The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-12-21

OF buffalo, ~. T., were SuSStS tAS PaSe
week of j. E. Boyle and family. ~
Mrs. Harrison Fehr has returned
from DR.. Richards Hospital, Port De-
post, having recovered from her rec
snt serious illness.
Miss M. Lidie Stewart is with her SIS
ter, Mrs. Lewis Reese, in Philadelphia.
She is slowly recovering from her very
serious accident of September %, when
she was strlc by an auto.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel w. Rowland
entertained Monday evening, Decem-
Der 10, at their home in Akin, Cecil
county, in honor of the fifteenth an
niversary oy their wedding.
Miss Helen Catherine Greenwalt
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs, Samuel
Grasnwalt, OF Columbia, was married
last week in Elkton, Md, to Charles
Edward Barnett, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Barnett, Oxford, Pa.
Howard Reynolds. of near Oak
wood, who was serving on the jury at
the December term Of Court, was
taken seriously i'll on Monday. being
threatened with pneumonia, and has
since been confined to his bed.
Mr.. Charles w. Morrison, eldest
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A..
Morrison, Of Port Deposit, and Miss
Helen Burlin were married on We'd
pesday. evening, Dec. IL, at 6 o'clock,
by Rev. Miles J. McManus.
Ninety-six young men and women
where graduated rom Goldey Col
lege, wilmington, at the commence
ment exercises on Dec. IL. Those
from Cecil county to receive di-
plomas were: Geo. Wilson Coulson,
of Colora; Robert L. Gonce and
Helen Singman. of Elkton, and
Janette Westerfield, of Port Deposit.
Prof, Walter H. Davis, principal of
the Hayre de Grace school, has. been
elected. President of the Maryland
State Teachers Association, for the
ensuing year.
While playing In the barn on the
farm OF Ernest Biies, in Fourth dis
trict, Majorie ,Biles and Louise
Wherry fell twenty feet down the
barn chute. Both were painfully
injured. ss
Marshall Shipley, alleging aban-
donment, has filed suit for divorce
from his wife, Lottie. Shipley,< Of
Havre de Grace, in the Hartford Coun-
ty Circuit Court. They were married
in Eikton in 1920, and have one
daughter.
Mrs. James E. TaskeF, of Newark.
Del, is the proud pessessor Of full
grown cotton plant, bearing eight
pods, filled. with snowy white cotton.
The seed for the plant was sent
Mrs. Tasker from Alabama, and shs
planted 1t In April last, giving It
careful attention,
The home Of. J. Frank Tosh, near
Harrisyiiie, was entered on Tuesday
afternoon. during the temporary
absence OF the family, and a gold
watch belonging to Mrs. Tesh stolen.
A clue to the perpetrators has been
obtained, but the guilty parties have
not been apprehended.
Chesapeake City has purchased a
powerful 1000 gallon Ahrens-Fox
pumping engine for fire protection.
The machine cost $4,000 and is a
powerful piece of fire-fghting ap-
paratus, and will pump directly from
the canal in case or fire in the town,
as Chesapeake City has no water
works system,
Emil Kuichycky, of near Chesa-
peake City, by bis counsel, 3. Kirk
Brown and Omar D. crothers, has
instituted suit against the Atlantic
Gulf and Pacific Company for $780,
900 damages for throwing mud on
the plaintiffs property. The de-
fendant company is engaged in
dredging the G. & D. Canal under q
government contract.
Mrs. Elizabeth Law, aged so years,
and resident of Elkten. was injured
at the corner Of Fourth and Madison
wilmington, one evening last
week, when she was knocked down by
an automobile driven by Richard
Van Trump. of Hoilyoak, Del. She
was taken to Delaware Hospital,
where it was found no bones had
been broken. although her injuries
were severe.
The teacher and pupils Of Jeffer-
son school will hold a Christmas
in the school building
on Friday, Dec. 81, at 2:00 p, m.
Patrons and trustees are invited to be
present.
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