The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20


Mrs. L. Leslie Pyle is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry M.
Evans, Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. David M. Wright and
son, Honeybrook, Pa, were Rising
Sun visitors on Tuesday.
Mrs. Ida Heacock, SwarthmOre,
was an over-Sunday guest at the
home of ]. M. Sterrett.
The 23rd annual convention of
Cecil County w. c. T. U. met in
Rising Sun, on Tuesday of this week.
Miss Louise Worthington returned
this week from an extended visit to
relatives in Philadelphia and Doyles-
town.
Mrs. Walter E. Alvord and daugh-
ter, of Moore, Pa, are visiting at the
home of Mrs. Ella Pyle, Cherry
street.
The marriage of Edward Devore,
of Coatesville, and Miss Irene Stern,
of Union, took place at Elkton,
Wednesday,.
Miss Helen Shepherd returned to
Wilmington, after spending the
summer vacation at her home in
Rising Sun.
The families of B. H. Brown and
E. C. Dixon, who have been spending
the summer months in Rising Sun,
returned to Philadelphia on Monday.
DR.. D. P. Cannaday and family, of
Roanoke, Va, and Mrs. A. N. Whip
pie, of New London, Conn. were
visitors last week of their father, J.
II. Cannaday. -
Announcement has been made of
the marriage of Myrtle Kay Boul-
den, of Cherry Hill, to Edward
Thorne Bergh, of Wilmington, Aug.
29, at 800 w. 96th street, New York
city.
Miss Irene Nichols, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Price Nichols, and Rev.
William Schoffstall, pastor of M. E.
Church, of New London, were mar
-ried September 5th, in Philadelphia,
by Rev. Henry E. Malhey.
Miss Mildred Kimble, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kimble of near
town, and Miss Marguerite Hoch, Of
West Nottingham, left last week for
Maryville, Tennessee, where they
have entered Maryville College.
c. e. Finck, former merchant O.
Elkton, and Miss Mary Chick,
daughter of the late John Chick, of
Elkton, were married Sept 2. They
will live at Penniman, Va, where
the groom is connected with the
dupont Company.
DR.. and Mrs. r. D. Dodson left
Rising Sun on Tuesday. Mrs. Dod-
son will make her home with rela-
tives near Baltimore, while the
Doctor, who has enlisted in the
Medical Corps of the U. S. army, is
at Camp Oglethorpe, Ga.
Barclay Reynolds, of this town,
for a number of years past member
of the faculty of St. Luke's School,
Wayne, Pa, has rendered his resig-
nation to accept similar position at
Garden City, Long Island. Mr.
Reynolds, who has been spending
the summer vacation in Rising Sun,
left for his new field of labor on
Monday.
DIR. A. H. Cantwell was this week
notified by telegraph that he had
been commissioned First Lieutenant
in the Medical Reserves and to re-
port at Camp Lee in ten days. AS
General Crodwer had previously de-
clined to accept his resignation from
the Draft Board, he was compelled to
wire his non-acceptance of the new
duties and honrs, and is now waiting
to see what will happen.--North
East Star.
Thieves attempted to steal a
quantity of grain from Edward
Crothers, near Zion, on Monday
night, but were frightened away,
after loading one bag of oats on
their wagon.
/ A Ford automobile, belonging to
Elwood Rea of Colerain, was stolen
while Mr.. Rea was in restaurant
at Oxford Thursday evening of last
week. The car was traced as far as
Hammorton, where the trail was
lost.
A man was arrested at Perryville
on Friday evening for attempting to
cross the railroad bridge at that
point. A search failed to reveal
any explosives about the stranger,
who had an alien registration card
in his pocket. He was lodged in
Elkton jail.