The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-27
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

vacation.
Old Boreas got a bad sun stroke
this week.
Rising Sun public school will
picnic at Happy Valley today.
The public schools of the county
close for the summer vacation
today.
The ladies of st. Marks Chapel,
Perryville, cleared about $51 by
their recent festival.
May % was Whit Monday and
was observed as a holiday by the
public schools of the county.
Memorial Day, May 80, being a
legal holiday, it will be so observed
by the National Bank of Rising
Sun.
Children's Day will be celebrat-
ed June at Mt. Pleasant M. E..
Church, near Colora, morning and
evening.
A stable on the property tenant
ed by James McC Connell, near North
East, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday.
Some real summer weather this
week, the mercury reaching as
high as $50 on Tuesday and 9Oo
on Wednesday.
The pupils of Blythedale public
school gave the cantata, A Dream
of Fairy Land, on Tuesday evening
before crowded house.
Young Friends Association will
meet in their new room fitted up
underneath the main. hall, on Sab
bath afternoon, 9th mo. 9th.
About $50 was netted by the
festival held for the benefit of the
Port Deposit County League Base
Ball Club in that town last week.
Rev. Hugh Kendall, of Lincoln
University, will preach in West
Nottingham Presbyterian church
on Sunday morning next, at IL
o'clock.
Banner Council, No. IL, o. U.
A. NJ, of Calvert, will attend
divine services at Rosebank M. f..
church on Sunday afternoon at
3 o'clock.
H. Linn Worthington attended
the big shoot at York last week
and captured several fine purses,
his score for the day being among
the highest.
John Bair, farmer of near Zion
has 175 leghorn hens from which he
gathered during the month of
April 1000 eggs, an average Of over
eleven dozen a day.
Quite number from this town at
tended the entertainment at North
East on Wednesday evening, given
under the auspices of Rev. H. A..
G. Westerfeld's Sunday school
class.
Don't fail to attend the Bake
held by the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society in the basement
of the church this evening. Bread,
cake, pies, biscuit, rolls, etc., will
be on sale.
The Cecil Farmers club was en-
tertained at the home of Jos. s..
Scarborough, Pleasant Hill, on
Wednesday. The proceedings of
the meeting will be published in
our next issue.
H. M. Duyckinck and Harry
Effing on Tuesday morning caught
six German carp, in Hunters dam,
near town, which weighed in the
aggregate 15 lbs., the largest one
weighing eight pounds.
Greenleaf Hearn has been ap-
pointed State Barber Examiner for
the Eastern Shore. The Office pays
So per day and expenses, when
actually employed, payable from
the license charge to BARRIERS.
The pupils of Liberty Grove
public school will repeat the enter
tainment, "Cinderella in Flower
Land" in the school house at that
place on Thursday evening, June 2.
If stormy, the following evening.
Admission, 15c.
One of the articles in the exhibit
OF work done by the Manual Train
ing Department of the Cecil County
High School, lat Elkton, was an
inlaid card table, made of 1000
pieces of wood by Isaac Strahorn.
The table will probably be sent to
the st. Louis Exposition.