The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-27
Tho Snhool commissioners met yesteI

day to examine teachers accounts.
Usual Sunday services at the \. |. NJ
p church tomorrow. Rev. William I
SAVOY pastor.
One of the leading merchants Of E!ktol
will be married on Monday next to a daugh
ter of prominent Elktou lawyer.
Miss Fannie +. Jones returned thi.
week from prolonged visit to her sister
Mrs. w. f. Avery of Fairmount Md.
} DR.. Peter Cooper of Wilmington thi.
week visited his brother DIR. j. w. Cooper
| of Elkton.
The fixtures Of the Granite Hall res
taurant We're sold at auction sale a Satur
day afternoon last.
Some of our farmers shipped to Phila-
delphia by express, ON Tuesday, large
numbers Of dressed turkeys.
Governor Lloyd has appointed James
G. Reynolds Notary Pdbic of Port Depositi
vice George w. Nandiver deceased.
Heaters have been placed in the court
house and are now in operation III order to
dry the plaster, the second coat of which Is
now being applied.
| A fair will be held at Chesapeake City
for the beuetit of the Masonic Lodge i'll that
place during Christmas holidays cummen-
cling the Thursday before Christmas 1t
| Colonel Edwin Wilmer of Baltimore,
manager and chief officer of the well-known
and popular Sun Mutual Aid Society of that
city spent Thanksgiving day in Elkton.
When you are hunting good dinner,
call on Joe Wells at tie New East End
Market. Joe doesn't intend to get left in
the meat and provision business, and that
is the place to leave your orders.
Have you ever been at Levy Bros,
bazaar on North Eighth street Philadelphia"
If not, go there and do your Christmas
shopping if you want to buy for one half
the price you would pay on Chestnut ST.
d Scott & Bro, are enlarging the large
frame building at their works in this town
which is used to store phosphate. The ca
pacity of the building will be increased by
about a thousand tons.
We call the attention of our readers to
the new card of Charles w. Bender No. 40
n. Water street, Philadelphia. Mr.. Bender
is a young active and prompt commission
man. MakGa consignment to him.
I Miss Carrie Ricketts,, daughter of Mr..
George Ricketts,, has been quite sick with
the diptheria. Her case, while not an
al arming one, has been severe, but we are
glad to report her much improved.
Notice Cooper 4 Conard's attractive
bulletin, telling what can be read in their
popular Fashion Nonthly. 1t contains more
for five cents than most magazines of its
class charge thirty-tive for. Send to them
for sample copy.
Mr.. Charles G.. Wells, who some time
ago rendered his resignation as station agent
at Singerly on the b. & Q. railroad, re-
tired from the service this week. His posi-
ton was taken temporarily by the person
who has acted as night operator.
Miss Dollie Cameron of this town,
granddaughter Of the late General Henry 5.
Sites, is visiting her uncle DIR. John
templates spending the winter with her
New York relatives.
john Cooper, a colored man, of French
town, was arrested on Wednesday night on
the b. 81 O. railroad bridge, on the charge
of robbng Lock ands drug store at Perry
vile, and of a set of surgical instruments
belonging to DIR. Geo. NJ. Stump. The &C
cused was brought to Eikton Jail.
We heard of one or two organizations
connected with church work, whose mem
bers were croaking because they had not
thought of getting Chaplain McCabe to lee
ture for their benefit. Ii was not however
until the financial success of the lecture
had been assured.
Let no woman with tooth in her head
despair of the matrimonial state. Rachel
Tlghnan, the venerable, was married to
evening. Their combined ages are about
one hundred and eighty years. Johns
name is misnomer, for he must be a man
of heavy timber to tempt fortune at his
time of life.
-Mr.W. Z. X Frazer this week resigned
the position of freight agent for the p, w.
& b. r. r. Co., i'll Elktou which he had
held for a number of years. Mr.. Frazer
was succeeded on Wednesday by MIR. ii.
c. Baker. The new freight agent has been
in the employ of the company, in various
capacities and at different places for 10
years He was at one time at North East,
but came here from Edgemore
-Wanamaker & Brown make one of
their timely talks to out of town folks in
this issue of THEWHIG. Read it carefully.
1t is really astonishing to see the vigor and
life that prevail at Oak Hall. That house
never coulu have built up the trade it has
simply by liberal use of printers ink. The
secret Of its success lies in the fact that
whatever you buy there you can strictly
rely upon being the best of its kind. That
is why they sell more than once to the same
customer.
Charles p. Dorman of Wilmington, for
merly of Chester county, has recently pur-
chased two good farms, one in the State of
Delaware, containing 100 acres, and the
other in the upper part of Cecil county,
Md, containing $50 acres. The latter is
known as the Stephens mill property. 1t
has two sets of good buildings and large
new flour, feed and saw mill and is doing
an extensive business. Mr.. Dorman has
other property in Wilmington, where he
has carried on the business of carpenter
and contractor for several years past with
marked success.
Edward Sword, aged II years, en-
ployed by the Union News Company as
| agent, was killed on Monday morning at
the Relay House by falling from the 40
minute express train on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, which leaves Baltimore for
| Washington at 0.30 A. NJ. Sword is sup
| posed to have fallen from the train while
| passing from one car to another to sell his
papers. He was picked up by Charles Ger
mundt, who found him lying between the
tracks at the curve just beyond the Relay
House, and carried to the station. Sword S
newspapers were scattered around when he
struck the ground. He was hurt about the
head and only lived few moments after
his fall.
On Friday night of last week Sheriff
Mackey brought to Jail from Lancaster
county, Amos Dull and George H. Miller,
of Bluebell, that county. They were arrested
in the spring of this year and lodged in Lam
caster Jail on the charge of stealing horse