The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-05-01

Miss Elizabeth R. Stephens is spending
the week in Philadelphia.
Mrs. George Davis. of Baltimore. was
recent guest of Miss Addie Smith.
Mrs. Basil H. Brown. Of Philadelphia,
was Rising Sun visitor last week.
| Gerald Efing. OF Philadelphia. was
Rising Sun visitor on Saturday and Sun-
day.
Mrs. William Mathews. Of Wilmington,
was the guest Of Miss Maybe McDougal
during the week.
Miss Verna Grason has been spending
some time with her cousin. Mrs Ida VIII
son, in Philadelphia.
The engagement Of Chas. A. Warbur-
ton, Of Ekton. a nd Miss Louise Chafinch.
of Easton, has been announced.
Leslie Gregg, Miss Ruth Mclaughlin
and Miss Violette Gregg. of Avondaie.
spent the weekend with Miss Della Jen-
kins.
Miss HARRIET Whitaker. formerly of
Elkton, and Mr.. Charles D. Beebe. of
Wilmington, were married April 10 by
Rev. G. T. Anderson. in Harrison street
NJ E church, Wilmington.
The wedding Of Miss Rose Mackall
Jones, daughter Of Mrs Malvern T.
Jones. of Elkton. and Ralph Andrews, of
Cambridge, took place on Thursday,
April 80. in Elkton NJ. f. church.
i w. Jones. urbuyer for Smyrna. Del
and vicinity. has closed the season. hav-
ing purchased $751; 500 hides and paid the
trappers of that vicinity nearly $40. 600,
The receipts of the Bel Air postofice
have increase 5000 during the past year.
This brings the total to sum that shows
more postal business, according to popu-
lation, than any town in the State. and
bur three exceed it in the Union.
i ]. Stanley Frazer. of Newark. Del. who
recently bought the handsome property
Of the late Abraham L. English. at Ford s
Landing. along Elk river, is contemplate
ling large orchard planting on the pro-
perty, which contains 900 acres.
Great preparations for the unveiling of
the monument to commemorate the bonn
bardment of Lewes. Del, duting the War
lof 1872, are now under way by the Ma
tional Society, United States Daughter of
1872. State of Delaware. the unveiling to
take place in Lewes. on Tuesday, June 2.
Gilbert George Reginald Sackville, I2th
Earl Of De La War; aud Viscount cante-
lupe. in memory Of whose ancestors the
State of Delaware was named, states that
in justice to his family the peach state
should be spelled 'sDelawarr." The Earl
lis spending some time in this country
His first visit was to Governor Miller Of
Delaware.
Robert A. Murray, Denver. COL, and
Mrs. Julia Holbrook. Of Kansas City, Mo-,
who are attending the Havre de Grace
races. went to Bel Air and after procuring
a marriage license at the clerks Office.
proceeded to the Methodist Protestant par
sonage and requested the pastor Rev. r.
K. Lewis to tie the knot. Upon learning
the man and woman had been divorced,
4 the minister refused to marry them. They
were also refused by all other ministers in
the town and left.
i People wanting to send packages by
parcel post can figure the postage requir-
ed very easily if they follow this simple
rule: Always add four cents to the num-
Der of pounds your package weighs and
you will have the required amount of
postage for sending packages anywhere
in the first or second zones. If the pack
age weighs FIVE pounds. the postage re-
quired will be nine cents. If sixteen
POUNDS twenty cents, If tweuty.three
pounds, twenty seven cents and on up to
fifty pounds.
Nhlel Juoge constable last week heard
Iargument in the injunction proceedings
of B. H. Bayard Bowie VS. R H. Rees.
Frank H. Rees. Frank B. Howard and
. Joseph J Wiley.
After the storm of July. 1912. Mr..
; Bowie sold to the defendants the down
timber and broken snags in the woodland
: on his Second district farm, tenanted BY
: Samuel Buckworth. The proceedings
: arose from misunderstanding Of the
term broken snags." the defendants con.
Y STRUNG il to mean all trees that had their
J tops broken. and the plaintiff enjoining
them from cutting such trees, The Court
Preserved decision.