The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-04-14


| friends in Baltimore.
Miss Elizabeth R. Stephens is
visiting relatives in Media, Pa.
Miss Louise Worthington is en-
joying a visit in Philadelphia.
Miss Lidie Stewart is spending the
Easter-tide with Philadelphia rela-
tives.
Mrs. J. B. Slicer and daughter
were Philadelphia visitors on Mon
day and Tuesday.
H. L. Worthington and son Ned,
of Baltimore, spent Wednesday and
Thursday with Rising Sun relatives
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. T. Mcclure
and three sons, of Philadelphia,
were Rising Sun visitors on Sunday.
Mrs. Stanley Sutton and son, Of
Woodbury., N. j., have been spend
ing the week with Mr.. and Mrs.
Lynn B. Gillespie.
Miss Elizabeth Ewing, of Rocky
Mount, North Carolina, is spending
some time with her aunt, Miss Eliza
Ewing, West Nottingham.
F. A. Hambleton, who recently
sold his dwelling in this town and
purchased property in Overbrook,
moved on Monday to his new home.
The young ladies of Elkton have
issued invitations to an Easter
dance, to be held in the Elkton
Armory, Tuesday evening, April Is.
Horace E. Rothwell, of Elkton,
and Miss Gertrude M. Butler, of
Blue Ball, were married April s, at
Cherry Hill M. E. Parsonage by Rev.
J. w. Gray.
Mrs. Jesse T. Cameron, Mrs. Tay-
lor r. Biles and little daughter,
Ruth, have been spending some time
with Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Robertson,
in Freehold, N. J.
The marriage of Miss Kathleen
Doyle, daughter of Helen and the
late Patrick Doyle, Oxford, and J..
Ralph Kelley, West Grove, will take
place in Oxford Catholic Church on
April Goth.
Mrs. G. S. Dare, who some time
ago had the misfortune to suffer a
fracture Of the hip by a fall at her
home on East Main street, has so
far recovered, after weeks in bed, as
to be able to sit in a wheel chair.
George Evans, of Mechanics Grove,
Pa, visited relatives in and near
town on Tuesday Mr.. Evans re-
Gently disposed of his property in
Lancaster county and will leave on
Monday for Salt Lake City, Utah,
where he will make his future home
with his brother, Lewis Evans, who
has resided there for some years
past.
Edward w. Vansant, of Milling
ton, and Daisy P. Everett, of Sud-
lersville, sought marriage license
at Elkton last Friday but were re-
fused as both were under age.
The farm of ]. Frank Baxter, on
the Chestertown-Galena road, con-
tanning I'll acres, was sold last week
by S. Scott Beck, attorney, to ].
Biddle Hossinger, for $4,000.
Irvine R. Dickey, solicitor, will on
April "a apply to the Court of Ches-
} ter County for the charter of an in
tended corporation to be called "The
Recreation Association of Oxford
and Vicinity"
The Westminster Guild of Elkton
Presbyterian Church cleared $7U
from the play, "Ye Old Maids Con-
ventfon" given in the chapel of Elk
ton Presbyterian Church on the eve.
ming of March 20.
The Delaware School Auxiliary
Association has authorized the con.
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struction of 26 buildings, mostly OF
the one-room type, for colored pupils
in different sections of the State
which will cost upwards of $500, 900
West Amwell Sunday School, held
in Perkins Chapel, near Elkton, has
been re-organized with Philip M
Groves as Superintendent, and a
membership of forty enrolled. The
Chapel has been improved with a
new porch.
} Fire on the farm of Warren Kauff-
man. near Quarryville, destroyed
} the dwelling and other buildings one
r night last week. The tenant, who
, occupied the property the past year
: had moved away the day previous
5 so the buildings were entirely empty
> when consumed. The origin of the
fire is a mystery.