The Cecil Whig., 1886-07-03

bank and public offices W i'll be closed.
Rev. George p. Smith, of Wye, Talbo
county, is visiting his relatives i'll Elkton.
Secure your reserve seat tickets fo
Engaged" at Mitchell's drug store.
Jacob Rambo is constructing a dwell
lug house on the south side of West Main
street for Mrs. Lewis Boulden.
Mrs. Reuben ii. Haines, accompanied
by her daughters. left for Atlantic City o.
Thursday.
Shoppers should remember that tn.
merchants of Elkton have agreed to close
their stores on Monday.
Carrie j. Shock ley, a niece of Palmer
c. Shockley, of Elkton, graduated on We'd
Roger Witworth has received new
lot of carriages. Those contemplating the
purchase of vehicle should call and see
his stock
Miss Emma Deshane was appointed on
Wednesday by the County Commissioners
to the vacant scholarship in st. Mary's Fe-
male Seminary.
The hour of evening service ut Trinity
Church, beginning with tomorrow (Sun-
day., will be & o'clock, the service closing
at 6:45 p. IN. All are welcome.
Clarence c. Strickland, of the Elkton
National Bank, arrived home the latter
part of last week from visit to st. Paul
and other Western cities.
-"Lige" Boyer, a well-known young
colored man of Elkton, died on Wednesday
NJ of consumption. He was at one time man
of great strength and popular among his
people.
MIR. Charles f. Moore our new County
Treasurer, in accordance with the provi-
sions of the law creating the office, assumed
his duties on Thursday. We wish him all
possible personal and official success.
After many vexatious delays, the Elk
ton Amateur Dramatic Association will
render Engaged" on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings of next week, July 9TH
and Sth, in Odd Fellows Hall.
"A night service Cat the hour of S) will
\ be held at the Church of the Good Shep-
herd, Chesapeake City, beginning with to-
morrow Sunday, and taking the place of
the usual afternoon service. All are well
come.
Tomorrow is quarterly meeting day at
the a. L. NJ. p. Church in this town, of
which the Rev. VIM. Savoy is pastor.
Lovefeast at 81 o'clock n. m, preaching at
10 o'clock a. m, with sacrament aud ser
vice in the evening at o'clock.
Elmer Hynson, young man who
has recently been in the employ of VIM. T..
Boulden Il Co., of Ekton had the misfor-
time on Thursday to lose valuable mare.
The animal was seven years old and died
very suddenly.
Rowland W. Watts, of Cecil county,
graduated from Washington College at
Chestertown on Wednesday night. He de-
| livered the Latin salutatory, aud also an
Grafton upon Dangers which Threaten our
Republican Institutions. He received the
degree of A. b.
y Wilson l.. Coudon, of Cecil county, dis
1 tinguished himself at the meeting last week
4 in New York of the American Amateur
Athletic Association. He took the gold
medal for throwing the 16-pound hammer,
and the silver medal for throwing the 56-
pound shot.
The. new firm of VIM T. B1ulden \
Co., dealers in harvesting machinery and
all other agricultural implements report
| having sold this season 103 harvesting ma
chimes. The ex-sheritf is an energetic bust
ness man and deserving of the success
which is attending him.
Thomas L. Boulder, son of Charles l..
Boulden, of Elkton, and resident of this
place until within a few years ago when he
removed to Columbus, Texas, has been
elected deleg ate to the Texas Democratic
State Convention which meets in Galveston
shortly to nominate a candidate for governor l.
There will be services in the Presbyte-
ran Church tomorrow (Sabbath) at the
usual hours by the pastor, Il. w. Beers.
The subject in the morning will be as Our
National Morality Decaying?'' and the
| evening subject will be "Our Country the
Best" All are cordially invited to attend
| these services.
| Ali residents of Elkton, especially par
ents and children should read the notice in
another column signed by the town bailitf
! In it he states that he has been ordered by
the Town Commissioners to enforce the
ordinance prohibiting the firing ofshooting-
crackers, firearms, or anything of the kind
| iuythe streets of Elkton.
Ej-Cecil county has two new postmasters,
two new offices having been established.
One near Baldwins Mills has been called
Bank, and Wier NJ. Seth commissioned
| postmaster. The other is at Cowentown,
the name Of which has been changed by the
| postal authorities to Convention, and Samuel
7. Shippers commissioned postmaster. Both
offices will have a carrier from Elkton.
-Messrs. Reynolds Bros, the account of
the burning of whose hardware establish
ment and tin-cau manufactory we publish
in another column, have gone to work and
are erecting Il large frame building on the
| lot just north of their old stand. They are
enterprising Een and it is expected that in
| d
operations and fill all their large contracts
for cans.
Late Friday afternoon of last week,
during the continuance of Il heavy thunder
and rain storm, lightning struck the resi-
dence of Mrs. David Scott, on East Main
street, Elkton. The lightning, it is thought
struck on the roof and passed down a til
spout into a room on the second floor, wher,
it knocked off some of the plaster, ant
probably passed to the ground by ga,
pipe. a young lady who was in the room
at the time not injured, although al
persons in the vicinity felt the shock some
what \ strange feature of the matter i.
that there was lightning rod on the house
Last Monday evening George lamar, a
young man of % years an employee of Mr.
| Wm NJ Singerly, was approached by a
stranger, who was probably a tramp, near
the freight depots. The tramp swore at hin
and struck at him with club. The blow
lodged was by lamar and he only received
glancing hit. He proceeded to stone the
tramp who ran a distance down the rail
road and halted. lamar, who was very
angry, went to his boarding house which
was not far away and procured his revolver
He started down the road after the tramp
and fired three shots at him, none of them
happily taking effect.
-Messrs. w. W. Burkley and Charles ID.
Jamison, owners of the right to manafac