The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-12-07
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

/ Claude Buck Saturday, and lett
fine boy.
w. P. B. Lockwood, of Amherst,
Mass, was a Rising Sun visitor
during the week.
G. E. Dare and family, of Rose
mont, Va, spent the Thanksgiving
holiday with DR.. G.. S. Dare and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM G. West, of
Sylmar, left on Tuesday for Braden-
town, Florida, where they will spend
the winter months.
Miss Bertha Tyson and Mrs. Chas.
S. Fyle represented Rising Sun W. G.
T. U. at the National convention in
Washington this week.
The Five Hundred Club was very
pleasantly entertained on Wednes-
day evening by Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
E. Burlington, four tables being
present to enjoy the evening.
With a large number of invited
guests present, Mr.. and Mrs. 2. T.
Leonard celebrated their fortieth
wedding anniversary at their home
near Calvert, Wednesday night of
last week.
I. Irwin McMu1len and Miss Elsie
r. Pearl were quietly married in
Elkton, on Saturday, Mr.. J. Clarence
Mackee acting as witness. The bride
and groom journeyed on to Balti-
more for a short stay.
Miss Reba S. Ewing of Lewisville,
Pa, and Joses w. Scarborough of
Chester, Pa, were married at the
home of the brides brother-in-law,
Joseph Lort, Elkton, on Thursday,
November 20, by Rev. ]. A. Brew
| ington, the brides pastor, officiating.
Miss L.. Virginia Brown, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Webster Brown,
Calvert, was united in marriage to
Mrs. Norris B. Irwin, Lombard, by
the brides pastor, Rev. ]. G. Mccoy,
at Zion M. e. parsonage on Satur-
day evening, Dec. 1.
A pro re nata meeting of the
Presbytery of New Castle was held
at Newark, Del, Thursday, Decem-
Der 6, at p. m., to take action upon
the request of Rev Thomas Kerr for
a transfer from the Buckingham
Presbyterian Church at Berlin, Md.
Dean Winifred j. Robinson of
Woman's College, Newark, Del, has
accepted an invitation to be one Of
the advisory committee of the Land
National Farm and Garden Asso-
} citation. It is proposed that the
, Women's College of Delaware take
an active part in training women for
work on farms and gardens.
All fire insurance companies have
increased their rates ten per cent. on
account of the war taxes and the
general increase in the cost of tran
sacting business.
r The business men of Galena, Kent
5 county, have organized company
3 for the purpose of installing an elec-
: trio light plant in the town thus do
5 ing away with the old-time coal oil
lamps.
: At a recent meeting of the Board
of Trustees of Delaware College. the
l Recommendation of the committee
: on instruction was adopted changing
. the day of holding the commence
ment exercises from Wednesday to
4 Monday, and also the tuition on non
resident students from $25 to $50 a
year, beginning September, 1918.
A rural mail-carrier,- Milford
y Walker, S5 years old. of Fallston,
Hartford county, was arrested last
: week by Postoffice Inspector William
: J. Dixon and United States Deputy
Marshal Manner, and charged with
stealing registered letters from the
i mails. The authorities stated that
e more than a score of charges had
q been chalked up against him and a
. dozen witnesses had been procured
n The shortage of sugar in Sussex
Z, county has recently been relieved by
+ the distribution, by the John G
t. Townsend Canning Company, Of
n several barrels of sugar left after
d the preserving season, to those EN-
It ployed at the factory.
" Local residents, while not able tC
d obtain the commodity in large
d quantities, manage to get enough t.
n supply their immediate wants. Sew
o eral hundreds of pounds were dis
posed of by the company.-Ex.