The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-01-28
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
Dugang the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

tanned on Thursday last by Mrs. Samuel
D. Fryer.
The Young Ladies Social Sewing Circle
will be entertained on Thursday after
noon, February 8, by Mrs. H. L. Worth
lington and Miss Hanna M. Kirk.
Mrs. Elizabeth Squire and Mr.. Ebenezar
D. Gray, both Of East Nottingham, were
married atthe home Of Rev. E. P. Barden,
Oxford, Wednesday evening, Jan. Ie.
Misses Mabel and Iva Mearns. near
Calvert, are making arrangements for a
trip abroad this summer. They except to
sail in June and will be absent several
months.
c. Ross Biles and daughter, Miss
Blanche, of Blue Ball, left yesterday for a
trip south. expecting to visit Atlanta,
Macon, Jacksonville. and other points in
Florida and remain several weeks.
The engagement has been announced of
Miss May |. Eshelman, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. james Eshelman, to Mr.. Chester
Kimhle. son Of MI ]. H. Kimble, Of Port
Deposit. The ceremony will take place
February 2.
Miss Leta B. Hogg, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Geo. A. Hogg. and Mr.. Edgar
+. Ferree, Kirkwood, were united in mar
riage by Rev. R. H. Hunter, pastor of the
York and Coral Streets Presbyterian
Church, Philadelphia, Wednesday, Jam
uary 26,
Bernard Ef6ng, who has had position
as clerk in the National Bank of Rising
Sun for several years, was elected teller
of the bank at Swarthmore and took up
his new duties on Monday. His brother
Gerald, who was compositor in the
Journal Office. succeeded him in the bank
here.
Miss Helen L. Mccullough. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. William T. Mccullough,
formerly of Cecil county. but recently
residing in Havre de Grace. gave her
parents and friends surprise by in
forming them that she was married on
February II. 1909, in Cambridge, Md, to
Samuel ]. Patchett.
The Grand Jury at Lancaster has found
true bill against the Mccall Ferry Power
Company, Ferdinand Grebe, Paul Heine,
Frank Kicker and John Fowl for selling
liquor without license.
John E. Wilkie, Chief of U. S. secret
service has given out the information that
one of the most dangerous one-dollar bill
counterfeits ever issued, is in circulation
and that thousands of them have been
fioated upon the public.
The. Rev. DIR. Johannes Oertal, the
artist priest" who lived in Bel Air
several years ago. and whose famous
painting, the Rock of Ages" won re-
nown for him, died at the home of his
son in Vienna, Va.,- December 9th, aged
SO years.
Hopewell M. E. church, Woodlawn,
Rev. J. Howard Gray pastor. Sabbath
services January go Sunday school at
1000; preaching at 1900. Epworth
League and preaching at 1890 p. m.
Preaching at Asbury at 8 p. m. All
welcome.
Chas. p. Horner. of Palmyra, N. T., a
lineman employed by the Diamond State
Telephone Company, is in y serious
condition at the FELTON, House. Elkton,
from blood poisoning which resulted from
dye from his black stockings getting into
his frosted feet
Mortimer Whitehead, the noted Grange
lecturer, whose work in the interests of
the farmer is of national fame, will adj
dress Cecil Grange, No. 3. Patrons of
Husbandry, in Rosebank Hall, Calvert,
Saturday, January ao. at p m. Every
body cordially invited to be present.
A certificate of incorporation has been
fled in the Clerks Office at Bel Air, by
Rouse & Co., Gncorported.) The object
is to conduct general merchandising
business, to own. hold. sell, lease and
convey lands. buildings and other prop
erty. The principal place of business
will be in Bel Air and the capital stock of
the company will be $4,000 divided into
$50 shares of the value of 500 each.
A new bylaw governing teachers pay
during sickness was adopted at the Decem-
Der meeting of the State Board of Educa-
ton. The new rule permits an absence of
not more than 20 days during the school
year for actual sickness established by sat-
isfactory proof. at one half the regular
pay received when in actual service and
any time lost by teachers.shall not be made
up on Saturdays or legal holidays or in
extra hours on the school days.