The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-02-01

Grove, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
b. B. Patten.
Mr.. John Brayson, North East's
Oldest resident, celebrated his Goth
birthday on Monday.
VIM. T. Drennen, of Whining.
! ton, visited Rising Sun friends on
Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Joseph Pownall, of Swarth.
more, is the guest of her daughter,
Mrs. A. L. Burlington.
Mrs. Mollie Reynolds entertained
ON Saturday and Sunday Miss Pearl
Gorrell and Miss Naomi Vandegrift.
Miss Mary Haines and Miss Ella
Robertson were Havre de Grace
visitors on Saturday and Sunday.
Barclay Reynolds and 81. F.
Richards, of Philada., were the
guests last week of DR.. G. s. Dare
and family.
Miss Effie Pierce, of Earleville,
and Mr.. Ollie Brinton, of Cecilton,
were married at,the Cecilton M. E.
parsonage, by Rev. w. T. Dawson,
on Jan. II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Fite,
Goshen, Pa, have issued invitation
to the marriage of their daughter,
Miss Edna j. Fite, to Mr.. Alonzo
Huff Wilson, on Wednesday, Feb.
13, at high noon.
Invitations have been issued by
Mrs. Margaret r. Jones to the
marriage of her daughter, Helen,
to Mr.. Andrew Woodall Holt,
Wednesday evening, February
6, at o'clock p. m, at her home on
West Main street, Elkton.
i Mr.. Mount E.. Kirk, of this
town, who has been in very preca-
rious health with heart trouble
for the past year and has been
under treatment in Philadelphia
for several months, took turn for
the worse on Wednesday and is
now lying in a critical condition
Last evening he was reported so
low that it was not expected he
could live more than a day or two.
The Euchre was very pleasantly
entertained at Vulcan's Hall, the
home of G. G. Hopkins and family,
on last Wednesday evening. Thirty
guests were present and six tables
were played, the high score honors
being won by Mrs. A. L. Buffing-
ton and J. NJ. Sterrett. The Misses
Mccoy will entertain an extra
meeting of the Euchre on next
Wednesday evening, February 6,
and DIR. and Mrs. j. 81. Jenness
will entertain it on February l3.
| Hon. J. Fred G. Talbot has been
|appointed member of the Demo
Icratic National Committee from
Maryland, to succeed the late L..
Victor Baughman.
| A number of young men Of
Havre de Grace have started a
movement to organize local mil
litary company to serve in the First
Regiment, Maryland National
Guard.
/ While sitting in front Of a stove
at the home of her SOD, Howard
Rigdon, of Street, Hartford county,
i a spark set the dress of his mother,
Priscilla Rigdon, on fire and she
was badly burned.
Lester German former National
League pitcher and an expert trap
shot, is ill at his home in Aberdeen,
suffering with ptOmaine poisoning
resulting from eating canned lob
ster at a banquet in Wilmington
several days ago.
The mem oers of the Aberdeen
Fire department have started a
movement in booming the candi-
dacy of George w. Brock, editor
Of the Aberdeen Enterprise" for
the presidency of the Maryland
State Firemen's Association.
The residence and boat yard OF
the late Henry Deibert, at Elk
Landing, were purchased Tuesday
by Clarence Deibert for S2,700
: The land along Landing Lane and
the Elk Neck road was purchased
by Edward Deibert for $500.
The dwelling of William F. Wat
son, at Unicorn, Lancaster county,
] was totally destroyed by fire,
caused By an overheated stove, on
{, Monday morning. A few of the
household goods we're saved. There
} is an insurance of $500 on the
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