The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-03-05
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


Mr.. and Mr., A. M. McNamee en-
tertained Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. b.
Kirk, of Germantown, on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs Edwin L. Haines
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Lynn
B. Gillespie, Elkton, over the week
end.
/ H. S. Plummer underwent sue
cessful operation at the Presby-
terian Hospital, Philadelphia, on
Wednesday.
Miss Rebecca McDougal, OF Ches-
ter, and Miss Sylvia Brown, OF
Lancaster, spent Sunday with rela-
tives in Rising Sun.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. j. Bryan, OF
Phillipsburg, N. j., spent Saturday
and Sunday with Mrs. Clara Koons
and Miss Grace Wilson.
/ Miss Florence Worthington, OF
Philadelphia, is spending some time
with her sisters, Mrs. Mary Cherry
and Miss Louise Worthington.
|
Chas. S. Pyle returned on Friday
last from three weeks trip to
Florida, coming from a land OF
summer, sunshine and flowers to
snow, ice and mud in a few hours
time.
Ralph T. Wilson, who has been
seriously i'll for some weeks past,
is gradually recovering, and was
able to be brought from the hospital
at Port Deposit to his home near
town this week.
Miss Velmas Lee, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Lee, Oxford, and
Mr.. Harry Rhodes, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaac Murray Rhodes, East
Nottingham, were quietly married
/ Saturday afternoon in the rectory OF
the Episcopal Church at Bel Air, by
the Rector, Rev. Elliott.
Klansmen and klanswomen of
Rising Sun attended the meeting
held in Oxford on Monday night.
i +
which several well known speakers
gave interesting talks on Klan-
craft.
William Mccarthy, aged "a years,
manager of store in Delaware City
Del, while on his way home Sun
day night, Feb. 21, fell into the
Chesapeake and Delaware canal, in
that town, and was drowned. His
body was recovered shortly there
after.
i Rising Sun Provisional Klan and
Klanswomen have been invited to
Perryville M. e. Church on Sunday,
March Z, at 1880 P. M, with robes.
VIM. James Heapse, of Baltimore,
State President of the p. o. S. of A.,
will speak on Immigration and
Citizenship"
Prezzie Jenkins, colored, aged 80
years, relief trackwalker on the
Pennsylvania railroad between Havre
de Grace and Darlington, was in
stantly killed on Thursday night OF
last week when struck by an express
train near the Darlington Station.
He leaves a wife and six children.
Chimney fires on Saturday eve
ming, and Tuesday afternoon called
the chemical engine of the Com
munity Fire Company out. The
blaze on Saturday evening was at
81 40 m
Walnut street, in this town. On
Monday afternoon the fire was at
the tenant house on the Amanda M.
Reynolds farm, near West Noting
ham. No damage was dene by
! either blaze.
After some discussion of the
project, the West Grove, Pa, Fire
Company has appointed commit
tee to interview the exponents of a
proposition with the surrounding
, townships, to furnish them fire pro-
lection and receive a regular sum
each year toward the support and
upkeep of the organization. AS
, viewed by the firemen this would
practically make the township equal
mariners with the borough in Fire
Hompany matters.
A clinic fer diseases of the chest
+ will be conducted in The Health
i Center, Elkton, Thursday, March
18th. $50 A. M. Individuals COM
, pla(ning of any OF the following:
, Cough. expectoration of blood (spit-
ting), tired feeling, loss of weight
, and appetite, Indigestion, hoarse-
+ ness, etc., should see their family
physician and obtain permission to
attend clinic at the place announced
+ above.
The Rising Sun Y P. B. will meet
? Friday evening, March 5, at the home
: of Mrs. Scott Wilson, at 1880 O'Clock.
A good attendance is desired.