The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-02-07

MISS mary BrumH0Iu spent SEVERN
days in Philadelphia this week.
Mrs. Harrison Fehr and daughter,
of Allentown, are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. S. Pyle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Strickland,
of Philada., were Sunday guests Of
]. M. Sterrett and family.
Mrs. Howard L. Brumfield, OF
Hammorton, Pa, was the guest OF
Rising Sun relatives last week.
Miss Maude Slicer, Of Philadel-
phia, spent the weekend at the
home of N. c. Brown and family.
Miss Minnie Muirhead, of Pitts
burg, was visitor at the home of
Jos. s. Pogue and family this week.
Joshua Menough, one OF Oxford's
oldest residents, celebrated his nine
tieth birthday, on Wednesday OF this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs L. c. Passmore, of
Nottingham, Pa, left on Friday for
Bradentown, Florida, for an extend
ed stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Sadler have re-
turned to Rising Sun after spending
several weeks at their old home in
Virginia.
VIM. L. Ryan and Taylor R. Biles
two of Rising Suns soldier boys, are
home from Camp Meade, having
been mustered out of service.
/ Miss Katherine Rutherford, of
Wilmington, and Mrs. Marietta
Rem, of Zion, were guests last
week of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wilson,
near town.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Taylor Wilson, Oh
Easton, Pa, spent portion of the
week at the home of the formers
father, T. j. Wilson, who has been
seriously i'll but is now much i'm
proved.
I Mr.. and Mrs. r. E. Long Of West
Grove, have issued invitations to the
marriage of their daughter, Mary
Beatrice, to Fred o. Berry of Schnec-
tady, N. Y, on Wednesday, February
18th at seven o'clock, in the West
Grove Methodist Church.
Mr.. Jesse Hendrickson, formerly of
Rising Sun, and Miss Alma Whalen,
of Havre de Grace, were married in
Elkton on Jan. 81, at the Methodist
parsonage by the Rev. Jones. After
the ceremony they returned to the
brides home where reception was
| held
| W. G. Koons, of this town, for
some months past principal of
Rising Sun public school, has been
compelled to resign, on account Of
throat trouble. Miss Ethel Hall, of
the teaching force, has been made
principal and Mrs. Herbert Kirk ap-
pointed teacher of one of the pri-
mary grades.
Miss Elsie Hill, who recently re-
signed as principal of Love Run
school, has been appointed to New
Bridge school, near Cecil Paper Mill.
Guy Stubbs, son of DIR. and Mrs.
A. H. Stubbs, Wakefield, Lancaster
county, has been appointed by the
Government to scholarship of eight
years at West Point Military Acad-
emy. The young man is seventeen
years of age.
The Cecil Farmers Telephone
linemen have been engaged for the
past two or three weeks in trimming
up trees for the Town Commission
ers, to keep over-hanging branches
away from electric light wires The
mild weather of last week and this
started the sap to running, and
numerous of the trees that had been
trimmed were noticed bleeding"
Mrs. Jennie Gillespie, of this
town, has received from her son
Lynn B. Gillespie, who is with the
American forces in France, a little
book entitled "Yanks," composed of
verses that have been printed in
THE Stars and Stripes" Official
newspaper of the American Expedi-
tionary Forces. The verses come
from the field, the back areas, the
ports; they have been written on the
eve of battle: the men who wrote
some of them have paid the great
price. They are the heart and soul
of the American Army In France
1t is their only claim to distinction.
The w. c. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. Harry Burkins on Thursday
the 18th. at 1880 p. m.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
on Sunday morning the dwelling
and stable at Tweedaie. Pa. belong
Ing to William Campbell The
property was unoccupied.