The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-03-26
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

! Miss Nan Mccoy, of Oxford, was q
visitor in town last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Quigley
we're visitors last week. of Ferree
Johnson and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Timanus J. Wilson.
of North Tonawanda, N Y, visite,
Rising Sun relatives during the
week.
Rev. and Mrs w. G. Koons and
Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Reed are al
tending NJ E. Conference in VIII
milgton.
Mrs. John P. Wilson, who has
been spending some time in Zion, re-
turned to her farm near Rising Sun.
this week.
The marriage of Miss Anna Willig
and Otis r. White, Of Kinks Mills,
Lancaster county, has been an
nounced.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Pilling Of New
ark. have announced the engagement
of their daughter, Corpelia Gillespie
Pilling, to Donald Pancost Horsey,
Of Dover, Delaware.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Ross Flaharty,
Kirkwood, have issued invitations to
the wedding of their daughter, Olive
B., and. Mr.. Clarence Webster, at
noon, Saturday, April 8.
Rev. w. H. Micheals and family
are visitors of Edwin Haines. Mr..
Micheals is member of Philadel-
phia M. E. Conference and has been
reappointed to Media charge
Amos r. Brown, of Kennett
Square, was a Rising Sun visitor the
past week. Mr.. Brown has just. re-
turned from. Florida and reports an
enjoyable trip to the sunny South.
Rev. H. E. Reed, pastor of Rising
Sun M. E. church for the past three
years, has been transferred to the
4 Philadelphia Conference and assign.
!, ed to the charge at Langhorne, Pa.
The engagement of Miss Elizabeth
/ Bulkley Smith, daughter of the late
i William B. Smith of Montclair, N. j.,
\ to Capt Wallace Williams, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank E. Williams, of
near Elkton, has been announced.
The engagement of Miss Elizabeth
Kelley Wright, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel j. Wright, of Newark,
to Benjamin Franklin Proud was
announced at bridge luncheon at
| their home. Mr.. Proud is the physi-
cal and athletic director of the Hack
ley school of Tarrytown, New York.
All farmers are urged to test their
corn and clover seed before planting
time arrives. A great deal of seed
is reported to be of poor vitality.
A bill authorizing a bond issue
4 for building roads and bridges in
Cecil county has been introduced in
the Senate.
I Among bills introduced in the
Maryland Legislature, pertaining to
Cecil county was one requiring the
Clerk of the Court to ask under oath
the names, residences, color and
relationship of applicants for mar
riage,
Thomas Nelson Page, former
American Ambassador to Italy, will
4 deliver the address to Delaware Col
lege graduates at the coming COM
mencement.
i The State Central Committee for
Cecil county has recommended for
!. appointment as School Commissioner
Fred Lewis, of Elkton, to succeed
William M. Pogue, of Rising Sum-
j, At a citizens meeting, held in
Cecilton last week arrangements
!. were made for reconstructing the
electric light plant burned last De-
]. cember.
Grant Wardell, at hearing be-
/, fore Police Justice. Cove s. Scotten
+, on Saturday, March goth. plead
: guilty and was fined for his failure
to have his children attend the Per-
ryville School in accordance with the
Compulsory Attendance Law.
The first quarterly distribution OF
! the State School fund, totalline
4 $400, 900, has been announced by
Comptroller Lee. sS7,5O0 Is allow
ed for text books and .s12.50O fol
supplies. Cecii's share is State
School Tax. $5,774.37; Textbooks
$6S5.03; Supplies. $211.6S.
! The Midland Journal was favored
this week with a beautiful bloom
from cup cactus, raised by Mrs. l.
: r. Atkinson. of near town, who is 9
!. plant lover and has a variety OF
flowers that attest her skill and care
: full attention by the beauty of theil
blooms.