The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-05-19
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Local Affairs.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.


Corn is sprouting.
Summer has come.
Potato bugs have come.
Straw hats are becoming plentiful.
Monday next will be Whit Monday.
The cherry crop promises to be large.
Decoration day next Wednesday week
Sugar, like flour, has advanced in price
Such weather brings joy to rich anc
poor.
-Woodlawn camp meeting will begin
August 14th.
Linen busters, fans and low cut shoes
are in season.
Pleasant, instructive, amusing--Dr.
Willetts' lectures.
DIR. Willetts' at Odd Fellows Hail. next
Thursday evening.
The Peach Growers Convention meets
in Middletown to-day.
The tramps are migrating already to.
wards the peach district.
Summer came in with rush, and has
kept up rushing ever since.
-Elkton boys, always in hurry, have
begun bathing in the creek.
The turtle hunter is now on the marsh,
and snapper soup is in season.
About this time put in your window
screens and invest in fly traps.
The "Bee Hive in the hollow is
being improved by new porch.
"A gang of wandering Gpses passed
through town on Monday morning last.
The weather jumped from Winter to
Summer, and left Spring out in the cold.
The glass ball fever seems to be de-
clining. Cause, the boys can't hit en-"
1t is called strawberry short cake be-
cause there are so few Strawberries about
The thermometer reached IS at the
Wing office both Wednesday and Thurs
day.
1t is estimated that the peach crop Of
tuc culuSuld Will dfuUuuL "
baskets.
MIR. John Mcknight, on the road from
the turnpike to Westamwell, is erecting a
new barn.
Mr.. Lockly had handsome display of
flowers for sale on Court House Square,
this week.
-"Art's alligator has begun taking
nourishment. He hadn't eat any thing
since last Fall.
The Spring chicken is around. He
springs over the fence and scratches up
your garden beds.
People are beginning to oue for lodge
in some vast wilderness, where rent is not
exacted in advance.
The pavements on Main street were
looked after and repaired this week, not
before they needed it.
Sewing machines will soon be so cheap
that every bachelor can afford to keep one
for sewing on buttons.
1t is said that the p, W. & B. Rail-
road Company will open an excursion hotel
at Ocean City this season.
The old Board of Town Commissioners
wound up their business and adjourned
sine die, on Tuesday night.
DR.. A. A. Willetts, of Philadelphia,
will lecture at Odd Fellows Hall, on Thurs
day evening next, cath instant.
Mr.. e. w. Maxwell and MIR. John r.
Hogg, on High street, have given their pro-
perties their Spring coats of paint
The "Johns" property, corner of Main
and Howard streets, has this week been
improved by new fence around it.
Robert Gallaher, of the Fourth district,
was in town on Wednesday. He is 81
years old, and visits Elkton annually.
The warm weather brings out the avn
ings, Messrs. McCrery & Boulder threw to
the breeze very striped one this week.
-"Dr." Cut. Wells performed his first
surgical operation this week. He extracted
bone from the throat of neighbor's cat.
-Simpkins says blue glass may be well
enough for some people, but he prefers to
sit in the light that comes through blue
eyes.
The Automatic Fruit Evaporating Co.,
Of Philadelphia, propose exhibiting one of
their largest sized Evaporaters at Middle
town, to-day.
Hon. jain A. ]. Creswell, who has for
some time past been under treatment in
New York for sciatica, is improving, and
is expected home soon.
The Western people are praying for
deliverance from the grasshoppers. Would
it not be good idea for our people to 60
for the potato bugs likewise.
1.-THE early bird catches the worm
So does the early corn, sometimes. A
number of our farmers, who planted early
have been compelled to replant.
"A man who went to church last Sun
day remarked afterwards that he preferred
the organ to the preacher. He said there
seemed to be stop to the organ.
"A New York horseman was in town
this week to look at Mr.. John r. Hogg's
fast mare " Belle Wildair." He expressed
himself as much pleased with her.
"A well-known maiden lady of this
town, who hasn't been to church for four.
teen years, attended service at the old
church building on Back street, last Sunday
evening.
Our Port friends should not forget the
concert for the benefit of Mr.. A. L. Barry
on Monday and Tuesday evenings. An en-
tertainment Of unusual excellence may be
expected.
An exhibition of the colored publ,
school of this town, of which Jas. Mani,
is Principal, will be held in the A. L. NJ
P. Church, Tuesday and Wednesday, jun
9th and 18th.
-Westamwell Iron Mills will shortl.
begin running with one set of rolls. Or