The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-27
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

e. M. Hunt of Salem, South
Carolina, is visiting in Rising Sun
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Taylor Wilson, o.
Easton, Pa, spent Christmas with r
j. Wilson and family.
Mrs. c. M. Keilholtz has been
spending some time with relatives
at Kennett Square, Pa.
Thomas G. Riale, of Camp sher-
idan, Ala, is spending the Xmas
holidays with home folks.
Henry Duke and bride, of Norfolk,
Va, were guests Of Miss Mary Brum-
| field on Sunday and Monday.
Miss Elsie Keilholtz is spending
the Christmas holidays with Phila-
delphia and Bridgeton relatives.
Eli T. Reynolds and family ate
Christmas dinner with Geo. G
| Thompson and family, Bel Air.
The annual reunion of the Stephens
| family was held on Christmas at the
home Of Edwin Haines and family.
Chas. E. Dare and family, of Rose
mont, va, were Christmas visitors
at the home Of DR.. G. S. Dare and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Hartenstine
were Xmas guests at the home of the
latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jos.
S. Pogue.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Duyckinck
left on Tuesday morning for Green
Cove Springs, Florida, where they
will spend the winter months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert T. Cameron,
A. M. McNamee and family, Miss
Edna Wilson and H. M. Wilson were
Christmas guests of Walter Cameron
and family, near town.
Lewis Garvin, Of this town, who
has been employed at Eddystone
Pa, for some months past, had the
misfortune to fall down the steps in
Reading Terminal station, Phllada.,
on Monday and fracture his left arm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank E. Williams
of Elkton, have been notified that
their son, Lieut.. Wallace Williams
who is in France, escaped without
an injury. Another son, Lieut.. Frank
e. Williams, Jr., who was seriously
wounded has arrived home.
Miss Bertha Tyson, of this town
who has been receiving treatmen,
\ at the Maryland General Hospital
Baltimore, for the past six weeks
has so far recovered as to be taken
to the home Of her sister, Mrs. j. F.
Mcclure, 61S N. Carey St., Balti-
more, on Tuesday, where she will
remain until strong enough to be
brought home.
A cantata entitled "A Good Time
With Santa Claus" will be given in
Rosebank church, Calvert, by the
Sunday school on New Years eve,
Dec. 81, at 7;45 o'clock. Admission
10 cents Proceeds for Armenian
! and Syrian relief.
An appropriation of $4,000, ,000
for the government purchase and
/ deepening of the Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal was approved by the
House and Rivers and Harbors Com
mittee in framing Its 1920 appro-
priations bill.
After an interchange of views
/ relative to the proposed bridge
across the Chesapeake Bay, the com
mittee. made up of prominent men
in business and professional cir
cles in Baltimore, unanimously
agreed that the project was both
feasible and practical.
Action for damages to the extent
Of $4,000 has been brought by the
Kennett Square Gas Company
/. against the Wilmington and West
Chester Electric Railway Company
the plaintiff charging that through
neglect of the Traction Company the
gas lines have been injured to thai
extent.
H. M. Wilson reports several
second-crop apples on a Smokehouse
tree in his yard in this town The
apples are about the size of walnuts
with the hull on and are perfectly
formed. He was not aware of theil
being on the tree until Tuesdays
storm blew one off, when careful
4 look revealed two or three clusters
on the upper branches.
4 During the Scott Fertilizer works
fire on Sunday morning of last week
thieves entered the Elkton Catholic
Church and robbed the poor box
at the church entrance.