The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-10-01

DR.. ID. l.. clifford, or zion, aIt0r .
long illness is again able to be put in
his auto.
MIR. and Mrs. Cecil E. Ewing ano
daughter Shirley, of Baltimore, are
Rising Sun visitors.
Miss Violet Cameron, of Whining
ton, was a visitor last week Of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert T. Cameron.
Mrs. Arthur Irwin and children, OF
Altoona, Pa, are visitors at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. B..
Keen.
Mrs. Lettie Reynolds, of Oxford,
was visitor last week at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Norris Reynolds
near town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter l.. Gregg, oi
Drumore, Pa, were Sunday guests
at the home of Mrs. Lillian r. Rober.
son, near town.
Miss Marian E. OFT, daughter of
Mrs. Philip OFT of Elkton, and Mr..
Gerald w. Dunbar, son. of Mr.. an.
Mrs. Reuben HI. T. Dunbar, were
married in Philadelphia Sept. II by
the Rev. Edwin L. Hyde.
H. L. Worthington and family and
Miss Hanna Kirk, of Howard Park,
were Sunday auto visitors OF Mrs.
Mary Cherry and Miss Louise Worth
ington, who returned home with
them.
"A truck, the owner of which is un-
known, was burned along the roao
near Nottingham, Pa, on Thursday
night of last week.
Walter S. Reynolds, who recently
sold his farm near Nottingham, Pa,
has purchased a double dwelling on
Hodgson street, in Oxford.
John l.. Crothers has purchased
the Crothers homestead, near Bay
View. from the heirs. The farm has
been in the Crothers family for more
than one hundred years.
Our report of the annual Sunday
school convention, held in the M. q.
church of this town, was received
from the Secretary too late for pub
lication this week and will appear in
our next issue.
An epidemic of typhoid fever Ii
now raging in DOwningtOwn, Fa.
where there are many cases due t.
impure milk, according to DR.. JOSEPH
Scattergood, of West Chester, ii
charge of State health work FOL
Chester county.
A demonstration of the Fordsor
tractor was given Saturday last or
the farm of ]. Famous Ham, east OF
town, and drew quite crowd. who
saw the machine in practical use,
| plowing and doing other farm work
in a satisfactory and rapid manner
At the session of the Orphans
Court on Sept. 81, the Court exam
ined and passed the first and final ac
count of Louisa L. Bradford, admin
istratrix of William d. Bradford, ant
distribution struck on same; ant
first and final account of Mari.
Barry, Administrative Of Alonzo L
Barry.
Elaborate preparations are beinl
made for the two hundredIh ami
yersary of Rock Presbyterian Churcl
near Fair Hill, this county, which
will be celebrated beginning tn,
week of October 3. During the an
niversary the New Castle .Presbyter,
will meet in the historic church il
annual session.
Samuel N. White, aged % years
son of Postmaster Edward E. White
Of Principle Furnace, was instanti.
killed Friday afternoon, Sept. II,
when his hand came in contact witt
a high tension electric wire whil
engaged in making repairs to tn,
big hammer at the forge at Principi
Furnace. Young White was a mem
ber of the North East ball team, an,
was popular with his comparisons.
Mrs. Cochran, of near Rocl
Springs, had the misfortune to fal
backwards down fight of stairs a
her home on Friday last. She wa
picked up in an unconscious condi
tion, and later taken to a Baltimor,
hospital, where the X-ray revealed
no bones broken. 1t is thought sh,
suffered slight stroke of paralysis
that caused her to fall. The famil.
recently moved to the neighborhood,
Mr.. Cochran having purchased thu
farm of H. a. Call.
1 The annual banquet of Black Bar
/ rem Fair Association was held Satur
day night at Wakedeld Inn.