The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-06-13
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Rev. F. H. Huffman and family
were entertained this week by Mr..
and Mrs. A. l.. Duyckinck.
j. Granville Richards and family
have moved from Baltimore to their
summer home at Richardsmere.
Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Reed have
returned to Ocean Grove, N. j.,
where they will spend the summer.
VIM. M. Pogue and family are
spending some time at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Brown, near
Sylmar.
Mrs. Fanny Hindman and Mrs.
Tile Tosh, Colora, were guests this
week of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Reynolds,
near town.
DR.. and Mrs. w. e. Alvord and
little daughter, of Moore, Pa, have
been guests during the week of Mrs.
Ella Pyle and family.
! Rev. DR.. Louis E. Barrett has
been compelled to decline the call
as pastor of the NJ E. Church at
Sudlersville on account of his
health.
Miss Margaret Brumfield, of
Hammorton, and Calvin Brumfield,
/ of Willow Grove, were visitors at the
| h ~ Dr.rrr, Aald nd
I family this week.
| William Alleband, Mr.. END Mrs.
John Emerson, Miss Margaret Alle-
band, Denton, were entertained Sun
day at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry L. Shepherd.
Governor Runyon, of New Jersey,
] in big Marmon car with license
! tag No. 1 on it, stopped in Rising
Sun few minutes on Monday morn
ing, enroute to Washington.
Mrs. Jennie Gillespie has received
a cablegram from her son Linn B.
Gillespie, who has sailed from Brest
and is homeward bound after several
/ months service with Uncle Sans
forces in France.
Miss Lidie Stewart, teacher of the
5th and 9Th grades Rising Sun
public school, left this week for
Cleveland, Ohio, where she will
| spend the summer with her sister,
Mrs. R. A. Granting.
Mr.. and Mrs Luther p Shaffer, of
Cumberland, were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Cecil E. Ewing ON Wednesday
and Thursday. Corporal Shaffer has
| just returned from seven e n
months service overseas and been
mustered out. He saw active sery ice
along the battle front in France with
Company D, 25th Engineers, and
had many thrilling and interesting
experiences.
The Sixth District Red Cross will
entertain soldiers at dinner in Rising
/ Sun on July Fourth, at one o'clock.
Preparations are also being made by
the ladies for celebration during
the afternoon and evening,
Frank Hoffecker, of Perryville. a
well-known base ball twirler OF Cecil
county, and for sometime an elec-
trician at Sparrows Point, had his
left arm so badly burned by an cleo
trio wire that amputation has been
found necessary. :.
The names of Clinton j. Yerkes,
of the Ninth district, candidate for
Sheriff; Taylor w. McKenney, OF
Elkton, candidate for Sherifr; Jacob
H. Reynolds, candidate for Sheriff;
F. F. Myers, of Elkton, candidate
for House of Delegates, appear in
our advertising columns this week.
William T. Warburton delivered
an address before the Bible Glasses
of the M E. church on Sunday
morning, In the evening the SER
vices were In charge of the Sunday
school, when special program of
choruses, drills, motion songs and
recitations was delivered, the little
folks. and the big ones also. all
taking their parts we'll.
We are in receipt of circular
from the Academy of Applied Aero
nautics, of Chicago, ILL.,, the premier
school of practical aeronautics in the
country. Lieutenant Raynor Carey.
son of editor Geo. O. Carey of North
East. is Superintendent of the
school, which offers courses for men
and wemea In Aevonapticaj Hngi-
neering, Airpiane Mechanics and
Flying.
r. ]. s. Bullock has resigned as
principal of Oakwood public school,
where he has taught for several
years past.
Robert Pyle. President of The
Gonard q Jones Company, of West