The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-08-15
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Miss Grace Lewis, of Baltimore, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. r. G. Dodson.
Mrs. Charles e. Dare, of Rose
mont, Va, is the guest of Rising Sun
relatives.
Misses Mabel and Harriet Barber
are spending the week by the seaside
at Atlantic City.
Mrs. Addie Barben, of Philadel-
phia, is visiting her sister, Mrs
Clinton I. White.
Calvin and Augustus Brumfield, OF
Willow Grove, are visiting Augustus
Brumfield and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Brown ana
daughters, of Sunbury, Pa, were
guests last week of Geo. c. Reynolds
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert L. Burlington
returned last week from a delightful
trip of six weeks to California and
other interesting points in the West.
Mrs. w. K. Terry, of Perkasie, Pa,
and Mrs. Frank Oliver, of Aiken,
were visitors at the home of their
brother, w. L. Ryan, and family, on
Monday.
Mrs. S. Annetta Brown announces
the engagement of her daughter,
Marjorie Kay to Mr.. Clarence E.
Samples of Philadelphia, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Reuben Samples, Oxford.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Leslie Pyle left
last week for Ridley Park, Pa,
where they will make their future
home, Mr.. Pyle having accepted the
cashiership of the National Bank of
that place.
Colonel Charles B. Finley, of Elk
ton, has resigned as States Attorney
for Cecil county and the Circuit
Court Judges have appointed Joshua
Clayton, of Elkton, to fill the unex-
pired term.
DR.. and Mrs. Edward Benson and
Misses Emma and Sallie Benson, OF
Cockeysville, Md, were guests last
week of Mr.. and. Mrs. Clarence Gif-
ford. Little Miss Bette Clifford ac-
companied them home for a visit
with grandfather.
Eli T. Reynolds was taken TO the
Maryland General Hospital, Balti-
more, ON Wednesday, where he
underwent a successful operation for
appendicitis at four o'clock in the
afternoon and is reported to be
doing nicely at this writing.
John Nichols, of West Chester,
New York, was the guest of his
brother, B. P. Nichols, during the
week. Mr.. Nichols is editor of the
West Chester Globe. He left this
section thirty-five years ago and
while here this week paid his first
visit in all these years to the old
Nichols homestead, in the neighbor-
hood of Fremont.
The steam shovel is in operation
at Harrisville, closing the State road
from that point to Porters Bridge, a
detour to Colora being necessary.
DR.. w. w. Davis, of the Anti-Race-
track Gambling Association, will
occupy the pulpit Of Rising Sun M.
E. church on Sunday morning, Au-
gust II.
Virginia parties are reported to
have purchased the 1913 acre farm at
Calvert belonging to Harry Thomp-
son, and 125 acre farm in the same
section belonging to s. G. England.
Wednesdays rain caused more
trouble for autoists on the detour
roads and converted East Main street
into such soft and juicy state as to
cause it to be closed to traffic by
machines.
Boyd c. Etter, who recently sold
the Philip r. West farm in the
Eighth District, where he had resid-
ed for some time, has purchased the
property of the late John Keilholtz
embracing 1O4 acres of land, with
Improvement, adjoining town, for
$4,000; possession given March 25
next.
The car driven by Mrs. Herbert
Kirk was run into on Sunday just
as she turned from the lane of her
home near town onto the pike, by a
big machine and was side-swiped and
badly damaged. Mrs. Kirk did moi
suffer serious physical injury hut the
shock to her nervous system was sc
great as to cause her complete col
lapse, she being under the doctors
care for hours after the accident.
Andrew Shank, of Oxford, had his
foot SO badly burned by its coming
in contact with live wire that II