The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-02-25
TOWN ANDx>M UNITY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

| MISS lNdu u1COOy, VI OAAOAu, FtoAS
ed Rising Sun friends this week.
Miss Mary Brumfield visited Media
relatives on Friday and Saturday
| last.
Mrs. Wayne Reynolds, of Oxford,
was Rising Sun visitor on Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Miss Margaret Brumfield, of Ham
orton, Pa, is enjoying visit to
Rising Sun relatives.
Charles Brown, of Baltimore,
spent the weekend With his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. N. C. Brown.
West Nottingham Missionary So
ciety met on Thursday afternoon
last with Mrs. Carroll Cameron.
Mrs. Sarah Hoffecker, of Will
mington, is visiting Rev. and Mrs.
Chas. C. Harris at the Parsonage.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Robertson,
of Freehold, N. j., are visiting the
latter's mother, Mrs. c. R. Biles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis P. Wood of
Doe Run, Pa, celebrated the 5Oth
anniversary of their marriage, Sat-
urday.
Mrs. Norman Pyle, of Philadel-
phia, was a visitor this week at the
home of her brother, Job W. Kirk
and family.
Homer Reynolds, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Eli T. Reynolds, underwent an
operation in Baltimore on Friday
last for the Strengthening of his foot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. C. Thompson
and daughter, Dorothy, of Bel Air,
were visitors last week at the home
of Mrs. Thompson's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Eli T. Reynolds.
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas A. Bay. If
Jarrettsville, Hartford county, ccia-
brated their fifty-fifth wedding an
niversary Tuesday of last week. Nj
Bay is "a years old and Mrs Bay 80.
A card from Saml Hambleton, of
this town, who is spending the win
ter in Kissimmee, Florida, states:
Il am as well as can be, and enjoy
ing the beauties of the Southland
very much. We are having real
summer weather, and / think it is
fine to be here. I enjoy every word
in the Journal; it seems like a letter
from home"
Adam Richardson, young son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland Richardson
of this town, is afflicted with diph-
iberia.
Rev. William A. Carver, who was
born in Havre de Grace, and has
served in the ministry for 48 years,
will retire at the coming conference
in March.
w. E. Malin has purchased the
Gilpin property along the railroad
in Elkton, extending from North to
Bow. streets, and will erect thereon
a large fire-proof garage.
At the instance of President HUI
linen, Representative Medill has Of
fered bill in the Legislature at
Dover to change the title of De;a-
! ware College to 1.-THE University of
Delaware"
The Chesapeake Flax and Linen
Corporation. with its mills at Elk
Mills, is endeavoring to secure 1900
acres of fax grown this year, and al
ready 81 farmers have signed for
the growth of 500 acres.
Mrs. C. c. Wig lost a shopping
bag containing 500, on the street
in Oxford, outside the New York
store one day last week, and was
fortunate in having it found by q
little girl shortly afterward, the
purse being returned with its con-
tents intact.
The Pennsylvania Water and
Power Company has awarded a ron
! sract for the dredging of the Sus.
/ luehanna river in the dam at Holt
5 wood, Pa, to reclaim millions Of
5 tons of coal that has been washed
$ down the river from the anthracite
i field.
The Baltimore dailies told us or
Tuesday morning that following
Sundays storm Chairman Mackall
I of the State Roads Commission, haG
1 sent the snow plows over the State
n roads on Monday in all sections
s Be it known there was no plow
h sent out to the owings
;, bridge, which is owned by the State
e and is free. but the road leading tt