The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-10-03
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs -of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY. NOTED

was the guest laSC Wee& VI WI anu
Mrs. N. G, Rro"n.
Mrs. Ella Hunt has been spending
some time with Mr.. and Mrs. John
Dix, of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Mary Snyder, Of Mahoney
City, was the guest of her mother,
Mrs. Isabel Buckley, last week.
Visitors of John l.. Stephens and
family Sunday were John Walker
and family, Hockessin, Del, Frank
P. Stephens, wife and daughter,
Amber, Pa.
The engagement of Miss Mildred
Hambleton Collier, daughter OF
Mrs. Eva Collier of Rising Sun,
and William Basil Reynolds has been
announced. Mr.. Reynolds is son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Reynolds of
Harrisville, and is employed in the
National Bank of Avondale.
Announcement is made of the en-
gagement of Miss Nellie Welsh
CLANCY, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Clancy, of West River, Anne
Arundel county, to Mr.. Theodore
Francis Watts, son of Mrs. Mary B.
Watts, Of Principle Furnace. The
wedding will take place in the early
fall.
Mark Balderston, elder SON of Mr..
and Mrs. Elwood Balderston, Colora,
who lately returned from France,
where he spent nine months in re-
construction work, has resumed his
| position as teacher at Guilford Col
lege, North Carolina. Mr.. B. spent
few days with his home folks be-
fore returning to North Carolina.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Law, Keese-
Vile, N. Y, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Pearl Marie
Law, to Harold William Pugn, OK
ford, Pa. Mr.. Pugh has been in
charge of the Government Expert
mental Fur Farm near Keeseville,
but has resigned his position and is
now in the employ of Buck Hill Falls
Inn
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Carson Cask
ey have issued invitations to the
marriage of their daughter, Mary
Olivia, to Mr.. william Arnot Shaw
on the evening of Friday, the tenth
of October, at half after six o'clock,
First Presbyterian Church, Morris
town, N. ].
The groom-to-be is son OF Rev.
David e. Shaw. a former pastor Of
West Nottingham Pre- b y teria n
church.
Misses Ada Knight and Charlotte
Wood, nurses Of Union Hospital,
Elkton, have gone to Baltimore to
take three months course at the
Hebrew Hospital.
The Kennett firemen netted $1975
by their recent carnival. The gross
receipts were $3075.
The Epworth League will hold a
'stunt" social in the lecture room of
the church Thursday evening, Oct.
9th, at eight o'clock promptly.
Oxford Truck Co. is engaged in
transferring the bodies of autocar
trucks owned by the Government
and stored on the fair grounds, to
the big Commerce trucks.
About $40 was the sum realized
by the Loyal Legion at the festival
held Saturday afternoon and eve
ming. The proceeds will be devoted
to the support of French orphan.
7 Next Sunday, Oct. 5th. will be OBJ
served as Rally Day at Mt. Pleasant
M. e. church. Rev. w. G. Rooms
will preach at IL o'clock, and a
special program will be rendered at
8 o'clock p. m.
A civil service examination for the
position of postmaster at Avondale,
to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of the present incumbent,
George L. Anderson, was to have
been held Sept "a, but no applicants
appeared.
The Rising Sun W. c. T. U. will
meet in the Sunday School room of
M. E. church on Friday. Oct 10, at
p. m. Reports of the County and
State Conventions will be given.
All are cordially invited.
The dwelling at Lewisville oc-
cupied by the family of Raymond
Everett was totally destroyed by fire
on Sunday morning, together with
most of the contents. The family
was absent at the time and the
origin of the fire is not known.
Robert C. Dye. aged 23 years, OF
Havre de Grace. was instantly killed
Sept. 22 while working at the Gov-
ernment plant at Perryville, and
Augustine Condor, of Perryville,
was severely shocked when in some
manner high voltage current
charged a steel plate they were NOV
ing by means of an electric crane.