The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-06-08

Home grown Strawberries.
Examination days in our schools.
Cecil county schools close next
week.
Mercury dancing around up in the
nineties these days.
Chesapeake City Firemen will
hold their annual carnival June 30
July Z.
A festival will be held Wednesday
evening, June 20 by Ebenezer church
on the lawn.
The annual carnival of West
Grove, Pa, Fire Co. will be held Aug
ust to II, inclusive.
The supper held by Perryville
Council Jr.. o. U. A. M. assisted Dy
the Daughters of Libery netted $140.
Rain fell in different localities all
about us Saturday afternoon, but
Rising Sun got nothing more than
light sprinkle.
Singery Fire Company, of Elkton'
entered it's apparatus in the prize
competition during the State Asso-
ciation's convention this week, IN
Frederick City.
Hundreds OF cars loaded with
Shriners going to and returning
from the big Shriner celebration in
Washington have passed through
town this week,
The Midnight Picnic set for June
a. at Union M. f. Church, will start
at o'clock, with Irin T. Kepler, OF
Elkton, in charge-Jacob E. keim'
District Superintendent.
Harry r. Boulden has sold his
three story brick store and apart
ment building on North street, ELK
ton, to Mrs. Margaret Wells and
Daniel S. Terrell. for $4,000.
The Barnes Children will repeat
their concert program, given recently
/. in the Hopewell Hall. in the Public
Hall in Rising Sun at p. m. on June
IA. for the benefit of the West Not
tingham Community Club.
State Senator Thos. H. Robinson,
of Hartford county, who is also
member of the Elkton Bar, was Sc
lected by the Democratic leaders OF
Maryland as their candidate for At
torney General at the September pri~
maries. There will likely be no op-
position to his candidacy.
A violent electrical storm swept
over this section between five and Blk
O'Clock Sunday evening. LIMBS
were whipped from trees by the
high wind, but no serious damage
done. The rain that fell was badly
needed by all growing vegetation
The storm cooled the atmosphere
the day having been hot one.
Major F. C. Harrington and John
s. Doyle, of the U. S. Government
Survey, in connection with the rivers
and harbors improvement, after max
ing an inspection of the channel OF
the North East river, have given the
citizens of North East assurance that
the work of improving the channel
will be done, provided one-third OF
the cost is paid by the town. ;
Two young men from Rising Sun
will receive degrees from the Un1ver-
sity of Maryland this month. Geo.
e. Clifford will be graduated from the
the college Of arts and sciences
while Walter 9. England will COM
plete his course in the college OF
agriculture.
Commencement week will begin
Sunday. June 10, with the bacca-
laureate sermon by Bishop William
F. Mcdowell of the Methodist Epis-
copai Church and will continue all
week. the degrees being awarded at
exercises to be held from l to 100
O'Clock ON Saturday. the 10th. Hon.
Alexander Armstrong, Attorney Gen-
eral of Md. will give the address.
]. Knox Insley. Commissioner OF
Labor and Statistics, Baltimore
Maryland, mas huIhoriHeu ~ ~. ~
Dodson, of Rising Sun, Maryland, to
issue permits in Cecil County for
children between the ages OF fourteen
and sixteen to work. In order to re-
ceive these permits. children must
comply with the school law, which
requires all children between the
ages Of thirteen and seventeen to at
tend school one hundred days an
nually. Vacation permits may be
issued to those who attend school
one hundred days and these Vaca-
ton permits are good until Novem-
n her lst. On November 1st all one
hundred day boys and girls are re-
quirsd to enter ashnoA s.