The midland journal., 1917-05-11
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Mrs. Arthur Irwin and daughter
are visiting at the home of Mrs.
Twins parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. B.
Keen.
Rev. William Schouler, for 81
years rector of Trinity P. E. church,
Elkton, has retired from the minis
try and moved from Elkton to Balti-
more last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Quigley ard
grandchildren, Katharine and Carl
ton, of Georgetown, Pa, were
visitors of Ferree Johnson and
family last week.
Robert Blair of Conshonoc5en and
Margaretta C. Reburn, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. Reburn, Twee-
dale, were married in Elkton, on
Wednesday, April 25th, oy Rev.
Henry Carr.
Miss Lillian Pearl Watterson,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Watterson, Oxford, and Hensel G.
Walker, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Walker, were married in Elkton on
Saturday last.
Miss Nettie Reynolds Ewing,
youngest daughter of j. Wesley
Ewing, Blake, and William Hannum
Lamborn of Avondale, were married
Wednesday afternoon at the Lewis
-r;I1o M u norcooaUo hu tho hrida'S
pastor, Rev. ]. A. Brewington.
Miss Geraldine Watkins is ill at
her home on East Main street, with
typhoid fever. She is the second
member of the family to suffer from
the malady since coming to Rising
Sun last winter. A third member
had just recovered from an attack
of the fever short time previous
to their removal here from their
former home in Virginia.
The game of bali at West Noting
ham on Thursday afternoon last,
after the Commencement exercises
between the West Nottingham boys
and Rising Sun resulted in favor of
the latter by score of Is to G..
A handsome new pipe organ has
been installed in St. Thomas Episco-
pal church, Newark. Sufficient funds
were raised to secure AID from the
Carnegie Organ fund, thereby maxi
ing the new instrument possible.
Miss Caldwell, who formerly was
associate dietician at Cornell Uni
versity, is the new matron in charge
of Delaware College, Newark, and
will assume her duties in that con-
nection when the Summer School
convenes on June 25th.
Attention is directed to the adver-
tisement, elsewhere in our columns,
of the U. S. Woolen Mills Co., who
are conducting a special sale of suits
this week at the store of Alice q
Shepherd, in this town, and offering
inducements that make it worth
: while for the buyer to investigate.
Look up their ad in this issue.
Lurio Bros, of Reading, Pa, have
. purchased the iron on the Quarry
Vile branch of the L.. o. & S. rail-
road, at $40.26 per gross ton deliver
ed at Oxford or Peachbottom. The
track will be taken up by the rail-
; road company. 1t is expected that
the proceeds from the sale will
amount to over $25,0Oo and that
this amount will pay the floating
debts of the company.
Sussex, Delaware, farmers are re-
> ported to be seeking Wilmington
! schoolboys to pick berries this
month. At meeting of the High
4 School boys Is volunteered for farm
2 work.
A charter has been granted to the
; Maryland Shipbuilding Company
Baltimore, with a capital of ST.
100000. c. c. Pusey, Havre de
: Grace, has been elected Secretary
! and Treasurer.
At the request of Governor Town
5 send, of Delaware, the State Board
: of Agriculture has sent it's agents to
3 notify all of the land owners along
the dupont Road that they will be
: permitted to till the eighty-foot
strips in food crops this year, if they
I are willing to do so. Nearly every
: owner and tenant has agreed to this
proposition.
K Sparks from a traction engine
= used to furnish motive power for a
S circular saw cutting wood near the
!. barn on Levin H. Jackson, Bartville
: Lancaster county, set fire to the
It roof of the building on wednesday
Il last. The barn and adjoining wagon
l. shed were totally destroyed.
Il About a week before the barn OF
: David Jackson, also of Bartville, was
II burned, gasoline engine causing
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