The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-28
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


phia, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Mary
Keithley.
Mrs. M. V. P. Richards, of Balti-
more, is visiting Joseph T. Richards
and family.
Miss Margaret Richards, of Balti-
more, is a guest at the home of Mr..
and Mrs, Harry L. Shepherd.
Chas E. Dare and family, of Alex.
andria, have been visiting Rising
Sun relatives during the week.
Mrs. Serella Powell, of Port De-
posit, was the Saturday-Sunday
guest of Misses Hanna and Mabel
Reynolds.
Mrs. Clifford Brumfield and son,
of Willow Grove, were visitors last
week at the home of Augustus
Brumfield and family.
Carlton Nichols and Arthur Ryan
enjoyed a trip by airplane over
Rising Sun on Saturday afternoon,
in the machine that was stationed
near Barnsley last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hill, OF
Providence Corner, Cecil county,
celebrated their 57th wedding ami
versary Sunday, August 16, with
their grandchildren and great-grand-
children.
w. L. Mowlds, instructor in agri-
cultural at Rising Sun and Calvert
High Schools, returned last week
from Cornell University, Ithica,
N. Y, where he purused summer
course of study.
Miss Marjorie Slack, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Slack, Coates
vile, Pa, and Mr.. Thomas Holt,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. /. Lumsden
Holt, Zion, were married at the
home of the brides paents on
August 10.
announcement is made OF the
marriage on Aug. 15, OF Miss
Velma Catherine Buchanan, daugh-
ter of. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
Buchanan, of Rising Sun, to Mr.
Leon Granville Caine, of Phoenix
Vile, Pa. The bride taught school
in Phoenixville the past year. The
groom is engaged in business II
Phoenixville, where the newly weds
will make their home.
While at work Monday morning
at the plant of the Cecil Canner1es,
in this town, Frank Becker, aged
55, of Baltimore, dropped dead.
Coroner Greene, of Elkton, after
an investigation, gave certificate
of death from acute dilation of the
heart.
Mrs. j. A. Allen, of Darlington,
Hartford county, is receiving the
Pasteur treatment in Baltimore,
against hydrophobia. A pointer own
ed by Mrs. Graeme Allen died OF
rabies and she was advised to take
the treatment after it had been
learned that she had given the dog
an antiseptic bath while the animal
was sick.
The gasoline launch Sue" owned
by James H. Robinson, proprietor OF
Hotel Lafayette, Havre de Grace,
and operated by George Maurice,
was totally destroyed by fire in the
Susquehanna river near the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad bridge on
Tuesday night of last week. The
occupants of the launch were COM
PEELED to jump overheard and swim
ashore.
William Freeman, colored, was
struck on the head with a bat dur
ing an alteration that ensued at a
ball game at Leslie. Freeman's S
skull was fractured and he was
taken to Union Hospital, Elkton.
Edward wilkins, colored, VIII o
welded the bat, made his escape
but was later arrested in Baltimore
and is being held.
Ira Bush, of Cochranville, Pa,
had his pocket book stolen by a
pickpocket at the Oxford carnival.
An automobile belonging to Harold
Reynolds, of Avondale, Pa, was
stolen from where 1t was parked on
Locust street, Oxford, Saturday
evening, and no trace of it has been
found.
Theodore Brown, of Rising Sun,
had his car robbed of the cushion OF
the front seat and blanket. Some
unknown party stole 1t on Thursday
night while the car was parked in
Oxford.
John Hunter and Max Dinsmore,
both of this town, also suffered
losses, the former motormeter
and the latter a blanket.
While participating in a base bal
game against Providence, Charle'
Burris. short stop on the Christianf
team, broke his ankle in sliding to
a base,