The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-04-29
TOWN AND COUNTY. :
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the. Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Ernest Biles and family, of Fair
Hill, were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Taylor R. Biles during the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Job w. Kirk and
son, were weekend guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Norman Pyle in Philada.
The Sixth District Auxiliary of
Union Hospital met on Wednesday
afternoon with Miss Gertrude S.
Dare.
+ F. H. Rink, of Elfama, Pa, a
former resident of Rising Sun, paid
a visit to his brother, Thomas Rink,
this week.
The engagement of Miss Lillian
Baker, of Avondale, to Harry Coul-
son Reese, of West Grove, has been
announced.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society Of the M. E. church was en-
tertained by Mrs. w. B. Cooney on
Wednesday.
DIR. and Mrs. Lewis Reece and son
David, of Philadelphia, were Sunday
visitors of Mrs. Reece's sister, Miss
Lidie Stewart.
H. l.. Worthington and family, of
Baltimore, were Sunday guests of
his sisters, Mrs. Mary Cherry and
Miss Louise Worthington. =
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest s. Miller, of
near Elkton, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, R. Helen,
to Mr.. Harry N. Herbener.
Miss Helen Shepherd, of West
Chester, and Miss Boyd, of Perry
Vile, were weekend guests at the
home of H. L. Shepherd and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. John l.. Stephens,
Mrs. N. C. Brown, Miss Emma
Brown, Edwin Haines, Mrs. Charles
Reisler, were the Tuesday -Wednes-
day guests of William H. Micheals
and family, Media
The marriage of Joseph R. Bailey,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard D..
Bailey, Oxford, and Miss Helen
Wolf, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs,
Jacob Wolf, Lower Oxford, will take
place on Thursday, May 5th.
Miss Bessie Wilson Gunkel be-
came the bride of Mr. Wade Hamp-
ton Johns, young business man of
Warwick, on April 16.. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. C. M.
Cullum of Warwick M. P. church.
The marriage of Miss Leora Con-
ner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eu-
gene Conner, East Nottingham, and
Mr.. James s. Purcell, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Purcell. Oxford, will be
solemnized on Saturday. April 30th.
Rev. and Mrs. William Schouler,
now of Baltimore, but formerly of
Elkton. where Mr.. schouler was rec
tor of Trinity Episcopal church,
celebrated their fiftieth wedding an
niversary with reception on April
Goth.
Price cutting on gasoline struck
Oxford garages last week and this
necessary fuel for autos went from
2S to "a cents gallon and then UP
to- 25 cents, where 1t remained when
the market became firm.
A violin purchased some years
ago at public sale for 15 cents and
later purchased by David Pfautz of
Lititz. Pa, for 80 cents, has been
sold by him for 500, to Harold
Stark, of Aberdeen, Md. The in
strument was made in Germany in
1875.
Large numbers of herring are
being caught at the fishing shores,
but few shad landed. One of the
largest hauls of herring made for
several years was reported last week
by Silver, Spencer & Co., and was
estimated at 100000. 1t required
all day to land the 1000 barrels oi
fish.
A total eclipse of the moon occur
red Thursday night of last week
and those whe witnessed it enjoyed
rare opportunity. as a similar oc-
currence of seeing the earth between
the sun and moon will not happen
for SO or 60 years. A partial
shadow was seen at 1.02. varying
in degree until the total ended at
3.05. the partial ending at 4.20.
The State road construction work
in Maryland. as planned by the
State Roads Commission for the
next two years, embraces 15O miles
of highway, in links Of from one to
five miles in length, distributed over
the various counties. In Cecil coun-
ty the work includes about five
mflas of roadway hefWean Port na.