The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-11-28
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
9r During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

visiting Misses Hanna and Mabel
Reynolds.
Miss Katherine GIlpin, of Chester
town, is the Thanksgiving guest OF
Miss Mary Brumfield.
William Moore and family, of
Delta, were guests this week of DR..
and Mrs. T. B. Moore.
William M. Pogue and family
spent the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifford Robertson, Freehold,
New Jersey.
Mrs. R. r. Houston, of West
Grove, and Miss Mildred Keifer, OF
Grafton, w. Va, are visitors Of Mr..
and Mrs. Cecil E. Ewing.
Rev. and Mrs. VIM. H. Micheals
and children, of Media, were guests
this week at the home of Mrs.
Micheals' father, Edwin Haines. Miss
Elizabeth r. Stephens accompanied
them home for Thanksgiving.
Judson Hambleton, son of Samuel
Hambleton of this town, who has
been employed by the Pennsylvania
Railroad as special agent for several
years, has been promoted to station
master at ToughkenamOn and enter
ed upon his new duties last week.
| Joe Murraco, who has conducted a
shoe repair shop in Rising Sun for
some years past, left for New York
on Sunday evening. whence he sailed
this week for his home in sunny
Italy, where he will remain several
months. Joe has made many friends
while here, by his quiet manner and
strict attention to business, and took
with him their best wishes for safe
journey.
Henry w. Strahorn, of Elkton, has
been appointed State forest warden
for Cecil county by Governor Har-
rington.
The River Hills Construction Co.
has been organized in Havre de
Grace and has commenced the build
ing Of ten houses on Revolution
street, in that town.
4 Wild ducks are plentiful on the
"flats," but owing to the stringent
law prohibiting either selling or CIV
ing away the game, fewer have been
shot than in previous years.
i Stephen Sharpless, of Kennett
Square, employed at the Yorklyn,
Del, Fibre Mills, was terribly scald-
ed about the body and legs one day
last week by falling into vat OF
boiling water.
/ Miss Edith McDougle, a member
Of the faculty of Newark, Del, High
School last year has received an offer
of position in the International
College in Barcelona Spain, also an
offer of scholarship for years
study in France.
: Ten students of the Sophomore
class of the Franklin and Marshall
College, Lancaster, were suspended
} from the college from Nov. 10 tc
| Jan. 1, for the brutal hazing Of one
/ Of the Freshmen, and five are barred
from activities until Dec. /.
/ Edward w. Taylor, of Elkton, has
. been elected president of the Mutual
> Fire Insurance Company of Cecil
County, to fill the vacancy caused by
: the death of the late VIM. S. Evans
5 Jas. F. Evans has been elected 9
3 member of the Board of Managers
I and counsel.
Mrs. Georgia Brumfield, who fol
the past rs years has been keeper oi
the lighthouse at Turkey Point, wa,
: succeeded last week by B. C. Stowe
the new appointee. Mrs. BrumfielC
was retired because she had reached
the age limit of 20 years. She will
4 make her home with her son, Sher
wood Brumfeld, near Edgewood, Md
v The $50 acre tract Of land at Grove
Point, Cecil county, with improve
ments, was sold Tuesday, Nov. 1S
: at the Court House door, Elkton, b,
! James F. Evans, Mahlon VanBus
!, kirk and Omar D. Crothers, Esqs.
: Trustees, to The Chesapeake Lane
Improvement Company, for $40, 900
!. John C. Hindman was the auctioneer
:. The ladies of West nottingham
e Grange are arranging to hold an en-
a tertainment in Rising Sun hall Oh
Q Friday evening, Dec. s, for benefi
s of the new hall for all communit.
t activities. Stephen Benn, violinist
+ and Osman Reynolds, accompanist
n will furnish instrumental music, ant
t both are talented musicians In ad
+ dition there will either be reade
n or a moving picture reel to furnish
:, entertainment. Tickets on sale a
s Rising Sun Pharmacy on and afte
Friday, Nov. 2S. Admission. s6c.