The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-11-22

| next door above naru"die STORE.
The Elkton and West nottingham
Academy foot ball teams will meet i,
friendly or other contest again this after
noon, GA the grounds of the latter.
Union Thanksgiving services will b.
held in the Chesapeake City NJ. f. church
IN Thursday next at 1880 a. m. The Rev
Samuel Perry will preach the sermon
The vote in the Chesapeake City NJ. +
Church on the eligibility of women to seat
no dslepates in the General Conference, wa.
very light, viz :: Is for admission and
against.
| -Nessrs. &. B. Finley, samuel J. Keyes
| and DIR. John H. lamar We're delegates t,
the Annual Communication of the Crane
Masonic Lodge in Baltimore on Wednes
day.
That popular firm of Baltimore Drug
osts, nrinters, Messrs. Hammond & .Jone.
sent US TINS week well executed sample o.
color work. Mr. Jones began his trade at the
WING office.
/ l. III
CbarIestowu speak in very tiattering terms
of their principal, Miss Ella Haines, of Ris
;np Sun, who is ably assisted by Miss Rose
Graham, of Colora.
Mr.. George Young, of Chicago, is visit.
iro his mother Mrs Rebecci Young of this
town, He is accompanied by Mrs. Young.
They have been spending some time at the
| Hyrea Hotel, Old Point Comfort.
| MIR. Harry D. Noyes, son of Enoch
Moves, Esq, of Port Deposit has accepted
a position in the office of the Baltimore
american. We tender Mr.. Harry our sin
| cere wishes for his business success.
James S. Dixon, of Cambridge, received
from a Talbot county friend, monkey.
faced owl, the first ever seen in that section,
The birds face is very much like a mans
when seen at a sh ort distance.
| The business of the Messrs. Debert has
grown so rapidly lately that they have rent
ed the wharf property of the Roberts estate
near them, and will start a second boat
| building yard. Success to the Messrs
| DieberG.
Mr.. A. NJ. Strickland, contractor and
| builder of this town, laid out on Thursday
last the foundation Of a dwelling house for
| Richard Plummer at the Red Mill railroad
CROSSING, where Mr.. Pummer is at present
gate keeper.
Mrs. Neutrality-suspicious. of the late Jere-
miah Dougherty, of Charlestown, has pur-
chased of Mr.. Charls c. Graham, of Balti-
more, the property located near the P. w.
q B. railroad station in that town. The
price paid was S25OO.
The disability pension heretofore re-
ceived by Charles P. Chopper, of Hartford Co.
son of the late Ebenezer Chopper, of Elk
Neck, this county, has been largely increas-
ed. Mr.. Chopper served in the Thirteenth
Missouri Cavalry.
Cards are out for the marriage Of Mr..
Joseph Lynch, of Philadelphia, to Miss
Alice Haines, a popular young lady of
Charlestown, in this county, which will
take place at the Prospective brides resi-
dence on December the first.
An entertainment will be given by the
pupils of Memar Academy, Zion, this even
ng, consisting of dialogues, recitations,
pantomimes and shadow pictures. Proceeds
for the benefit of the library of the school.
Admission Is and % cents.
Mr.. William H. Rutter. the we'll known
grain commission mGchant of Baltimore,
WAS in Elkton on Th ursday. 1t has got to
be proyerb in Cecil county. "If you want
the highest price aud the quickest return
for your grain send it to "Billy Rutter.'
Mr.. Edward Lamar, of Charlestown,
has been promoted TO the position of section
boss, on the p. W. s. b railroad made VA
cant by the death of jeremiah Dougherty.
Mr.. Lamar was foreman under Mr..
Dodgherty and is said to be good railroad
man, and very popular with his men.
A union Thanksgiving service will be
held in the Presbyterian church of this
town on Thursday next at 1870 o'clock at
Ill, The sermon will be preached by the
Rev. S. NJ. Osmond to the combined con-
L
ian churches.
Mr.. Ohio Rowland johnson, son of
ex-Sheritf Samuel NJ. johnson who has
been in the employ of the P, W. & B. rail-
road at North East for some time, has
accepted a position with the Norfolk and
Western railroad at Roanoke for which
mint he startad on Monday
Mr.. C. C. Crothss as Counsel for
Emory Weaver has secured a satisfactory
compromise of his case against the p, W.
81 B. Railroad COMPANY Mr.. Weaver our
readers will remem Der, had one of his legs
caught in the wheel of wagon while being
loaded as the station, aud subsequently, had
it amputated.
Miss Carrie Mcfarland a daughter of
the late Richard McF Eland of this town,
died on Tuesday evening at the residence
of her mother in Philadelphia after a short
illness of typhoid fever. Miss Mcfarland
was young lady of intelligence and
amiability, and whose death will be re
grettsd exceedingly by her friends IN this
community. Her funeral took place yester-
day, lnterment being in the EIkton Presby
terrain Cemetery.
Mr. William Brown, son of Edmund
Brown, tor many years a merchant in this
town and who recently removed to Phila-
delphia, was in Elkton on Thursday. Will
liam is engaged as a salesman by C. f.
Knapp, the Arch stree perfumer, and his
father has position in a lawyers office on
Chestnut street. Mr.. Browns old friends
will be pleased to know that he looks
younger to-day than heidi ten years ago,
being in excellent health aud spirits.
Mr. WIN. j. Alrich who for a number
of years past has bsen ia the Jewelry bust
ness in this town, has announced his i'll ten
ton to discontinue that business by posters
conspicuously placed throughout Elkfon
this week. Mr.. Alrich is member of a
prominent Wilmington family and married
Miss Mollie wells popular Elkton lady,
and daughter of Bsnjamen Wells for
more than balf century past the Rail
Road agent in this town
TO correspondents-A. j. B., every
Day Cranks'' will appear next week. A.
j. c., Co.ora, choral Cowardice" Is not
overlooked. A. II. 7 Vest Nottin g ham,
your communication bstrays i'll temper.
The term ''pill peddler" as applied to a re
| spectacle local physician, and "unprinci
pied" as applied to Elkton players, condemn
your letter for publication. Purge it OF
offensive epithets, and you shall have a
courteous hearing.
AT Witworth's five aud ten cent sto re
are thousands Of big and little household
necessities. 1t is not likely that you have
many of them now, but very likely that