The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-25
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Miss Nancy Dickey. of Port Deposit. is
visiting her sister, Mrs. NJ. E. Founders.
Miss Grace A. Wilson is visiting her
sister, Mrs. C. E. Dare. OF Alexandria.
Va.
Miss Francina Kirk is home from
Metzger College. Carlisle, for the Easter
vacation.
Misses Mary and Stella Huston, of Ok
ford, were the guests of Miss Lena Kimble
on Sunday.
Miss Catharine P. Evans, of Manas-
guam, N. j.. is spending some time in
Rising Sun.
Miss Helen Shepherd, of State Normal
School, Baltimore, is spending the Easter
vacation at her home in town.
The Young Mems Dancing Club of
North East. has issued invitations for an
Easter Monday dance at the Grand Army
Hail.
Mr.. Harry Will and Miss Pauline Brauer
were quietly married at the Port Deposit
M. E. Parsonage Thursday night, 10th
inst, by Rev. F. F. Carpenter.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. B. Lockwood and
children, of Amherst, Mass. are visitors
at the home of Mrs. Lockwoods parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Duyckinck.
II
Miss Margaret Denver and Mrs. Joseph
Dugan have sold their residence on East
High street, Elkton. to Harry M. Biddle,
for $I,65o, and have purchased a residence
in Wilmington, to which city they will
move.
The engagement of Miss Mabel E.
Whitaker, daughter of Mrs. Clara E.
Whitaker, of Cherry Hill, to Mr.. A. C.
Ward. of Wilkesbarre, Pa, son of Mr..
and Mrs. L. T. r. Ward, of Cherry Hill
is announced. The wedding will take
place in the FALL
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin J. Cranston have
issued cards of invitation to the marriage
of their daughter, Miss Estella Cranston,
to Mr.. Joseph Henderson Smith. formerly
OF Elkton. at their home, No. org Franklin
street, Wilmington, on Wednesday eve
ming, March 80, at seven thirty o'clock.
i Mrs. H. M. Duyckinck entertained
number of young ladies at luncheon on
Friday afternoon last ST. Patrick deco
rations prevailed, the color scheme of the
patron Saint being carried out in pleasing
and artistic effect. Those who enjoyed the
hospitality of the hostess were Mrs. ]. H.
Jenness, Mrs. A. L. Burlington, Mrs. H.
L. Worthington, Miss Gertrude S. Dare
and Miss Hanna NJ. Kirk.
The negro schools in Kent county have
been ordered closed on April IS.
Fishing operations have begun in the
upper Chesapeake and the various trib-
utary rivers.
Because of scarlet fever among stu
dents, Washington College, Cheslertown,
has closed until after Easter.
Micheal Murphy, an enthusiastic stamp
collector. of Havre de Grace, has sold
100000 cancelled stamps to Philadel-
phia firm.
Provided it does not cost over $1,000.
the County Commissioners. of Kent and
[Queen Annes have agreed to widen the
drawbridge across Chester River.
Samuel M. Huston has sold his farm Of
I46 acres near Kemblesville. to Mr.. and
Mrs Haines Harlan. who will take posses
sion April. The price paid.was $1,000.
Jacob S. Bear has sold his Woolsey farm
near Churchvilie Hartford county, ana the
live stock including his Percheron horses
to J. A. G. Allen, of Darlington. The
price is reported to be in the neighborhood
of $4,000.
The Court at Media has granted di-
vorce ON the grounds of desertion to Mrs.
Eva M. Rice, of Wayne. in her suit against
her husband, W. Edward Rice. Mrs. Rice
was Eva Reynolds before her marriage
and resided in Kenneft.
Writing to friend. A. D. Spencer, who
is travelling in the Far East. states that he
visited Masonic lodge in Solomon's
quarries at Jerusalem, and has ordered a
gavel of stone from there, which he will
present to Susquehanna Lodge, of Havre
de Grace.
In the damage suit of Lawrence G.
Tucker, of Bel Air, against the Md. & Pa.
r. R..iemoved from Hartford to Baltimore
County for trial. the jury awarded him