The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-28
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

days last week III R6aQlnS, Ia.
Allen Kirk and Francina Kirk
were Philadelphia visitors last
week.
Miss Madge Heacock, of Phila-
delphia, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
,,J. NJ. Sterrett.
Perry Riale, of Baltimore, was
the guest of his brother, Jos. T.
Riale, on Sunday.
Miss Mary McCachran, of West
Nottingham, was the guest of Miss
Genevieve Turner this week.
Mrs. Chas. E. Dare and son,
Edgar, of Alexandria, Va are Wis
itors at the home of DIR. G. s.
Dare and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Campbell
and daughter, of Port Deposit,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ham
bleton this week.
Mr.. Joseph Lyons and Miss
Catherine Classick, of Philadelphia,
were married in Elkton by Rev. L..
E. Poole, on Sept. 20.
Miss Agnes Fox returned to Kee
Mar College, Hagerstown, on Mon
day, after spending the summer
vacation at her home in town.
Norman Kirk, son of Thomas
Kirk of this town, will leave for
Baltimore tomorrow, where he will
enter the University of Maryland
for course in medicine.
Edward G. Dixon is a Rising
lSun visitor this week. Mr.. Dixon
has just returned from an extended
European trip in charge of a party
of tourists and reports most de
Ilightful weather the entire time he
was abroad.
Announcement has been made OF
the engagement of Miss Maude
Ames Feldmeyer, eldest daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Edward Field
| meyer of Annapolis, to DR.. Charles
Ross Biles, of Fair Hill. The
wedding will occur in November.
The colored church property near
Magnolia, Hartford county, was
purchased last week at admins
trator's sale by William Briarly,
colored, for $116.
The semi annual convention OF
the Medical ana Chirqrgical Fac
ulty of Maryland is holding its
sessions at Annapolis on Thursday
and Friday of this week.
Thomas H. Cecil, of Standard
Neck, Md, has invented a corn
lcutter with which one man can
accomplish the amount of work
ordinarily requiring three to
perform.
United States Senator Foraker,
of Ohio, who is an enthusiastic
fisherman, recently spent a few
days at Shure's Landing, on the
ISusquehanna, and landed 174lb.
rock fish during bis stay.
The Baltimore banks holding
warehouse receipts issued to the
tomato syndicate have extended
time for collection 2 or 3 months
/ Van Camp, the Western mem
Der of the syndicate, is reported to
have sold his holdings, pocketed a
loss of over $500, 900 and quit the
syndicate business.
1t is reported that the Megargee
} firm of paper makers of Phila'
delphia, who over two years ago re-
moved their paper manufacturing
plant from Spring Lawn, in Elk
township, Chester county, to Mo.
dena, are negotiating for the re-
f purchase of the Spring Lawn prop
erty, with the intention of relocat-
ing there.
Two attempts have been made
within the past two weeks to burn
} the new warehouse at Forest Hill
Hartford county. Coal oil was used
freely to saturate the wood but the
timbers being green the fire had
, made but little progress when dis
covered and put out on both Occa
: sions. The neighborhood is thor
oughly aroused over the affair and
, every effort is being made to appre
, hend the guilty party.
! A petition has been sent t.
> Washington asking for rural fret
: delivery route out the ElktoD
Glasgow road.
> Go to Bufington's for Comfor
table and Blankets for early fall.