The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-05-31
NTY N EWS,
Friday, May 81 1901.
Ml>.OR LOCALS
Public schools close today.

sunday, June Z.
A colored camp will be held at
Gilpin's Rocks beginning about
the middle Of July.
Union M. E. Sunday school will
hold strawberry festival on June
5. If stormy, it will be held the
next fair evening.
The Commencement exercises at
the Jacob Tome Institute will be
held on June 25. There are twenty
two in the graduating class.
Commencement exercises will be
held at Oak Grove school this after
noon. Rev. j. Earle Maloy will
deliver an address and present the
certificates.
Frank Everitt, of Kent county,
has been lodged in Elkton Jail,
charged with assaulting John Reg
lister and John Baker, of near Cecil
ton, with knife.
Rev. T. E. Terry, formerly of
Elkton but now pastor of Asbury
Church, near Crisfeld, Md, has
had his salary increased from $1,000
to $1,000 per year.
A strawberry and ice cream fes-
tiyal will be held at Ebenezer
church Oh Thursday evening, June
6. If stormy, festival will be held
on the next fair evening.
Governor Smith has committed
the sentence of Matthew Cheers,
who was to be hanged today at
Centreville, for the murder of Sol
ONION Roberts, to imprisonment for
life.
Six small children, James, Chas.,
Harry, Allen, Florence and Ida
Gilmore, of Port Deposit, were
taken to the Henry Watson Home,
Baltimore, on Monday by Sheriff
Price.
The small farm of the late Chas.
w. Jackson, situated near Blyth-
dale and containing IL acres of land
with improvements, was sold at
trustees sale last week to Vim. Fl.
Baker, for $3.50.
The estate of Benjamin G. Reyn-
olds, deceased, Oxford, was audited
at West Chester Tuesday, under
direction of auditor T. S. Butler.
About $4,000 is divi led among
the heirs under the will.
Martha Washington Council, No.
5, Daughters of Liberty, of Calvert,
celebrated their seventh anniver-
versary on May 81, with grand
fruit supper. Music was furnished
by one of the male members of the
order.
Samuel J. Reeder, of North East,
and Samuel White, of Principle
Furnace, have had their pensions
increased to IS per month. The
pension of Geo. W. Irwin, of Bay
View, has been increased to $40
per month.
Pierson Grove Sunday school will
celebrate its twenty fifth anniver-
sary on Sunday at 2:3O p. m. Ad-
dresses will be delivered by Rev.
w. w. Heberton, Rev.. John Neil
moyle, Geo. A. Blake, Esq, and
special exercises given by the
school.
Commencement exercises by the
Rising Sun public school will be
held in the Town Hall this after.
noon, commencing at o'clock. In
addition to the regular exercises,
Rev. Fl. A. G. Westerfeld will
deliver an address. The public
cordially invited.
The trustees of the Jacob Tome
Institute have elected Miss Mary
r. Caldwell, teacher of history and
literature of the Conference Acad-
envy, of Dover, Del, as librarian OF
the Institute. Miss Caldwell will
enter upon her duties at the COM
mencement of the fall term.
The young ladies of Henry Vim
singers Sunday school class, of
Elkton, are to give the "Old Maids
Convention" The young ladies
ought to take heed how they mock
the spinster ladies of unknown and
unintellable age, lest the mantle of
sober livery descend upon their
own shoulders.
The mangled remains of an I'M
known white man where found
along the tracks of the B. & o.
railroad near Barksdale, this coun-
ty, on Monday. Nothing found on
his person gave clue to his iden-
tity. He was about 40 years of
age. The remains were buried in
Potter's Field, at Cherry Hill.
The Sunday school of Rowland
vile M. P. Church has reopened
for the summer with S. F. Wood
row, superintendent; W. A. Boyd,
first assistant; w. III. Robinson,
second assistant; Mrs. w. A. Boyd,
treasurer; Miss Virginia Geary,
secretary; Miss Mary Rollins, Or
ganist; Prof. G. w. McCardell,