The midland journal., 1914-06-05
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Miss Helen Smith. of Baltimore. spent
Sunday with Miss Glare Robertson. Il
Miss Rebecca Evans is home from
Metzger College, for the summer vacation.
Miss McCay. of Wilmington, has been
spending some time with her niece, Mrs.
M. E. Founders.
H. J. Efing. Of Philadelphia, spent
Saturday and Sunday with his son. Harry
Efing and family.
Miss Hanna M. Kirk, of Howard Park.
Baltimore. has been spending the week
with Rising Sun friends.
Lincoln Pratt, of Swarthmore, was an
lover-Sunday guest of Mr.. and Mrs. /.
Wayne Reynolds. near town.
Linn Gillespie, Of Philadelphia, is
spending the week with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. William F. Gillespie.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Fl. Lyons, of
Coatsville. Pa, were entertained over
Sunday, by H. B. Patten and family.
David G. Mccoy, Oxford. and son Ray
mond Mccoy. OF the q. S. battleship
Delaware, spent Decoration Day in Rising
Sun.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Grant of Port
Deposit. announce the marriage of their
daughter, Pearl, to Nevin Hendrix, of
North Carolina. May 49,. in Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Keen and children.
of Trenton. Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Irwin.
and Ernest Irwin. of Philadelphia, spent
Decoration Day and Sunday with A B.
Keen and family.
| Mr.. Charles Limerick. Fredericksburg,
Va. and Miss Marguerite Meek. of Bly,
thedale, were married at Horewell par
sonage, Wednesday morning. May 90. by
Rev. c. N. Jones.
Miss Marian Pyle. who has been pur.
suing postgraduate course at Darling
ton Seminary. West Chester. graduated
on Tuesday evening and has returned to
her home in town.
A number of friends and relatives gath
cred at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Rollins
Tyson. at Bay View. Friday. May 20, to
help celebrate the o5th birthday of Mrs.
Mary A. White. Mrs. Tyson's mother.
The concluding dance of the series was
given in the public hall on Wednesday
evening, and was voted most enjoyable
affair by the fifteen couples in attendance.
Crothers orchestra furnished excellent
music.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Clifford, of this
town. have issued invitations for the
marriage of their daughter. Alice May, to
Mr.. John Wesley Dolby. of Seattle, Wash
ington. The ceremony will take place
Saturday afternoon, June 20. at 2:3o
o'clock, in James Methodist Episcopal
Church. Rising Sun, Maryland.
William Moran employed on the farm
of General Murray Vandiver, on Spesutia
Island. was painfully injured on Sunday
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afternoon. when gun was accidentally
discharged. and two of his toes blown off.
An ice cream and strawberry festival
will be held on the church lawn at Eben-
ezer Church, near Greenhurst. on Satur-
day evening. June 6. If stormy. Monday
evening. Proceeds for the benefit of
church and Sunday school.
There will be two vacant scholarships
at Washington College, Chestertown, Nd,
this year. which will be filed by appoint
ment by the Orphans Court. The vac
ancies are for male students. who will be
required to pass certain examinations at
the College for entrance.
The store and dwelling owned and oc-
cupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Schmidt
at Fernglen. Drumore township. Lancas-
ter county. were burned early Saturday
morning, the origin of the fire being un
known. Nothing was saved and there
was but small insurance on the
building.
Silver Spring Dairy Co.'s plant, near
Liberty Square. Drumore township. was
deatroyed by FIRE Saturday evening. en-
failing loss of over $1,000 The plant
was fitted with up-to-date machinery, a
refrigerating machine having but recently
been installed The 6re is supposed to
have originated in the engine room.
Miss Dorothy Alexander. of Oxford.
was struck in the head with stone by an
unknown man who approached her near
her home on Saturday evening. She was
staggered. but managed to run across the
street, while her assailant made his es-
cape through the back part of the Clyde
Menough yard. No clue to his identity
has been discovered.