The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-10-22


spent several days in Baltimore last week.
Miss Gertrude S. Dare is visiting her
brother, Chas. E. Dare and family, of
Alexandria, Va.
Mr.. w. H. Tome and family and Mrs.
Sophia Coulson were Sunday guests of J.
]. Polk, Of Perryville.
Mr.. and Mrs. George C. Reynolds and
daughter, Miss Ethel, were Hagerstown
visitors on Friday and Saturday
The Young Ladies Social Sewing Circle
was pleasantly entertained by Mrs. Wayne
Reynolds, at her hospitable home near
town, on Wednesday afternoon.
While visiting her daughter at Elk
Mills, Mrs. Margaret Owens, aged 81
years, of Havre1de Grace, suffered para
lytic stroke, and is-in critical condition.
While visiting her sister, Mrs. Mary
Pownall, of Swarthmore, Mrs. Priscilla
Harlan, of Oxford, fell in the subway in
Philadelphia and broke her hip, on Friday
morning.
Mrs. Allen Mccormick and daughter,
of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Samuel K.
Anderson, of Wilmington, are the guests
this week of Jos. T. Grove and family,
near Blue Ball.
Mrs. Shaffer, daughter of the late VIM.
E. Porter, Of Mt. Welcome, near Rowland
vile, who has been seriously i'll and was
recently operated upon by DR.. Martin, at
University Hospital, is improving.
Mrs. Sophia Coulson has returned home
after pleasant visit with Philadelphia,
Chester, Avondale and Landensburg
friends She also visited her daughters,
Mrs. Jacob Tarbert and Mrs. Harvey
Tome, near Port Deposit.
Mrs. Curtis, Mrs. H. A. Kaufman,
Miss Elizabeth Kaufman and Henry
Kaufman, of Reading, were guests at
the home of ]. L. Stephens and family
this week, the party motoring to Rising
Sun in big Peerless touring car.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jonathan Howard-Yerkes
have issued invitations for the marriage
of their daughter, Lilliap May. and the
Rev. Dean Newton Dobson. Wednesday
afternoon, Oct. 27, at 2.3o o'clock, in the
Presbyterian Church. Nottingham, Pa.
Rev. and Mrs, Dobson will be at home
after Nov. IS, Bellwood, Pa.
A branch of the Fraternal Mystic Circle
will be instituted in Havre de Grace No
vember I.
The Charles A. Simms Co., contractors,
have been incorporated at Dover, DEL,
with capital of $780, 600.
While picking apples Milton E. Smith,
Hartford county farmer, fell from tree.
breaking his collar bone and receiving in
ternal injuries.
F. P. Brining, superintendent of the
casket factory at West Grove, has invented
new mail tie which he has hopes of the
United States Government adopting, as ii
is so well thought of by the postal author
tiles who have seen it in use.
DR.. Samuel T. Rogers, of Bridgeport,
Conn, former professor of mathematics
and vice-president of Washington College,
at Chestertown, Kent county, has pre-
sented that institution with $1,000 for the
Rogers prize fund for excellence in
English composition,
Company E, Maryland National Guard,
of Elkton. this week elected the following
officers; Prot, Carroll Edgar. Ist Lieut.,
was elected Captain, vice John A. Morgan,
who was promoted to Major; DIR. H.
Arthur Mitchell was elected Ist Lieut.. and
Dorie Foster and Lieutenant.
Hopewell M. E. church, Woodlawn,
Rev. ]. Howard Gray pastor. Sabbath
services October "a Sunday school at
o:3o; preaching at 1890; Epworth League
Rally and preaching at 7:3o o'clock.
Preaching at Asbary at 3 p. m. Special
sermon to o. U, a. M. of Principle
Furnace. All welcome.
In the suit of Wilson Jones. the son of
Mr.. James Jones, former resident of Bel
Air, in the court at York, Pa. some time
ago, against the American Caramel Co., a
judgment was rendered for the youth,
awarding him $1,000 for injuries received
by getting caught in the machinery while
employed in the company's plant. An
appeal was taken and the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania has confirmed the action