The midland journal., 1917-12-21
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Mrs. VIM. M. Pegue entertained
during the week her cousin, Mrs.
Josephine Summerill, of Woodbury.,
N. j.
Miss Ruth Ahern, school attend
ance officer for Kent county, has
rendered her resignation, effective
December 81.
The engagement of Mr. Dudley
Frazer, of Baltimore, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. B. Frazer, of Elkton, to Miss
Emily Jones, of Milford, Del, has
been announced.
On Saturday at the parsonage of
the M. E. Church, West Chester.
Charles L. M. Foote and Miss Nellie
Myra Batting Of Kemblesville, were
married by the pastor, Rev. Jay
Dickerson.
Miss Julia Blanche Creswell,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Creswell of near town, and George
F. Harris were married Dec. 8 at
Mt. Pleasant M. E. parsonage by
Rev. o. E.. James.
Miss Mary Emma McKenney,
daughter of Mr.. I'D Mrs Joseph T.
McKenney, New London, and Paul
Ennis Drummond, East Nottingham,
were married Dec. Is in the M. E.
parsonage, Elkton, by Rev. Jones.
Mrs Sophia Dickey, of Whining
ton, has issued cards for the mar
riage of her daughter, Miss Frances
V. Dickey, to William R. McCom-
mon, of Oxford. The wedding will
take place at the home of the bride
on Saturday, December %.
Edward Ef1ng, for several years
past cashier of the National Bank of
Parkesburg, Pa, has resigned his
position to accept a similar one with
the National Bank Of Princeton, NJ
J. G. Walter Stubbs, of Oxford,
succeeds to the position at Parkes-
burg.
Mr.. Effing is a former Rising Sun
boy and received his first practical
schooling in banking in the National
Bank of this town, where he was
employed for some time.
E. E. Dawson, of Rock Springs,
fell from his barn door last week
and fractured several ribs.
The Christmas entertainment of
Mt. Pleasant M. e. church will be
held Friday evening, Dec. 21.
The revival services at Mt. Pleas
ant M. e. church closed on Sunday
evening last with 23 conversions.
William Dixon, of Kent county,
had four fingers of his left hand shot
off by the accidental discharge of his
gun while stepping into an auto
mobile.
Benjamin Saeta. of the Penn State
College, has been appointed vice
principal of the Havre de Grace High
School, succeeding H. C. Holland,
resigned.
The lecture by Rev w. j. Meeks,
of Havre de Grace, delivered in Mt
Pleasant M. E. Church on Tuesday
evening was well attended and
proved very interesting. The sub
ject was Goose and Gosling."
The rural free delivery routes
from Cochranville, Pa, Post Office
have been abandoned. Patrons who
formerly received their mail over
these routes will be served by routes
from West Grove and Parkesburg.
The change is causing a serious in
convenience to many of these per-
sons who now have to wait much
longer for their mail than formerly.
The auto mail truck made its first
trip from Oxford to Baltimore and
return on Monday. The big truck
makes good time, passing through
Rising Sun for Baltimore between
1880 and 500 o'clock in the morn
ing, and reaching here on the return
trip about 400 o'clock. 1t carries
letter pouch as well as the daily
papers and parcel post packages and
is intended to help relieve the mail
service of the trains, which have had
troubles of their own for months