The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-06-23
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL. HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

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spending the past week with Phila-
delphia and West Chester friends.
Miss Mary Haines and Miss Ella
Robertson are visiting Rev. and
! Mrs. III. A. G. Westerfield, of
Wilmington.
Miss Mary McCachran, of West
Nottingham, is the guest of G. G..
Hopkins and family at Vulcan's
Hall, near town.
Miss Arvilla Pyle, Of Calvert.
was the guest Of her cousin, Miss
Mary Brumfeld, near town, sew
eral days last week.
Mr.. George Hines and Miss
Sophia Mccullough both of Colora,
were married at the home of Mr..
Shively, near West Nottingham,
on June IA.
Mr.. Charles M. Dilks and Mrs.
Nora O'Mally, both of Elkton, were
married at the Elkton Catholic
Church, Thursday evening, June 10,
by Rev. Father Arnd.
Rev. T. M. W. Beale, pastor of
Zion and Rock Presbyterian
churches, celebrated the third ami
versary of his installation on
Wednesday of last week, by ten.
dering reception at the Manse to
his parishioners, about 300 guests
being present.
A largely attended reception and
dance was given at Portland Manor,
| Anne Arundel county, on Satnr-
day evening, by Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Hall Darnall, in honor of
their son, Richard Bennett Darnall,
and bride, formerly Miss Frances
Hopkins, Of Port Deposit.
The receipts of the festival held
by the members of Elkton Cath.
Olic church last week were $68.
The annual excursion of Tome
Memorial M. Z. Sunday school, to
COLCHESTER Beach, will be held
today.
The little daughter Of Tucker
Towson, of near Pilot, fell from a
cherry tree one day last week but
fortunately escaped serious injury.
J. Warren Brown, of Magnolia,
has executed a deed of trust to Sen
ator Thos. FL. Robinson, who has
given bond in the sum of $6, 900.
Harry Plankinton shot a fish in
an abandoned quarry hole near
Kenneth Square last week which
measured three feet in length and
weighed thirty pounds.
The Comptroller of the Tresury
has announced the apportionment
of the school tax for the quarter
ended June 15. Cecil county's
apportionment is $7,075. 80.
In the girls defamation contest
of the senior school of Jacob Tome
Institute, Miss Mary Fell, of near
Rising Sun, won the silver medal,
and Miss Matte Coale, of Colora,
the bronze medal.
Frank Dreslie was sentenced to
six months in the House of Correc.
ton, last week, by Magistrate
Boulden, of Elkton, for brutally
assultipg Edward Cannon, of that
town.
Fire last week in Havre de Grace,
destroyed an ice house and fish
packing shed belonging to Coulehan
& Hogan, together with 1000 bar
rels OF herring. The loss amounted
to about $1,000.
Frank Thorpy, employed at one
of the caissons on the new Susque-
hanna railroad bridge at Perryville,
was badly injured last week by
being struck on the head by one
of the large iron buckets.
The Oxford Cornet Band has re-
organized with the following Off
GERS: s. j. Janey, pres; Joseph
johnson, treas; Garrett johnson,
sec.; George Collins, leader; Edward
Massey, assistant. The band num-
bers twenty eight pieces.
For causing lottery tickets to be
shipped from California to Della
ware, Judge Bradford, in Federal
court at Wilmington last week,
sentenced John Dickey to ten
months in the county workhouse
and $lO0 fine. Dickey is one of
the best known politicians of the
Estate.