The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-09
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


ten is i'll with pneumonia.
Norman Pyle, of Philadelphia, was
Saturday-Sunday visitor in Rising
SUM-
Henry McNeal, of Carlisle, Pa,
was a Sunday guest at the home OF
j. l.. Stephens.
Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Robley
have been visiting their daughter,
Mrs. Edwin l.. Haines.
H. M. Wilson attended the auto
show in New York this week and en-
joyed trip to West Point.
Miss Florence Steele, of Oxford,
and Norman Kent, of Camden, N. j.,
were married in Elkton last week.
Mrs. Edward Brown was taken to-
Maryland General Hospital, Balti-
more, on Tuesday for an operation.
H. NJ. Duyckinck, proprietor OF
Rising Sun Garage, was in New York
this week attending the auto show.
Miss Anne Murray, of Wilmington,
and Miss Violet Barben, of Oxford
were guests this week of Mrs. Curtis
E. Irwin.
Miss Evelyn L. Sharon, of Elkton,
and John Edward Weaver, of Havre
de Grace, were married in Elkton
December 81.
VIM. M. sPogue and Jos. T. Tyson
attended the Jackson Day banquet
in Washington on Thursday evening
of this week.
Miss Maude Slicer, of Philadel-
phia, was a visitor at the home OF
her uncle, N. C. Brown, and family
during the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Tennis, OF Lib
erty Square, Lancaster county, en-
tertained their friends and neigh
bors in honor of their golden we'd
ding anniversary Tuesday evening,
December %.
Miss frankie A. Kline, A. B., of
Tower City, Pa, who is teaching at
the West Nottingham Academy. is
graduate of the Lebanon Valley Col
lege, Annville, Pa, not Albright as
was incorrectly reported by our cor
respondent last week.
Miss Pearl Miller, of Amboy, ILL.,,
and Harry Montgomery, formerly of
Cecil county, were married Decem-
ber 13. Mr.. Montgomery was a
former teacher in Cecil county. He
was graduated from Delaware Col
lege as an electrical engineer in
1914.
Former Sheriff J. Wesley Meal
lister has purchased the Truite
farm, partly within the limits of the
town of Elkton, and will divide it
into building lots and open streets
through the property.
The boiler in the engine room of
the fertilizer plant at Frenchtown,
near Perryville, blew up on Tuesday.
The engine room was wrecked, but
the engineer escaped fatal injuries,
although painfully scalded.
Henry A. Warburton, Esq, assum-
ed the duties of States Attorney of
Cecil County on Monday, January 5,
succeeding Joshua Clayton, Esq,
who was appointed by the Court to
fill the unexpired term Of Charles B.
Finley, Esq, resigned.
There will be a Union Service OF
the churches of Port Deposit In the
Presbyterian Church on Sunday,
Jan. IL, at eleven O'Clock a. m. Miss
Mccormick will speak on conditions
in Armenia and Syria. She will also
speak at Asbury M. E. Church in the
afternoon at two o'clock.
While on the way to Perryville,
Tuesday, the car of Chester Owens,
who was accompanied by Clyde
Keilholtz and VIM. Robinson, skid
ded on the icy road, ran up the bank
and upset. Fortunately noAe of the
occupants were injured, and after
clambering out and setting Lizzie
on all fours, proceeded to their
destination.
Census enumerator w. w. John
ston, of Elkton, began the canvass OF
the town of Rising Sun on Monday
and expected to finish by Thursday
of this week. when he will visit every
4 farm and house in the Sixth dis
trict,-no small task to be completed
in the month of January, as the list
of items to be canvassed on each
farm is lengthy one.
The home of Charles e. Seward
near Stepney, Hartford county, was
destroyed by fire Friday night. The
dwelling was fine old stone and
brick mansion and was one OF the
oldest houses in Hartford county
having been built in 1859.