The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-04-28
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs of Recent Events of
Interest to- Our Readers
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

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acres in Upper Oxford, Pa,
with stock and crops to John c.
Cheek, of Darlington.
The annual meeting of the
Missionary Societies of the
Presbytery Of New Castle was
held in Elkton on Wednesday
and Thursday of this week.
Some one with fondness
for sweets broke into the cellar
of Norman Titles house, Har-
risville, and stole several glas-
ses of jelly and apple butter.
Miss M. Blanche Taylor, who
has been cashier of the Farm
ers National Bank, Oxford, Pa,
for nearly forty years, has sew
cred her connection with the
bank.
George Cameron met with a
painful accident some days
ago. While cutting wood, he
had the misfortune to almost
sever the end II the thumb on
his left hand.
The Wheeler and Almond
three ring circus, of which AL
F. Wheeler, Oxford, is proprie-
tor, will show in Oxford, Pa,
Monday, May LIST, with matinee
in the afternoon.
Driving on Route 1, Mrs.
Elizabeth Manning, of Bloom
ingburg, N. Y, struck and kill
ed a COW belonging to Garrett
Cooper, Lower Oxford. Her
car was badly damaged in the
collision.
Edward Kelly, of Conowingo,
pleaded guilty in the Criminal
Court at York, Pa, to three
charges involving the robbery
of freight cars and was SEN
fenced by Judge H. C. Niles to
eleven months in jail.
The National Bank of Perry
vile has been reorganized and
opened for business on a full
1907 basis Friday morning.
The Havre de Grace Banking
& Trust Co., has also reopened
it's doors on a 1907 basis.
Mrs. Mary Harris Armour, of
Georgia, one of the most elo-
quent woman orators in Amer
lea, will deliver an especially
new message in the Methodist
Church, Rising Sun, Friday
evening, April '2Sth, at 7:45
o'clock. The public is invited
and urged to be present.
The Ladies Aid of Rosebank
M. E. Church, Calvert, has
chosen the following officers:
Pres, Mrs. Florence Brown;
vice-pres., Mrs. Louise Fitz-
gerald and Mrs. Elizabeth
White; treasurer, Mrs. Eugenia
Hall; secretary, Mrs. Florence
England; parsonage commit
tee, Mrs. Iva Mckinney, Mrs.
Helen Foster.
Glen Martin, son of ]. C.
Martin, of Huntsville, is. going
a bout on crutches. While
working on a building at Smyr-
ma, Del, the scaffold broke,
causing him to fall several feet.
He sustained a bad fracture of
one foot, several bones being
splintered. After a month in
the hospital he is able to get
about on crutches.
A chimney fire called the
Rising Sun firemen to the
small dwelling near the Wood
row and James farm, Harris
vile, Thursday afternoon. The
dwelling is owned by Mrs.
Harry Dinsmore and had been
rented to a family by the name
of Frazier, who were moving in
and had just kindled a fire. No
damage was done.
Albert T. Walraven, Strick-
ersville, Pa, has been granted
a divorce from his wife, Ellen
S. Walraven, whom he charges
with running away with a
boarder named Stanley Reed.
Walraven, working at night in
a mill, returned home one
morning, finding his wife, elev-
en- year old son, the boarder
and the household goods gone.
He later located his wife at
Pomeroy and asked her to. re-
%,,ru hi,t she rafl1SAd D. -