The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-02-27
Mrs. H. Branche Patten visited
Baltimore relatives this week.

Mrs. H. Branche Patten visited
Baltimore relatives this week.
The Young Ladies' Home Mission
social will be held at the home Of
Miss Lucy Gillespie on Friday eve
ming, March 9th.
Barclay Reynolds, of Philada..
spent Washington's birthday al
the home of his mother, Mrs
Amanda Reynolds, near town.
Miss Maude Kirk and Miss
Helen Heine, of the State Normal
School, Baltimore, spent several
days this week at the home of the
former in town.
Miss Helen Maude Kirk enter
tanned a number of friends at her
home on Cherry street, on Monday
evening last, in honor of her guest
Miss Helen Heine, of Ellicott City.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Bradley Smith,
of PhilaGa., were the guests of DR..
A. II. Smith this week. Mr..
Smith holds the position of proof
reader with the Curtis Publishing
Company.
James E. Caruth has issued invi-
tations to the marriage of his
daughter, Marion Ada, to John
Clyde Lindsay, Wednesday eve
ming, March II, o'clock, at the
home of Mrs. Isabella Caruth,
Lower Oxford, Pa.
A merry sled-load of young
people from the town took advant-
age of the sleighing Friday eve
ming last, and after jolly ride
spent pleasant time at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. B. r. Rober-
son, indulging in games of various
description.
The Progressive Euchre Club
was very pleasantly entertained by
Miss Maude V. Thompson on Tues.
day evening. The honors were
won by Miss Eleanor Jenness, for
the ladies, while Drs. G. S. Dare
and T. B. Moore tied with high
score for the gentleman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry s. Smith
and little daughter Mildred, of
Redwood, W. Va, reached the
formers old home in Rising Sun on
Friday for visit. Mr.. Smith re-
ported the thermometer registered
90 below zero Thursday, the morn
ing they left the West Virginia
mountains.
Rev. Thos. G. Koontz, of the
Little Britain Presbyterian church
has declined the recent call from
the First Church, Denver, Col,
and will remain at his present
charge.
Capt. William Stahl, of Balti-
more was elected commander of the
Department of Maryland, Grand
Army of the Republic, at the an
nual encampment Hagerstown, last
week. John W. Mccullough, of
North East was elected a member
of the council of administration.
The board of directors of the
Hartford Agricultural Society have
changed the date of holding the
Belair fair from October 1916 to
September 20, 80 and October 1
and 2. This was done in order not
to conflict with the Maryland and
Virginia Racing Circuit, of which
the society is a member.
The Supervisors of East Noting
ham township, (Chester county,
| lost their suit brought against E.
II. Powley for failure to remove
snow from the public roads about
his farm. Mr.. Powley claimed he
had more than his proportion of
the public roads to take care of
which claim was sustained by the
Court.
The Bel Air, Hartford county, Fire
and Salvage Co. has been reorgan-
lied and new officers elected. The
organization is composed of about
fifty young men of Bel Air. Elec-
trical fire alarm apparatus will be
installed throughout the town, the
sum of $500 having already been
raised toward defraying the ex-
pense of the same.
The Susquehanna Power Com
pany, organized to build a power
plant at Peach Bottom, on the Sus-
quehanna river, has made the first
show of practical operations by
putting a force of men at work on
both sides of the river and stretch
ing a car cable from shore to shore.
The Company expects to have ex-
tensive operations under way by
May list.
Dwelling Burned.
The frame dwelling owned by T.
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