The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-03-15
Miss Grace A. Wilson is visiting

Misses Anna and Mary Ryan are visit
ing friends in Wilmington and Phila.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Reynolds spent
Sunday with the latter's parents in BALTIC.
John r. Sheppard of Phila. and
L. r. Kirk of Wayne, spent Sunday
with their parents in Rising Sun.
Miss Mary Brunfeld and H. Jennie
Reynolds are attending the Young Ladies'
Home Mission conference at New Castle
this week as delegates from the Rising
Sun Circle.
J. Silas Jenkins of Peach Bottom
has been employed as clerk at E.
III. Worthington's. E. r. Sebold
who has been connected with the
store ever since it was established
will return to Bucks county and
resume farming on March %.
"Doc's" genial face will be missed.
L. R. Kirk, Jr., eldest son of DR..
L. r Kirk of this town, who has
been employed in a pharmacy at
Wayne, Pa, for the past two years,
has purchased 81 drug store at NAL
vern, six miles distant from Wayne.
He will take possession and remove
with his family to Malvern in about
three weeks.
Miss Gertrude S. Dare enter
tanned a number of friends on
Thursday evening of last week with
progressive euchre in honor of her
guest, Miss Linda Brown. The
gathering numbered six tables and
a spirited contest for first honors
was kept up throughout the even
ing, affording rare amount of en-
joyment. At the conclusion of
the play refreshments were served
which We'd with the game for first
place ON the score. Those present
were: Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Brown,
Mrs. E. E. Ewing, Mr.. and Mrs.
H. II. Haines, DR.. and Mrs. G. G..
Sill, Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Reynolds,
Misses Mary Worthington, Addie
Smith, and Mary Brumfield, Messrs.
E. HI. Worthington, G. G. Hopkins,
Jerome Brumfeld, DR.. I. B. Moore,
DR.. J. H. Jenness, John M. Sterrett,
Harry Richards, Evans Ewing and
Cecil Ewing.
Mrs. Henrietta Barroll Metcalf
died at the Howard House, Elkton,
on Wednesday night, March 9th.
Mrs. Metcalf was the widow of the
late Charles Metcalf and the eldest
daughter of the late James E. and
Henrietta Barroll, who for many
years resided at Holly Hall in the
suburbs of Elkton.
Her life seems to have been a
tragedy filled with exciting scenes
and shocks, which few, if any one,
nave been called to experience.
Her husband expired suddenly
from heart disease while by her
side. She had but two children,
and her younger son was killed by
the accidental discharge of his
revolver. Her eldest son, who was
a Lieutenant in the q. S. Army,
was killed by the bursting of gun
which he was testing at a proving
ground below New York, and his
mother who was visiting him wit
messed the accident. Shortly after
this the flat which she occupied in
New York was burned and she
narrowly escaped with her life,
being taken from the window by
firemen, clad only in her night
dress. These terrible series Of
shocks produced a nervous trouble
of which she died while in her 69th
year.
Mrs Metcalf left an estate valued
between fifteen and twenty thousand
dollars which is left in trust for the bene-
fit of her two sisters, Misses Ellen and
Laura Barroll On their death $1,000 each
will go to her three nieces, Henrietta,
Laura and Victoria lamar, daughters Of
Register of Wills R E. lamar, of Elkton
John S. Writ is executor of the estate.