The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-02


Asher Robertson is spending the
week at Sea Isle City, N. J.
E. M. Hunt, of Charleston, South
Carolina, is spending the week in
Rising Sun.
Miss Florence Worthington, of
Philadelphia, is visiting her sisters,
Mrs. Mary Cherry and Miss Louise
Worthington.
Mrs. Clifford Brumfield and son,
of Willow Grove, have been guests
during the week of Augustus Brum-
field and family.
Mrs. William A. Reeder, Mrs. ]. B.
Slicer and daughter, Virginia and
Deborah Sterrett are spending the
week at Wildwood, N. ].
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Hoffecker of
Newark, Del, have announced the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Alice Hoffecker, to Clifford r. Ly-
man, of near Newark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Bumpus
and son, Charles, of Washington,
Penna., visited Mr. and Mrs. John
A. Hartenstine, of Principle Fur
mace, several days last week.
The engagement of Miss Virginia
McClenahan, of Port Deposit, and
Captain James w. Mailer, Of New
York, has been announced. The
marriage will be in the near future
1t is reported that while Miss
Mazda G. Campbell, superintendent
of Union Hospital, Elkton, was visit
ing relatives in Montreal, she was
drafted by the Canadian Government
as war nurse.
Mrs. Ira w. Burdsall and daugh-
ter Frances, Miss Gertrude S. Dare,
C. T. Dare, Edgar and Virginia Dare
enjoyed an auto trip to Alexandria,
Va, on Saturday, returning TO Ris-
ing Sun on Sunday.
DIR. R. C. Dodson, of this town,
has joined the colors, and been COM
missioned a First Lieutenant in the
United States Medical Reserve Corps.
He does not expect to be called to
service until September.
At the Methodist parsonage, in
North East, by Rev. DR.. J. H. 'Bick-
ford, on Wednesday, July "a, Miss
Emile P. Pratt, of Gloucester, N.
j., and Mr.. George N. Rose, Of North
East, were united in marriage.
The marriage of Miss Ruth W.
Anderson and Private John A. Man
love, of Camp Meade, was solemn
ICED at the home of the BRIDES
father, Mr.. w, H, Anderson, in Cecil
ton, on Saturday evening, July 20,
Rev. George T. Anderson, an uncle
of the bride, being the officiating
minister.
Rev. and Mrs. 2. H. Webster, of
St. Micheals. Nd, announce the
marriage of their daughter, Miss
Ethel Isadore Webster, to Mr.. Henry
Ernest Conwell, Tuesday, July 80,
at St. Micheals, Md. Mr.. and Mrs.
Conwell will be at home after
August 10th in Wilmington, North
Carolina.
The bride is we'll known here,
where the family formerly resided,
the Rev. Mr.. Webster being pastor
of Rising Sun M. E. church for sew
erar years.
A unanimous call to the pastorate
of the Oxford Presbyterian Church
was extended to Rev Nathaniel j..
Sproui, D. D.. of Newport, Rhode
Island, at the congregational meet
ing held Sunday, July %.
!, For the second time within few
weeks Roland Maekey, Oxford, has
been severely burned with hydro
fiouric acid while working at Ferry
vile. Last week he fell and struck
bottle of the fluid The cork
came out and his arm was severely
burned.
) The body of Charles Manning
= Clayton, Jr., who was drowned July
IA when he went in bathing from a
r launch near Turkey Point, was re-
covered Thursday evening near the
mouth of the sassafras River, and
I was sent to his family at Harrisburg,
3 Pa.
!. While two trains were standing
in the block at the Elkton depot
Monday afternoon of last week, one
an express train, and the other a
l short freight train, heavily loaded
a freight to which was attached two
: locomotives, crashed into the rear
e Of the freight, completely demolish-
I ing the eahoose and running the
= balance of the train into the ex-
t press train. Traffic was delayed
two hours,