The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-17
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Miss Violet Cameron, Of Whining
ton, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs
Robert T. Cameron.
Mrs. Ida Heacock, of Swarthmore
and Lieut.. Maurice Griest were
weekend guests at the home of j..
M. Sterrett.
Miss Agnes L. Mowbray, daughter
of Rev. DIR. A. s. Mowbray, will sail
next month for an eight months trip
to Turkey, as one of group of pub
licity people.
Miss Lille e. Winner, daughter 0.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Winner, of near
Quaryville, and Harry W. Wolfe, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wolfe, were
married January 8.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Kirk, Oxford,
announce the engagement Of their
daughter, Ella Frances, and Mr.
Walter Pimm Britton, Pennington,
N. j., late of the U. s. Navy.
The wedding of Alice Hoffecker,
daughter of Harvey Hoffecker, of
Newark, to Clifford Lyman was per-
formed at the parsonage Of the
Methodist Episcopal church in that
town by Rev. Frank P. Herson on
New Years day.
Tuesday was the 10th birthday O..
Miss Deborah e. Sterrett, daughter
of j. M. Sterrett, and by way of cele-
brating the event the little Miss en-.
tertained about 25 of her young
friends from $3.50 to $50, the oc-
casion being a jolly one.
Lena Ida Ellingham, of Atlantic
City, N. j., came to Elkton last week
and made complaint that, John c.
Ellingham, of Yonkers, N. Y, was
married to her at Elkton on July
10, 1916, while he had another wife.
Requisition papers have been secur-
ed and Ellingham will be brought to
Elkton for trial for bigamy.
4 Miss Madeleine Louise Scllanno
daughter of Mrs. H. f. Coolbaugh,
of near the Union, and Mr.. Joseph
Summerill Reynolds, Oldest son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Reynolds, Of
North East, were quietly married at
Elkton on Saturday, January A, by
Rev. George P. Jones, pastor of the
M. E. Church. They will make their
home in North East.
Announcement has been, made of
! the engagement of Bernice w. Attix
of Kenton, Del, to Lieutenant G. O..
Smith of Narbeth, Pa Miss Attix is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w.
Attix of Kenton. Lieutenant Smith
was graduated from Delaware Col
lege in 1916 in the Department OF
Agriculture and won fellowship in
Iowa Agricultural College, Ames
Iowa, from which place he enlisted
in the service and spent five months
at the front.
George w. Rementer, of Whining
ton, formerly of Elkton, who had his
1 spine broken by falling from scaf
fold while at work, a short time ago
is reported as improving at the Della
ware Hospital, in Wilmington.
At the recent annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Lancaster,
Oxford & Southern railroad, locally
known as the "Peachy," the propo-
sition to abandon the road was voted
down. The vote was taken in face
of report that showed a deficit OF
$1,000 for the year. The road has
been a losing proposition for As
years, but still it runs.
Numbers of our residents saw tbs
big -dirigible balloon fly over Sunday
J morning. The big cigar-shaped ar
i, D was on its way to Key Vest
Fla, from the Naval Air Station at
Rockaway Beach, N. Y. Other sus-
tanned flights are contemplated, in
Guiding one from New York to San
Diego, CAL, and another to ranama
J The ship was being transferred.
i The craft is 1872 feet long and car
} ried crew of six men, under COM
mand of Capt. Stanley Vincent
Parker, commanding officer of the
Ro o,kaway Beach Station.
William Barnett, station agent al
Rowlandville, who was seriously in.
jured one night about three weeks
ago by falling from the high railroad
bridge at that point into the Octo-
!, raro creek, is still confined to his
home. Mr.. Barnett's escape fiom
death was q miraculous one, and IL
ascribed to the fact that the water
!, in the creek beneath the bridge wa
!, high at the time and saved him from
landing on the stones. Despite his
fall he was able to crawl from the
water, climb the high bank and cross
the wagon bridge some distance
further up the creek, when he fell