The midland journal., 1917-07-27
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

M. E. Founders and family are
spending the week in Wilmington.
Mrs. Carrie Hogan, of Terre Haute,
Indiana, is visiting G.. r. Grason and
family.
Mrs. William NJ Pogue is spend
ing some time at Ocean City, New
Jersey.
Mrs. Sarah Carter, OF Oxford, is
spending some time with her sister
Mrs. Benjamin Robertson.
Mrs. Herbert Hirzel and children,
of Wilmington, are visiting Mrs.
Hirzel's mother, Mrs. Jennie Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Louis Ryan were
Sunday visitors of the formers
mother, Mrs. Sarah Ryan, Perkasie,
Pa.
Rev. and Mrs w. H. Micheals and
daughter, of Media, are visiting at
the home of Edwin Haines and
family.
Mrs. William Collision and Miss
Emma Nelson, of Baltimore, were
guests this week of Mrs. A M.
McNamee.
Wilmer Andrews of Baltimore and
Miss Helen Atkinson of Port Deposit
we're married Wednesday, July Is,
n Ellicott City.
State Senator John M. Walker and
'amily of Hockessin, Del, visited
5ohn L. Stephens and family, near
own, on Saturday.
Mrs. Jos. S. Pogue, who recently
underwent an operation in Balti-
more, has returned to her home here
realty improved.
Misses Emma and Minnie Hamble-
on, of Philadelphia, were visitors
his week of J. w. Hambleton and
'amily, near town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Davis and son,
and Mrs. William Clifford motored
rom Washington on Tuesday for
-isit to Rising Sun relatives.
Jesse Shippers, a well known resi-
lent of North East, is lying in q
ritical condition from a stroke of
paralysis suffered several days ago.
Mrs. James L. Lovett of West
Grove, announces the engagement OF
Ter niece, Miss Anna Horgson Walk
II to Mr.. James Ferris Ewes of New
london.
Saml. T. Little and Mrs. Mary D.
Little, both of Rising Sun, were
married in this town on Tuesday,
July II, by Rev. H. E. Reed, pastor
If James M. E. church.
Miss Francina Kirk and Miss
Rebecca Evans took a trip to Ocean
City this week, returning in the
formers auto, which had been out of
commission since a recent visit of
Miss Kirk at the resort.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. R. Burlington, Mr..
and Mrs. Albert L. Burlington and
Mrs. Mary Pownall enjoyed an auto
trip of several days this week to
Lancaster, Harrisburg, WiIliamsport
md other points in Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Ida Hemphill, Mrs Mabel
Brown and son James, of Philada.,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Little and
children, of Calvert, were guests
this week of Mr.. and Mrs. Saml. 7.
Little.
The annual carnival of Leeds M.
P. church will be held on the church
grounds at Leeds August l and 2.
Music by Elkton and North East
Bands. Supper served for 35 cents.
A full line of attractions will be OH
the grounds.
The Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company has purchased
the lot at the corner of High and
Bridge streets, Elkton, and will
erect an exchange building on the
| site. The plans of the Company are
TO make Elkton the headquarters for
the Eastern Shore.
A lighted candle left in the cellar
of the store of Milard Harkness, at
Hickory Hill, on Wednesday eve
ming, burned down to the floor and
started a blaze that was fortunately
discovered before it had made much
headway, and extinguished after a
hard fight.
The whereabouts of A. Clinton
Mearns, of Kemblesville, Pa, who
left his home on Monday, July 16,
without notifying his family, are still
unknown. MIR. Mearns is 65 years
of age and prosperous farmer.
The summer conference of the
Methodist Protestant ministers will
be held at Westminster, Md, July 30
Ito August 8.