The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-11-21
Rev. George Patchen Smith was il

Mary A. Moore In the Eighth district q
burned on Friday night the 18Th inst.
-Messis Carhart & Co., the well know
. Zion merchants want their patrons :
know that next Thursday being Thank.
giving day their store will be closed.
Mr. VIM. II. Mackar, and Mr.. Davi'
Gilpin, went to Chestertown on Wednes
day to visit DIR. Chas. GiIpin, with WHOM
they will make a cunning trip into Quee
Anne county.
Mr. Wm. w Moore a prominen
citizen of the Sixth district and father o
Eek County Treasurer Culrles L. Moore,
has beel confined TO the house by Hines
for several days past.
The engagement OF Nj. Chas j. Stenglt
a son of the Rev. Adam StengIe Of Por
Deposit, and Miss W lille G Roberts daugh
ter of Ex-senator Roberts of AccomaC
county Virginia is announced.
The congregations of tue Methodist
and Presbyterian Churches will bold a
Urion Thanksgiv .ng Sc vice in the Metho
dist Church ne It Thursday at 10 50 a. IN
| l he EeY. CnaCltS t1lli Will pTtiCu,
Mr. Patrick Reedy has begun the manu-
facture of cigars in the hollow. Notice his
new card in this issue of the WING. He
makes the best Havana stock AZ we'll as
low priced goods. Call and see him.
Mrs. C. S. Abrahams of Woodlawn,
has been chosen by the societies of Cecil
and Hartford counties as delegate to the
National Convention OF the Woman 5
Christian Temperance U MON which meets
in Boston.
Among those present at the Wedding
of Miss Mary L. Bartlett and Mr.. John
Headdon in Grace p. L. Church Baltimore
on Tuesday evening, was Miss Bertha
Nesbitt daughter of Mr.. H. G. Nesbtt OF
| Port Deposit.
! The large and handsome floral design
which attracted attention at the NJ. E.
! Church at the funeral services of the late
John Perkins, was tribute to his memory
| from the Westamwell Sunday school of
which Mr.. Perkins was Superintendent.
The twenty first anniversary of the
| Teachers Association of the Sixth, Seventh
| and Eighth districts will be held at Port
Deposit OH the afternoon and evening of
! Decem be- I1th. The exercises will consist
| of essays, discussions, Rotations and
| music.
The Harvest Home recently given
by the Chesapeake City NJ. E. Church was
a grand success. The exercises were held
there last Sunday morning and night The
attendance WAS large with an excel ent
! p.ogra nmee. Escitations ard singing by
both Sunday School and choir, were excel
! ent. The church was tastefUlly deco 'ated.
The Elktol and West Nottingham foot
! ball teams will contest for the Champion
ship of the county on the fair g;ounds this
afternoon. The Elkton team will be select
ed from the following; Harvey Mackey,
Hal K. lamar, j. CT. Constable, WIN. d..
Bratton, Fed Garrett, E. Ninsinger, Hal
Johnso !, w. Parker, f. Cilpin, j. Smith
II. Constable, f. Miller, A. Dean. Scott
G een, H. LitZenberg, and w. Hitchins'
An admission Is cents will d. charged,
and game be called at 2 80 sharp.
The ladies of Trinity NJ. E. Church of
Chesapeake City of which Rev j q.
Fosnocht is Pastor will have a harvest
home supper and festival for the benefit of
the church in Masonic Hall in that town
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. even
ings the Goth, 9th and 2SJh insts. Turkey,
oysters and all the deliclcIes of the season,
with ice cream, cake, confectionery and
Fruits will be served. Supper Tickets 70
cents. A general Invitation is given to
come aud enjoy the Thanksgiving season,
and help worthy cause.
"A pleasant trip is in store for those
who avail of the opportunity of visiting
Rising Sun TO morrow, Sunday, on the
occasion OF the laying of the corner stone of
! ST. Agnes Catholic Church, now in course
of erection Right Rev. Bishop Curtis will
otficiate, assisted by Revs. James l.. Barry
of Baltimore, James p. Fitzgerald of Havre
de Grace, and Rev. j. ID. Carey OF Port
Deposit Rev James p. Fitzgerald will
deliver the sermon. Train No. -, passing
Elktol at u 80, will connect with special
train at Perry willie at /. 80. Train will leave
Rising Sun at ) so On return trip.
-Examination week at the Southampton
Public School closed on Friday Nov. IL
with the following general averages: Letitia
Burke 80, Elsie McCauley 50, Annie Astie
Sc, Laura Brysou 81, FIoy Money So,
Georgia Woodrow Sc, Carrie Grant 3d.
Arthur Mahoney 81, Charlie Astle 80,
Hayes McCauley % Henry Moody 80,
Manly Miller 81, Lounie White 80, New
man Grant o. Annie Moody 81, Martha
woodrow So, Charlie Daniels 90, Nellie
Grant 81, Willie uayes 80, Ida White 50,
Eva Grant 90, Mollie Boulder 81, Robert
Bryson 81, Hamilton Moody 80, George
| Daniels 3d. Thomas Woodrow 81, Robbie
Hayes SO, Marion Z. Money teacher.
Detectives Hawkins and Holton, of
| Wilmington Del, arrested John Farra, an
! ex-liveryman of that city, at Upper Prlnci-
| piO. this county on Sunday, for driving off
a horse belonging 20 Geo. &. Devalinger, "A
butcher, and a buggy belonging to Jones
| Guthrie, of that place. 1t is claimed thai
| Farra secured the team under false pre-
! lenses. He was taken to Wilmington
without IA requisItion. Farra some time
! ago, in a row at the Pennsylvania House in
that city, struck James Devine, OF New
York, with his fist and killed him. At a
hearing of the case in Wilmington on
| Tuesday Farra was discharged, the evi.
dence produced showing that Farra and
DevalInger had made contract whereby
| Fdrra was to own the horse after paying
| So and some cents and 10 have possession
of the horse by paying his keep and 50 per
week, which amount was to apply III
stalments ON the amount against the horse.
The Miduletown (DaD transcript is
authority the story that the yield of an
apple tree in the St. Georges Cemetery
verities the superstition that all things
grown in a graveyard are unfit to eat. The
fruit has "A graveyard taste-so much so
that swine will not touch it. When Ben
janin Raymond, a civil engineer on the
Delaware and Chesapeake Canal, was
buried in September 1924, one of his fellow
craftsmen stuck an apple-tree switch in the
| ground alongside of the grave. a large and
apparently healthy tree now marks the
spot, the white fruit of which temptingy
natures in August of each year. The yield
falls TO the ground, and the only persons
known 20 have even sparingIy eaten it art
domestic ''cow boys" whose sense of TASTE
is not as acuteIy developed that of tn,
average human being. When placed OF
the stovehearth TO roast, this peculiar fruit
SINNERS down to oil, and emits an odo
strongly suggestive of graveyard.
Ia the United States Circuit Court al
Wilmington Del, on Saturday last the ap
piication of Austin w. Goodell, of Phila