The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-05-14
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL. HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

i Mrs. McFalls, of Oxford, visited
her daughter, Mrs. Curtis Irwin, on
i Monday.
Miss Helen Mathers, of Woodbury.,
N. j., spent the weekend with Mrs.
j Clarence Ashby.
Mrs. Wilbert Maxwell, who has
been i'll for several weeks past, is
now regaining health and strength
Il and is able to be about again.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the M.
E. church met on Wednesday of last
week with Mrs. Clara Kooas and
sister, Miss Grace A. Wilson.
Mrs. Curtis E. Irwin entertained
on Thursday evening last Miss M.
Ethel Hall, Miss Lidie Stewart, Miss
Laura Price and Miss Mabel Barber.
Messrs. Wilson and McNamee, of
Wilson Avenue Garage, are in New
York this week after an allotment OF
j six Chevrolet cars which they will
! drive to Rising Sun.
i Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Sadler, who
have resided in this neighborhood
for the past three or four years, re-
turned to their former home in
Roanoke, Va, this week.
Miss Della M. Steele, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Cheadle, of
Oxford, Pa, and Mr.. Grover c..
Thompson, of Baltimore, were mar
ried at Baltimore, April %, Dy Rev.
! B. P. Hynson.
James R. Keech, son of Mrs. Emma
Keech, Lower Oxford, and Miss H.
jeanette Fulton, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Kirk Fulton, East Nottingham,
! were married Saturday evening at
] the manse of the Oxford Presbyter-
ian Church, by Rev. Russell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Burlington,
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Burlington, en-
joyed an auto trip to Wernersville,
Pa, last week. The trip was in
honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Buff
fington's fiftieth wedding anniver-
sary.
L. ]. S. Grubb, one of the pitchers
on the Rising Sun team, is with the
Goldey College team, of Wilmington,
this week in Virginia, where the
Goldey boys are playing other college
i teams
Captain Carlton Coulter, COM
mandant of the Delaware College
cadets, has been transferred to New
Hampshire State College. Captain
Ralph Dickinson, transferred from
Stetson University, Florida, will sue
ceed him.
Jacob Jenkins, of this town. while
at work at the cannery on Friday
was seized with an attack of vertigo
and fell, striking his head on the
cement floor, sustaining painful
cut. He has since been confined to
his home.
Fire Tuesday evening of last week,
destroyed the frame barn, wagon,
hog and chicken houses on the prop
erty of James M. Tredway, located
near Norrisville, Hartford county.
The loss is estimated at $4,000, with
no insurance.
Ross Ward, superintendent OF
Streets in Havre de Grace, was neld
up by two negroes at the point of a
pistol and robbed of $40 in cash, at
the corner of Linden Lane and
Adams street lin that town one eve
ming last week.
William T. Dantz, for years post
master at West Grove, and editor of
i the Independent, is now city editor
of the Vineland, N. J. Daily Republi-
can, having returned to newspaper
! work after three years with the du
/ Points during the war.
Harry Altland, of Fulton town.
ship, Pa, who has been appointed
special agent to collect statistics re-
garding, the manufactures of Cecil
and Hartford counties, was in Rising
Sun this week in pursuit of his
duties.
i A train of nine big army trucks,
I. enroute from Brooklyn to Camp Hol-
abird, near Baltimore, passed
through Rising Sun on Friday eve
ming and camped over night at the
foot of Stubbs Hill, proceeding on
their way about nine o'clock the next
morning.
Charles Brown and William Gray,
both of Rosedale, Pa, were killed by
/ the 211 train from Oxford, Satur-
day afternoon, as they were crossing
the railroad near Pusey's abattoir at
West Grove. The Ford auto in
/, which the men were riding was
smashed to pieces, the occupants
being killed instantly.
Don't kick because you are kept
down in the world. Think of the
coal miners.