from the con artist before he left for Hagerstown.
Local quotations show prices paid to farmers by the Hagerstown Grain and Feed Company. Market notices list current bids for corn oats and other grains with cash prices and indicative trends for regional growers.
Judge Watson R. Davison presides as several prominent chambers face a weeks' old dispute surrounding a pocket book. The case centers on ownership and alleged concealment with parties awaiting further court action.
George Bowers, 28, of Biz Springs and an employee of the State Ready Commission, was struck by a concrete mixer yesterday afternoon. Hospital exam showed no bones broken. A separate Knoxville church incident saw a piano tuner called to fix a discordant note after a passerby blamed squirrels for a peck of acorns scattered by a prank.
The Baltimore synod of the Presbyterian church completed its annual meeting at Hood College Frederick Maryland. The Rev George A Burslem of Dover Delaware was elected moderator and the Rev J Paul Trout of Princess Anne Maryland was named vice moderator. Additional committee appointments covered Bills and Overtures Minutes and Presbytery Minutes Auditing and Resolutions. The synod includes Baltimore New Castle Washington presbyteries and Maryland Delaware the District of Columbia and part of Virginia and will adjourn tomorrow.
Broadfording June 14 reports the 50th wedding anniversary of Mrs. Gallion’s parents in Hagerstown at City Park. Marshall Gallion of Lestersburg visited his parents. A Broadfording school picnic at Row's Park followed with dinner and supper for many families including the Gallions, Bleyers, Barnharts, Hastings, Sprankle, Moon, Angle, Rice, Hull, Marr, Ru Beck and Meisner. Additional visitors to Emma Gossard’s home included Rev. Hicks, Laura Newcomer and others from Shady Grove and Halfway.
In Montgomery Alabama the business district lanes are reserved for wagons and buggies on Saturdays. Jennie Harnish of Greencastle and diverse relatives from Elmer Spickler Hagerstown and Boonsboro visit Mr and Mrs B F Eakle and Kenneth Mowen shows illness but improving. The piece lists many names including Mollie Harnish Edna Gallion John Wolf Gertrude Gallion Madalene Louise McKenna Walter Cline and William Easterday plus others from Reid Broadfording Norfolk and Washington DC.
Baltimore market report details cattle bulls sheeps lambs and hogs with price ranges across quality tiers. Also notes grain futures for wheat including red winter garlicly domestic spot and July contracts.
Clarence Darrow, Chicago lawyer and chief counsel for the National Association Opposed to Blue Laws, studies Maryland Sabbath laws after three Washington men were fined in Montgomery County for moving furniture on Sunday. He notes the fines of 35 dollars each may not be appealable and discusses possible writ of certiorari and reopening of the cases. The punishments were imposed by Rockville Police Judge De Lashmutt on M. D. Shear, G. P. Minor, and J. C. Kearns for moving Samuel Horne’s furniture from Washington into a Somerset house on Sunday April 30.
Edward G. King III aged 13 was cut and burned about the eyes when a corked bottle containing dry ice exploded. Doctors said he was in serious condition but his eyesight was saved. The report notes no link between thunderstorms and plant growth.
June 14 Mt Airy Ridge notes show Miss Nannie Martin back home after attending Brethren Conferences in Hershey Pennsylvania. Visitors included Albert Long of Colorado Albert Hicks Mason and Dizon Pa Joseph Snyder Frank Garlinger near Greencastle and Joh Hoffman. John Kendig Jr returned to Martinsburg West Virginia after a week with C W Dearfoss and Nannie Martin. Thao A Pittenger visited flathers sister Lillie M Ditto. Howard B Toms visited Madison Halfway. Jacob Perrott family and Preston Myers group visited. Sunday scenes centered on gatherings at the Washington County Home and with Mrs Katie Gosnel.
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