The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-04-06


Miss Lucy Carhart is visiting her
sister, Mrs Ralph T. Wilson.
Mrs. J. B. Slicer and daughter,
Virginia, were Philadelphia visitors
the past week.
Esther Maxwell enjoyed Easter
vacation with Mr.. and Mrs. James
Maxwell, near town.
Rev. C. C. Harris left on Monday
to attend Wilmington M. E. Confer
ence, in session at Dover, Del.
C. E. Dare and family, of Alex
l'andria, Va, spent Good Friday and
Saturday with Rising Sun relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. Taylor Wilson, Of
Easton, Pa, were Eastertide guests
of. Rev. and Mrs. w. G. Koons and
Miss, Grace A. Wilson.
T Clifford Brumfield and son Au-
gustus, of Willow Grove. were Wis
itors last week at the home Of Au-
gustus Brumfield and family.
I Mr.. and Mrs. John Reynolds, Cam
den, and Victor Wilson,. Brooklyn,
visited relatives in Rising Sun and
the neighborhood on Easter.
Mr.. and Mrs Clifford Dunlap, Ed
ward and Robert Dunlap, Philadel-
Iphia, visited Mrss Rachel Campbell
and daughters, Saturday Monday.
Mrs. j. G. Richards and family,
who spent the winter in Ohio and
Baltimore, have returned to their
country home. near Richardsmere.
Mrs. Ferree Johnson, Miss Mabel
Johnson, Everett johnson and Joe
Cooney,. we're Friday-Sunday guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Quigley,
Nickel Mines, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Thompson,
New York City; Miss Beulah Brad
ley, York; Mr. and Mrs. John Hart
enstine, Principle Furnace, were
Easter guests of Mrs. Isabel Pogue
and Mrs. S. H. Wagner.
Miss Lois Mason, instructor of
gymnastics in Oxford High School,
and Herbert Benis, of the same
town, were married March 81 by
j Rev. G. w. Mcbride of Oxford
4 United Presbyterian church.
Miss Mary Brumfield entertained
! a number Of friends on Tuesday eve
ming of this week, as a compliment
ary farewell to Walter D. Lindsay,
/ former principal of Rising Sun High
School, who has resigned to accept a
position with the West Penn Power
i Co., and will leave next week for
Pittsburg. Mr.. Lindsay, while prin-
cipal of the school, boarded with the
Brumfeld's. Dancing was indulged
in by the guests, refreshments being
served later. The evening proved a
pheasant one for everyone. Those
to enjoy the occasion were: Misses
Violet creswell, Ethel Hall, Lidie
Stewart, Mabel Barber, Eleanor
cawley, Margaret Brumfieid, Mary
Brumfield, ]. q. Brumfield, Marry
Plummer, H. M. Wilson,sW. D. Lind
say, Evans e. Ewing, Howard Jack
lson, Herbert Ward.
During the muskrat season which
closed two weeks ago, s. 'Sklut, -oi
, Chestertown, paid out 100000 tt
the trappers of Kent county ant
Delaware. Richard Haggerty an
other large buyer, bought 5000
hides at .one time from dealer II
-Easton.
Mrs. Sadie Woollens, aged 73
j, wife of John Woollens, farmer ir
, East Nottingham township, Pa, was
burned to death in as fire which de
stroyed the farmhouse Sunda.
$ morning. with a loss. of about IS,
900 and $1,000 on contents. Th'
: barn and other outbuiIdings wer'
a saved by firemen from Oxford.
The body OF the woman was fount
: in the ruins. 1t is supposed he
9 clothing caught fire while she wa
: working in the kitchen and she flet
to the rear room. Woollens wa
s absent. having gone to the oreamer
! at Oxford.
$ Rising Sun and. Calvert Higl
Q School teams played on the former
u grounds Thursday afternoon last
D The Calvert boys won through bette
a work in the field. 1t looked at frs
Is like the visitors we're going to put
ALI over the Rising Sun boys, tn
It score in the seventh inning standin
t. to 2 in their favor, but our boy
Ie developed batting strength in latte
,r part OF the game, and made it "a
ri exciting contest, by hammering on
l. six more runs. Calvert added
re couple to their score, and finall
/ won out by to 8. A return gam
win be played next week at Calyer