The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-08-01
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

spending the week in Wilmington.
William F. Gillespie, of Coates
vile, spent Sunday in Rising Sun.
Charles vanneman, Baltimore, was
a visitor at the home Of N. G. Brown
and family on Friday.
George Porter, of Baltimore, was
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil E.
Ewing on Monday and Tuesday.
Miss Mary Welsh, Baltimore, and
Miss Beulah Bradley, York, are visit
ing Mrs. Jos. S. Pogue and family.
Miss Elizabeth Ewing, of Mt.
Rocky, North Carolina, is visiting
relatives in this vicinity, her former
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hudders Greenfield
and children, of Coatesville, Pa,
have been visiting Mrs. Greenfeld's
mother, Mrs. Jennie Gillespie.
Mrs. Herbert Hirzsl and children,
of Wilmington, have been spending
some time at the home OF her
mother, Mrs. Jennie Taylor.
Mr.. Omer Williams and Mr.. James
Williams and family, of Delta, Pa,
spent last Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Dawson, Rock Springs.
Mrs. Ida Leonore Peters, of Cecil
ton, Md, and Mr.. U. Grant Peters, of
Camden, N. j., were married at
Chestertown, Md, on July 6, by DR..
G. T. Anderson.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. Taylor Wilson, of
Easton, Pa, were visitors during the
week of T. j.. Wilson and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson have just re-
turned from an extended Western
trip.
Rev. ]. P. Otis, of Marshallton,
Del, occupied the pulpit of Rising
Sun M. E. church on Sunday morn
ing last and renewed acquaintance
with old friends here, where he was
formerly stationed.
Miss Felicita Slicher, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Slicher, and
Augustus Tatman, were married
July % at the brides home in Ches-
apeake City. The ceremony was per-
formed by the Rev. Father Crowley,
of Middletown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Graves Ham
mond, of Columbia, South Carolina.
announce the marriage of their sis
ter, Janet Gale Henry, to Mr. Carrol
j. Johnson, on Thursday, June &c, at
Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.
Miss Henry is daughter of the late
Frank ]. Henry, of Elkton.
DR.. and Mrs. E. G. Dixon are visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph T. Wilson, at
Maple Lawn, near town. DR.. Dixon
is instructor at Leland Stanford
University, San Francisco, CAL, and
has just returned from France where
he saw service with the Canadian
lOACOo, AdAhlA6 dS OdPCdlu.
Mrs. Hugh M. Cameron met with
a painful mishap on Wednesday.
While in the yard of her home on
South Queen street she slipped and
fell dislocating her shoulder. Mrs.
Cameron was taken to Port Deposit
in order that an X-ray might be
made of the painful injury and its
exact nature revealed.
Relatives of Joseph Moran, of near
Elkton, were notified last week that
Moran, who enlisted in the cavalry,
now stationed at New Mexico, was
shot and seriously wounded while on
duty in that State. No details were
given.
King Albert, of Belgium, has con-
ferred the cross of Officer in the
Order of the Crown, upon Dean
Howard MeClenahan, of Princeton
University, a former Port Deposit
boy. The award was for the deans
devotion to the cause of Belgium
during the German occupation.
While returning to their home
near Sylmar Sunday evening, Mr..
and Mrs. Howard Brown were run
into by Ford machine and had
their auto badly damaged. For
tunately no one was injured. The
Ford car was occupied by Messrs.
Clark and Hammond, of Aiken, who
for some reason kept in the middle
of the road, and did not attempt to
turn out.
The iron bridge over Furnace
creek at Principle Furnace was
broken through by large truck
loaded with a caterpiller tractor.
The tractor had been sent TO Elkton
from Aberdeen Proving Grounds to
pull some army trucks out of the
mud on the detour road, and was
on its return trip when 1t crashed
through the bridge.