The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-06-19

Considerable damage is reported
to the wheat by blight.
There will he a festival at Mt.
Pleasant on July 3rd instead of
July 4th as usual.
Beginning July ] the stores in
Elkton will close at 6o'clock every
evening, except Saturday.
Sunday, 21st inst, is the longest
day of the year, and summer
officially begins on that date.
John G. Constable, of Elkton,
has been appointed to position
on the engineer corps of the State
Roads Commission.
The Rising Sun Cornet Band
will furnish music at the festival
this evening, held by the Oakryn
Band, at Oakryn, Pa.
Miss Ida W. Rothwell has enter
ed suit in the Circuit Court for
Cecil County against Marshall ID.
Mcdaniel for slander.
Fifty applicants took the second
grade teachers examinations at
Elkton this week, and forty the
first grade examinations.
The moving machine is to be
heard in all sections, harvest being
under way, with the general re-
port of fine crop of hay.
Arthur Diggs, 'colored, has been
held for Court under $3.50 bail each,
in four counts, for violations of the
prohibitory law of the county.
The fifth anniversary of the ded
ication of the Methodist Episcopal
church at North East was celebra
ted with appropriate services on
Sunday.
William H. Armstrong has sold
his farm at Fair Hill, now tenanted
by John Peterson, to William
SPOTS, of oClearfeld, Pa, for
$4,000.
a festival win be held at Pilot on
Saturday evening, June q, for the
benefit of Bethesda church. Music
viii be rendered by Rising Sun
Cornet Band.
Company E. First Maryland
Regiment, returned to lllkton Mon
day evening after spending ten
days in artillery and coast defense
practice at Fort Howard.
DR.. John H. lamar, chaplain of
Cecil Royal Arch Masons, of Elk
ton, has been presented with a
handsome chaplain's badge by the
members of the chapter.
Open air services are held every
Sunday evening on the base ball
grounds at Port Deposit, by Rev.
Vaughn S. Collins, pastor of Tome
Memorial M. E. church.
Within the past two or three
weeks repeated raids have been
made on the chicken houses of G.
T. Snyder, and twenty eight of his
finely bred white leghorns stolen.
A successful festival was held on
the lawn of Hopewell M. e. church
Tuesday evening, a big crowd
being in attendance, The Mechan-
ics' Band of Bay View furnished
music.
The William Pinkney Whyte
medal, offered by Attorney General
Isaac Lobe Strauss, to students OF
MARYLAND Agricultural College for
excellence in oratory, was awarded
to Millard E. Tydings, of Havre de
Grace.
There was a large congregation
both morning and evening at Mt.
Pleasant Church, for Children's
Day. In the morning % children
and adults were baptized. The
subject of the sermon for Sunday,
June 81, will be "Waste."
Children's Day was observed at
James M. E. church on Sunday
evening. The church was filled to
overflowing, and well rendered
program given by the members OF
Che Sunday school. The collections
taken up for educational purposes
in the morning and evening
amounted to about $50.
The hoped for and much needed
rain reached this section on Mon
day afternoon, and was most well
come visitant. The ground had
become very dry, and crops and
syouetation in General were suffering