The midland journal., 1917-04-27

MtoO ANOAAIO ShoP1hoh, VI
phia, was recent visitor of Mrs. J..
B. Slicer.
Mrs. Carver, of Wilmington, was
the guest last week of Mrs. Nellie
Wagner.
Linn B. Gillespie, of Fhilada.,
spent Sunday with home folks i'll
Rising Sun.
Miss Louise Wagner was a visitor
the past week of Miss Beulah Brad
ley, York, Pa.
Mrs. Chas. S. Pyle has been spend
| ing the week with her daughter,
Mrs. Harrison Fehr, Allentown, Pa.
Miss Carrie Cummings has return
ed from pleasant visit to her aunt,
phia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Lynch of
West Grove, last week celebrated
the Goth anniversary of their mar
riage.
Marion W. Slonecker, Clerk at the
Elkton postoffice, and Miss Bertha
B. Hudson, of Chesapeake City, were
married April IA Mt CeclIton.
Mrs. Clifford Robertson, of Free
hold, New Jersey, was visitor this
week of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
c. R. Biles, Cherry street.
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ty school teachers spent Friday of
last week at Port Deposit, the guests
OF the Director and teachers of the
rome Institute.
The girls of Harrisville and vicin
ity organized an Embroidery Club on
Friday afternoon last at the home of
Miss Elizabeth Yocum. Miss Olevia
tIite was elected president.
Mr.. and Mrs. Terry Krauss, Har-
risville, gave birthday party Friday
evening in honor of the eighteenth
birthday of their daughter, Alice E.
Krauss. About thirtynve guests
we're present.
Miss Marguerite Carty, of Chesa-
peake City, and Mr.. George G. Potts,
son Of Bailiff George M. Potts, of
Elkton, were married Saturday, at
Elkton NJ E. Parsonage, by Rev.
George P. Jones.
Seized with an attack Of vertigo
J. J. Pennell, of near Kinks Mills,
fell from his wagon one day last
week and was badly cut about the
head, the wound requiring five
stitches to close.
Mrs. Bright A. Zimmerman, of
Philadelphia, who has been lying
seriously ill at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert T.
Cameron, in this town, is some what
improved at this writing.
Townsend j. Barnett, Oxford, and
Miss Elise ]. Hunter, OF this town,
were married in Elkton on April 10.
The newly weds were given kitchen
shower at their home on the W. M.
Reynolds farm, Wednesday evening
of last week.
Edward Johnston, of Port Deposit,
and Miss Sara Lynch were married
at the Church of the Sacred Heart in
Wilmington at high noon Wednes-
day, April IL. They will make their
home in Washington where Mr..
Johnston has a government position.
La Tena's circus at Oxford, on
Saturday afternoon and evening, was
an attraction patroniZed by many
from this section.
We have had just enough of warm
sunshiny days this spring to make
us appreciate them. The weather
this week has been cold, making
fires and heavy clothing comfortable.
The fish hauler's horn is heard in
our midst They report the catch
of herring fair but shad scarce.
Herring are retailing at five cents
each, and shad anywhere from forty
cents up to as high as one dollar
apiece.
A special attraction is offered by
the management of the moving
picture entertainments IN Rising
Sun hall, on Monday evening, April
80, when Mary Pickford will be
shown in "The Pride of the Clan"
the scene of the play being in Scot
land.
large number of Virginia ne
groes landed in Rising Sun Monday
afternoon, having been engaged by
the contractor of the Sylmar State
road. The wages offered, 5000 per
day, did not please the negroes, who
demanded twenty-five cents addition
al. and being refused, nearly all of
them left Monday evening, bag and
baggage,