The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-04-08
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

| FiSitAu6 RiSlH6 gun rcAdtlVcS anu
friends.
Miss Helen Shepherd, of West
Chester, spent last week with home
folks in Rising Sun.
Howard woodrow, of Wilkes
Barre, was the guest last week of
Samuel Tyson and family.
Mrs. d. L. McDougal and daugh-
ter, Miss Maybe McDougal, are vis-
iting relatives in Millersville, Pa.
Miss Angela Nichols has resigned
her position in Wilmington and re-
turned to her home in Rising Sun.
VIM. D. Reynolds, of Principle
Furnace, and Sarah E. Howell, of
Landenberg, were married in Elk
ton, on March 25th.
/ Mrs. A. j. Mearns and daughter,
Mrs Marietta Rem, who spent the
winter in Rising fSun, returned to
their home in Zion on Saturday
/ Mr.. George W. Long, of Cecilton,
and Miss Anna Bailey, of Earleville,
were married Saturday at Warwick
M. p parsonage by Rev. c. M. Gull
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Mr.. and Mrs. B. H. Brown, Edgar
Brown and son, Edgar, of Philadel-
phia, spent Saturday and Sunday
with Rising Sun relatives and
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Christian Knayer
of Wilmington, announce the mar
riage Of their daughter, Katherine,
to Mr.. John Howard Blanks, of
Chesapeake City.
Announcement has been made of
the engagement of Miss Margaret
Ramsey, domestic science teacher
at North East, to John Wilson
Reynolds, of Oxford.
Miss Margaret OehrIein, fo:. a
number of years organist at the Elk
ton Catholic Church, was maiilnu
Tuesday morning, March 20 to Mi.
George B. Campbell, conductor at
he Perryville railroad yards, hy
Rev. P. P. Arnd.
Roscoe Creswell Cameron, form
| erly Of Kinks Mills, Pa, now of
Wilmington, and Miss Elizabeth E.
Rogers, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Rogers, near Oxford, were
married March in Philadelphia,
by Rev. William B. Chalfant.
i Upon invitation of the Home Mis-
sionary Society of Elkton M. E.
Church, the Auxiliaries of Whining
ton District will hold their annual
meeting in Elkton on April 81.
The Chief of Engineers of the
Army have allotted $500 for main
tenance of the channel of the Big
, and Little Elk creeks at Elkton..
Inspector Atherton states that
hog cholera is reported existing on
the premises Of DR.. E. N. Crawford
and T. B. Boulden, near Cecilton.
Brown & Fisher are occupying
their new quarters, having erected
rear addition to their store build
ing to accommodate their pool
tables.
The millinery store of Duke &
Nelson, in Newark, Del, was dam
aged by fire to the extent or $4,000
last week. The blaze was caused
y an overheated stove.
t The store room to be occupied by
the American Store Co., in the
Brown & Fisher building, is being
fitted up with shelves, new floor
laid and other improvements made
Rev. w. F. Ewing, formerly oi
| Blake section, pastor of Willow
) Grove NJ E. Church, near Philadel-
phia, for several years past, has
been assigned to the Oxford, Pa.
Church.
The road between Childs and
) Elkton is receiving good coat oi
, gravel, and the road from the end
; of Calvert macadam road to Blus
I Ball is to be improved in like man.
: ner. Contractor w. D. Ewing ha,
$ the work in charge.
!. Lieut. John Boshen, of the Stat,
Police, for failing to report thu
9 matter of the seizure of liquor from
Daniel King, of Washington, earl.
I. on the morning of March /, b!
q Sheriff Seth and others. has heel
4 dropped from the force.
1 l.. M. Paschall is arranging t,
4 plant several otherwise useles
q plots on his farm near West Grove
d Pa, with spruce and pine seedlings
!. with expectation to make profitable
o use of ground now difficult to pre-