The midland journal., 1917-08-03
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

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Miss Dorothy Welch, of Baltimore,
is visiting Mrs. Eli T. Reynolds.
Mrs. o. w. Conner, of Calvert, is
entertaining Ringtown, Pa, friends.
Norman c. Pyle, of Chester, is
spending some time at his home il
Rising Sun.
Miss Helen Evans and Miss Mar
jorie Effing, of Philadelphia, are
visiting Miss Edna Wilson.
Mrs. Rose Bounds and daughter
Pearl, of Cape Charles, Va, visited
the formers niece, Mildred Brown,
last week.
Mrs. William A. Reeder, Mrs. ].
B. Slicer and daughter, Virginia,
are enjoying sojourn by the sea-
shore at Wildwood, N. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. H. Barnes, Of
Greensboro, North Carolina, are
spending some time with the form
er's father, ]. w. Barnes.
Clayton Pownall and family spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Burlington, Mrs. Mary Pownall re-
turning to Swarthmore with them.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. r. Biles spent
last week in New Jersey, visiting
their daughter, Mrs. Clifford Rober-
son, at Freehold, and also spending
some time at Asbury Park, Ocean
Grove and Long Branch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry T. Alexander,
of Elkton, have announced the en-
gagement of their only daughter,
Miss Miriam T. Alexander, to MIR.
George L. Timme, of Washington
D. C. Their marriage will take
place in the fall.
Miss Jane Maxwell, niece of Mrs.
G. S. Dare of this own, where she
has a large circle of friends, has
oined the University of Pennsyl-
vania Hospital Unit as trained
nurse and expects to sail this week
from New York for France.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hargraves Spalding,
of Churchville, Hartford county, an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Elizabeth Rombough, to
Mr.. Walter Louis Crate. The we'd
ding will take place Saturday,
August 4, 4:3O o'clock, at Holy
Trinity Church, Churchville.
Capt. N. T. Kirk, of the medical
taft of the U. S. Army, who has been
attached to the Base Hospital at
Brownsville, Texas, for the past
year, has been relieved from duty
there and ordered to Fort Ogle-
thorpe, Georgia, as an instructor in
the Medical Officers Training Camp
recently established at that point.
Capt. Kirk is son of Thos. Kirk, of
this town. Among the M. DIS TAX
ing training at the Camp is DR.. w.
L. Richards, who was located in
Rising Sun for short time, follow
ing the death of DR.. j. H. Jenness.
Mr.. and Mrs Harry Shepherd,
Misses Helen, Mildred, Emma jean
Shepherd, Misses May Alice, Emma
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Alleband, Alice Alleband, Matilda
Duyckinck, John Emerson, enjoyed
several days outing at Wild Duck
Cove, near Principle Furnace, last
week.
The 85th birthday anniversary of
Street Brown was very quietly cele-
brated at the home of Howard Pusey,
on July 31st. Those present were:
Street Brown, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Pusey and son Vessels, Colora; Mr..
and Mrs. A. B. Keen, Mildred Brown,
Rising Sun; Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
M. Brown, Secane, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Stewart and son Lewis, Mid
dletown, Del; Miss Arvilla McClain,
Colora; Mr.. E. w. Meloney, Avon
dale, Pa, father of Mrs. Stewart and
Mrs. Pusey. Mildred Brown accom-
panied Mr.. and Mrs: Brown to Secane
where she will spend short time,
also visiting Philadelphia and Cam
bridge, Md, before returning home.
Delaware State Fair will be held
at Wawaset Park, Wilmington, day
and night, on September 3, 4, 5, 6
and 7. We are in receipt of the
State Fair Herald the handsome
catalogue issued in the interest and
promotion of the fair.
Forty-five lots were sold at the
auction held in Oxford last week by
Leathers Bros. The automobile
given in connection with the sale,
was won by w. S. Longnecker, of
Pomeroy. Mrs. George Ritchie,
Upper Oxford, won the pony which
was given away on Friday.
The financial statement of the
Commissioners of Rising Sun, cover
ing the period of June 1, 1916, to
May 81 1917. is published on our
last page this week.