The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-05-12
GL0GAL DEPARTMENT. v.


GL0GAt DEPARTMENT.. v
A town election will be held at Rising
Sun on Monday next.
-Seventy-two votes were polled at the
Republican primaries on Saturday afternoon
last.
The Elkton Cornet Band have received
some new music and began practicing this
week.
There are about Is unoccupied dwell
ings in Middletown states the Ee,o Era of
that place.
Presiding Elder w. L. S. Murray will
spend next week IN New York attending
the General Conference.
Everybody who shaves knows the value
of a sharp razor. Burkley's is the place to
get one. Read his new card.
Rev j. B. Kendall, of Lincoln Uuiyer-
sity, is expected to preach at the Elkton
Presbyterian Church on Sunday next.
Another of these choice beeves fed by
Dr. Mitchell has been slaughtered by j. f.
Bradbury & Bro. Choice cuts 16 cents.
-One million vegetable plants for sale by
Jos. Booth & Son. Tomato, cabbage, sweet
potatoes, egg plant, and peppers. If.
The entertainment given by the Loyal
Legion of North East, on Tuesday evening
in Wingate Post Hall, was grand success.
1t is a little late to do it, but we desire
to thank Rev. Charles Hill for a copy of the
minutes of the last Wilmington conference.
Iron Hill has a new blacksmith shop
by Mr.. Charles Walton who constructed the
building.
Miss Lucy S. Litzenberg, of Elkton,
was one of the guests at an evening sociable
given by a friend in Wilmington on We'd
nesday last.
The well-known Philadelphia firm of
Strawbridge & Clothier have new card in
this issue describing some of the goods in
their fine store.
u. S. Grant Post No. 10, G. A. r will
hold special meeting this evening at 7.30
p. NJ. A full attendance is requested. j.
NJ. Ash. adjutant.
The Northern Convocaton of the Did,
cese of Easton will meet in st. Mary's
Church, North East, on Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday of next week.
-Prettyman has good line of calf-skin
hOotS fine a 6raSS h0ot and
some not so fine for general wear, good
pair for 50. so the best for $500.
Mrs. n. NJ. Browne, a lady we'll known
in this county, left for New York on Monday
last to join her husband who is delegate to
the General Conference of the NJ. Y. Church.
When you visit Baltimore. stop at the
Maltby House, where will be found first
class accommodations and exceedingly low
rates. Mch17tf.
The officers of the B. & o. railroad are
ballasting between Newark and Havre de
Grace and expect to extend the double track
on that road this summer between those
two places.
MIR. Edward Taylor this week purchased
two fine young horses. One from Mr.. Jno
NJ. Thackery of this vicinity, and the other
from Mr.. Harry Layman, of Crumpton,
Kent county, Md.
The Elkton Woman's Christian Tenn
anniversary on the evening of the last
Tuesday in May at the residence of Mrs.
Joseph Hinchliffe.
The ladies of Trinity P. f. Church,
prominent among whom is Miss Cora
lamar, propose giving a strawberry festi-
val in the house of DIR. lamar on the
-"Green'' opposite the church, during the
first week in June.
DR.. J. H. lamar, Charles b. Finley and
Daniel Bratton, of Elkton, and DIR. VIM. c.
Karsner, of Chesapeake City, attended the
meeting of the Grand Masonic Lodge in
Baltimore this week.
No designs or drawings for the proposed
NJ. L. parsonage have been received as
been decided is that the building will be of
brick and cost about $1,000.
Traction engines on exhibition at the
Fair Grounds will not hereafter be permit
ted to be moved around while the exhibit
ton is in progress. This is a commendable
rule recently adopted by the society.
MIR. Joseph Lort, who, as stated in our
last Issue, dissolved partnership with Geo.
Whiteman in the livery business on Shipley
street, Wilmington, has entered the same
rh&t, b.. Ioifv
/ Mrs. Hall has just received another
fresh supply of hats for May aud Summer
Awear. All the pretty shapes, handsomely
trimmed. Prices to suit the times. Opposite
Erazer's Drug Store. 2w.
The case of the National Bank of Ches.
county VS.. Walter Armstrong owing to
absence of one of the counsel on Thurs.
=. was continued in the United States
:, Baltimore, until November next
prty-six excursion tickets to Fore
s circus were sold on Monday at the
depot. A number of persons also
- pun North East and other stations on
& B., as well as from sta tions on
B. &'
-AIaxoa pder y. Hart, member of the
Isrm of ". rt s. Bro, pork packers of Will
4 mino,on Del, was severely scaldsd on
Thprsd., +, the explosion of a rendering
vat in thar Establishment. Mr.. Hart visits
Mr. Jams0 merritt of this town. The Loss
IN the f,-,n ;aA$2, 500. Two other persons
were injured.
DR. III t., nar, of Elkton, DIR. George
Dare of pis;no Sr p, and DIR. Morrison o.
Oxford pa com hittee on arrangements
met in Wilmington,S nel, Oh thursday u
prepare for the meetifl Vi ehe pennsylvania
and Maryland MedicSl Association at Biz
mingham Park, on She Wilmington ant
Northern Railroad early in August.
The church and sabbath school O
Bethel A. NJ. E. Church, Chesapeake City
will give their first grand picnic of the sea
son at Spring Grove on May 2lst, 1888, ter
minating with a May feast at Bethel A. M
E. Church. There will be music to enliyer
the occasion. Refreshments will be sold a
moderate prices. Admission to Nav feast
10 cents. Picnic free.
-Shockley & Smith, auctioneers. TO
Henry NJ. Mccullough, Esq, trustees, oil
Tuesday afternoon sold at public sale tn
real estate of the late James T. Mccullough
William Weightman, of Philadelphia, pur
chased all the properties through his agent
Edward 7. Davis. The residence on Mali
street adjoining the Elkton National Banl