The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-12-12

and Mrs. J. Frank Tosh. Of near
town.
Mrs. Ida Heacock, of kokoma'
Indiana, is spending some time with
Mrs. Serella Powell.
Mrs. Claude Buck and son, Of
Perry Point, are visiting Mrs. Bucks
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. M. Pogue.
MIR. and Mrs. Chas. s. Pyle are
spending the weekend in Allentown,
visiting their daughter. Mrs. H. r.
Fehr, Jr.
Mrs. J. A. Hartenstine, Of Prin-
cipio Furnace, is spending some time
at the home Of her mother. Mrs. Jos.
s. Pogue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hambleton, Of
Philadelphia, spent Sunday with the
formers father, J. w. Hambleton,
and family.
Miss Sara Windle, Miss Violet
Brabson and Miss Violet Barben, Of
Oxford, were guests last week OF
Mrs. Curtis e. Irwin.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. G. West, who
recently sold their farm near Sylmar,
left on wednesday of this week for
their new home in Bradentowu, Fla.
Ralph E. Reynolds, who is attend
ing the Philadelphia College IT
Pharmacy, has successfully passed
the State Board Examination for
qualified assistant.
L. Leslie Pyle, formerly OF this
town, who recently accepted posi-
ton with the Ridley Park, Pa. Ma
tional Bank, has been promoted to
cashier Of that institution.
The engagement of Miss Emily
Blake Frazer, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. r. B. Frazer of Elkton. and
Capt. Frank e. Williams, Jr., SON OF
the editor of the Cecil Whig, Of the
same town, has been announced.
Mrs. Curtis e. Irwin entertained
in very pleasant manner on Friday
evening last, about forty young peo-
pie in honor of her guests, Misses
Sara Windle, Violet Brabson and
Violet Barben, of Oxford. Dancing
and other social diversions were en-
joyed by the company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Hoffman,
Lobata, the oldest married couple IN
Lancaster county, on Sunday ceie-
brated their sixty-sixth wedding an
niversary. The former is 81 years
Of age and Mrs. Hoffman is %, and
both are mentally and physically
active.
The Board of Education of Cecil
county has appointed Miss Carmen
Price principal at Bethel school, sue
ceeding Mrs. George C. Potts. of Elk
ton, resigned.
The Rev. w. H. McMeem, former
ly Of Atlanta, Ca, who has been en-
gagged in church work in Baltimore
for the last year, received call to
the Presbyterian Church at Church
vile. Hartford county. one of the
oldest congregations in Maryland,
having been organized in 1898.
In attempting to pass an automo-
bile on the pike near Barnsley school
house, Horace Pennell skidded into
the abutment there, badly breaking
up his Overland car, Saturday eve
ming. Fortunately, the occupants
of the car escaped injury.
F. Bayard Carter, who recently
won the Rhodes scholarship valued
at $500 and who was expected to
take up residence in Oxford early in
January, petitioned the American
Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship
Trust for postponement of entrance
until his course at Delaware College
had been completed. This was
granted and young Carter will not
enter Oxford until 1920.
Major william G. Purnell, who for
the past 25 years had been in the
ONCE of the Clerk Of the Circuit
Court. but serving as Clerk, by ap-
pointment. less than two years, was
succeeded this week in the Clerkship
by Mr.. H. Winfield Lewis, elected
last November.
AS a faithful and eficient public
servant, the retiring Clerk is entitled
to more than a passing notice. He
has raised the standard of the office
work to q high degree OF efficiency
and retires with the consciousness of
having administered the business
with promptness and thoroughness.
If the position was other than prize
in the political grab bag, he would
still be conducting its affairs.
Star. North East.
The revenue from hunters licenses
in the State OF Pennsylvania the past
season amounted to $3t0.OoO.