The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-14
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

are spending the week in Philadel-
phia.
Mrs. Ida Heacock and son Homer,
Swarthmore, visited John M. Sterrett
and family, Saturday-Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ambrose Bechtel,
son and daughter, left Monday for
their home in New Orleans, La.
Miss Miriam Cook, of near Calvert,
who is a trained nurse, expects to
sail this week for the war district.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter E. Buck and
son George, Port Deposit, spent the
weekend with Mrs. Annie Jenkins.
Miss Ruth Conner, of near Rising
Sun, spent most delightful week at
Betterton benefiting her health in
general.
Edwin l.. Haines and bride re-
turned to Rising Sun on Wednesday
evening after their honeymoon trip
to Lake George.
Merton K. Cameron, of Zion, a
graduate of Howard University, has
accepted the presidency of a college
near Duluth, MINI.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Wright, Miss
Wright, Miss Hindman and Eugene
Wright, Honeybrook, visited Edwin
Haines and family Sunday.
Miss Agnes R. Brown, of Port De-
posit, has returned from a weeks
soiourn with her nieces, Mrs. E. H.
Souder and daughter, in Philada.
DR.. and Mrs. George Magraw, of
Avondale, have announced the en-
gagement of their daughter, Blanche
Mae Magraw, to Wayne K. Price,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Price,
oxford, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Summerville,
of Woodbury., N. j., announce the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Gertrude Summerville, to Lucius
Crumrine, of Washington, Pa. Mr..
Crumrine is supply sergeant of the
zenith Infantry, N. G. P.
The marriage of Miss Sarah Es-
telle Smith, daughter of Mrs. VIM.
7. Smith, and Mr.. Irwin Kepler, OF
the Elkton Banking and Trust Com
pany, is announced to take place on
Saturday afternoon, September 49,
It the Elkton M. e. Church.
Mrs. Augustus F. Sturgeon, of
5lkton, had the misfortune to meet
painful accident last week. Fall
ing on step at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. William Bruce, her
shoulder was dislocated and collar
bone broken. A few days afterward
her daughter suffered fall, break
ing a small bone in her foot.
The New Castle County, Del, Levy
Court, has awarded the Standard
Bitulithic Company the contract for
constructing Section No. 6, of Lin
coin Highway, reaching from New
ark to the Maryland line at $4,000,
for Warrenite. The same firm Sc
cured the contract for the Whining
ton-Marshallton section, also OF
Warrenite, at it's bid of $138,912.78.
William Mahan, of Elkton, had his
new Mitchell automobile badly
damaged one night last week, while
crossing small bridge on the Elk
ton-North East road, when he was
run into by a car owned by T.
Leonard Bean, of Govans, Md. Mrs.
Bean, it is alleged, was running the
car. Mahan brought suit against
Bean for damages.
An automobile belonging to D. G.
Bunting, of Oxford, which had been
hired by Samuel Hayes, was stolen
Sunday night by colored man and
driven to North East, where it was
in collision with another machine
and was attached for damages. The
man who hired the machine spent
the entire night hunting it, finally
locating it in North East. The man
man who stole the machine promised
to make good the damage upon
condition that he is not prosecuted.
The steamer Susquehanna of the
COLCHESTER line became disabled on
her trip from Havre de Grace to
Baltimore Tuesday of last week and
was forced to return to the wharf
there. The vessel was about four
miles out in the bay when one of the
boilers sprang leak. She returned
under her own steam. The passen-
gers were sent to Baltimore by train,
and the steamer towed to Baltimore
for repairs.
A Chalmers automobile belonging
to Mr.. Carr of Chester, was burned
on the road near Lysle Paper Mill
on Saturday. The blaze was caused
by the engine back-fring. The ma
chine was completely destroyed. :