The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-11-29
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Chapel, Elk Neck, on Sunday night.
John T. White of Bay View has beer
granted an increase OF pension
Mrs. Tobias Rudolph has moved int
the Thorp House on West High street.
MIR. W. +. Cannon and wife of Dove
spent Thanksgiving with Mr.. Il. c. Lewis.
Miss Mamie Glenn of Baltimore, is
visiting her sister Mrs. WIN G. Holiing'
worth.
Miss Dora Davis, daughter of Mr.. VIM
b. Davis of this town, is quite i'll at heI
home.
MIR. Thomas Kelly has leased the barber
shop of the Howard House from W. w
Burnley.
The dam at Malrey Paper Mills is
being repaired under the direction of Mr.
McCorkndale.
Delaware College says the College Re
rie1o can boast Wolf at large, and Pie
who walks unassisted.
The Eoworth League at Hppswsll is in
a Furnishing condition. Home talent is
coming to the front.
Miss Fannie Richardson and MIR. Ranch
of Lebanon, Pa, are visiting Mrs. j. \
Lambert of North East.
-Governor-elect Robert j. Reynolds OF
Delaware, has selected David T. Marvel OF
Georgetown as Secretary of STATE
The Roanoke fever is epidemic in sew
eral Delaware towns. Several cases of the
same fever are reported in Elkton.
Elder and Kershaw have fox rent at
reasonable Nates stables, each having 3
stalls, with bow overhead 1926 feet. 2t.
The Rev. Charles A. Hill of Cen5reville
will preach in the Methodist Church of this
town tomorrow morning and evening.
Our genial toNnsman Mr.. Alfred
Wetherill has been enjoying the social at
fractions Of Philadelphi. for few days
past.
When you visit Baltimore, stop ut the
Maltby House, where will be found first
class accom- modatious and exceedingly low
rates. Mch1Itf
A very successful revival is now in
progress at the Methodist Episcopal Church
at Rising Sun of which the Rev. I'aae
Jewell is pastor.
The vote in the Methodist Church of
this town on Thursday on the admission Of
women as delegates TO the General Confer
enee was l. for, TO 30 against.
Miss Sallie Gatche!l, of Baltimore, vino
has been visiting Mrs. William G.Hollings
worth, returned home on Wednesday,. Miss
Ellen Holling5worth accompanied her.
The General Com mittee on Church ez.
tension at their recent session III New York
granted aid to the Wilmington N. E. Con-
ference to the amount of $500
Rev. j. 2. Otis, of Port Deposit, preach.
ed in the Elkton Methodist Episcopal
church, on Monday and Tuesday evenings,
where series of extra meetings are being
held.
The latest engagement announced il
that of daughter Of prominent citizen
OF Elkton, to a well known divine of New
Castle county, Delaware.
The vote at Hopeweil Methodist Epis
copal Church on the admission of womeE
as delegates to the General Conference wa'
9 for, and against.
Mr. Vim. Parker aud wife of Bruins
wick, Georgia, have been visiting friends il
Port Deposit. They expect to start for houe
next week.
DR.. McKissick of Oxford has Japs
nese persimmon tree from which he picket
last week 126, some of them as large a
lemons.
Farmers in the Fourth district repor
more cora standing unhusked in the fields
than they have ever before seen at this sea
son of the year.
A full attendance Of the members o
Elkton Grange, No. 1l5 p. of H, is re
euested at the next regular meeting on De
cember OH, for initiation and election q
officers.
Pierce and Bseson, a prominent vii
mington firm of brick makers have failed
The total liabilities amount To 500, 800. Th
firm claims that its assets will more tina
cover their Indebtedness.
The Rev. DR.. Hans Adamsen, a nativ
of Siam, who lectured and preached 50 at
ceptably in this town recently, will give a
illustrated lecture on India and Siam a
North East on December 11th. aud at New
ark, Del, on December 18Th.
The date of the next meeting of til
Cecil Farmers Club was enormously pull
lished in our last issue Is being Gu Dece,E
Der 14th. The meeting will be held at NJ
George w. Sutton's at Perryvile Wee
nesday, December 18th.
Those five and ten cent counters :
Roger Witworth's are all the rage. HAY
you seen them If not, you should Wis
them before the holidays and see what a
establishment the enterprisins Witworth
are running in the West End
-Thaddeus S. KIRK and Villa
JeIrtssturred up while plowing recon:
near West Nottingham, small tin coff
essence can, which on being opened ",
found to contain 3 three cent pieces, al
Que half cent of buried treasure.
MIR. S. Kennard Blake, a we'll know
farmer of this county, sold last week
farm, located near Leeds, tor 5000, It
in excellent condition with good buildin
and contains ffty-six acres. y gsntiem
from Pennsylvania was the purchaser.
sale was negotiated by Mr. William
Crow.
The Delaware College ReCiew We
pertinently says that "many of the c@d'
of the college battalion who did not Ia
their purses with them when they drilled
the Elktou Fair, came home hungry u
fatigued." 1t was an oversight that lun
was not served the boys.
-Bepiamin c. Pearce, formerly of t
town, and father-iu-law or Senator John
Writ has rented the Falls Hotel, located
Main, opposite Bow street, will take poss
sion on Monday. Mr.. Pearce was recen
proprietor of the Pocomoke House at PO
moke City, Md, which was destroyed
fire but never rebuilt Mr.. Pearce has
ways been known as popular hotel IN
his acquaintance being very extensive
the Peninsula, while his residence in v
mington as the proprietor of pull
house. has enabled him to make a "
acquaintance among commercial travel
and business men. Under bis managem'
the Falls Hotel ought to become faVo
house with the travelling public.