The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-06-01

The heavy thunder gust yester.
day was accompanied by hail.
The public schools close for the
summer vacation today, is the
small boy happy?
The 167th Commencement exer-
cises of West Nottingham Academy
will be held June Ia.
DR.. J. Fl. Jenness is improving
his stable with a coat of paint, the
artist of the brush being Thomas +.
Hines.
The extension of the Childs-
Providence branch of the B. & o.
railroad to Oxford is again being
agitated.
Children's Day will be celebrated
at Octoraro M. E. church on the
morning and evening of Sunday,
June oath.
A festival will be held tomorrow
evening at Octoraro NJ. E. church.
Music will be furnished by the
Nottingham Silver Band
w. Arthur Beatty, of North
East, will receive his degree of M.
ID. at the commencement of Jeffer-
son Medical College, Philadelphia,
on Monday.
Tyson Dowland was arrested on
Wednesday last and fined $6.7 for
drunkenness and disorderly con.
duct within the town limits last
Saturday night.
The oldest resident in this section
is Mrs. Mary Brad6eld, who resides
at Theodore. Mrs. Bradfield will
be SO years old on September Goth
next and is hale and hearty.
Six boxes of wearing apparel and
bedding were sent from Elkton last
week, to DIR. Devine, Red Cross
Agent at San Francisco, CAL, for
the fire sufferers of that city.
The annual musical by the pupils
of Miss Mary F. Gillespie's music
class will be held in Rising Sun
hall, Thursday, June 7, at s p. m.
Admission. Zoe; proceeds for
pupils music library.
In lieu of the annual picnic the
pupils of Rising Sun public school
enjoyed two hours sport on the
merry. go. round Tuesday afternoon
through the kindness Of the teach
ers, Misses Jenness and Brown.
The Ladies Aid Society of Octc
raro M. E. Church will hold a fes
tival on the church grounds on
Saturday evening, June 2. II
stormy the festival will be held
on the following Monday evening.
Jos. T. Riale has taken the
agency for the Harder silO and
would be pleased to receive in
quiries regarding the advantages of
silos and have an opportunity 10
explain the superior qualities of
the Harder.
The Golden Rule Circle of the
Kings Daughters of Port Deposit,
will serve luncheon on Saturday
afternoon, June 2, at the Silver
Cross Home, near that town. The
proceeds will be devoted to the
needs of the home.
Young Friends Association will
be held next Sabbath afternoon. A
talk will be given on "Religion of
Iudia.n Topic for discussion, "Re
vivals and Their Significance"
All are invited to attend and take
part in the discussion.
The MIDLAND acknowledges in
yitations from the trustees and
faculty of Maryland Agricultural
College, College Park, and Jacob
Tome Institute, Port Deposit, to the
commencement exercises of these
institutions, which both occur on
the same dates, June 10 to Is.
Rev. G. Morton Sciple, of Port
Deposit, will deliver the bacca
laureate sermon to the graduating
class of West Nottingham Academy
on Sunday evening, June 10, at
7.4b o'clock. On June Il. Rev. E.
L. LETTERS, Prest. of York Collegiate
Institute, of York, Pa, will Deliver
the commencement address.
The breaking of the harness caus-
ed the horse of rural free delivery
carrier Jacob Berricker, of Port
Deposit, to run away one day last
week, while on his daily rounds.
Carrier Berricker and his little son,
who where ia the vehicle, were
thrown out and considerably burt.
The vehicle collided with a post
and was demolished.