The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-05-22
One more week of school.


be erected in North East M. e.
cemetery.
Matinee races will be held at the
Elkton fair grounds on Decoration
Day, Saturday, May 80.
The dwellings of DR.. ]. H. Jen-
ness and Edwin Haines are being
given a spring dress of paint.
Workmen are busily excavatiDg
for a cistern on the station prop.
erty, the well having gone dry
some months since.
The May meeting of the Cecil
Farmers Club was held on Wednes-
day at the home of Elwood Bal
derston, near Colora.
The commencement address of
Chesapeake City High School will
be delivered by Rev. Herman @.
Fox, ID. D., Of Philadelphia.
j. j.. Stephens. of near town, is
compelled to walk with cane, the
result of a severe injury received
on the leg by the kick of mule,
one day last week.
James T. Cole, a farmer near
Childs, has fled a suit for divorce
from his wife Caroline, in the Cir
cult Court for Cecil County, on the
ground of abandonment.
Mrs. Mary A. Stewart, has fled
a bill in the Circuit Court Of
Hartford county for a divorce from
her husband, Henry Clay Stewart,
on the ground of desertion.
Miss Florence Spence, of Elkton,
has completed a three years course
at the Delaware Hospital, Will
mington, and received a certificate
of graduation as trained nurse.
The pack of herring this season
is reported by fishermen to be
smaller than for several years, and
will be between 5000 and $4,000
barrels, or about go per cent of the
usual pack.
First day School Union will be
held at East Nottingham next
Seventh day, the 23rd inst. Morn
ing session, 10 O'Clock; afternoon
session, 2 o'clock. Several ex.
pected to be in attendance.
In conformity with an Act of
the recent Legislature, Governor
Crothers on Wednesday, appointed
Bennett Steele, of Chesapeake City,
a member of the Board of Trustees
of the Workshop for the Blind.
James Gorrell, while at work one
day last week on the farm of Wood
row and James, near Harrisviile,
had his foot badly mashed by being
run over by one of the wheels of a
wagon heavily loaded with stone.
In the elocution contest by the
students of West Nottingham
Acamemy, held Friday evening
last, Mercie Brown and Ernest
Cullen were awarded first prizes;
Esther Maxwell and Raymond Mes,
bitt, second prizes.
The County Commissioners have
appointed E. 81. Biddle, Robert FL.
Aiken and Amos Martindale as
examiners to determine the pro
priety of laying out new road in
the Ninth district, through the
land of j. p. Cain.
Kenneth Cooling, an eight year
old base ball enthusiast of Havre
de Grace, was accidentally struck
in the face with a bat last week
his upper jaw being fractured,
several teeth loosened and his face
badly cut. The lad was taken to
the hospital for treatment.
The ST. James Dramatic Club
will present their successful comedy
10 three acts, entitled ''Men, Maids
and Matchmakers," for the benefit
OF Riverside Cornet Band, Tuesday
evening, May 26, in the Opera
House, Port Deposit. Reserved
seats 35c. General admission 25c.
Despite the threatening weather
on Wednesday evening the festival
held by the teachers and pupils of
the primary department of the
public school of this town was a
great success. Music by Rising
Sun Cornet Band enlivened the
occasion. The gross receipts were
GAG. go, the net proceeds amounting
to $21, which will be devoted to
the fund being raised by the school