The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03

berries reached our market on
Tuesday. =
Joseph Coudon, of Akin, has
been granted a patent for an
oaken decoy duck.
The annual examination for
teachers will be held on Monday
and Tuesday next at Elkton.
The pupils of Blake public school
realized the sum of $22 by recent
festival held at the school building.
Harry Lamm, of Port Deposit,
broke one of the fingers of his right
hand one day last week while play
ing ball.
Young Friends Association will
meet in their new room underneath
main hall next Sabbath afternoon
at 2:30 O'Clock.
Miss Julia Brokaw, the efficient
teacher of Pleasant Meadow school,
east of town, has been reappointed
for another school year.
Mrs. Mary England, who is 80
years old, recently walked from her
home at Zion, to Oxford, a distance
of nine miles, in three hours.
The receipts of the entertainment
given last week by Rev. 81. A. G.
Westerfeld's Sunday school class,
at North East, amounted to $33.
A strawberry festival will be
held at Appleton on Thursday eve
ming, June %, the proceeds OF
which will be devoted to the Union
Hospital Fund.
James Yerkes, of near Calvert,
lost a fine horse Sunday. The
animal got loose in the stable and
was kicked by another horse,
breaking it's leg.
Flower Mission Day will be OBJ
served by Rising Sun W. @. 7. q.
on Thursday afternoon, June 8, at
2:3O o'clock, at the home of Mrs.
A. E. Reynolds.
Mrs. Clara 1. Turner is prepar-
ing to erect a new barn on her
premises in this town, the old one
having been torn down to make
room for the new structure.
Among the graduates of the
Normal School. Baltimore, last
week, were Miss Mearns Carhart,
of Zion, and Miss Mary Francis
Finn, of Principle Furnace.
The Young Ladies Home Mission
Social will be held at Maple Lawn,
the home of Miss Grace A. Wilson,
near town, this evening. A small
charge will be made for refresh
ments.
Childs Council, o. q. A. M,
has broken ground for a new hall
to be erected at Childs, to replace
the one recently burned. The
building will be 2Sx40 it,, two
story, with storeroOms on lower
floor and lodge room above.
The ladies of Ebenezer M. E.
church, Greenhurst, will hold an
ice cream and strawberry festival
on. the church lawn on Thursday
evening, June 8. Proceeds for ben
eft of church and Sunday school.
If stormy, next fair evening.
The public schools closed for the
summer vacation on Friday last.
The primary department of Rising
Sun school picniced in s. ]. Rey-
nolds' woods, while the "seniors'
took their outing at Happy Valley,
leaving on the S:04 a. m. train and
returning at 6:25 in the evening,
both schools spending jolly day
in the open air.
Mrs. John McCool had a narrow
escape from death Wednesday as
she was crossing the railroad tracks
near Elkton. An express dashed
past just as the rear wheels OF heI
carriage left the track. Mrs. Nc.
Cool has since been suffering from
nervous prostration, brought about
by her thrilling experience, and il
under a physicians care.
The bake held by the ladies Of
the Foreign Missionary Society in
the basement of the M. e. church
on Friday evening of last week
: was success in every respect, the
bread, rolls, pies, etc., being al
sold within short time after the
opening, and double the amount pro
vided could easily have been dis
posed of. 1t is the intention of the
ladies to make the bake monthly
feature of the society.