The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-01-08

mington, visited Miss Ella Pogue
the past week.
John Il. Brown, of Hagerstown,
Md, was a visitor of George g.
Reynolds on Tuesday.
Miss Helen Dickey, of Baltimore,
! was the guest Of her sister, Mis-
M. e. Flounders, on New Years
Gay.
William Reynolds has returned
from a visit to bis sister, Mrs. D.
T. Benson, of Benson, Hartford
county.
Mrs. Clara I. Turner and daugh-
ter, Miss Genevieve Turner, spent
New Years day with Oxford rel
atives.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Marshall,
of New York, were guests at the
home of DR.. and Mrs. j. Fl. Jenness
this week.
Mrs. and Mrs. Chas. e. Buff1ng
ton very pleasantly entertained
the Euchre at their home on East
Main street, Wednesday evening
A reunion and dinner we're held
lat the home of Mr.. and Mrs. JOS
is. Pogue on Sunday, when sixteen
members Of the family were
present.
Miss Mollie Keen entertained a
Ijolly party of young folks on New
YEARS. eve, when the old year was
|speeded and the new one usher
ed in, in lively fashion.
The Euchre was very pleasantly
entertained on New Years night
lat the home of Mrs. Jennie White
ford and the Misses Mccoy. FIVE
six hand tables we're played.
| Cards are out for the marriage of
Clara Frances Kerr, of Hartford
county, to John j. Bradley, Of
Manor Glenn, in st. Margaret's
Chapel, Bel Air, January 12
/ Mr.. and Mrs. G. Edward Kerr,
Iof Bel Air, have announced the
approaching marriage of their
daughter, Miss Clara Frances Kerr
and Mr.. John j. Bradley, OF
| Upper x Roads. The wedding
| will take place at st. Margaret's
Chapel, Bel Air on Tuesday, Jan.
12 at 8 a. nj.
Thirty one cases of measles were
reported in Aberdeen during the
month ofDecember.
| While working on press at the
lOxford Times Publishing Com
pany plant, Tuesday morning, John
ISwisher, had his fingers badly
mashed.
i Governor Crothers, who con
Isidered number of applications
| for pardon, continued that asking
clemency for Harry B. Boulden,
serving a 21,year term in the
Maryland Penitentiary.
/ Breaking through the ice near
the head gate on the mill dam at
/ North East, one day last week,
| Miss Alice Underwood, daughter
lof DIR. and Mrs. Underwood, was
rescued from drowning by Fred
| Widdecomb, railroad fireman
whose home is near the dam.
A semi annual dividend of 81
per cent has been declared by the
National Bank of Oxford.
| The Citizens National Bank OF
Havre de Grace has declared a
semi annual dividend of 23~per
cent, clear of all taxes.
The directors of the First Nat
ional Bank of Havre de Grace,
have declared a semi annual divi-
dend of A per cent, clear of taxes.
4 On Thursday morning of last
week, while long b. 8 0. coal
train was standing blocked, at the
i Pennsylvania Railroad station at
\ Havre de Grace, another B. s. O.
\ coal train ran into the rear of the
J former, smashing the caboose and
two or three coal cars, disabling
the engine and blocking the tracks
two or three hours, fortunately no
one was hurt by the accident.
Daughters of the American Rev.
olution in State conference at
Wilmington on Tuesday decided to
ask the Legislature to restore the
ancient State House at Dover, Del.
as memorial to the patriotic dead
of Delaware. A bill providing for
an appropriation of $4,000 for
4 this purpose will be drafted by the