The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-23
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Mrs. A. A. Farrant, of Boston,
Mass, is spending the week with
Mrs. Eli +. Reynolds.
Miss Olive England has returned
from an extended visit to relatives
in Old Dominion State.
Mrs. Wayne Reynolds, of Oxford,
visited Rising Sun relatives and
friends during the week.
Cecil E. Ewing and family have
closed their bungalow and moved tol
Baltimore for the remainder of the
winter.
Mrs. P. Schulz announces the mar
riage of her daughter, Anna M. Bor-
den, to Mr.. Floyd w. Scarborough,
of Philadelphia, formerly of Pleas
ant Hill, Cecil county, on Jan. 8.
Isaac M. Dean and Mrs. Elizabeth
Clark Barwick, of the Second dis
trict, were married Jan. Is at the
Methodist Episcopal parsonage in
Chesapeake City, by the Rev. M. d.
Nutter.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Patten enter
tanned Mrs. Serella Powell, Mrs. Cora
B. Miller, Deborah Sterrett, Asher S.
Robertson, at 6 o'clock dinner Tues
day evening. The dinner was given
in honor Of Deborah Sterrett's
eleventh birthday.
Cecil county is represented on the
bronze tablet unveiled Jan. 1 at the
State House, Annapolis, and erected
in honor OF "Maryland's S00"-first
to enlist at the outbreak Of the war.
The name of George A. Carey, son Of
the editor Of the Cecil Star, North
East, is among those on the tablet.
Young Carey is still in the Navy,
rated as Chief Yeoman.
Miss Edith Wood, of Philadelphia,
spent Sunday with her aunt, Mrs.
Amy Reynolds, in Rising Sun. Miss
Wood is Rising Sun young lady
who has given much Of her time to
Red Cross work, serving as trained
nurse on the Mexican border, in
Russia, Germany, France and Servia,
and although she has but recently
returned from Europe, has taken the
physical examination and expects to
be sent back to Europe at an early
date by the Red Cross.
The annual meeting Of the Cecil
County Chapter Of the American Red
Cross will be held in the Chapter
Room. Masonic Hall, Elkton, on
Tuesday, Jan. 27th, at 1880 p. me-
for the purpose of the election of
officers and for the transaction of
other important business. All the
Executive Committee and as many
of the Red Cros members as can are
urgently requested to be present.
Established 65 years ago, the post
Office at Fulton House, Lancaster
county, Pa, was closed on December
81. by the Government. Patrons
of the Office will receive their mail
by rural delivery from Conowingo.
Joseph Swift has served as postmas-
ter at Fulton House for many years,
there having been but one other per-
son to serve in this capacity at the
place since the Office was established.
Rising Sun w. c. T. U. celebrated
the ratification of the prohibition
amendment on the evening of Thurs
day, Jan. Is, with an experience and
watch night meeting. The exercises
and "reminiscences proved very in
teresting, the meeting being held at
the conclusion of the revival services
in the church.
About twenty-five remained until
the midnight hour, when the bell
was rung proclaiming Ratification
Day.
J, Members OF West Nottingham
Presbyterian church will take great
interest in the result OF the survey
that is to be made on this Saturday
by DIR. Warren H. Wilson, Director
of Church and Country Life Depart
ment of the Presbyterian Church In
the United States. DIR. Wilson will
!, speak on this subject OF vital interest
in the church on Sunday morning
Jan. 25. Every member ought to
hear what he has to say.
: w. Taylor Wright, of New Garden
: has sold the 35 acre Mahlon Ironside
farm in Lower Oxford, recently pur-
, chased by him, to John H. e. Bush
/. The directors of Westbrook Cream
c cry, in Fulton township. Lancaster
county. have declared five per cent
. dividend.
/, Fire Tuesday afternoon destroyed
, the dwelling Of William Taylor and
family, near Earfton, Hartford county.
: Michael Lipman. of Elkton, chair
: man Of the Jewish relief campaign
t in Cecil county, reports the total
amount raised $S12.s0.