The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-03-01


Miss Agnes Marshall, of Shame.
kin, is visiting Miss Emma Wilson.
Miss May Barton spent Saturday
and Sunday with friends at New
London.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. L. Dare, of
lancaster, were the guests of their
parents this week.
i Miss Rosa Caldwell, of Liberty
Grove, was the guest of Miss May
Barton this week.
Miss Nan Walter, of Wissa-
hickon, is the guest of Mr.. G. G.
Hopkins and family.
Miss Maud V. Thompson enter
tanned the progressive euchre club
last Friday evening.
John r. Sheppard, of New York,
spent Saturday and Sunday with
his parents in Rising Sun.
Miss Jane Torbert, aunt of Fl.
r. Torbert of the Wing, is crit
ically i'll at her home in Elkton.
Mrs. T. Scott Woods, of Leamon
Place, Pa, spent Friday and Satur-
day with Mrs. III. l.. Worthington.
Miss Clara III. keilht liz, of Bal
timore, visited her cousin, Miss
Beatrice Keilholtz, near town, this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Tosh cele-
brated the forty fifth anniversary
of their marriage on Thursday
evening of last week, at their home
near Colora.
Mr.. Graham G. Lockerman, of
Warwick, and Miss Emma Virginia
Park of Cecilton, were married at
the Elkton Jail Monday afternoon
by Rev. f. Price.
Fl. H. Haines left on Tuesday
for Florida, with a party of New
Englanders and Baltimoreans in the
private car of President Williams
of the Seaboard Air Line.
Mrs. Amanda Thompson has is
sned invitations for the marriage of
her daughter, Mary Eva, to Mr..
Harry F. Johnson, Wednesday
afternoon, March 6, at her home at
Fair Hill, at two o'clock. Mr.. and
Mrs. johnson will reside at White
Hall, Illinois.
There is report abroad that
bank at Conowingo may be estab-
lished. A large patronage from
Hartford county would be secured
it is claimed. The interest crop
beat the wheat crop, fat stock,
dairying or any other business that
can be named.
A new flag was raised over the
Zion public school, Miss Ethel Mil
Ter teacher, on Thursday of last
week by Banner Council, o. U. A.
NJ. The presentation speech was
made by d. M. Rittenhouse, the
flag being accepted on behalf of the
school by Rev. w. Il. Mowbray.
The annual election of town com
missioners of Port Deposit was held
on Monday. The following were
elected to serve for the ensuing
year: Samuel A. Reynolds, John
q. Vannort. Edwin Boynton, Rev.
P. P. Arnd, George A. Atkinson,
DR.. II. E. Clempson and Samuel
Harris.
Palmer G. Ricketts, has been elect
ed president of the board of trus
tees of the Rensselar Polytechnic
Institute, at Troy, N. Y, to sue
coed John III. Peck, resigned. Mr..
Ricketts, is son of P. G. Ricketts,,
who founded the Cecil Wing in
1910. He was born in Elkton in
1856 and is a graduate of the insti-
tuition mentioned.
Mr.. Samuel st. Clair, who for
twenty five years has been super.
intendent of the Presbyterian Sun
day School of Port Deposit, was
presented with gold watch and
chain on Tuesday evening by the
school. Accompanying the gift
was a handsomely engrossed card
containing a brief sketch of the
work done by Mr.. st. Glare.
MIS-. Emma McGaughey left
Rising Sun for her home in Kos
suth, Iowa, on Wednesday, after
an extended visit to relatives and
friends in this section. Her mother,
Mrs. Thompson, who lives with her
son, Clarence Thompson, has been
lying at the point of death for some
time, but shows remarkable vital
ity for one of her advanced years.
The will of the late Margaret E.
Reeder, widow of VIM. II. Reeder,
has been admitted to probate in the
Orphans Court. The testatrix de-
vises her estate equally among her
five children-Robert HI. Reeder,
Charles B. Reeder, Mrs. Charles
Shippers, Ernest G. Reeder, and
| Mrs James McKana The will ia