The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-06-06
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, June 6, 1902.
MINORLOCALS

Mrs. Daniel Holland, of Fair
Hill, has just completed quilt
which contains $500 pieces.
Mrs. Sarah McCush, of Colora,
sustained a dislocated shoulder
last week by a fall in her yard.
The work of laying the new sid
ing at A. l.. Duyckinck & Co.'S
warehouse was completed this week.
The members of the choir of
Port Deposit M. e. church cleared
the sum of $75 by their festival
last week.
William Lipp, of Avondale, has
accepted position with Eli t.
Reynolds, at the Rising Sun
Pharmacy.
Miss Anna r. Williams has ten
dered her resignation to the trustees
of Chestnut Grove public school,
near WoodIawn.
The will of the late Mrs. Emma
Groves, of Elk Neck, has been ad.
mitted to probate in the Orphans
Court of Cecil county.
VIM. Reynolds has one of the
finest fields of corn in this section.
He planted Is acres the latter part
of April and it is now knee high.
The Ladies' Aid Society will
hold its annual festival in the base
ment of the Rowlandville church
on Friday and Saturday evenings,
June 6 and Z.
William A. Hillstone, of War
wick, has been granted a govern
ment pension of $40 per month,
and William Sanders, of Bay View,
one of $12 per month.
The fertilizer warehouse of Pass
more & Gillispie, at Nottingham,
was set on fire by sparks from a
passing engine few days age, and
the roof slightly damaged.
Rev. James Bostick has been ap-
pointed pastor of Providence A.
U. NJ. P. Church, colored, at Elk
ton, to succeed Rev. S. HI. Jones,
assigned to Kent County Circuit.
Joseph Coudon, Jr., of Perryville,
who graduates from the Maryland
Agricultural College on June IL,
will deliver at the commencement
a thesis on ''Notes on Stock
Breeding"
Messrs. Frank Shepherd, j. r.
Shepherd and Geo. Pussy spent
Decoration Day on the Susque-
hanna river and made a good haul
of rock fish, landing 81 ranging in
weight from one to four pounds.
Among the list of names of the
ninty- nine graduates of the State
Normal School, Baltimore, who
were awarded diplomas on Thurs
day evening, May 20, is that of
Pauline P. Ward, of Cecil county.
The board trustees of Warwick M.
P. church at their last meeting de-
cided to proceed at once with the
erection of a new church. r. B.
Merritt has donated a lot in the
town 60x20O feet, upon which the
church will be built.
Rev. B. f. Short, a minister of
the Wilmington M. E. Conference
formerly stationed at Mt. Pleasant,
near Colora, has resigned as general
secretary of the Young Mems
Christian Association of Whining
ton, Del, which position he accept
ed only few weeks ago.
Charles B. Perkins, of Elkton, a
railway mail clerk, was injured in
a wreck ON the Frederick Division
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Mon
day at New Midway, sixteen miles
from Frederick, Maryland. His
train was in head-on collision and
Mr.. Perkins was badly cut about
the shoulders by flying glass.
The North East High School
closed the work of the school year
with an elocution contest in which
four members from the third year
class and four from the second
year class participated. Gold med
ais were awarded to Miss Emily
Moore, of the second year class and
to Miss Maggie Burgien of the third
year class.
The twenty eighth annual CON-
mencement of the Friends Nor
NAL Institute will be held on Fri
day evening, June 20, at p. m,
in Rising Sun hall. Rev. w. w.
Shaw, of Port Deposit, will deliver
the address to graduates. The
class of 1902 consists of Mary S.
Haines, Edwin L. Haines, j. Roy
Balderson, S. Laurence Conrad, G..
Dare Hopkins.
The thirty fourth annual conven,
ton of the Diocese of Easton, COM
prising most of the Protestant Epis-
copal Churches on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland, held its sessions
in Trinity Protestant Episcopal
Church, Elkton, on Tuesday and
Wednesday. Bishop VIM. Forbes
Adams was presiding officer and