The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-08-01
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Miss Addie Smith is entertaining Miss
Lewis, Of Newark.
Mrs. B. p. Nichols and daughters are
spending the week at Atlantic City.
Mrs. Mary Cherry has been entertain
ing Miss Annie E. Lovett. Of yNorristown.
Pa,
Mrs. Orville England and daughter are
visitors at the home Of her father, ]. G.
Hindman.
Mr.. John B. Hines and Miss Mary E.
Clark, both Of Havre de Grace, were
married at Elkton. on Thursday, July rs.
The Misses Warner and Miss Foreaker.
| of North East. are visiting at the home of
Thomas Mcdowell and family, near town.
Samuel Tyson ana daughter. Miss Ber-
tina Tyson, returned this week from an
extended visit to relatives in Taunton,
Mass.
The Sewing Circle was entertained on
Saturday afternoon last by, Misses Alice
and Ellen Clifford, at their home on East
Main street.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Edwards of
Fagg's Manor announce the engagement
of their daughter. Joanna M. TO Harold
H. Nesbitt Of Boise. Idaho.
The engagement of Miss Laura j.
Ward. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. L. T. r.
Ward, Of Cherry Hill, and Mr.. Newton
Ioglevee. OF Dallas. Texas. has been an
nounced.
The marriage of Miss Ethel M. Foster,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William Fos-
ter, of the Union section. apd MIR. Will
Iliam Kinsinger, of Chester. Pa. has been
announced.
Mrs. Wayne Reynolds entertained a
number of ladies at cards. Thursday
AFTERNOON of this week. at her home near
town. Five hundred was INDUCED in.
four tables being played, The afternoon
was most enjoyable one to those
present
The Bell Telephone Company has pur-
chased the Delta and Highland lines and
taken charge. The Highland and Delta
Company was owned by local capitalists
and was one of the first lines built in
H arford county.
Despite the fact that he sustained a
fractured leg. arm. elbow. collarbone,
ribs. dislocated shoulder blades and other
injuries when struck by passenger train
near Landingville. Frank Bartled, So
years old, is still living in Reading hos
pital.
Mayor McClain, of Lancaster, has sign
ed the curfew ordinance passed by the
City Council. Whistles from half a dozen
industrial establishments will be blown at
Io.Is in the summer months and S.45 in
the winter. and IS minutes later children
must be off the streets.
In the last issue of the New York In
surance Press, the following large death
benefits among others paid in Maryland !.
lare noted: John G. Rouse. Bel Air, $4o,-
1857; Wilbur Eliason. Chestertown, $4o,-
fooo; Austin L. Crothers. Elkton. $50. 500 !;
| j. H. Armstrong. North East. $4,000.
The State Health Oficer's Bulletin for
June shows that in the month 1903 deaths
resulted from tuberculosis. as compared
with go in May. There was an increase
of five deaths from typhoid fever. In
IJune total of 2oI deaths from infectious
diseases occurred in the counties of Mary
land.
Robert Aikens' traction engine, which
broke throught the floor of the covered
bridge across White Clay creek. near
Newark, several days ago. was gotten out
Monday. The work of removing the big
engine without damaging 1t was no easy
task, owing TO the fact that the bridge Is
very old and the timbers are in weaken
ed condition.
Special meeting at Octoraro Peoples
Church one week later than usual Sab
oat" aisSI"oo"' D" mo 3tu, at z:3o
o'clock. to be attended by Arthur De-
wees, secretary of Friends Advance
Work. The regular meeting at West
Nottingham will be held in forenoon of
same day at III o'clock. Visitors from
Baltimore expect to attend both meetings
i A. L. BURLINGTON. Supt.
| Fired by jealousy over the friendship of
a girl. il is charged that six young men
auempted TO murder Charles H. Atkins,
while on an outing at McCalls Ferry.
Fred Ferguson, Clarence Jenkins and
James Hamilton have be arrested and
each entered bail to the amount of SIsoo
1t is alleged by Atkins that he was
beaten into insensibility and his body
thrown into the Susquehanna River. He