The Cecil Whig., 1884-02-02
EscrryYilIe Items.

our Building and Loan Association is
booming, money sold last week for IS cents
premium. The stock is limited to six hun
dred shares. About four hundred are sold.
\ good chance left for several to invest yet.
The spirit of improvement IS still among
us. Mr.. \. Craig will soon have Ills new
house finished. Several more Contemp plate
building as soon as the weather will permit.
The foundry company have all the work
they can do.
The Il. & o. are busy as nailors They
are quarrying at Watson's Island and on
the Cecil side of the Susquehanna. The
granite on the Cecil side is said to be as fine
rs any in the State.
Ice on the river is about fifteen inches
thick, and the ice men are in consequence,
happy. To any one who never saw ice put
away hy machinery, trip to our town will
amply repay them for their trouble and ex-
penSc. Some idea may be formed of the
moduS Operandi frCm the following obser-
va1ions by your itimiZer. In the first place,
there are IL or 20 houses, the length of each
is $50 feet 10 feet wide: 30 feet high to the
square, or in other words, when the house
is full there is solid body of ice Gin cakes
% inches wide) $50 feet long, 40 feet wide,
and 30 feet high. To put this ice in, it takes
about 100 men, II OF u horses and large
steam engine. On an average, 10 cakes a
minute leave the water for the house Tie
several SHOWS that melted on the ice we;e
planed off 10y all ingenious machine made
for the purpose, so that al! the ice put in
the houses is the pu re frozen water
For several days. at 10 hours each, there
We're 10 cakes minute going up the runs
and the stoppage did not amount to four
minutes each day. KENO.
The mumrs have been in our midst for
some time past. Almost every family has
had one er more cases, and in some we
know OF as high as seven cases at one tim.
but happily all have so far escaped any fatal
| results.
ii. o. McMullen, who was attacked with
pneumonia the day before Christmas, has
so far recovered as to be able to walk out
occasionally. w. II. Cole, our postmaster,
who had an attack of pneumonia has 81
far recovered as to be able to be in his store
and office. H. L. Owens is now and has
been confined to his room for two weeks
with something like pneumonia.
| The unsettled weather has put Il stop tC
our building, Or at least they can not push
them forward as they would like to. j. \
| Boyer intends to build in the spring, also
John Cain and several others talk strongly
of doing the same.
GX-Sheriti Thomas has given upthe board
! ing house on the Island and Thomas BOYD
of this town, is now in charge, Thomas
understands the business thoroughly and
we think the right man is in the right place
Our ice men have had quite a time They
have made several atiempS towards gather
ing the ice crop. They have scraped the
snow off and measured the ice and talked
over it, they would go away and come back
| again and measure again, until at last Yer
! din \ Barnes opened the ball on this side
of the river. They began cutting on Thurs
day, Eth inst. They cut half day Thurs
day, one day Friday, had to quit on Satur
day on account of rain. They were ther
putting in Q inch ice. On Monday thing.
was more lively and ice better, from i tc
| II inches.
Cochran Il Company are driving thing.
at the upper houses on the Susquehaura
and ere this reaches your readers, the,
will be in full blast at the big houses
Cochran y Co. have filled their house!
on the canal. uler, is driving big ganl
at his various houses SO Won NAV Use,