The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-09-20
sCL0gAL DEPARTMENT. "

-Gustin Foster and Mary E. LOTHIAN
were married on Monday morning by Rev.
Charles Hill in the NJ. +. parsonage.
just received. A large lot of good,
clean coal, S. per ton for all sizes. At yard.
Sep13 2t. DAVIS, KEYS & Co,
When you visit Baltimore, stop at the
Maltby House, where will be found first
class accommodations and exceedingly low
rates. Mchl7f
A "pink tea will be held in the base
ment of Head of Christiana Presbyterian
Church on Thursday evening next by the
ladies of the congregation.
The Orphans Court was in session on
Tuesday. All the judges were present.
Sundry claims against estates were passed
but no business of Importance was trans
acted.
The Baltimore american in its report of
the Second Congressional convention states
that Eat night James I. Graham, the young
orator from Cecil, spoke TO i've or six hun
bred people,"
The farm of the late William Wade
containing 122 acres, situated in the Fourth
strict near Appleton, was sold at private
sale this week by Hester Hess, administra-
tor, to Alfred T. Mannon for SOTO.
Rev. j. w. Tambly,n will preach in
the Elkton Free Methodist Church on Sun
day morning, 2lst inst, at 10 80 o'clock; at
Leslie in the afternoon at $50, and at Mt.
Pleasant in the evening at 7.30 o'clock.
The former members OF Battery B.,
First Mary land Light Artiary, known as
Shows Maryland Battery are invited to at
tend the reunion to be hell in Port Deposit
Saturday Oct 4th at 10 a. Thomas Kirk
President.
The c. ses of the State of Maryland
against the bondsmeE of ex State Treasurer
Archer have been removed from Hartford
county to Baltimore county. They will
come up at Towson on the first Monday in
December.
William Gibson, freight conductor on
the p, w. & B. railroad, who was badly
injured by falling from his train, died on
Saturday last at the Baltimore city hos
pital. He resided in Elkton for some time
several years ago.
Don't tail to see the base ball game this
Saturday afternoon between Towson and
Elkton for the amateur championship OF
Maryland. Denny and Heller will be the
Elkton battery and will be well supported
1t will be a fine game.
Bishop Adams of Elston will hold
service and preach in the Church of the
Good Shepherd, Chesapeake City, on Friday
evening September Goth, 1890. Hour of
Service 7:30, o'clock. All persons are cor
daily invited to attend.
Prof We'll, S. o., 3O5 Market ST., Will
mington, Del, has opened an Opthalmic
Institute at the above address, where he
tests the eyes for ali defects of the vision
free of charge Persons suffering from weak
eyes, headache, dizziness, spots before the
eyes, can be fully cured by wearing Prof.
" ellis celebrated O. E. p. spectacles, they
being the hardest, clearest and whitest
lenses ever invented. Competent oculists
always in attendance. Maya 6m.
A musical and literary entertainment
for the benefit of Crouch Chapel will be
given in Odd Fellows Hall, EIkton, on
Tuesday evening next. Miss Minnie Har-
lin, elocutionist, of Wilmington, will give
selections. Miss Maud Shure, of Havre de
Grace, and Miss Annie Meggett (sopanos)
will sing. Miss Marie Davis, pianist, will
have charge Of the instrumental music. The
entertainment will begin at o'clock. Tick
cts % and So cents. For sale ut Mltchell's
drug store.
Mr.. Frederick II. Clash, who resided in
Elkton for about six months in 1886, when
he was in the insurance business with Mr.
Manly Drennen, died at his home in
Vienna, Dorchester county, on Monday
morning last of typhoid fever. He was
classmate of Prof. George \. Steele, of the
Elkton Academy, at St. Johns College. He
was studying theology with the intention
of entering the Protestant Episcopal minis
try. He leaves a widow to whom he had
been married about year
Steps have been taken to organize a
county union by the Christian Endeavor
Societies in Cecil. A preliminary meeting
was recently held at Bay View which wa.
attended by DR.. Barnes and George Jones
of Hopewell; j. w. Mccullough, \. b
Hanna, Mrs y. b. Fryer and Miss Mary
Keene, of West Nottingham; Clayton Car
hart. Edward Grifford, j. Il. Mi!lIgan ant
Alfred McVcy, of the Zion Presbyterian
Church, and Samuel Bye, of Rock Church
: ba bar Of Igo
Profs. Conner and Bechte, of IVES. Not
tirgham. The meeting adjourned to NEE
at Zion, Tuesday, September 23d.
-Elwood Thayer, son of the late DR.
Thayer, and resident of Elkton for severa
years, died of typhoid fever on the 9th in
slant at his home near Mt. Pleasant, in tin
33d year of his age. The deceased wa
highly respected and esteemed in the neigh
borhood. He was an earnest worker in tn,
temperance cause, prominent member o
Color "Y." also secretary of Mt. Pleasan
and Hickory Grove Sabbath School Hi
funeral was held in the church at Nj
Pleasant, Rev. Burdetse Short, an intimat
friend of the deceased, preaching. Rev.
Jewell also made appropriate remarks. TIL
floral decorations were numerous and beau
tiful.
The Islands in the Delaw are, at Phils
delphia, are the subject of the photo-reprc
duction that forms the interesting 'front.'.
piece to the September number of Strdt
bridge d Clothier's Monthly. Their signif
canoe at this time is due to the fact tina
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eminent, to improve the harbor at Phils
deiphia. The fiction in the present issu
comprises three clever short stories; the fir.
of which, "a Donkey Party of One"
suitably illustrated. As proper in a magi
zine of this kind, much space Is devoted
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home decorators will be found an artist
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handy woman can here learn how to stat
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windowseat pillows, and other valuab
instructions. The hOusekeeper will fin
some quaint receipts discovered BY Mi.
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Monthly. There are two pieces OF instr
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