The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-03-10


DR.. and Mrs. T. B. Moore spent
Saturday and Sunday with Balti,
more relatives.
Calvin Brumfleld was Sunday
visitor of his father, Augustus
Brumfield, and family.
Miss Rachel ,Rittenhouse, of Cam
den, was the guest this week oil
Misses Lidie and Celia Jenkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. T. Janney, oi
North East celebrated their fortieth
wedding anniversary. February 2z
The stork visited Mr.. and Mrs
Edwin l.. Haines on Tuesday morn
ing and left a bouncing baby boy to
gladden. the home.
Lewis E. Martindale announces
the engagement of his daughter
Anna Eleanor, to Mr.. Paul Mearns
Cameron, son of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM
R. Cameron, Rising Sun.
The engagement Is announced OF
Miss Hilda Viola Money, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Money, of the
Middletown section, and Mr.. Richard
B. Merritt, Jr., of Warwick.
Nick Piergoovani, of Toughken-
anon, and Miss Catherine LaFrance
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Pasquale
LaFrance, of West Grove, were mar
ried in Elkton last Saturday.
Mr., and Mrs. J. T. Cameron en-
tertained at dinner Monday evening
the faculty Of Rising Sun High
School: Miss Ethel Hall, Miss Lidie
Stewart, Miss Mabel Barber, Miss
Eleanor Cawiey and Walter Lindsay
Charles Edwards has issued invi.
tations for the marriage Of his
daughter, Miss Helen Nelson, to Mr.
Henry Taylor Thompson, at his
home in Fagg's Manor, Pa, on Sat
urday, March 18th at twelve O'Clock
F, A. Hambleton has sold his
dwelling property on East Main
street, In this town, to Jos. T. Rich
ards, of Celora. The new purchaser
will take possession on May 1, when
Mr.. Hambleton will move to Phila-
delphia or a suburb of the city, in
order to better take care of his ter
ritory which has been extended with
the Griffith & Boyd Co., of Balti.
more. Mr.. Hambleton has been
with the firm. which is one of tn
largest fertilizer manufacturing con-
Germs in the country, for twenty-five
years.
Treasurer KraHser, of Chester
County, received last week from
State Treasurer Charles Snyder a
check for $767a.ss, 1t represents
Chester county's share of the State
tax of one cent per gallon levied on
gasoline.
Joseph Brinton Thompson, real
estate dealer of West Chester, was
awarded claim of $500 against
Robert H. Walter, of the Kenneth
Realty Company. The case was an
argument over commissions in the
selling Of real estate,
Jos. G. crewl, oxford's progress.
sive moving picture manager, has
sold his theatre on South Third
street, in that town, to Thomas K
Larkin. Of Kennett Square. Mr.
Larkin is connected with the Stanley
Co. and the Schubert Co., the largest
and strongest show companies in
America.
The annual town election held in
Port Deposit, Feb. 81, resulted in
the reelection of Allen M. Vanne.
man, Mayor; Walter e. Buck, Edwin
S. Dorcus, Robert L. Stebbings, John
H. Price, George E. Trowbridge and
Francis Cunningham, commissioners
to serve for the ensuing twelve
months.
Taylor Freeman and Herbert
King, of Washington, D. c., the lasi
of the untried bandits who held ur
and robbed James Doolittle, on q
road near West Grove. of thirty-odd
cases of whisky, on February Ia, OF
last year and were caught in Elkton
plead guilty in Court at West Ches.
ter last week, and were sentenced to
term of from five to seventeen
years in Eastern Penitentiary, and
to pay a fine of $1,000 each.
DR.. Guy Dennis, of Oxford, was
one OF the purchasers at the Govern
ment sale Of dwellings held at New
Union Park. near Wilmington. Dr.
Dennis purchased three of the
houses, which are tenanted.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lum. OF
Worthwhile, N. j., have sold their
farm near North East to a Mr.,
Bergmeyer, of Smyrna, Del.