The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-05-26
NORTH EAST ITEMS.

The members of the Grand Army of
the Republic, here, now have their hands
full of business, getting ready for Decora-
ton Day, and the encampment to be
held there on the Fourth of July. The
progl anime for Decoration Day has been
fixed as follows: Members of the post
will, in the morning, visit Charlestown,
Principle, Bay View, Burns and Zion,
and decorate the graves of dead soldiers
resting in the graveyards at these places.
At II o clock A. NJ, the entire member
ship Of Wingate Post will turn out and
adorn the graves of deceased comrades
here, aud i'll the evening, at 40 o'clock.
Il meeting will be held in Mechanics
Hall, at which addresses will be delivered
and other services. appropriate to the oc
casion, will be lined in. Great interest
is taken i'll the preparation for the
GRAND ENCAMPMENT
to take place here on the Fourth Of July,
all the posts in the State, and many out
side Of i. have been invited by Wingate
Post, to participate, Dushane Post, No.
3, and Wilson Post, of Baltimore, and
CORTLAND Saunders Post, OF Philadel-
phia, have accepted invitations, and
members Of each will be present. 1t is
said that Wilson Post will send four hun
dred men.
LOCAL OPTION.
\ large gathering of temperance peo-
pie assembled at the NJ. p. Church. at
Bay View, on Thursday evening, 18th
inst, in response to a call published in
The county papers, recently, for the pur-
pose of devising ways and means whereby
the existing Local Option law NAV be
upheld and strengthened. Rev. DR..
Shermer was selected as chairman, and
e. ). Jeifrles as secretary. The call for
the meeting was issued by Rev. J. II.
Johns, of Zion Presbyterian Church, and
after PRAYER by Rev. John France, of the
NJ. f. Church, of the same town, Mr..
Johns addressed the meeting and stated
that the object of the call was to estab
lish Ill this district temperance organi-
cation, for the purpose of combating all
and every effort made by enemies of Lo-
cal Option to repeal the present law,
and to cndeavor to secure at the next
meeting of the Legislature an additional
clause thereto forbidding the sale of
hard cider. He spoke at considerable
length. urging the necessity of such an
organization, and claimed that the law
was as effective as any law upon the
statute books, and that its good effects
were apparent throughout the county,
and urged all friends of temperance to
vote for no candidate for the Legislature
save such as would obligate themselves
to its support, and also for the the addi
ton of IT, cider clause. At the close of
his remarks he offered the following
paper:
Every benevolent cause requires united
effort to render it efficient. Hence we,
the friends of temperance, in the Fifth
district, of Cecil county, Md, assembled
this May II, 1889, in the town of Bay
Wow, for the purpose of supporting the
Local Option Law in force in this county,
do appoint the following described com
mittee:
1 This committee shall be composed
of nine men; be non partisan in politics,
non-seetarian in religion, and Shall be
known as the Local Option Committee.
,. The duty of this committee shall be
threefold.
First, To inform the people of the ma
ture and working of the Local Option
Law.
Second, To encourage the enforcement
of said law.
Third, To assist in protecting said
law against tie efforts of its enemies to
either annul or repeal it.
5. This committee shall organize by
choosing president, vice president, sec
rotary and Treasurer, and shall meet at
such times and place as it may find most
convenient
/. This committee shall have power to
fill all vacancies that may occur in
its membership.
D. This committee is authorized to call
on the friends of Temperance for such
voluntary contributions of money as NAV
be necessary for the proper performance
of their duty.
This was adopted, and the following
gentlemen were selected as committee
to execute its provisions: Revs. r. w.
Todd and DR.. Shermer, and J. w. Falls,
Joseph I. Reed, George Simcoe, II. c.
Johnson, G. :. Jeileris, G. O. Carey and
VIM. Benjamin. After brief remarks by
several other gentlemen the meeting ad
iourned.
The same plan as the above has been
adopted in the Fourth, Sixth and Eighth
districts.
THE FISHING
10 about over. All the shore seines have
cut out, and the OILERS only are still at
work. May we never see such poor
season again. CURLEY.
-" \ full line of ladies' underwear re-
cclvcd this morning. GLASS FRoSr.
The Marquis of .ansdowne has been
appointed Governor General of Canada to
succeed The Marquis of Lorne.
Frazer Axe Grease,