The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-13
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Miss Elizabeth Stephens is visiting
Rev. and Mrs. VIM. H. Micheals, OF
Med q.
Mrs. Jennie Whiteford, of Oxford,
was entertained over Sunday by Mrs.
Wayne Reynolds.
Miss Esther Maxwell left on Sat
urday for Smyrna, Del, where she
resumed teaching.
William Ryan, James Gorrell and
Herman Britton were home from
Camp Meade on Sunday.
C. e. Dare and family, of Rose
mont, Va, are spending the week
with relatives in Rising Sun.
Miss Francina Kirk, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. Frank Tosh are enjoying an auto
trip to Washington, Luray, Va, and
other points, in the formers car.
Mrs Sarah M Harper, near Avon
dale, announces the engagement of
her daughter, Miss Grace Estelle, to
Mr.. David Taylor, of Chadd's Ford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phillip West, OF
Orangeville, Baltimore, have return
ed home after spending some time
with their niece, Mrs. E. E. Dawson.
Miss Ethel Conard, of West Grove,
and Miss Mary Wilson, of Tough
kenamon, were over Sunday guests
at the home of Chas. S.. Pyle and
ia a.n.Jy.
Thomas G. Riale and Curtis S.
Reynolds, two Rising Sun boys re-
Gently sent to Camp Meade, were
transferred to Camp Sheridan, Ala,
last week.
Miss Bertha Davidson and Mr.. H.
Vaughan CHM, of st. Georges, Del,
were married at the Cherry Hill M.
E. Parsonage, Aug. 81, by Rev. ]. F.
Anderson.
L. B. Reifsneider and family
have moved into the dwelling at the
corner of Queen and Cherry streets,
recently occupied by Claude Buck,
who has moved to Perryville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank E. Williams,
of Elkton, received a cablegram last
week, announcing that their son,
Liuet. Frank E. Williams, Jr., had
been wounded but was doing we'll.
DR.. R. c. Dodson, who has en-
listed in the Medical Corps of the
U. S. Army, expects to leave for
Camp Oglethorpe, Georgia, on Tues
day next.
Over seventy members of the
Tyson family enjoyed the reunion on
Leslie Camp Grounds Saturday.
Dinner and supper were served in
the boarding tent. Joseph T. Tyson,
Of Rising Sun, acted as toastmaster,
and toasts were responded to by
Oscar Tyson, Wilmington; Ida Ty-
son, Norwood, Pa; Taylor Thomp-
son, Wilmington; Mrs. Abel Cam
eron, North East, and Curtis O.
Tyson, Baltimore.
The Marley Paper Mill, near Elk
ton, shut down for almost one year,
is now being put in shape for the
manufacture of paper napkins and
towels.
DR.. ]. S. W. Jones has been cleo
ted chairman Of the faculty Of
Washington College, Chestertown,
and will act as President until one
is elected.
1t is reported that Walter H. Fer
!. guson has purchased the Octoraro
Hotel, in Oxford, from The Peoples
Trust Company of Lancaster, and
will open it as hostelry in the very
near future.
Among the many persons who
were in the Federal Building, Chi
cago, Sept. 4, when a bomb Was ex-
!, ploded killing four persons, was a
former Elktonian, j. H. r. lamar.
He was not injured.
The last section of turnpike in
Lancaster county on the Lincoln
Highway has been freed of toll.
The section made free was the Lam
caster and Susquehanna, between
Lancaster and Columbia. The price
paid was $4,000.
Stanley Long, 10 years old, of
Savage. Md, an employee OF the
Bell Telephone Company, while
working on the Elkton-North East
road was struck by an automobile
and seriously injured. He was
taken to Union Hospital
A special election was held in
Aberdeen on August 81 for the pur-
pose of voting on an ordinance ap-
propriating $4,000 for the improve
ment of the walks, water, streets,
lights and health of the town. Fhe
measure carried by majority of IS.
The vete east was not very large.