The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-06-16

TCOSS MdFIluu6lc, vi ucxtE OOlOId,
lost valuable horse on Sunday
from collie.
The net receipts of the festival
held last week by the Elkton base
ball club were $50.
The festival held on Friday eve
ming last by the ladies of Zion M.
E. church netted about SIG.
The annual examinations for pub
lie school teachers of Cecil county
were held this week at Elkton.
The American Mechanics of
Colora will attend divine service at
Octoraro church on Sunday, June
25th.
Wednesday next, Dist inst, will
be the longest day in the year, the
sun rising at 4.34 a. m. and setting
at Z 20 p. m.
Wednesday was Flag Day, the
one hundred and twenty eighth
anniversary of the birth of the
Stars and Stripes.
Rev. +. Fl. Dashiel delivered the
address to the graduates at the
commencement exercises of North
East High School last Friday.
The property at Bay View, be,
longing to the estate of the late
Geo. j. Benjamin, has been pur-
chased by Peter Abrams for $500.
Rowlandville NJ. p. church has
undergone extensive repairs and i'm
provements and will be reopened
with appropriate services at an,
early date.
Miss Ethel Graves of Elkton has
been awarded the medal for the
highest average in all studies dur
ing the year at the Cecil County
High School.
Farmers in the Fifth district of
Cecil county complain of the un-
usual number and variety of bugs
which are destroying their melon
and tomato vines.
William Trimble and James T.
Armour, of the Fifth district, are
mentioned as candidates for Sheriff
and County Treasurer, respectively,
on the Republican ticket.
Chief Judge James Alfred
Pearce, of Chestertown, delivered
the address at the commencement
exercises of the Cecil County High
School, in Elkton, on Thursday of
last week.
The one hundred sixty. fourth
Commencement exercises of West
Nottingham Academy were held ON
Thursday afternoon, June Is, at 2
O'Clock, in West Nottingham
Presbyterian Church.
Harold o. Stephens, of Cayotts,
and Ernest A. Howard, of Zion,
are members of this years gradu,
ating class at Washington College,
Chestertown. The commencement
will be held June 81.
The Ebenezer Aid Society was
entertained by Mrs. Eliza Brickley,
near Pennington, on Thursday
afternoon of last week, about forty
members and invited guests being
present on the occasion.
John Dugan and John Henkle
were sentenced to six months in the
House of Correction by Magistrate
Gilpin, of Elkton, on Monday, on
the charge Of robbing P, B. & w.
freight cars at Perryville.
Howard Gilm0ur, a former Elk
ton boy, graduated at Maryland
Institute, Baltimore, last week, and
was awarded the $50 prize offered
for the best work of any student of
the Institute.
| Miss Bertha M. Tyson announces
in our advertising columns of this
issue that she will give instruc-
tions in shorthand and typewriting.
Miss Tyson has had 15 years of
practical Office experience, and to
those who wish to take up these
branches, an opportunity to do so
without going to the city, is offered.
The Kings Daughters Circle
has been reorganized at Port De-
post under the name of "GOlden
RULE with the following officers:
President, Mrs. Charlotte Newell;
LIST Vice. President, Mrs. j. /.
France; I'd Vice President, Mrs.
Lynn r. Byrd; Recording Secre-
tary, Mrs. j. R. Bond; Cor. Secre-
tary, Miss Marie Barry; Treasurer,
J Miss Mary Bond,