The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-01-18

Cox, both of Earleville, were mar
ried in Cecilton on Jan 8.
Mrs. Louis Ryan and daughter,
Miss Pearl visited Mr.. Walter X.
Terry and family in Perkasie last
week.
Calvin Brumfe1d, of Willow
Grove, Pa, was visitor this week
at the home Of his father, Augustus
Brumfield, and family.
Acting Corporal Norman Pyle,
Battery F, 31Oth Field Artillery, was
home from Camp Meade this week
on his belated four-day Christmas
leave.
Mr.. George Houston litter and
Miss Lillian Octavia Everett, of
Middletown, Del, were married at
the Elkton M. E. Parsonage by Rev.
George P. Jones on Friday, Decem-
ber the twenty-eighth.
Miss Hazel Hale, one of the High
School teachers at Tome Institute
was married to Mr.. H. HI. Barker,
while home on her Christmas va
cation. Mrs. Barker returned to her
position in Port Deposit, and her
husband has returned to one of the
Georgia camps.
Mrs. Elizabeth Graefe, nee Spauld-
n nrc rryboeo h,,eboyd hos a,,f;e+a6 IN
the U. s. Aviation Corps, and been
called to colors, has been appointed
teacher of the fourth grade at the
Havre de Grace High School, sue
ceeding Miss M. Susanna Nelson, re-
signed. Mrs. Graefe, before her
marriage, taught school in Havre de
Grace.
The War Department has taken
formal possession of the race track
and agricultural buildings at Laurel,
where force of engineers will be
established.
The broken flange of freight car
on the Atglen and Susquehanna
Branch of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road caused the wrecking of fourteen
loaded coal cars, Tuesday morning
of last week.
Thomas F. Grier has sold for Mrs.
Sara "A. Carter, her double brick
house on East Broad street, Oxford,
to Edwin F. Kirk, of Rising Sun.
Mr.. Kirk will take possession on
March 18th.
James Mooney, of Barnsley, Fa.,
slipped on the ice near his home on
Thursday evening of last week and
fell, fracturing his skull He was
taken to Oakwood Sanitarium, Ok
ford, where he is lying in a serious
condition.
Lack Of supply of sugar has
caused the Hershey chocolate plant,
at Hershey, Pa, to shut down The
Company owns sugar plantations in
Cuba but shipments are held up by
the railroad company Over 1000
persons are temporarily out of en-
ployment in the village.
A banquet to celebrate the putting
in operation of $4,000 horsepower
generator at the plant of the Penn
sylvania Water & Power Co., at Nc
Calls Ferry, was held last week, at
which the officials and all employees
hn q
burned out on October 8, last, and
had been out of commission since.
Paul Sunshine" Dietrich, humor-
GUS lecturer. will appear in the pub
lie hall, Rising Sun, Monday evening,
Jan. Fl, as the fourth number of the
entertainment course. Mr.. Dietrick's
| lectures are full of humor, fun,
laughter and wit, bubbling over with
helpfulness and cheerfulness. Tick
cts FOR the entertainment are on
sale at Buffington's.
BY the accidental discharge of a
shot gun Henry Harris, of Oxford
had the end of one of his fingers sc
badly shattered that 1t had to be
amputated. Harris was one of those
who responded to General Pershing's
call for one thousand bricklayers in
France, and volunteered for this
service. He was to have left for Sar
Antonio, Texas, to join the army the
day Of the accident, which will delay
his departure.
Building and filling an Ice house
at the same time, is an innovation
in construction work, which can be
seen at w. r. Smiths ice plani
nowadays. Contractors e. w. Gibson
and Son started work building Oh
Monday morning and Mr.. Smith
4 thought that he would take advant
age of the wonderful ice this yeal
has yielded, so that when the stor
\ age house was half built it was alsC
half filed with the finest kind Of ice
oxford News.