The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-06-16
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

Moonlight nights.
The good old summer time.
Strawberry festivals as plentiful
as the berries.
Children's Day at Sylmar Sun.
day afternoon at 80, O'Clock.
Rising Sun and vicinity contri-
buted large quota to the attend
ance at Oxford Fair on Friday.
The W. G. T. u. will meet with
Mrs. Mary L. Brown on Thursday
afternoon, June %, at 2.30 o'clock.
The ladies of the Aid Society
will hold bake in the basement of
the church on Friday evening,
June %.
Contractor E. Ward Brown com
menced the work of matchmaking
the Rising Sun. Harrington road
yesterday.
The Austin Concert Company is
giving nightly entertainments on the
ball ground, and incidentally dis
posing of certain cure-alls.
The pupils of Franklin school,
near Pennington, realized the sum
of 1927 by the festival held on the
school grounds last week.
A festival will be held on the
evening of Wednesday, June 2S,
on the ball ground for the benefit
of Rising Sun base ball club.
The June meeting Of the Cecil
Farmers Club was held at the
home of r. X. Rawlings, near
Woodlawn, on Wednesday.
Frank B. Evans, son Of VIM. s..
Evans, Esq, Of Elkton, has been
appointed principal of the Cecil
County High School at Elkton.
Rev. il Gibson CAN'T, of St.
Mary's P. E. church, North East,
has been elected Dean of the North
ern Convocation of the Diocese of
Easton.
DR.. A. W. Harris, Director of
Jacob Tome Institute, Port Deposit,
has been rendered the Presidency
of Northwestern University, at
Chicago.
The suit of John Finkernagle
against the P, B. & w. railroad,
for damages has been removed from
Hartford to the Cecil Circuit Court
for trial.
The Circuit Court for Cecil
county has granted Mrs. Mary Cook
Todd an absolute divorce from her
husband, Jonathan Todd. The
plaintiff formerly resided in this
county, but is now trained nurse
in Philadelphia.
Nottingham Cornet Band went
to Lancaster on Monday to enter
the band contest which was held
ia that city on the day mentioned.
Geo. G. Reynolds and M. A. Gar
win of this town accompanied the
band on their trip.
The Rising Sun public school
picniced in ssBriscoe's Woods, "
near town, on Friday last and en-
joyed the day immensely. A game
of ball was one of the features OF
:sthe day, Greenhurst being de,
feated by the public school boys.
James M. E. Church next Sunday
will begin combined" evening
service for the summer at 7.30 p.
m. 1t will be as heretofore, in
charge of the Epworth League, the
pastor occupying the last quarter
of the time. The other services as
usual.
Rev. A. w. Lightbourne, d. D.,
of New York, will deliver his pop
ular lecture on flights and Sha'.
dows of Home Life" on the eve
ming of Wednesday, June %, in
the M. Il. church, Rising Sun,
under the.auspices of the Epworth
League.
During the absence of the fam
lily of Thompson Foard from their
home near Chesapeake City one
day last week, a colored man en-
ployed on the place entered the
house and stole a sum of money
left in a bureau. The thief has
not been apprehended.
Children's Day was observed at
the M. Z. church in this town on
Sunday evening last, the exercises
being in charge of the Sunday
school. A special program of
music and recitations was rendered,
the audience filling the church to
overlooking. The collection was
taken amounted to $14.