From Our Early Files

150 years ago

April 4, 1874

• This been a busy week in the Maryland Legislature. The session will close by constitutional limitation at 12 o’clock on Monday night next, and the near approach of that period admonishes members that there is no time to lose.

100 years ago

March 29, 1924

• The opening gun in the campaign to raise a $250,000 endowment fund for Washington College was fined at Reid hall Thursday evening, Allan A. Harris, Chairman for Kent County presiding.

50 years ago

March 27, 1974

• Several stores are vacant, on High Street, trash, dogs, bent trash cans and unkept property can be seen in any part of town and no one is around to blame. If that keeps up, merchants say, no one will bother to shop here.

• Magnolia Hall elects trustees during the annual meeting of the Corporation which was held on March 20. Six trustees were elected for terms of three years.

• County Commissioner Glyn Edwards called it an “example of how you can work through the system and come out a winner.” He was referring to a recent decision by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

25 years ago

March 25, 1999

• The manager of Chestertown Foods Inc., says reports that some plant workers arrested last Thursday by federal immigration authorities are false. Immigration and Naturalization Services officials arrested 46 suspected illegal immigrants from Mexico and Indonesia at the poultry processing plant.

10 years ago

March 27, 2014

• A new type of farm may come to Kent County in a few years, provided the wind is right and the land remains available. Apex Clean Energy, based in Charlottesville, Va., is studying the feasibility of a wind farm to be located southeast of Kennedyville.