The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-02
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

w. l.. Mowlds is spending the
Eastertide with Baltimore relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil e. Ewing and
daughter, Shirley, are Baltimore
visitors.
M. U. Zimmerman is Philadel-
phia visitor during the Easter
vacation.
Miss E. R. Stephens is the Guest
of Rev. VIM. H. Michaels md
family, Media. y
Miss Eva P. Nutter is at her
home in Hockessin, Del, during the
Easter vacation.
Barclay Reynolds, of st. Luke's
School, Wayne, Pa, is an Eastertide
visitor in Rising Sun.
Miss M. Lidie Stewart is spending
the Easter vacation with her sister,
Mrs. Ella Reese, Philadelphia.
Mrs. William Keilholtz, Of Phila-
delphia, was visitor last week of
Mrs. Mary Keilholtz, Queen street.
Rev. F. H. Huffman and family,
Baltimore, visited Mr.. and Mrs. A.
L. Duyckinck, Thursday-Saturday
Dr. and Mrs H. D. Barnes and
children, of Scranton, Pa, are
spending Easter at their country
home, near Woodlawn.
Mrs John Hartenstine, Principle
Furnace, and Mrs. Melvin Thomp-
/ son, New York City, were guests
this week of Mgs. Sara H. Wagner.
William H. Realey, proprietor of
Realey's meat market, Elkton
nearly severed the second finger of
his left hand, by getting it caught in
meat chopper.
Taylor B. McVey and family
moved this week to Westtown, Pa.
where Mr.. McVey has accepted the
position of manager of a dairy
farm with head of $50 Holsteins.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dale, of Elkton,
has announced the engagement of
her daughter Evelyn, to DR.. Paul
Allison Goder, of Sanitorium, N. C.
| Miss Dale is graduate nurse of
Bryn Mawr Hospital.
Miss Linda Burlington, of Swarth-
more College; Miss Deborah Ster-
cett, of George School; Miss Vir-
ginia Slicer, of Goucher College,
Baltimore; Miss Wilhelmina Ward,
of Mary Lyons School, Swarthmore;
Miss Virginia Stephens and Miss
Isabel Mccoy, of MillersviHe State
Normal School; Miss Janette Reed
of State Normal School, Towson;
Miss Martha Tosh, of Temple Uni
versity, Philadelphia; Miss Isabel
Pogue, of Woods School, Langhorne.
Pa; Richard Hanna, of Banks
Business College, Philadelphia; Will
College. Wilmington. are enjoying
the Easter vacation at their homes
in and near Rising Sun.
Five boys were received into
Troop /, Thursday evening last, as
Itenderfoot Scouts-Joseph Cooney
Herbert Terry, Joseph Cutler,
Charles Burkins, Walter Cameron.
i A campaign to collect mile OF
pennies, which will amount to
SS44. 80, has been inaugurated by
Hartford county's eight Rur a J
Women's Clubs to equip the All
Club Camp at the Rocks.
The promoters of the new Como
yingo dam have made application to
he Mayor and City Council of
Havre de Grace to use the bed of
Iuniata street in the upper section of
the city for building railroad to
connect with the tracks of the
Pennsylvania Railroad on its old
line running into the city from
Darlington.
1t is reported, from reliable
souces, that the Gas 4 Electric
Company of Baltimore, is supplying
the Aberdeen Proving Ground with
,lectric current at the extremely low
tie of Ia cents per kilowatt'
orr
Rising Sun electric current users
pay 12R cents per kilowatt hour
some difference in price.
On Monday of last week while
Richard Myers, aged eight years,
son of Mr. and Mrs. s. 8. Myers, of
Toltwood, was playing along the
liver bank, about a half mile below
the dam, the little fellow tell in.
The swift current swept him down
and in spite of the efferts ef Rd
Foreman, an elderly ene-armed
man, who witnessed the accident, to