The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-06-25

visiting his daughter, Mrs. Ada Buff
fington.
Misses Helen and Jean Shepherd
are visiting relatives in Waverly,
Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert L. Burlington
are enjoying a camping trip OF sew
eral days.
Mr. Bruce and family, Of Whining
ton, were guests last week Of Mrs.
Isabel Pogue.
Miss Violet Barben, of Oxford, was
the weekend guest of her aunt,
Mrs. Curtis E. Irwin.
Miss Esther Maxwell has returned
to her home from Smyrna, Del, for
| the summer vacation.
Miss George Sturgis, of Washing
ton, was the guest this week of Mrs.
G. S. Dare and daughter.
Mrs. Ferree Johnson, daughter and
son are spending the week with
Lancaster county relatives.
/ Mrs. Timanus j. Wilson, of North
Tonawanda, N. Y, is spending some
time with Rising Sun relatives.
Cecil E. Ewing and family have
moved from the bungalow on Wilson
avenue, to the Buckley dwelling.
Miss Francina Kirk and Miss Re
becca Evans left on Friday last for
an auto trip to points in New York
State.
! Mr.. Asbury Burke Layton and
Miss Eleanor Elizabeth Scott both OF
Richardson Park, Del, were married
June 12, at Charlestown M. E. par
sonage, by Rev. ]. Harry Wilson.
The groom is a son of the late Rev
Asbury Burke, a former pastor at
North East.
Announcement has been made OF
the engagement of William E. Pratt,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank G. Pratt
of Elkton, to Miss Dorothy Sherman
Beggs, of Boise, Idaho. Mr.. Pratt is
graduate of Delaware College,
went West after returning home
from France and secured position
as city editor of the Idaho Statesman,
at Boise.
The announcement of the mar
riage of Miss Mazda G. Campbell and
Quartermaster Harry M. Andrews
was received last week. Miss Camp
bell will be remembered as the popu-
lar superintendent for eight years of
Union Hospital, Elkton. She enlist
ed as a Red Cross nurse during the
war and was sent overseas, and upon
her return to America was sent toI
the Western coast, where she went
on a transport to Siberia 10 bring
wounded Americans home. It was
upon her return from a recent trip
that she and Quatermaster Andrews
were married.
Major William G. Purnell, former
Clerk of the Court Of Cecil County,
Arundel county few months ago, is
critically ill with heart trouble at his
home near Annapolis.
Miss Marian Cook, of Calvert, who
spent nearly two years in service in
France, and who since her return has
been assistant superintendent of a
hospital in Oklahoma, has entered
the Government hospital at Palo
Alto, California.
At the services of West Noting
ham Presbyterian church on Sunday
morning last Rev. A. B, Hallock
, rendered his resignation as pastor OF
the church to accept a call as assist
ant pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church Of Baltimore.
Lawrence w. Hecht, of Havre de
Grace, was awarded the first prize OF
$25.00 at the annual commencement
I of st. Johns College, Annapolis,
, June 11th, for his essay on Land
Office and it's Relation to the Colonial
History of Maryland"
Road inspector Rolph Townshend,
who has been the engineer in charge
of the Rising Sun-Porters Bridge
State road construction for several
months past, has been transferred to
r Queen Anne county and Marshall
Thompson, principal of North East
High School, who was formerly OH
the job, placed in charge during the
, summer vacation months.
A festival will be held at Ebenezer
church on Wednesday evening, June
30. Proceeds for benefit of the
= church. If stormy Wednesday, festi
val will be held following evening.
} The Chesapeake Fire Brick Co.,
Cecil county industry, is Offering in
: ducement for investment, as will be
} seen by their ad. on the last page.
} This is home industry with respon-
sible men at it's head. Read the ad.