The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-07
Mn AND COUNTY.
Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week
CAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Mrs. Jennie Gillespie was a week
end visitor OF her son, Lynn 3.
Gillespie, Elkton.
Prof. Ambrose Bechtel, Of New
Orleans, paid a visit this week to
Rising Sun relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Monroe Baldwin, OF
Havre de Grace. celebrated their
50th Wedding Anniversary at their
home in that town. on Dec. 20.
Mrs Ada Burlington and daughter,
Linda Burlington, spent Friday-Mon-
day with the formers brother, DR.
Walter Kirk and family, Darlington.
Hartford county.
Robert White, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Evans White, and Miss Grace
White, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Jos. White, of Perryville, were mar
ried December 20.
william Richards, OF Denver.
Colorado, paid visit to his
brother, Jos. r Richards, on Thurs
day and Friday last, and renewed
Iacquaintances with old friends here,
after an absence OF several years.
winfield B. Hogg. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl Hogg, Kirkwood, Pa, and
Miss Pearl M. Todd, daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs. Gardner Todd, Quarryville.
were married in Elkton Dec. 2S.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Ewing enter
tanned at dinner on New Years day
Mr.. VIM. D. Ewing, daughter Vir
ginia,. Miss Bessie Ewing, MT. Ed
Crothers, Charles Crothers, Zion;
Mr.. and Mrs Willard CrotheDs-
Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Ross, OF
Childs, Cecil county, announce the
marriage OF their daughter, Georgia
e., to John E. Lewis, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Leonard Lewis, OF Strickers.
vile, Pa, on December "a, al
Newark, Del, by the Rev. Frank
Herson. The bride is graduate OF
The Homeopathic Hospital Training
School.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter J. Anderson
formerly of Pleasantville, New Jer
sey. who recently purchased the
Howard Brown farm, on the Cal
vert Rising Sun pike, entertained
over the holidays Mr.. and Mrs. J
grank Mathis, of Leeds Point, N. J.,
parents OF Mrs. Anderson; Mr. and
mrs Oscar j. Bowen, Frank Bowen
Blanche Bowen, Mrs. Mary Cobf
and daughters, Emil and Anna, al
Of Leeds Point; Mr.. and Mrs. Elvie
Block and daughter Hilda, of Pleas
antville, N. j.; Miss Alfredo Ander
son. OF Old Bridge, N. j.. Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter F. Engleman, of Forest
Hills, Long Island; G. Walter Ander
son, Of Hargrave Military Academy
Chatham, Virginia, and j. Norman
Shinn
The 260-acre farm, belonging to
the late Granville Coates, in Lower
Oxford, Pa, was, sold at public sale
last Thursday by the executors.
Granville H. Coates and George d
Coates, the purchaser being Joseph
Coates, Of Little Britain, the price
$40, 900.
A double mushroom house, be
longing to w. Augustus Speakman
Of Chatham, Pa, was destroyed by
fre Of unknown origin, on Thursday
afternoon last. the loss amounting to
| $4,000. The blaze was discovered
I by the Office force and the West
Grove firemen responded promptly
loing good work in saving nearby
5arn. The two houses were erected
fve years ago, having a growing
space Of S4OO square feet. The loss
is partially covered by insurance.
The large water pumping plant
at Chesapeake City, which will be-
come unnecessary when the Chesa-
peake & Delaware Canal becomes a
sea-leyel canal about March l, is to
be dismantled and salvaged.
The Government expects to real
Lie only small fraction Of the
plants cost when it is sold.
Part OF the plant is loo years old.
II has been used to keep the water
III the canal at even level since the
waterway was first constructed
TIE plant WIN be Of no use to the
Hanal when the water is lowered to
0.1a e waterway Will have
6f12 feet at low