The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-06-15
Zion had two weddings last week.

Zion nad TWO weddings last week.
Syl1nar M. E. Church will hold Child
ren's day on the II inst.
Children's Day will be observed at
Ebenezer Sunday evening next.
Monday was the hottest day of the
season so far, the thermometer register
ed ga in the shade.
A thunder gust passed over Rising Sun
and vicinity OH Tuesday night, and
heavy shower of rain fell.
Hugh Boyd all aged citizen of Perry
vile is suffering from stroke of paraly
sis which it is feared will prove fatal.
L. A. c. Gerry of Port Deposit whose
sudden death was recorded i'll the MID
LAND JOURNAL last week died ofapoplexy.
This week will close up the strawberry
festival but the ice cream is still popular
and will continue to do business for the
churches.
Friends Normal Institute will hold the
nineteenth annual commencement exer-
cises Friday afternoon next, June 22d at
2 o'clock.
Principle Furnace Silver Cornet Band
will hold festival in Furnace grove on
Friday and Saturday evenings next, 22d
and 23d inst.
Harry Riley, employed at Cecil Paper
Mill, had his right hand caught i'll the
rolls one day this week and sustained
painful injury.
VIM. Yonkers, farmer residing at
Union, this county, was kicked by a
horse on Wednesday morning and very
seriously injured.
Children's day will be celebrated next
Sunday at Zion M. E. Church.
The Presbyterian Church of the same
village held Chi1dren's day last Sunday
Chi1dren's Day exercises were held III
Rising Sun M. E. Church last Sunday.
The church was very handsomely decorat
ed and an interesting program rendered.
Prof. George A. Steele, of the Elkton
Academy will deliver the annual address
i'll the State House, Annapolis, July 10,
before the meeting of the State Teacher
Association of Maryland
Henry Clark of Calvert, has had the bad
luck to lose two fat hogs recently, one of
them weighing 500 pounds. Cause of
death unknown; but hog and mule
generally die if they get sick.
That be1led buzzard appears to have de-
serted Chester county and is making a
hunting ground of the lower part of Cecil.
The bird has been seen lately in Elk Neck
and sailing over the ul1-frog.'.
The year old son of John Miller, near
Woodlawn, was kicked by a mule last
week, and he was seemingly on the road
to recovery when he was taken with lock
jaw and died. Funeral on the 9TH inst.
internent at Hopewell.
George Turner, a pleasant hammered
Young man from Lowland, o. had been
spending some time with John Lungren,
the Lewisville stage man. On last Satur
day he folded his tent like the Arab and
as quietly stole away, and ST. was missing
at the same time.
Benjamin Garvin, residing on the Geo.
Jenkins farm i'll Lancaster county, had a
large SOW which developed signs ofhydro-
phobia last Saturday morning and was
killed. The SOW had been bitten by a
dog which passed through that section
about six weeks ago.
William Merigold, year old son of
Charles Merigold. an Italian farmer resid-
ing neal Elkton, wandered away from his
home on Tuesday, and his parents, miss
ing the child, made a search for him but
without success. His body was after
wards found along the bank of the Big
Elk creek into which he had fallen and
was drowned.
The festival and supper given by the
ladies of West Nottingham Presbyterian
congregation on Wednesday evening, not
withstanding the very cool evening was
we'll patronized The receipts were up
wards of ninety dollars. A large quantity
of ice cream was left over which was
afterwards disposed of in sob lots' which
will add considerably more to the receipts.
Harmony Castles parade and festival
last Saturday evening drew the largest
crowd of any festival held here for years
The parade contained about two hundred
and was made up in the following order:
Rising Sun Cornet Band, Garfield Post,
Colora Council, North East Drum Corps,
Banner Council of Calvert, Harmony
Castle and Fair View Castle of Lombard.
The gross proceeds of the festival were
SI5o,54.