The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-03-26
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Mrs. Horace M. Duyckinck enter
tanned a number of guests at
Luncheon on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Robertson
entertained on Sunday Mr.. and Mrs.
Cecil Scott, of Oxford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas E. Dare, son
and daughter, Edgar and Virginia.
spent the weekend with relatives
here.
Mrs. Clara w. Rooms and Miss
Grace A. Wilson are visiting Mr..
and Mrs Chas E. Dare, Alexandria,
Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Granville Richards
and daughter, of Baltimore, spent
Sunday with Mrs. Richards parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Shepherd,
Rev. j. C. Mccoy is in attendance
at the annual Wilmington M. E.
Conference, in session at Dover,
Del, March % to 29, inclusive.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Patten quietly
celebrated their twenty-fifth we'd
ding anniversary Saturday evening"
at their home on East Main street.
Mrs. B. H. Brown and Miss Mar
garet Haines, who spent the winter
in Philadelphia, returned on We'd
nesday to their home in Rising
Sun.
Miss Henrietta Ford, daughter OF
Mrs. Carrie Ford, of North East,
and Willard w. Mckinney, son OF
Mary E. McKenney, of the same
town, were quietly married ir
Elkton on Saturday, March 13.
They will make their home in
North East.
North East received package OF
mail direct from the air on March
Is, when mail plane sailed close to
the house roofs and dropped pack
age near the High School. Two OF
the school boys scrambled for the
package, which when opened, was
found to be mail for G. A. Fergu-
son and his daughter,
Lieut. Rayner Carey, F. A., u. S.
Army, has, returned from his three
years service in the Hawaiian Is
Hands, and will spend three months
leave with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George o. Carey, in North East.
His father, editor of the Cecil Star,
who has been in poor health for
months past, is reported greatly
4 improved.
Willard Ware, youngest son of
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Ware, Oxford,
Pa, and Miami, Florida, was award
ed the five thousand dollar trophy
given by Colonel Green to the
winner OF the speed boat race last
week.
Alexander Downie has purchased
from the New York Hippodrome
the elephant Teddy" for his cir.
Gus which is Quitting at Havre de
Grace.
The new mushroom houses owned
by Michina Brothers, and located
near Stanton, Del, were totally de-
stroyed by fire on Monday afternoon
of last week, causing loss of
$4,000.
A fire that is supposed to have
originated from a defective chimney
totally destroyed the residence of
Josias Wilson. near Kamia, Hartford
county, last week, together with
practically all of it's furnishings.
William r. Hogan, soldier at the
Aberdeen Proving Ground, who was
convicted of second degree murder
in the killing of Thomas Fleherty,
in Havre de Grace, last December,
has been sentenced to eight years in
the Maryland Penitsntiary by Judge
Harlan;
]. B. Fassitt,' OF near Rising Sun,
ran afoul of the Pennsylvania State
Police few days ago on the charge
If obscured license tag. IT cost him
lS1O. II the police would haul in all
others who are guilty OF this offense
against traffic laws they would
have their hands full
An eighth of mile cinder run
ming track and 100-yard straight
away are being constructed on the
new Elementary School grounds at
Elkton. The Chamber of Commerce
of Elkton is financing the work of
putting the athletic field in shape.
Miss Mabel Reynolds School will
hold bake in the, basement Of the
M. e. church of this town, on
Saturday afternoon, April 10, at
1890 O'Clock.