The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-12-25

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The new furniture for the court hous
arrived on Tuesday of this week.
--uur readers in the neighborhood of Ba,
View should not forget the entertainment
about to toe given there.
Mr.. Samuel Moore a blacksmith, re
siding near the Rock Bridge, had ~ chill.
very i'll of commissions this week.
Harry Weston, who had been employee
for some mouths as clerk in the shoe store
| of Mr.. Edwin Prettyman, this week left Il
take position in a Philadelphia store
| lis it not time that the unsightlv heap
of rubbish on the court house yard ant
streets surrounding should be removed
| They are not only unsightly but dangeroul
| to pedestrians.
! The boys were skating on the river thu
early part Of the week. Burt Garrett, Z
youth of this town, broke through the ice
near ,Johnson's shore. He escaped with a
good ducking.
-Auctioueer John NJ. Terrell began on
Saturday afternoon last to sell the stock OF
millinery, trimmings, etc, of Miss Minnie
Realey, of this town. The goods were all
disposed of by Tuesday night.
| "A number of roads in the county yet
remain blockaded with snow. Some of the
supervisors in the Seventh district recently
collected forces of men and opened them.
Let the others all do likewise.
The decorate ms Of Trinity =. L. church
will be less elaborate this Christmas. Bad
| weather, difficulty TO procure evergreens
anu want help have unavOEs bl y confined
the decorations to the chancel only.
-Messrs Winter Wilson and VIM. d.
Bratton, two Cecil youths, have arrived
home from college to spend the Christina as
holidays. The former is a student at Lehgh
University and the latter at Princeton Col
lege.
The Christmas festival and entertain
msnt for the Sunday school Of Trinity
church will be held on Tuesday afternoon
next December 18th. Exercises (to in
cludo the singing of Christmas cArols) at
the church at , Z. NJ. All a.e welcome.
MIR. johnson Shippers, of North East, il
he shall attain the 18th of February next
will be 81 years of age. Although recently
ill we are glad to say he is very much i'm
proved, and is in mp4rativsly good health
for one so Old.
Mrs + A. Black, an organizer Of the
Wvmens' Christian Temperance Union,
who brought about the organization of a
large number Of Unions in Cecil county. is
working now in Frederick county Md. She
has organized a Union IN Frederick City
-We took occasion recently to make
special notice of the visit of Mrs. Alice
Wnittlesey of ST. Louis to Elkton 1t Is
with sincere regret We have now to notice
the de TIL of Miss Lilly Whttle,ey, which
occurred in Texas on the same day Miss
Alice was spending in Elkton.
The ice dealers of this neighborhood
were engaged in harvesting ice the early
part of this week. Mr. Henry Ninsnger
filled his commodious new ice house two
thirds full of line seven inch ice. Mr.. Boot h
tilei his new house and one third of his Old
one with ice of about the same thickness.
Mr.. Joseph McSea has sis,. been engaged
in the same work.
The Lutheran publication house of
Philadelphia has just issued a German
translation by Mrs. NJ f. Ireland, IA sister
of Reubeu Haiues, E,q., of this town, 3
lady who has attained wide popularity by
h,4rn nan a he
coyery of vaccination by DIR. Jenuer. Mrs.
Ireland's first story WAS first published in
THE CECIL WING, and we shall be glad on
the receipt of this volume to make special
notice of it,
The work on the interior of the Court
House is rapidly approaching completion.
The walnut fittings for tho bench and bar
We're put in place this week, having been
made by Messrs. Springer Morley 4 Cause
of Wilmington, MIR. l.. Springer superin-
and women are scrubbng and cleaning the
floors for the carpeting and mating, and
from present indications everything will tie
IN apple-pie order for the January session.
There WAS to have been pigeon shoot
ing match at Chesapeake City on Thursday
for ouble- barrced breech- loading gun,
but it did not come Off for various reasons.
A nun Der of sportsmsn who were on the
ground for the purpose of participating,
shot several matches, however. Among
those taking part were Messrs. Henry Cam
eron, Robert aud Charles Rudolph and
Emmit White OF EIkton; George Bennett,
Harry Howard and VIM. Pyle, of Chesa-
peake City, Geo. Wilson and Geo. McCrone,
OF Middetown. MIR. Henry Cameron ex-
celled in most of the matches.
Eurs cleaned and made up in every style.
Mutfs made up and refined Of every mater
ial. New Mutfs from l5c. to SO.
2t A. l.. WILKINSON.
Concerning Mr.. Bottoms illuminated
lecture Lands of the Midnight Sun, which
be will present at Odd Fellows hall next
"Wednesday evening, the Hartford Times
says: "rhose who failed to see, at Roberts
Opera House last night, the icebergs, the
wild, grim headla and of Europe in the polar
sea and other northern scenery that the lee
turer exhibited, missed rare treat. 1t was
one Of he most original, unique, beautiful
and thoroughly enjoyable exhibitions that
Hartford have been favored with. The view
of the midnight sun and its rising out Of
a mass of changing clouds as shown from
North Cape, was highly enjoyed and APP
plauded-as was the trip down the Norway
coast, among the isles and fords and the
scenes among the Lapps and Firms, with
the city scenes in more southern Norway"
Movements of EIktOn People.
Miss Molie bremen is making prepare
tons for "trip to Jacksonville, Florida,