The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-11
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Miss Mary Rawlings, of Baltimore,
spent the weekend with Mrs. G. H,
Cameron.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. c. Reynolds, of
Wilmington, were Rising Sun visitors
this week.
Miss Alice Boyles and Mr.. Jay AL
free were married at Cecilton parson-
age on April 2S,
Miss Mary Gensemer, Kindergar-
den teacher of Philadelphia, was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Cullen
during the week end.
Ross Keen, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Keen, and Miss Ida Carville
were married Saturday at Elkton,
Both Of Lancaster county.
Little Billy Kirk, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Job w. Kirk. celebrated his fifth
birthday Tuesday evening by having
FIVE little friends at dinner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. c. Thompson
and daughter Dorothy, of York, Pa,
were visitors this week of Mrs
Thompson's parents, Eli T. Reynolds.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Fehr and
children, who spent the winter in
Florida, are visitors at the home OF
Mrs. Fehr's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c..
s. Pyle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph E. Reynolds
recently of Marcus Hook, Pa, have
located in Rising Sun and the former
is associated with his father, Eli T..
Reynolds, in the drug business.
The marriage of Miss Dorothy
Kriete, daughter of DR.. and Mrs. c.
H. Kriete, of Aberdeen and Mr.
Charles H. Parker, of Havre de
Grace, is set for June 21, in Aber-
deem NJ e. Church, South.
Miss Miriam Russell, OF Colora.
has been elected business manager Of
the 1894 "Touchstone," an annual
published by the junior class al
Hood College, Frederick. Miss Rus
sell has been president of her class
this year.
Miss Grace D. Rouse, Havre dc
Grace, last week surprised her par
ents and friends by announcing her
marriage to Maple P. Reynolds, OF
Texas, at Alexandria, Va, in May Of
last year. The groom is an owner
and trainer of race horses.
Supposed to be attending the Re
lay Track and Field Meet on Frank
lin Field, Philadelphia, Apail CSC.
Egerton Warburton son Of Barcay H.
Warburton. of that city, and grand
son of the late John Wanamaker,
and Miss Elizabeth NJ. Peltz, Of
Jenkintown, Pa, slipped away to
Elkton and were married by Rev.
Lockerbie.
The Womens Foreign Missionary
Society will meet with Mrs. w. B.
Cooney on Wednesday, May 16, at
2:30 P. M. Program Leader, Mrs.
Mary Smith; Mystery Box, Mrs.
Harvey Kirk.
The 292 members of the first class
of the United States Military Acad-
emy returned Tuesday to West Point
after two days of intensive training
in ordnance and gunnery at Aber-
deem Proving Ground. The trip will
be made annually hereafter, it was
announced. The cadets observed the
results of target fire with big guns.
Plans have been made to observe
National Hospital Day at the Unit
d States Veterans Bureau Hospital
at Perry Point on Saturday, May 12.
From 2 to o'clock that afternoon
he hospital will be open for inspec-
ion. At present there are about 300
patients at the hospital and plans
are being drawn for new buildings,
which will increase the capacity for
ABOUT 5OO.
Uncle Sam is blamed by farmers
and chicken fanciers living near the
Aberdeen Proving Ground for the
unusual number of blanks appearing
his spring in the egg settings. Such
5 the concussion Of the huge 16 inch
"rs, as we'll as hundreds of smaller
calibre, and rifles, to say nothing of
giant two-ton aerial bombs, that the
egrs fail to hatch.
The Pa. Water & Power Co. con-
tinuing its usual yearly reforestiza-
ton work has recently planted ap-
proximately 10000 seedlings on it's
properties in the vicinity of York
Furnace, York County, and Safe
Harbor: also some 10000 were plant.
ed in and around HOLLYWOOD. The re-
suits of previous reforestization
work in this vicinity is now becom-
ing much m evidence as the hillsides
in HOLLYWOOD abound with small ever