The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-03-07
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

in Philadelphia and Chester last
week.
William F. Gillespie, OF Coates
Vile, was a Rising Sun visitor this
week.
Mrs. Josephine Cantwell, of Char
lestown, was the guest of Mrs. j.
Frank Tosh during the week.
H. C. Cummings has been confined
to the house for several weeks past,
being sufferer from heart trouble.
David Shea, of near town, is in a.
serious condition from stroke Of
paralysis suffered on Sunday night.
Howard L. Brumfield, of Ham
morton, Pa, visited his father,
Augustus Brumfield, and family this
weeks
Mrs. Herbert Hirzel and children,
of Wilmington, are visitors at the
home Of the formers mother, Mrs.
Jennie Taylor.
Both John w. Miller and wife, Of
this town, we're stricken with paral-
ysis last week. Mr.. Miller. has par
TALLY recovered, but Mrs. Miller'sI
recovery is doubtful.
County superintendent Of Public
Schools, Hugh w. Caldwell, attend
ed the Federation of Teachers in
Chicago last week and delivered an
address before the assemblage on
Thursday.
c. r. Grason and family entertain
ed last week Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
-Gristock, of Collegeville, Pa; MIR.
and Mrs. Frank Northime and son,
of Chester; Mrs. Nina (Wilson)
Tibbals, of Connecticut; Mrs. E. E.
Wilson, Of Chester; Mr.. Malvin
Grason, of Swarthmore; Miss Mil
dred Clayton, Rising Sun.
The report that Misses Marian
Cook and Gertrude Touchton, Red
Cross nurses, who have been in
France, had returned to the United
I
Evacuation Hospital No. S6, which
relieved Base No. "a. The Episcopal
Hospital Unit of Philadelphia, at
Nantes. Miss Touchton is at Base
Hospital No. II, which relieved the
Mt. Sinai Unit, in town fifty miles
northeast Of Bordeaux. They do
not expect to come home for some
time.
Found guilty of violating the local
option law Edward Bender, of Havre
de Grace, was sentenced in Hartford
| County Court to pay a fine of 5000
and serve a term of six months i'm
prisonment in the House of Correc-
tion.
A big dirigible balloon landed
near the Oxford fair grounds on
1 Thursday afternoon last to remedy
leaky valve The big airship was
manned by crew of eight men. 1t
was capable of attaining speed OF
/ ninety mile an hour.
The two small children OF Clar-
ence Foracre, Florence May, aged
two years, and Albert c., aged
eleven months. have at his request,
/ been placed with the Maryland
4 Children's Aid Society. The mother
died recently from influenza.
p. 5. DUPONT, of Longwood, has
purchased the farm of VIM. H.
Clark, in Chester county, Pa. The
property embraces PSI acres, and
the price is said to be $41,O0O. It
is reported Mr.. DUPONT has bought
the A. M, Wright mill, formerly
Denton mill, Pocopson township.
Mrs. G. L. Newcomb, Jr., of Elk
ton, had limb broken below the
knee Monday of last week. by being
1 kicked by horse. She was attend
ing fox hunt at Glasgow, Del.
when horse became unruly and
I kicked at her mount, striking Mrs.
! Newcomb on the limb and fractur-
ing the member.
We are reliably informed that the
State Roads Commission will make
survey through Rising Sun this
month. for the connecting up of the
concrete road west of town with the
Rising Sun-Calvert section of the
State road, and that in all prob
ability the road through our town
will be constructed this summer.
I At the hearing before Justice
Lewis. of Elkton, last week in the
case of State VS.. Dallas Manlove of
i cecilton, for permitting his dogs to
run at large without license tags, a
verdict was rendered in favor of
Manlove. The case was brought up
on the presentation of M l.. Red
ding, whose SON was recently fined
for killing n fnx nurauod hv tho