The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-02-22
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Mrs. H. L. Sheppard has returned
from Richards Hospital. Port De
posit, where she has been under
going treatment.
Mr.. Grover C. Lodge and Miss
Mary Neal, of Chesapeake City, wer.
married Feb. 8, at Elkton M. E. Par
sonage by Rev. w. G. Harris.
Announcement has been made Of
the wedding of Miss Mary G. Ford,
daughter of Mr.. George, Ford. to Mr..
Howard Long. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Long.
Miss Maude Elizabeth Connolly,
assistant at Rising Sun High School,
is at her home in Baldwin, Baltimore
county, this week, suffering from an
attack of laryngitis.>
Leone, the little daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. G. c. Harris, underwent a
successful operation for the removal
of her tonsils, last week, at the
Methodist Hospital, Philadelphia.
Miss Hazel Hays, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Howard Hays, Oak Hill,
and Mr.. Amos Kaufman, son of Mr..
and Mrs. A. L. Kaufman Unicorn,
were married by Rev. H. D. Weaver,
in Elkton, last week.
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At high noon on Saturday, Feb. O.,
the wedding of Miss Eleanor Elfreda
Grant, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Grant. of Passaic, and Mr..
Maurice Philip Juergens, son of Mrs.
and the late George F. Juergens, of
Elktop, was solemnized in s.
Nicholas Catholic church, Passaic,
NJ.
The meeting of the Missionary
Society of West Nottingham Pres
byterian church, that was to have
been held at the home Of Mrs. Robert
Cameron, in Rising Sun, on Thurs
day February 21, has been post
poned until Thursday afternoon.
2Sth inst, when it will be held at
the above mentioned place.
The Valentine Social given in the
Sunday school rooms Of the Nj. e.
church, on Thursday evening last.
in honor of the graduating class OF
thirty Junior Leaguers, who were
taken into the Epworth League,
proved very pleasant affair. Pretty
valentine decorations graced the
rooms.
A good literary and musical pro-
gram was given. and various games
enjoyed. At the completion of the
program the company was invited to
the basement of the church where
refreshments were served.
Thomas X. Larkin, who conducts
the Opera House in Oxford, was re-
Gently appointed Weigher< of Motor
Trucks by Governor Pinchot, of
Pennsylvania, but has declined the
political job.
George w. Bagley has begun work
on the Susquehanna Power Com
pany's transmission line from Con-
owingo to Delta. He also has the
contract for the line from McCall's
Ferry to Conowingo.
Charles B. Osborn, Of Aberdeen,
has brought suit against the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company for $45.-
900, alleging that one of It's engines
caused the fire which destroyed his
cannery near Aberdeen, about two
months ago,
Her clothing catching fire from a
sparkler with which she was playing,
little Doris Grant, years old. daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Grant, OF
Newark, Del, was seriously burned
about the chest and face last week
The little tot issundergoing treatment
in the Homeopathic tS,spitil, Will
mington.
The two-story buildh.. on Main
street, opposite the National Bank OF
Perryville, used as a restroom for
Pennsylvania Railroad employees.
was damaged by fire on Wednesday
right of last week. Havre de Grace
Fire Co. responded to call for aid
and saved the building from
destruction.
The Chevrolet touring car of John
Backoff, of Blkton, which disappear
ed from the curb opposite the Court
House at Blkten early one night last
week. while the owner was in stera
for less than ten minutes, and fer
which the Sheriff of Cecil eouHty was
hunting for two days. was recovered
by Chief of Police Frank Lewis
on West Delaware Avenue, Newark.
early one evening last week and
turned over to. the owner.
Noclue has been obtained as to the
parties who drove the machine OF
and then abandoned it.