The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-04-04

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be served generously at very tritiing cost
When the Few. E. G, Atkins, pastor o.
Madeley Church, Wilmington, returned
from Conference he hardly knew his home
During his absence the Ladies' Aid Society
put in the parlor a handsome suit o.
upholstered furniture.
One of the largest audiences that eVe'
assembled in the Opera House gree' ed the
McGibney Family last night. This is GER
tainly wonderful family. Oae half the
entertainment was well worth the price OF
admissicn.-Er;dge:oa On. j. Patriot.
The packed House at the Odd Fellows
Hall in this town on Wednesday evening
atLes, ed the popularity of the Moss Family
in Elkton 1t was the best Show" ever
given here by them, and they can get just
as fall house whenever they choose to
come.
Reports from the upper sections OF the
| county show that the fall of snow on
Friday and Saturday of last week was
unusual. A gentleman who lives near
Calvert informed us on Tuesday that The
snow was so deep on the road between Zion
and Calvert as to be impossible with team
| Rev. Walter E. Avery on his return
from Conference last week to Mt. ilem NJ.
Z. Church Wilmington where he is entering
on his fourth year, was with Mrs. Avery
rendered reception, when the later was
presented with a handsome plush album,
aud the former a beautiful dressing gown.
Miss Emma E. Mcfarland a daughter
of the late Richard F. Mcfarland of this
| town, was married at the residence of her
mother in the City of Philadelphia on Wei
nesdav Evening of last week to Mr.. A. ID.
| Lamdip of Baltimore. After their wedding
tour, they will return to that City where
| they will reside.
| The annual election for vestrymen was
| held in Trinity Church on K Ister Monday.
| The board as constituted stands as follows,
no changes having been made from last
year:-Dr. r. c. MackalI. John Partridge,
| Alfred Wetherel, John S. Writ. w. H.
| Mackall, Geo. McQuilkin, DR.. G. NJ. Ellis
and Geo. NJ. Eesse.
| Charles Stewart, of Wilmington, p,
| w. & B railroad plumber and we'll known
employe of that company, was instantly
killed on Thursday morning at Bayview.
| He had Just stepped from train No. 81,
| when he was srrucs by locomotive which
was backing Deceased was the father of
| Albert I. Stewart, a clerk in the National
Bank of Wilmington and Brandywine,
whose marriage to Miss Meta Bright had
| been ANNOUNCED to be solemnized on
! Thursday night.
There was no "April Foop' business
about the drop in the price of sugar
| on The 1st inst. Signs in the windows of
| the city grocery stores Announcing " LES.
| OF GRASULATED SUGAR, 81 CTS; FORMER
| PRICE, IS CTS.,' brought housekeepers face
| to face with the fact that Mckinley prices
| for sugar had come, in spite of the united
ADD persistent opposition of the Democratic
politicians in and odt of Congress. If the
people get ii ed of cheap sugar they can
bring the high prices back again by electlug
Democratic President next year.-Bel
dir Times.
| Our local fire Company organized on
Thursday night at the town Council Hall.
| A. Melsel was elected president, o. r. ebay
tor vice president, David Sloan treasurer,
| S. B. Enos secretary. The Company adopted
as name ''The Singerly Steam Fire
Engine, Hose, and Hook and Ladder Co.,
No. ], of Elkton. The Company now
numbers fourteen members. In this con.
nection we appeal to the property owners OF
| the town for contributions to aid the COM
pany to organize properly. 1t has always
been conceded that Elktou had more grit in
| lighting fire than any town on the PENN.
sula and "the boys ought to be encourag-
ed. We hope they will be, and that right
literally.
| In noticing a number of prominent
families and their ancestry loci in Balti
more, the Morning Hera d of that city in
its issue of Sunday last, mentions the a bra
hams family as being one of good old Eng
lish stock and says the Abahams, of which
Mr.. Woodward Abrshsms, prominent
| HtTCudub Vi GulS Guy. 10 HULL
Der, are fine old English stock, having been
in this country since 1860. The original
progentor of the family was Joseph Abra.
hams, scion of nobility, who settled in
Chestertown. Mass. His son William was
born in that city in 1894. He died in 1898
His son Wood ward W as born IN 1927, and
married Miss Tabitha Smithurst. In 1857
he removed to Marblehead, and continued
to reside there until his death. His son
Woodward was born in 1864, and it was he
who gave Maryland one of her staunches'
families. His son William Abrahams was
on the three gun battery that guarded The
Patapsco River during the War of 1872
The family homestead is Lucky Mulake, .
in Cecil county. The principal members
of the Maryland branch of the family
are Woodward Abrahams, Joseph w
Abrahams of Fort Deposit, John Jane:
Abrahams and Edmund +. Abrahams
Some of them have died of late.
Reports come from Kent county Della
ware that the trouble among the Methodist
churches there promises TO become serious
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conference to be held in that city in 189.
will probably have some interesting prob
lens to settle. At the session of the con
} ference at Centerville, Md, which came tt
! an end a week ago, there was genera
! shaking up of the ministers. The result
was that on Sunday last the doors of fiv'
churches were locked against the minister
sent to them by the conference. The trus
tees of these II We churches declare that they
} will do without worship for year befor
f they will open the doors of their respective
3 churches. The congregations are quie
and determined, but they are blaming tn
f Rev. j, A. b. Wilson, the presiding eide
r of Dover district, for all of their troubles.
The churches whose doors were closed oil
e Easter Sunday are: Dover chapel, Dover
't3yviIlow Grove church, at Willow Grove
chapel, near FELTON,; Masten'
Darlington; st. Jones' church
The congregation a
ev. f. c. Macnic
vas appointed
is old pulpi
g rumor
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