The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-02-27

| The Mission Study Glass was en-
tertained on Wednesday evening by
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin L. Haines.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. P. Dorman, OF
Oxford, celebrated the fiftieth ami
versary of their marriage on Feb. IL.
! Miss Mabel johnson and Miss Ruth
! Collier were visitors of Mrs. Frank
Davis, in Washington, D. c., the past
week.
Miss Mary Brumfield is enjoying
the sights of the National Capital,
where she is visiting Miss Beningna
Holm.
Miss Mary L. Brumfield, of Phila-
delphia, is spending some time at
the home of Augustus Brumfield and
family.
Mrs. Sophia Dickey has returned
to Wilmington after spending some
time with her daughter, Mrs. M. E.
Founders.
Rev. w. H. Micheals was a visitor
of Edwin Haines and family on Mon
day, Mrs. Micheals and children re-
turning to Media with him on Tues
day.
Superintendent of Schools Hugh
w. Caldwell is in attendance at the
annual meeting of the National Edu-
cational Association in session in
Cleveland, Ohio.
! Miss Nellie M. Wagner of this
town, has announced the engagement
of her daughter, Miss Jessie Louise
Wagner, to Mr.. Melvin D. Thompson,
of New York City.
] Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph e. Cloud, of
West Grove, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Idclla
Blanche, to Courtland Joseph Lukens
of Toughkenamon.
William Ryan and bride returned
Sunday evening from their wedding
trip and on Monday evening were
visited by the calithumpians at the
home of the BRIDES parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Homard Terry, and given a
noisy welcome home.
Miss Edith Wood, of Rising Sun,
who has seen several years service
in Europe as a Red Cross nurse, and
has been spending the past several
months with home folks, recuperat-
ing from serious illness, left New
York on Thursday of this week for
Constantinople, where she will re-
sumo nursing.
Mrs. Charles Bradley, of near Ris-
ing Sun, is sufferer from diph-
iberia, the home of the Bradleys nav
ing been placed under quarantine by
the County Health Ofi1cer. Mrs.
Bradley returned to her home ON
Saturday, having been nursing her
daughter, Mrs. Herbert Kirk, who
has been ill with pneumonia for the
past two weeks.
Miss Georgia Thomas, of Zion, has
accepted position at Tome Insti-
tute, Port Deposit, and entered upon
her duties.
Captain Frank G. Pratt, of Elkton,
has been presented with Foreign
Service Certificate by the National
Red Cross for valued service render
ed in France during the war.
Joseph G. johnson, manual train
ing instructor at the Elktoh and
Chesapeake City High Schools, has
rendered his resignation to the Cecil
County School Board, to take effect
February 29th.
Joseph Brown, of Lewisville, pur-
chased a secondhand Ford auto in
Wilmington few days ago, to find
out later that the machine had been
|, stolen from P. o. Lyter of Harris
/. burg, Pa, who recovered his car
from Mr.. Brown.
Thomas Riale, of Rising Sun, and
Bert McFalls, of Oxford, played a
125-point pool match at Oxford on
Monday night, the former winning
!, by 125 to 81. This IS the third
match between these two pool ex-
perts, McFalls having won the two
previous ones.
Mrs. Mary Embley, of Trenton, N.
j., has made complaint to Cecil
county authorities that her husband,
! Leon A. Ambley had committed big
amy by marrying his stenographer,
Isabel M. Cray, in Elkton on Jan. 1S.
The States Attorney has caused
Embley's arrest at Trenton and is
preparing requisition papers to have
him brought here for trial.
Oliver Null, of Peach Bottom, Pa,
/ met with a peculiar accident last
! week, his nose being broken when
q struck by piece of caked snow
thrown from horses foot.
d Clarence Hodson, of New York,
has given 500 to Washington Col
' lege, Chestertown, Md, for the pur-
chase of trees for the campus and
5000 to help establish boat club.