The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-06-18
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

lima, is Rising Sun visitor.
Miss Emma SINNERS is enjoying a
two weeks vacation at Pen Mar, Md
Miss Hester Cooney, of Pitma1
Grove, spent the week end with Mrs
Scott Wilson.
Mrs. Mary Pownall, of Swarthmore,
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Albert
L. Burlington.
Mrs. Charles Koch, and children,
Of Baltimore, are visiting the form
er's sister, Mrs. r. C. Dodson
DR.. Joseph Vanneman and family,
of Princeton, N. j., have been guests
the past week at the home of Edwin
Haines and family.
Miss Louise Worthington Is en-
joying visit to the home of her
brother, H. l.. Worthington, and
family, Howard Park, Baltimore.
Mrs. William Wilson, of neal
Calvert, suffered slight stroke OF
paralysis on Sunday, one side b ling
affected She is somewhat improved
at this writing.
Mrs. Ross Nartindale, of Sweet
Briar, Va, who has recently under
gone an operation in Baltimore
hospital, is recuperating at the home
of Mrs Ella Hunt.
The. engagement of Miss Cornelia
Cooper, daughter Of Mrs. Anna
Cooper and Fletcher Williams, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Williams OF
Elkton, has beer announced.
Miss Lidie Stewart and Miss Laura
Price, of Rising Sun public school
teaching force, have returned to
Philadelphia, Pa, and Wye Mills,
Md, respectively, for the summer
vacation.
Edwin l.. Haines, in company with
DR.. Jos. Vanneman motored to Gar
lisle, Pa, on Friday to attend COM
mencement exercises at Dickinson
College, returning to Rising Sun on
\ Tuesday.
Marshall Thompson, principal OF
North East High School, has been
elected president of the Alumni
Association of the school.
Ten U. S. Army trucks are to be
put in shape at Oxford, before send
ing the machines to Porto Rico
!, where they will be placed in mai
service.
DR.. Walter Hull1hen, dean of the
, University of the South, Sswanee
= Tennessee, will succeed DR.. Sam1e
C. Mitchell as president of Delaware
College, Newark.
! The Southern Transportation Com
: pany has purchased two ships of The
. Shipping Board and are converting
them into barges at their Chesapeake
, City ship yards.
The w. C. T. U. met Saturday
afternoon at the home of Hannah
and Mabel Reynolds. Flower Mis-
sion Day was observed, twenty-five
bouquets were made and distributed
to the sick and shut-ins.
Miss Elizabeth Lee Scott, daughter
r of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Scott, o.
Elkton, a student of the local school
won the gold medal offered by thu
, county school board Tor the highes
! proficiency in studies during thu
past year.
f An artillery train of 80 pieces ligh
S artillery, 1875 horses and men, unde
A command of Lieut.. G. B. Haymal
= and enroute from Virginia to CAM
S Dix, N. j., is expected to pass through
z this section next week, as camp will
Y be pitched near Kennett Square TO
e one night,
= The town of Oxford was in dark
= ness Sunday night, as the result G
lghtaing striking the steeple Of OK
:, ford Presbyterian church and burn
q ing up a transformer there, and als'
n one at the caramel factory. TIL
+ town was without electric light o
r power until Monday afternoon.
9 The commencement address to tn
9 graduates of the Tome Senior Schoo
= for Girls was delivered in Memoria
4 Hall, Port Deposit, Thursday after
noon by Miss Florence E. Bamberge
of the Johns Hopkins Universit
faculty.
;. Miss Bamberger conducted Uni
= versity Extension Glass of fcurteel
public school teachers at Rising Su
Il the past winter and spring.
t. The difficulty in raising cucumber
is the vines are frequently eaten u
l. by bugs. An old gardener says plan
}. a nasturtium seed in each hill an
h there will be no trouble raising
"cukes."