The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-06-27

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a visit to friends in Baltimore.
DR. Holmes Smith of Baltimore, visited
, his brother DR.. Stuart Smith this week.
Mr.. Glenn Holingsworth is visiting
his pal ents on East Main street extended
MIR. Malcolm Caaphlain of New York
' is visiting his friend, Mr.. y. Price Whit
aker.
Mr.. \. Il. Walmsley of New York
City is visiting his sister Mrs. w. y.
Mitchell.
Mr.. Jack Constable participated in the
athletic games at Washington College
Chestertown on Tuesday.
The hour of evening service at Trinity
Church, Ektou, beginning with tomorrow,
Sunday, will he half past six.
Mr. l.. II. Baldwin Maryland manager
of the Washington Insurance Co. of New
York, of which VIM. c. Crow is local agent
was in Elkton on Tuesday.
Burglars invaded the store of Mr.. War
ner McNeal at Belle Hill on Tuesday night,
carrying offa lot of sugar, coffee, and other
groceries, Bad luck to them.
Company "a" of the st. Johns College
battalion of cadets of which Hal lamar
and Victor Torbert of this town are mem
bers, won the colors III the competitive
drill ON Monday.
Mrs. Manly Bremen entained a number
of friends OF a musicale last night The
entertainment was preceded by birth
day party of little Il )se's III which her
friends particip ated.
On Saturday last while digging hole
in his marble Yard at the corner of Bow
and West High street, Mr.. David Sloan
exhumed a sixteen pound cannon ball,
about thirty inches below the surface.
The Oxford Base Ball Club will hold
festival in Miller'S woods, on June Both; if
the weather is stormy, the next clear even
ing. The EIkton Band will furnish music
for the occasion The public are invited to
attend.
John Glees coored man of Chesa
peake City in this County, was drowned
last week by the sinking of the Schooner
George Henry in Delaware Bay. The
Captain of the vessel and several Of the
crew were rescued.
We have recently published in the
WING accounts of our popular townsman
Samuel b. Foards exploits in Texas Mr.
Garlic has acted wisely in securing his
services at the Falls Hotel where "Sam"
is obliging and popular with the guests.
The first basket of peaches we have
seen in Elkton This season was left at the |
WING office on Monday. The peaches were
taken from the orchard on the farm of Mrs.
Francis L. Bradbury in Queen Anne county, |
where she has 1900 fine trees in bearing
this year. q
-Children's Day service at the Rock
Presbyterian Church having been post
poned on account of the rain last Sabbath,
will be held next Sabbath the 2Sth, at s p.
m. All are invited. Object lesson-a beau
fully decorated bridge Theme-the Mace
DOMAIN cry illustrated.
GA Thursday of last week Mr.. j. Mel.
son Black of Principle Furnace, was
married to Miss Mary q. Barnes daugh-
ter of the late Washington Barnes and
sister of Perry X. Barnes of Charlestown.
The ceremony was celebrated by the Rev
j. r. Miller at the Coloanade Hotel Phila.
delphia.
Mr.. George V. Massey who once re
sided with the Rev. Mr.. Howell Pastor of
the Presby terrain Church in this town, and
now promi>ent member of the Dover
Nal, roll has
declined the position OF Chief OF the Bureau
of Foreign Relations ar the Columbian
Fair at Chicago in 1892
Mr.. Harry A. Miller the well known
plumber of Wilmington and son of Mr..
Samuel IL. Miller of this vicinity, has
contracted to deliver at President Harri-
sons and Post Master General Wanna
makers cottages at Cape May Point, four
barrels daily of Brandywines water filtered
through the Celebrated Pasteur Filters.
The annual commencement of the
Friends Normal Institute, at Rising Sun,
was held on Friday evening Of last week.
Tie graduating class consisted of Linda
Warren, f. Beatrc e Keiholtz, Anna
Mable Reynolds, Lillian Jeanette Reynolds
Sadie Arna Scott, Mary Adeine Smith,
Barclay y. Reynolds and Albert L.
Burlington.
Services in st. Mary Annes parish on
Sunday June %, the last Sunday of the
rectorshIp of Rev. E. X. Miller will be as
follows st. Mary's church, North East,
holy baptism at half past nine o'clock a. IN.
Regular morning service with sermon and
holy communion at half past ten. st.
Johns in the Wilderness, service and holy
baptism at three O'Clock p. m. st. Marks
chapel, evening prayer and sermon at eight
o'clock.
A young business man of Wilmington
received last Wednesday, among number
of other checks, one for one cent. He de-
posted the check in the Union National
Bank The small check was issued by a
large New York corporation, the
amount being the balance due in
various business transactions covering a
period cf six years. a letter accompany
ing the rem ttance explained that the COM
pany paid out no money excepting by
check, and as they desired to close up as
many accounts as possible before July ],
they were compelled 80 issue the check in
in order to balance the account with the
young man in question.
1t is quite coincidence that the Pas
tors of the Methodist, Presbyterian and
Episcopalian Churches of this town should
each lose IA sister by death within the short
period of eleven days. On the S;h inst,
Mrs Elexne Hastings, wife of Mr.. Richard
+. Hastings a well known citizen of Mills
boro Delaware, and sister of the Rev.
Charles Hill of the Methodist Church died.
On the 14th inst Mrs. Nancy Stephens wife
of Mr.. Nelson Stephens Of minneapolis
Mimi, departed this life. She was sister
of the Rev. DR.. 5. NJ. Osmond of the
Presby terrain Church, and on the 10Th inst
Mrs Fanny w. Williams wife of Mr..
James II. Williams of Bellows Falls Yer
mont Joined the silent majority. She was |
a sister of the Rev William Schouler Rec |
tor of Trinity p. e. Church of this town.
Sixteen Bowdoin College boys, under |
the leadership Of one of their teachers, !
going up into northern seas to spend their |
summer vacation among the icebergs and |
Esquimaux. They will sail from Rockland, |
Me-, in the schooner Julia A. Decker, next
Saturday. The Decker will go from Rock
land to Halifax, and thence to Hamilton
Inlet, on the Labrador coast. Here four of
the party will leave the main body and
proceed in q small boat up Grand river, in
the hope of reaching the cataract where
the river is said to take a tumble of 1000