The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-10
Z TOWN AND Z |UNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Eve in the County
During the Pa Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

bstmaster G. T. Dare is off duty
ccount of the grip.
[rs. w. T. B. r. Robertson is
G seriously i'll at her home on
Worth Queen street.
i Miss Francina Kirk, who is spend
4 ing the winter in Brooklyn, was
Rising Sun visitor the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Taylor, oil
Cecilton, celebrated the fiftieth ami
versary of their wedding on Decem-
ber 81.
william E. Morrison of Marcus
Hook, formerly Of Oxford, and Miss
Katie McCue Of Pittsburg, were mar
ried in Elkton, Dec. Gath.
Mrs. w. G.. Koons is substituting
at Rising Sun public school this
week for Miss Lidie Stewart, seventh
grade teacher, who is i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hanford, of
East Nottingham, Pa, have sold
their farm and left for Kingston,
Jamaica, where Mr.. Hanford will en-
gage in the sugar business.
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Hughes,
of Elkton, celebrated the fifty-sixth
anniversary of their wedding on New
i Years Day. Both Mr.. and Mrs.
Hughes are still quite active.
j Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Heeback, of
! Chatham, Pa, have announced the
1 engagement of their daughter Esther
Elizabeth, to Norman c., son of J..
Walter Michener, Of Unionville.
willard Bryan Jones of Rising
Sun Pharmacy attended the Y. M. c..
J, A. meeting on Sunday last at Ford's
i Theatre in Baltimore, where he
| heard VIM. Jennings Bryan give a
talk on "Back to God. Mr.. Jones
is a namesake of William Jennings
4 Bryan.
Miss Fanny Lincoln King, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. King,
Wakefield, Pa, was married at high
noon on New Years day at her home
| to E. Earl Walton, son of Mr.. and
] Mrs. I. Jason Walton, by Friends
ceremony. the certificate being read
by Charles E. Workman of Lam
caster.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph John Sum-
merrill have issued invitations for
{ the marriage of their daughter, Ger
trude Rittenhouse, to Mr.. Lowell r.
! Moss, at their home on South Broad
/ street, Woodbury., N. j., on January
L TO- The wedding guests are limited
to the immediate family and per-
! sonal friends of the bride and groom.
Miss Mary Louise Cameron daugh-
J ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry S. Cam
) eron, of Elkton, and Sergt. George
! H. Miller, son Of Mrs. John G. Lilli-
/ bridge, sc Lake street, Elmira, N. Y,
I but now stationed at the Aberdeen
Proving Ground. were married at
Elkton Presbyterian Manse on Sat
urday evening last, by Rev. DR.. John
McElmoyle.
: Samuel Sturgeon, fof North East,
8 has been appointed gby the Board OF
Education as Manual Training in
: structor at North East and Calvert
) High Schools.
w. P. Reynolds, feal estate agent,
has sold to e. r. $ebold for $1,000
the 24-acre properly near Sylmar,
known as the England property and
/ recently owned by Blaine Mcvey.
: A shed used as ia garage on the
Armstrong mill property. at North
East. was burned Monday night by
fire of unknow origin. Three auto
mobiles belonging to Chester Harvey
were destroyed The property be-
longs to Samuel Siler.
Fires ON Tuesday afternoon de-
| stroyed the barn, and contents, on
the farm of Harry L. Harvey, in the
i Ninth district. Two horses and a
calf perished in the flames. 1t is
/. suspected the fire was OF incepdiary
origin. There was partial insur-
ance on the loss, which amounts
to $4,000.
The Elkton News reports that
punch with kick in if was sold at
jubilee held by the cQloredsnnmn2e
r at Port Deposit Christnf O.. -
: as a result fight arose in which
Frank Alexander, in spite of razor
S he carried, was badly beaten up. At
1 hearing before Police Justice H.
!. w. Lewis at Elktpn, Rosewood Craig
i was fined $10 d costs, amounting
/ to $2320 BENJAMIN Davis