The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-11-30
sCLOgAL DEPARTMENT. J.

"llkluSOn, ElhIOus "
-Sheriff-elect Boyd will assume the du-
ties of his office next week.
Thanksgiving was very quiet day in
Elkton. Many went cunning.
WIN. Reybold, of Delaware City, well
known in this county died on Tuesday.
"A. g. Brown has purchased the Ritten-
house store property on North street now
occupied by him.
Mr.. Charles L. Boulden sold his house
hold furniture on Tuesday preparatory to
removing to Texas.
Notice the advertisement of NJ. E. &
G. E. Kirk offering their North East store
with stock for sale.
Those who want steady work can get a
good paying job by reading the lad" head
ed work for the winter" 4w.
The Clerk of the Court received the
commissions of the newly-elected officers in
this county on Saturday last.
Rev. Charles A. Hill of Centreville will
occupy the pulpit of the Elkton M. K.
Church next Sunday morning.
WIN. G. West, of Sylmar, DR.. F. Fl.
Macke, of Fair Hill, and F. B. West, of
Kimbleville are shooting in Virginia
Mr.. R. 7. c. Crouch had one of his
hands badly bitten by hog which he was
attempting to kill on Wednesday last.
A full attendance of Elkton Grange, is
requested at the meeting on Saturday, Dec.
7th. Officers will be elected for the ensuing
year.
When you visit Baltimore, stop at the
Maltby House, where will be found first
lass accommodations and exceedingly low
rates. Mch17tf
DIR. D. P. Seaton will lecture and txhi-
bit his panoramic pictures at Wrights' A.
M. E. Church, Monday evening, December
End at 8 o'clock.
james H. Scott, a well known dentist
who made his home with William Way, in
the Sixth di trict, died on the 2lst inst, in
the 52i year of his age
The Middleton, Del, correspondent of a
Wilmington daily states that portion of
the public road near Warwick is impossible,
the result Of the heavy rains.
-Sheriff-eIect J. Albert BOYD and daugh-
ter were in Elkton on Sunday last and Wis
tied the jail Mr.. Boyd will qualify and
assume the duties of his office oil Tuesday
next.
Don't forget the supper and bazaar to be
held in Odd Fellows Hall on Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings, December 10th and
18th next, by the ladies of the Elkton Pres
byterian Church.
A new postoffice has been esta bish at
Dupont's station, Wilmington & Northern
Railroad, 1t is in New Castle County, Del
aware, and Israel P. Rhoads has been APP
pointed postmaster.
COL George w. Balm, of Kentucky, is
announced to lecture in the Middletown,
Del, Opera House on Wednesday, Decem-
Der 11th His subject will be 'Boys and
Girls, Naughty and Nice"
Mr.. Jonathan Yerkes, residing near
Rock Church, has quit farming and will
remove to Oxford, Pa, next week. His son,
Jonathan Yerkes Jr., will farm the place
from which his father removes.
A successful revival has been in prog
ress for six weeks past at Moore's Chapel
Cecil County. A number of persons, mostly
grown, have professed conversion. Rev. j
B Jones has charge of the meetings.
AT caucas of the newly elected Board
of Commissioners held last Saturday Chas
H. Smith was unanimously selected fol
Clerk. Mr.. Smith is a well-krown and en-
ergetic Democrat, at present employed as
railway postal clerk.
Clinton Mccullough, Esq, trustee, by
Shockley Il Smith, auctioneers, offered a
public sale on Tuesday the real estate of the
late Jefferson W Purnar situated in Ell
Neck, Cecil County. 1t was Withdrawn fo
lack of adequate bids.
John E. Wilson, Esq. received a buckle
of carp from the U. S Fish Department a
Washington, which he intends to propagate
In pond on his farm on Gray's Hill TIL
The department will furnish only ten at
time to any one person.
An election of officers of U. S. G. Pos
No. 10 G. A. r will be held at the post roor
in Elkton on Saturday evening, Decembe
7th 1889, at o'clock p. IN. A full attend
ance Is requested. Joshua NJ. Ash, Adjr
tant John McCauley, Com IN ander.
The game of football arranged to tax
place at Newark on Saturday last betwee
the Elkton and Delaware College teams wa
nf ha rpud1
condition of the grounds at Homewoo
Park. A date for the game has not yet bee
arranged.
1t Is repor' ed from the level districts
Cecil County that the gronndhogs have bee
forced to leave their underground tenemen
and take to the woods aud railpiles. The
denizens of terra firma have doubtless Co
cluded that the weather beats the tolde
inhabitants" Oxford Press.
An executive meeting of the Gee
County Woman's Christian Temperan'
Union will be held at Friends Meetir
House, Calvert, on Saturday, December 1t
beginning at TO- 80 o'clock a. m. The eve
ing meeting at 9. 80 will be addressed by
prominent lecturer. All are invited.
Mr. S. B. Foard, of Elkton, Nd, b
purchased from C. W. Baker, of Aberdee
Md, the trotting geldng, Peninsula 30
three years old record 2 5114. He has start
In five races, won four and got second
oue Has shown quarters in 81 secon
and can trot on a half mile track in 2 A.
The Elkton Dramatic Association b
peen recognized. The melodrama "Blo
for Blow" will be given in few weeks. /
the former members with but few exec
tions will again participate. The new me
bers of the association are Misses Ma
Davis and Lottie Ash and Mr.. Stu;
Smith.
-Borings for iron and oil and even mai
raj gas are still being made with mu
vigor on Iron Hill, but so far withou. 5
nal success. There is undoubtedly an I
limited quantity of iron ore hidden unt
this big hill and in the present revival
the iron market there awaits fortune
the one who finds it in paying quantiti
The Iron Hill ore is hematite and is used
making steel, which, together with it's W.
known richness, makes it command hi
price. George P. Whitaker, who is n
running his pit to its fullest capacity, =
soon double his force of men and mach
equipment and 60 into the business VI
heavily. From here his ore is taken to
furnaces at Principle, and to facilitate
shipment he contemplates building n
row gauge railroad from his pits on the