The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-09-26
TOWN AND COUNTY,.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Miss Ola Anthony Is the guest OF
Miss Grace A. Wilson,
Miss Martha Tosh> is attending
Temple College, Philadelphia.
Miss Jennette Reed has entered
State Normal School, Towson. Md.
Miss Helen Shepherd has re
entered Columbia University, New
York.
Miss Willamina Ward entered the
Mary Lyons School, Swarthmore. this
week.
Mrs. Wm.. j. Sterrett entertained
Miss Cassie Rowland, of Liberty
Grove, last week.
Miss Eva Nutter spent the week
end with her parents, Rev. and Mrs.
Nutter, Hockessin. Dell
Cecil e. Ewing and daughter,
Shirley, of Baltimore, were Rising
Sun visitors on Friday and Saturday
last.
Mr.. and MRS. Luther Finn and
son, of Hillsboro, West Virginia,
were guests last week Of Rev. and
Mrs. C. c.. Harris.
Major and Mrs. N. T. Kirk, of
Washington, were weekend visitors
at the home of, the formers brother,
Job w. Kirk and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon B. Garvin.
and daughter left this week by auto
for trip to Floyd, Virginia, expect
ing to be gone two weeks.
Mrs. Fannie Burroughs, Of Balti-
more, and Miss Mary L. Brumfield,
Of Perry Point, were guests Of Miss
Mary Brumfield during the week.
Miss Alicia Caldwell, who has been
visiting her grandfather, c. C. Cald-
well, at Liberty Grove. has left for
New York for two weeks visit be-
fore going to Baltimore, where she
will enter Goucher College.
Miss Blanche Hevlow, daughter OF
Mrs. Elizabeth and the. late Jesss
Hev1ow. Earleville. and Mr.. Harry
Poore, son Of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob Poore, were married in Elkton
on Saturday afternoon. Sept. 1S.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde England re-
turned ON Friday from their wedding
trip to the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. s. Nields,
Rising Sun, and were rendered a
noisy serenade by the calithumpians
in the evening.
Miss Sara Ramsey Barrett, daugh-
ter of Mr.. Charles Barnett, Of Oxford
| and Francis Hamor Wilson, OF
Sylmar, were quietly married at the
parsonage of Rising Sun Methodist
Church, Friday afternoon, Sept. ~,
by Rev. C. c. Harris.
The second annual reunion of the
Gilbert family was held Sept. IS, at
Shellpot Park, near Wilmington,
more than eighty members Of the
family being present.
The guests were the descendents
Of late Hiram and Elizabeth Gilbert,
formerly of Cecil county. OF the
original family Of IL children OF Mr..
I and Mrs. Gilbert, five are living.
Four of them took part in the re-
union. They were: Thomas M
Gilbert. of Wilmington: George M.
Gilbert, Of Trainer; Mrs. Annie
Wingate,, Of New London, Pa, and
Mrs. Belle Bowles, Of Yardley, Pa.
Sunday morning, Sept. 2S. the
subject of Rev. Mr.. Givan's sermon
at St. Mary's P. e. church, North
East, will be The Invisible EN-.
pire." Services at IL o'clock.
Making a moose with a grapevine
John M. Starr, aged 80 years, ten.
ant OF the farm OF Thomas G. Sam
worth, in the Pike Creek section ol
Mill Creek Hundred. DEL, commit
ted suicide one night last week. Hit
. body was found dangling in the
woods by Mr.. Samworth, his EN-.
pioyer.
Bids for the construction Of Rout.
! No. 1856, through Unicorn, Goshen
Wakefield -and New Texas, Pa, to 9
point near Rock Springs, Nd. where
it joins Route S45. now being built
will be opened on Tuesday. Oct, IL.
J, The road will be t7,4a4 Inca
feet in length and will be Of re-in'
forced concrete.
The Krunkei Garage, Bel Air
was robbed one night last week>oi
, tires and accessories valued at $500
Two days afterwards a pile of tires
was discovered in the woods near the
discovered in the woods near the
, town Deputy Sheriffs Jones and
Sparks, of Bel Air, armed with shat
| guns kept watch over the tires
one night in hopes the thieves
would return. but they did not.