The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-04-14
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The principal OF west Nottingham
Academy has announced the follow
ing change of date effecting the June
Commencement exercises: Thurs
day, June ! will be devoted to the
usual Glass Day exercises of the
graduating class: Friday June Fl
will be Commencement Day, the
Alumni meeting being scheduled for
o'clock, meeting of Board of Trus-
tees at p. m, the usual supper at
p. m. and the Commencement
exercises at p. m. June 5 to I'll
will cover the regular final examina-
tions of all classes except the Senior,
with closing exercises June 8. The
Commencement exercises on June n
are to be of an unusual character
and will prove interesting, but their
nature has not been disclosed.
There will be four graduates
Mary Hill, Ruth Torrey, Elizabeth
Mckee and George N. Coulson. The
four year high school course Of the
Academy, recently standardized, has
just been given searching inspec-
ton by the State authorities and the
State Supt. Of Education has form
ally approved it as conforming to
the standards established for the
State Of Maryland.
There will be an installation of
Sunday School officers at West Not
tingham, Sunday, April %.
Cecil d. Brown attended a ban
quet given by the Order of Odd Eel
lows at Havre de Grace last Monday
night.
The students of West Nottingham
Academy are having their spring
vacation this week.
The Cobweb Social held here in
the school house, Wednesday eve
ming Of last week, was well attended.
Hopewell Band furnished music for
the occasion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie McCaslin have
moved into the Thomas X. Hind
man house, near here.
Rev. J. F. Anderson moved from
Mt. Pleasant M. E. Parsonage to
Wilmington. Mr.. Anderson has re-
tired from the ministry. Rev. G.
D. Sharpless and family are now oc-
cupying the Mt. Pleasant Parsonage
Ransom Reese, of Crum Lynne,
Del. county, called on his home
folks here last week.
J. B. Brown spent several days
with his son Griffith and family,
near Perryville.
John Dabler, who is employed in
the store Of H. T. Davis, is enjoying
a vacation.
Robert Muldoon and family were
Saturday Monday visitors at the
home Of his mother, Mrs. Robert
Muldoon, near Barnsley.
Many arbutus hunters were out
last Sunday near Sleepy Hollow.
Professor e. R. Rich, Baltimore,
Misses Ruth Benson and Edith
Cannon of Royal Oak, Md, are at
their homes from West Nottingham
Academy for the spring vacation.
Charles Matthews, West Chester,
visited Eli Coulson and family, West
Nottingham, last Friday.
j. Earl Tyson and Norman Pierce
motored to Coatesville last week.
Burton Wiley, Morrisville, N. j.,
spent a few days at West Noting
ham.
Miss Eta Tosh, of Oxford, was
visitor at the home Of her aunt, Mrs.
India M. Tosh.
Miss Pearl Barben, daughter of
the late Reese and Emma Barben,
former residents of Colora, died at
the State Sanitorium last Friday,
after a long illness of tubercular
trouble, aged % years. Since the
death of her mother Miss Barben
had resided with relatives at Apple
ton, where funeral services were
held at II o'clock on Monday. The
body was brought to West Noting
ham where service was held in the
chapel. Interment in adjoining Gem
etery. She is survived by one
brother, Howard Barben.