The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-12-26
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Mrs. Amy Reynolds, of Media, if
the guest of Miss Mary Brumfield.
Miss Mildred Brown is spending
Christmas in Trenton, N. ].
Miss Francina Kirk is spending the
holidays with Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil E.
Ewing.
Miss Louise Wagner is home from
Wilmington for the Christmas va
cation.
Halus Ewing, of Philadelphia, is Q
Christmas visitor of his brothers in
Rising Sun.
Miss Matilda Duyckinck is home
from Devon Manor School for the
holiday vacation.
c. e. Dare and family, of Rose
mont, Va, are holiday guests Of Ris-
ing Sun relatives.
Rolph Townshend, state road in
spector, is spending the week at his
home in Chestertown.
Miss Jane Maxwell, of Philadel-
phia, is the holiday guest of her
cousin, Miss Gertrude S. Dare.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. r. Burlington
leave this week for Orlando, Florida,
where they will spend the winter.
Miss Helen Shepherd, Of West
Chester, is spending the holidays
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. L.
Shepherd.
The annual Stephens family re-
union will be held on Christmas Day
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. N. c..
Brown, on Walnut street.
Rev. and Mrs. VIM. H. Micheals
and children, of Media, are holiday
guests at the home of Mrs. Micheals
father, Edwin Haines, and family.
Miss Lidies Stewart and Miss Laura
Price, of Rising Sun public school
faculty, are spending the holidays in
Philadelphia and Queenstown, re-
spectively.
Miss Gertrude Laird, of Iron Hill,
this county, and Leonard A. Brown
were married Dec. II at Newark
parsonage by Rev. VIM.
J. Rowan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel HI. King, OF
Elkton, have announced the engage
ment of their daughter, Sarah Dor
othy, to Mr.. Jerome Pell Secor, of
Derby, Connecticut.
Miss Mae Pierce, of the Ninth Dis
trict, graduate nurse Of Delaware
Hospital. Wilmington, has surprised
her friends by announcing her mar
riage to Mr.. George Mcdonald, OF
Elsmere, Del. The ceremony was
performed on September 5th.
William McClenahan, of Port De-
posit, suffered stroke of paralysis
last week and has been taken to
Union Hospital, Elkton.
The closing exercises of Miss Mabel
Reynolds private school were held
on Tuesday afternoon of this week.
The school will reopen after the
holidays.
The hearings of G. O.. Galloway,
cashier of the Stevensville Bank, and
w. H. Lowe, charged with being con-
nected with the shortage af that
bank, have been postponed until
January 18th. The shortage in the
banks accounts are estimated in the
neighborhood of $4,000.
Miss Mare de Coll, the 18-year old
daughter of Mr.. Louis de Coll, of
Van Bibber, Hartford county, who
disappeared mysteriously from the
Hotel Rennert, Baltimore, about
three weeks ago, returned to her
home Monday last. The young lady
was located by her parents after she
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Rising Sun public school closed
on Friday for the holiday vacation.
On Friday afternoon the school gave
an entertainment consisting of
choruses, recitations and the cantata
"Santa's Success" which was much
enjoyed by all present. The program
was well rendered throughout, those
taking part showing careful training
and rejecting credit upon themselves
as well as upon their instructors.
G. e. Bunting G. Sons, nurseymen
of Selbyville, Del. have given the
Delaware State Board of Agriculture
valuable shrubs and trees for plant
ing along the dupont Boulevard be-
aween Selbyville and Milford. Mrs.
Coleman dupont has employed a
competent landscape gardener to ar
range the planting Of these trees and
shrubs in a way to make the road
sides attractive and to be q practical