The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-01-25
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


of her sister, Mrs. Annie jenkins.
| Mrs. Sarah Carter, Oxford, was
the guest last week of her sister,
Mrs. Benjamin Robertson.
The Cecil Farmers Club met on
Wednesday with William r. Cam
eron, near Pennington.
Mrs. Helen Mackey, Newark, Della
ware. is spending some time with
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Cameron.
Halus Ewing, of Philadelphia, was
the guest Of his brother Evans E.
Ewing, on Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. Jennie Gillespie is spending
some time with her daughter, Mrs.
Hudders Greenfield, Coatesville.
Miss Florence worthington, Phil
adelphia, is visiting her sisters, Mrs.
Mary Cherry. and Miss Lou Worth
Iington.
Corporal Frank Jenkins, Battery
IF, 31Oth Field Artillery, OF Camp
Meade, was home Sunday and Mon
day on q short furlough.
Miss Helen Edwards, who has held
a position at Millersville Normal
ISchool, has entered Union Hospital,
EIkton, for tarining as nurse.
Mrs. Jane Smith. who has been
seriously i'll for some time past at
the home Of her daughter, Mrs. Chas.
Lawson, Is somewhat improved
Mrs. William jackson Collins an
nounces the engagement of her
daughter, Amanda M, 20 Mr.. Harry
Metz Hevlow, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Reuben Helvow, of Chesapeake City.
The wedding will take place in the
near future.
4 Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Cameron en-
tertained the Five Hundred Club
wednesday evening, at their home
on Cherry street. Guests to the
number OF six tables were present to
participate in the game and enjoy
1.-THE delightful social occasion.
i Professor Walter F. Graefe, a
former principal Of West Nottingham
i Academy, who had been engaged in
!. teaching at the Havre de Grace High
!, School since leaving the Academy,
recently enlisted in the U. s. Avia-
!. tion Corps and has been called to
colors.
J, The Mission Study Glass met on
i wednesday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin L. Haines. The second
chapter Of the text book was review
, ed, under the leadership of Rev. Mr..
Reed. and number Of referred
questions answered. AT the con-
clusion OF the lessom refreshments
were served and a social time
enjoyed.
Al bid Of $14.500 was refused at
the public sale OF the Octoraro Hotel,
Oxford, Thursday, and the property
was drawn at that figure.
Based upon the value of It's agri-
cultural products, Chester County
ranks fourth in Pennsylvania, fol-
lowing Lancaster, York, and Berks,
: in the order named.
During the coming months the
/ Oxford Methodist Church has de-
cided to assist the government as
t much as possible in the conservation
, of coal and to that end the church
, will only be heated on Sundays.
Herbert Alexander. Oxford. had
his arm broken Sunday in the first
wreck he ever experienced in all the
/ years he has been in the Postal Ser
| vice. The wreck occurred at Bailey,
( about twenty-five miles west of Har-
: risburg. and nine of the trainmen
Gland mail clerks were injured. one so
i seriously that it is believed he will
) die.
Two or three car loads of coal
lying alongside of the Pennsylvania
u dCAc at ACtAyVlAiC, udS uCCA COiu
efmandeered by our citizens, who went
!. over there and brought it over by
!. sleds and vehicles. Necessity knows
no law, and as no one seems to claim
: or own it, and it could not be bought,
: it was simply "seized. ."-Havre de
s Grace Republican.
Do not fail to hear Rev. r. II,
5 Evans. live wire, on African
d Mission" Tuesday afternoon, jan
I fluary twenty-ninth, at two-thirty
: o'clock. in Zion Presbyterian Church,
: He will also be at Rock Presbyterian
Church on Tuesday evening, 29th. al
3 seven-thirty o'clock. The public IL
8 most cordially invited to hear this
0 enthusiastic. well-informed and wide
experienced Missionary. \