The Cecil Whig., 1886-01-23

the Temperance Convention for amend
ing the Local Option Law, the Commit
tee is requested to meet in Elkton, oil
Tuesday, January Goth, 1856, at 10 A. NJ
DO not forget Hazel kirke' next ed
nesday and Thursday evenings.
Miss Walcott, of Harrington, Del, i
whiting Miss Fannie Jones of this town.
A son of the Hon. Judge Wicks wa
admitted to the bar on Wednesday last.
Mis- Lizzie Merritt returned home thi
week from pleasant visit to Marion, Som
erset county, Md
Several interesting pigeon shooting
matches occurred i'll the suberbs of Elktol
this and last week.
Miss Jessie Bond, of Port Deposit, i:
visiting her sister Mrs VIM. NJ. Foulk, o
this town.
1T is very probable that Mr. John Par
fridge will succeed Mr.. Henry Gilpin as
magistrate.
In addition to his lecture on Feb End.
the poet, Walt Whitman, will read one or
more of his purest of pure poems.
Miss Annie Stevenson, OF Dover, i.
this town. She assisted at the Pink Tea in
the hall this week.
Mr.. John Hanna, formerly teacher OF
the public school here, was united in mar.
ri CaSIp of Wilrpinrtnn in : bai
city one night last week.
The finest music that ever yet attended
an entertainment given in the hall will bt
furnished by Prof. Ritchie for Hazel kirke
next Wednesday, and Thursday evenings.
In North East and Newark when the
roads were worn bare of snow the hote
proprietors had them covered over again
for the benefit of the sleighers.
Every man who owned a sleigh and a
''best girl" took advantage of the first snow
storm of the season and the jingle of bells
on our streets last week was constant and
delightful
The third monthly meeting of the
Pythian Journalists Club will be held AT
Elkton on Tuesday evening February ID,
when the club will entertain the poet, Walt
Whitman.
The only nber of the Elkton bar who
is too nervous to make a speech was the
only man in the audience at the hall on
Tuesday evening last who disparaged Mr..
Messaras's lecture.
10 love 70 IEIaar
delicious, darling Dolly Dutton" at the all
on Wednesday and Thursday evenings next
and all the pains and aches in your body
will be healed.
Mr.. Isaac Thomas met with painful
accident on Tuesday last by falling n, al
the ai! and breaking his arm. The in
jured member was set by DR.. Mitdhen. Mr..
Thomas is quite an old man and su tfers a
great deal with his wounded arm.
The January number of the Delaware
College Recieuc comes to our exchange table
this week, and proves to be as it, usually
is, an interesting number Several articles
of merit are contributed and its general
matter is ably written.
Ed. Purnell, who has been lying i'll at
the Arch Street House in Phila., was re
moved to his home in this town on We'd
nesday evening last, DR.. Howard Bratton
accompanying him. He is greatly improved
and will get well.
On Friday evening next, Jan. 29,h.,
the Rev. Geo. Il. Kramer, Of Brooklyn
will deliver the second lecture in Young
Mems Lecture Course. His subject will bt
"Eloquence and Elocution." Single ad
mission will be purchasable at twenty-five
cents each.
Two druggists of Port Deposit, MessrS
+. B. Frazer and &. NJ. Anderson, have
each purchased a large lot of books and
opened circulating library in their stores
The books are let TO readers at a small fee
for ten days. Mr.. Frazer lets subscriber:
have the use OF books one year for $3.50.
Prof Rtchie's famous Wilmington or
chestra will furnish music at the hall fol
the "Hazel Kirke" entertainment. Prof
Ritchie will bring with him Signor Sartori
who was to give harp solo at the fair bal
last fall but was too unwell to come. He
will render the harp solo between two of th'
acts of "Hazel Kirke''
The Delta Phi Literary Society of Della
ware College has secured the services o
Stuart Rogers, the great original imperson
ator, who will appear in the College Ora
tory on THURSDAY evening next, the 2Stt
inst. He is loaded down with testimonial
of the highest order, which assures hi
worth. Tickets 81 and 30 cents.
After considering the fact that ther
will be an over abundance of Entertainment
in Elkton next week, the officers of tn
Elkton Academy Lyceum have thought i
wisest to postpone the meeting which the,
proposed to hold on Monday evening mex
until the Monday evening following, a
which time an interesting program will b
prepared and a very interesting deb ate viii
take place.
Hollis Courtney, Sr. of Havre de Grace
died last Tuesday morning, aged SO years
He was one of the oldest citizens of Havr
de Grace, and was born in 1897. He wa
one of the oldest members of the Mornin
Star Lodge, /. o. O. r., of Havre de Grac'
and also an old member of Jerusalem FL
campment of Baltimore. The funeral too
place on Thursday afternoon from the N
f. church.
The stockholders of the Cecil Count
Agricultural Society held their annui
meeting on Tuesday last and elected IL
following persons managers for tina ensl
ing year: A. Il. Magraw, DIR. c. NJ. Eli
w. S. Potter, William Armstrong, j. |
Davis, John Gilpin, George Ricketts,, Gil
ton Mccullough, II. S. Coudon, Morr
Dunbar, Daniel Bratton, Jesse a. Klrl
Messrs. Kirk, Bratton and Dunbar are ne
members.
The charter and fixtures of the defunt
Overland Telephone Company, of Cecil CO
were purchased Wednesday last by a syr
dicate of local capitalists who will reccl
struct the lines, of the old company an
operate under its name. The new compln
start with capital of $3.50 and will e
tend their wires to all promine ent points
the county. w. S. Evans, of the Elktc
bar, and Il G. Lewis, are among the ne
directors Several Of the old directors st
retain their places.
Senator Clinton Mccullough, of til
town, presented the memorial of John
Wilson, Esq, to the legislature OF Tuesdi
last, praying the passage of an act compe
satng him for service rendered for thr
months in the YER 1864 as second lieute
ant of the Twelfth Maryland Infantry.
was ordered on special duty at Camp Bra