The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-12-14

MIS-. MARY CHeTIy HdS D0oh ePSA"
ing some time with relatives in
Germantown. Pa.
Miss Laura A. Price, of Baltimore
was the weekend guest of Miss
Mary Brumfield.
Mr.. Edgar Watts, of Cecilton, and
Miss Esther Hutchinson, of Town
send, were quietly married by Rev.
w. G. Harris, OF Elkton, ON Nov. 81.
The young couple will reside in
Cecilton.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Will Perkins, OF
Elkton, Thanksgiving Eve observed
the fortieth anniversary of their we'd
ing, having with them for the
festivities all their children and
grandchildren. -.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard T. Patchell.
of Newark, Del, have announced the
engagement of their daughter, Anna
Mildred, to Mr. E. Newman Rose,
formerly of Newark but now of
Nazareth, Pa. The wedding will
take place on December 9th next.
Announcement has been recently
made of the engagement of Miss
Elizabeth Albert Coudon, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Levering Cou-
don, Of Perryville, to Mr.. Sydney
Wynne Porter, of Baltimore. Miss
Coudon is a granddaughter Of the
late Henry S. Copdon and is a mem
ber of one of the oldest and most
prominent families of this county.
The date for the wedding has not
been set.
The annual turkey dinner of Ris-
\ ing Sun Detective Association will be
served in the public hall, in this
town, on Saturday, January 8, 1924.
by the Community Fire Company.
The Womans Foreign Missionary
Society will meet in the Church
Parlor Wednesday, Dec. 10, at $3.50
P. M. Program Leader, Miss Maybe
McDougal; Mystery Box, Mrs. Mary
Smith.
Rev. George T. Anderson formerly
of Elkton, now pastor of Asbury
Church, Wilmington, has been elect
ed President of the Wilmington M. E.
Preachers Association,
The contract has been signed for
the erection of a new $4,000
school building to be built in the
town of Newark, Del. Work is ex-
pected to begin on the new structure
within few days.
Hog cholera is reported on the
premises of John e. Lippincett, near
Coloras
\ Hog cholera is also reported to
exist on the premises of Graham
Lockerman, near Earleville.
Two nights before Thanksgiving,
thieves visited the farm of Harry
Pratt at Clark's Corner, near Della
ware City, and stole 80 turkeys out
of their flock of 81. The loss
amounted to $180.
A play entitled "How The Story
Crew." recitation and singing, follow
ed by social time will be held
Thursday evening. Dec. 20 in the old
Academy building at West Noting
ham. Admission 25c.
Peter Mozart, the fine black
stallion, formerly owned by J. Writ
Willis, of Glasgow, Del, was sold in
New York last week and will be sent
to Europe and placed at stud by its
new owners. The price paid was
said to be $1,000.
The second number of the enter
tainment course will be given in the
public hall, Rising Sun, on Monday
evening, Dec. IT, The attraction is
the Schubert Ladies Quertet. troupe
of talented artists who give varied
program of readings and vocal and
instruments music.
George w. Harman, of Rocks, Har-
ford county. had his head crushed by
the limb of a falling tree on Tuesday.
morning Of last week, and died a few
minutes afterwards.
i Mr. Harman accompanied BY two
or three men, went int9 the weeds to
cut down trees, The men were busy
at work when limb Of a tree struck
Harman on the head, crushing the
skull.
Kennett Square, Pa. is mush-
room center, shipments from that
town to the city markets are growing
constantly. Last year the larges
shipment in one day was five tons
This year as high as fifteen tons have
been shipped in one day, and the sea-
son is not yet at its height.
i The mushrooms are packed in
\ small baskets and taken direct to the
New York or PHILADELPHIA market by