The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-06-28

--Nessrs, MrCIenahu x Bro. of Port De.
nosit. last Wednesday were awarded the
contract To furnish ii large lot of sew ~
stone to Baltimore city.
Don't forget that carriage painting, re-
| pairing and painting i'll all their branches
| are done by A. Meisel ~ son and ID. C. Strain.
Mrs. H. NJ. Haines has been i'll Phila-
delphia for ten days past i'll attendance
| upon her mot,.er, who has been ill with the
dvsentery.
The family of William .. GilmOur, of
Baltimore, will spend the remainder of the
summer in Elkton, he having rented a
| house of Il. T. Frazer, on Howard street.
Mr.. Gimour will spend two days of each
week here.
Mr.. George w. jackson, of Aberdeen,
who has for several years past been in the
employ of the p. w. u b. r. IL. Co., died
last week, after an illness Of less than one
week, of dysentery, in the Both year of his
ago.
-Taxpayers who want to save the dis
count offered for prompt payment of town
taxes. will find the treasurer at the office of
The Scott Fertilizer Company, or the treas
urer will call for the taxes when requested
to do so.
Mr.. Graysou L. Bennett, of the firm of
john I. Bennett ~ c, was married on
Thursday evening to Miss Harriet Louise
Hea b. of this place. Rev. Charles Hill
performed the ceremony at the brides home
in the presence of friends Of the contracting
parties.
The lasters and stock filters employed
in J. Faust * Sons shoe fact ry at Havre-
de Grace several days ago went our on a
strike for higher wages. They assert that
the prices paid are from 20 TO 30 per cent.
lower than for the same class of work in
either Baltimore or Philadelphia. Tie firm
claim to be far enough ahead III both
branches to be at no Inconvenience by the
action OF the workmen, and refuse 10 COM
ply with their demands.
Now comes the time when good old
Farmer Clovertop fills the soul of his son OF
twenty years with jry and giadnesS, that
spurs him on To his utmost endeavor, by
saying; "Now Jake, my son lick in like a
good teller fer the next few weeks, aud hoe
that ten. acre lot - corn all over couple o
times, and clean ev'ry d-rned weed out o
the garden, and turn ever len or twelve
acres o. tha: sod, aud sit the winter fire.
wood all cut, and max" ne 4 couple o hum
dred good oak rails, aud when the Fourth
o July comes yru HIn call on your dad fer
seventy five c~.te oe, :" the celebration,
and do as yo;. Re Il mi nj to with yes, you
kin. All work an | no ,:ily makes Jack a
dull boy C Iii 10 n,y Wy o thinkin'
and blamed if you shan have a little O.
both - uck
PROT. We, : O., :;0J NJ :ls.t ST., Will
mugtcn, De- has a en"G ar OQtha!mic
Iu~utu'e ;.S lne ahlv, address, wh"re he
tests tie eytS Tor al Iefe,''~ of he Wis ION
free OF c.,.:rgA. Person, suffering rom weak
eye, hra.iayh- G.zzirrss. sr,ts n.,iGre the
eyes, can lie fully cared $ wearing Prof.
" els celehrar-h o. E. P. srectau.rs, ,hey
being the hardest, cie.rest and whitest
lenses ever invented. Competent ocu.lsts
always in attendance May2t SIN.
She was lutte graduate; shed read her
essay sag;
And told men how to govern, in a bright,
enlightened age.
She'u settled many a question and evolved
conclusions new;
And now her "education," as they call the
thing, WAS through.
But though 80 much of learning had been
crammed INTO her head,
She couldn't for the life OF her compound Il
loaf of bread.
She stranded on plain doughuuts, and ad-
mitted with Il sigh
That she conduit make a piecrust that
U would not absorb the pie.
Now, we've volumes full of sageness, from
the living and the dead
But things we're really needing most are
better pie and bread.
Economic location may be proper in its
place,
But good cooking, little maiden, is much
better for the race.
W. H. Smiley IN the Warren 90. } Tribune.