The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-21
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Good Friday.
Next Sunday is Easter.

Next Sunday is Easter.
Plum trees in bloom.
The W. G. T. u. will meet with
Mrs. Mary L. Brown on Thursday,
April 81, at 2:3O o'clock.
r. L. Christie represented Colora
Lodge K. P. at the meeting of the
Grand Lodge in Baltimore last
week.
The Maryland Sunday School
Union invites all Sunday schools in
the State to observe April 3Oth as
Decision Day.
The ladies of the Foreign Mis-
sionary Society realized about five
dollars from their bake held on Fri
day afternoon last.
Rev. Wilson Beale, pastor OF
Zion and Rock Presbyterian
churches, has received call from
West Church, Wilmington.
An Easter sermon will be preach.
ed at Sylmar at 2.30 p. m. by the
pastor, followed by an Easter love-
feast. Sunday school at 1.30 p. m.
The animal convention of the
Wilmington District Epworth Lea
que will be held at Tome Memorial
M. z. church, Port Deposit, in
October.
The annual meeting OF Cecil
County Medical Society was held
in Etkton on Thursday, Doth inst.
Tuberculosis was the subject for
general discussion.
There will be no Epworth League
service Sunday, 23rd, but the Sun
day school of James M. E. church
will give it's usual Easter service at
7:3O p. M. All are invited.
Linn Gillespie, of this town, a
student of Jacob Tome Institute,
won second honors, a silver medal,
in the Junior Defamation Contest
held at the Institute on Friday
evening last.
Colora Council o. u. A. M, at
tended services in body at Hope
we'll M. E. church on Sunday
morning last, when Rev. F. K,
Moore preached special sermon
to the order.
Pleasant Meadow public school,
east of town, has been closed this
week owing to the principal, Miss
Julia Brokaw, being confined to
her home at Fair Hill by an attack
of the mumps.
Sunday morning, April 23rd, at
1890 O'Clock, the Easter sermon
will be preached by Rev. A. s.
Mowbray, D. D., Presiding Elder
of Wilmington District. Easter
music also will be given.
William Taylor is walking or
crutehes as the results of an acci
dent TO his foot, which was pierced
by pick while he was engaged in
digging the cellar for a new dwell
ling at Perryville, on Monday.
The annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge, 1. o. o. F., of Maryland,
convened in Odd Fellows Temple,
Baltimore, on Monday evening.
Excelsior Lodge, of Rising Sun,
was represented by w. J. Nc
lDougal.
Mr.. J. G. Richards, one of the
examiners of customs at the Port oi
Baltimore, was selected to go to
Washington Custom House this
week to appraise eleven cases of art
goods from Italy, thought to have
been undervalued.
The lecture of DIR. Mowbray on
Tuesday evening was well attended
and greatly enjoyed. He has
very easy and agreeable delivery
and excellent judgment in selecting
.the interesting features of journey
across the continent and conditions
"Beyond the Rockies" Quite a
good sum was received in the way
of silver offering.
The first Quarterly Conference
for Rising Sun and Sylmar M. E.
churches, for the Conference year
1905-06, will be held in james M
E. church Saturday, Apr. 22nd, al
s D. m. All interested in the work
of the church are invited to be
present, and it is especially hoped
that there will be general atten,
dance of official members.