The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-03-20

ANARAA0 SAOA$OAs
Miss Bessie Greenfield, of Avon
dale, visited Miss Lucy Gillespie
the present week.
Miss Catharine p. Evans, of
Manasquan, N. j., is spending some
!, time in Rising Sun.
Misses Della and Mona Jenkins
entertained the just A Few club
on Friday evening last.
Miss Nancy Dickie, of Port De-
posit, was the guest of her sister,
Mrs. M. E. Founders, Saturday
and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Ireland,
of Wilmington, spent Sunday at
1.-The home of Misses Hanna and
Maude Kirk.
Jefferson Haines suffered a stroke
of paralysis on Wednesday at his
home near town, one entire side
being affected.
Rev. j. P. Otis left on Wednes-
day morning for Wilmington,
where he is in attendance at the
annual session of the Methodist
Episcopal Conference.
Miss Catherine Blackston, of near
Chesapeake City, and Mr.. Timothy
Rasner were married March 10 at
the Chesapeake City M. E. parson
age by Rev. T. O. Smoot.
Miss Bessie j. Loveless, daughter
of Capt. George Loveless, of Chesa
peake City, and Mr.. Elwood J..
Kirk, of Elkton, were married at
the BRIDES home on the 1lth inst,
by Rev. T. G. Smoot.
| Mr.. William Bender and Miss
Minnie Gather, both of Port
Deposit, were quietly married
Wednesday evening, March II, by
Rev. Chesley CAN'T, Rector Of st.
James Episcopal Church.
On account of the sudden illness
of Jonathan Reynolds the regular
meeting of the Rising Sun Euchre
was transferred from Mr.. and Mrs.
Wayne Reynolds and was enter
tanned at the home of Miss Gertrude
Dare on last Wednesday evening.
Four tables were played, the high
score honors being awai ded to Mrs.
Stewart Ward and DIR. T. B. Moore
The engagement of Miss Morgan,
of New York, niece of Mr.. Pierpont
Morgan, and Rev. William Fitz
Simon, rector of st. Mary's Church
of Tuxedo. has been announced
Rev. Fitz Simon is well known in
this neighborhood, having served
as pastor of Zion and Rock Plesby
terrain Churches for eight years,
prior to his going into the Episco-
pal Church. The wedding will
take place in July.
The Aberdeen public school has
been closed on account of a case of
scarlet fever.
| The Methodist churches of Bet
terton and Still Pond are to be
merged into one circuit.
A Taft Republican club, the first
in the State, has been organized at
Bel Air, with Richard Dallman,
president.
Mt. Ararat Lodge of Masons, of
Bel Air, will celebrate its centennial
in November, having been insti-
tuted one hundred years.
Superintendent of Schools Prof.
Wright of Havre de Grace, has
appealed to the principals of the
larger schools to maintain fire drills.
Fines of $25 each have been i'm
posed on the captains of the five
boats recently captured near Toll
chester with unculled oysters
aboard.
The farmers Savings Bank of
the Rocks, Hartford county, has
opened for business. The bank is
located in the store building of
John r. Ramsey, who is cashier.
James McIntire, of Oxford, had
his hand badly injured Friday by
the accidental discharge of a re.
volver he was handling. His
brother Joseph shot himself in the
finger on Saturday with an air
rifle.
The bills relative to the Phila.
delphia, Baltimore s. Washington
bridge over the Susquehanna river
at Perryville, and changing name
Of Havre de Grace and Perryville
Bridge Company passed the House