The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-07-09
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Miss Nan Mccoy is vsili in lsAltis
more.
Leslie Pyle was Philadelphia visitor
over the Fourth.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil E. Ewing spent the
Fourth at Devon. Pa.
Mrs Maud Kirk spent The Fourth with
relatives in Wilmington.
Mrs. Jennie Rhein. of Reading. is visit
ing her mother. Mrs. Belle Buckley
Dr. G. S. Dare and Eli T. Reynolds are
enjoying the sea breeze at Atlantic City.
Edward Efing. of Parkesburg. Pa.
visited his brother, Harry Effing, on
Saturday.
Miss Maude Slicer, of Philada.. was the
guest of her cousin Miss Emma Brown.
on the Fourth.
Mrs Ira w. Burdsall and daughter,
Frances. of Wenonah, N J., are guests Of
Miss Gertrude S. Dare.
Linn B. Gillespie. OF Phiada was an
over-Sunday visitor Of his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. VIM F. Gillespie.
Rev and Mrs. VIM. II. MicheaIs, Of
Philadelphia, are visitors at the home of
the latter's father. Edwin Haines.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hambleton enter
tanned Harry Lakeland and family, of
Wilmington. Sunday and Monday.
Barclay Reynolds of ST. Luke School
faculty, Wayne. Pa, is spending the
summer vacation at his home in Rising
Sun.
Mrs. Joseph Summerill and son. of
Woodberry. N. j.. were guests last week
at the home of VIM. M. Pogne and
family.
Mr.. and Mis-. Chalmer Reynolds. of
Baltimore. spent the Fourth with the
formers parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Reynolds
Mr.. Ormond Creswell and Miss Bertha
Farr were quietly married at Port Deposit,
M. E. parsonage by Rev. F x. Moore
Saturday evening. June 20
/ Miss Mildred Brown and Miss Mary
Wilson spent the Fourth with the formers
mother and aunt, Mrs Chas. Lyons and
Mrs. Fred Wilson. Philadelphia.
Announcement has been made of the
marriage of Miss Eva J. Miller. of Cecil
county, and Woodberry S Brown. of
Fulton township. Lancaster county
Charles A. Shoemaker. of Oak Hill,
and Ada Pearl Hambleton. of Penn Hill.
were married at ST Pan's M E Church,
in Lancaster, July /, by Rev. Joseph L.
Gensemer.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Burlington.
and Mr. and Mrs Charles E. Burlington
and daughter enjoyed an auto trip to
Harrisburg on the Fourth returning the
next day.
DR.. Norman T Kirk. of the Field Hos
pital Corps United States Army. who has
been at his home in Rising Sun on a two
months leave of absence. left on Friday
last for Galveston. Texas, where he will
be stationed for some time
B. H. Brown, of Philadelphia. spent
the Fourth with home folks at his summer
cottage in Rising Sun. E C. Dixon.
Edgar Brown and son. Miss Margaret
Haines. Miss Phoebe Brown, and Miss
Hope Brown also spent the holiday at the
cottage.
Cards have been received ia Port De-
post announcing the marriage of Mr..
Charles M. Stearns and Mrs. Mary
Wilson Laughlin on Thursday. June "a.
The ceremony was performed at "The
Oaks" the home of the bride at Alex
andria Bay. New York Mr. Stearns is a
member of the Dartmouth College faculty.
but was one of the Tome faculty for two
years.
A festival will be held the latter part of
July by Rising Sun Cornet Band. the pro-
ceeds to be devoted to purchase of addi-
tional uniforms needed to completely
equip the band.
DIR. Charles M. Levister occupied the
pulpit of James M. E. church, on Sunday
morning, in the interest of the Anti-Saloon
League work. In the evening patriotic
services were held. Rev. Masten. of
Brooklyn, N. Y. delivering an appro-
pirate sermon.
The New Castle. Del, Levy Court find
ing It necessary to raise upwards of $7oo..
900 during the coming year fixed the
county tax rate at SO cents on the $Ioo, an