The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-03-19
ELKTON. MARCH 10, 1892.
GLOgAL DEPARTMENT., v


q. w. Cruikshank, Esq, of this town
several days this week.
The March meeting OF the Cecil Farm
ers' Club will be held on Wednesday
March sd, at the residence of Mr. JOSEPH
Coudon COT JOS }, near Perryville.
Miss Anna Freeman, of Middlctown
Del, spent Sunday wirh Mrs. James +
Merritt. She was accompanied home b,
Miss Katie Merritt.
The farm OF the Tyson Mining Com
pany, containing 1853 acres, near Calvert
has been bought by Mr.. John Trainor fo'
S44S2. so. Mr.. Tyson has occupied this
property for number of years.
-Cosmus Day, of Cecilton, was arrested
in Wilmington Tuesday night for the
larceny of a horse and wagon from Eugene
Manlove of Cecilton on Sunday last. Day
accomplice, a man named Davis, escaped
The Rev. Alfred t. Scott of Wilmington
officiated in the NJ. f. Church on Sunday
morning last. In the evening Presiding
Elder w. l.. S. Murray preached a sermon
intended particularly for the new members
of the church.
Rev. A Sergeant, of Wilmington, Del,
will preach in the Free Methodist Chapel
on High street, tomorrow, Sunday, at lO5O
a IN and at 80 N. A cordial invitation
to all Rev dward Jones will preach i'll
the chapel at Pleasant Hill, Sabbath at $50.
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fourth district of this county, died Saturd y
night of cancer of the stomach, in Will
mington, aged seventy two years. He was
blacksmith by trad, and was employed
by the p, W and B r tilroad in that city
A car of an extra freight train on the
Columbia and Port Deposit railroad jumped
the track at Port Deposit in the lower end
of the town on Tuesday morning. The
trucks were broken and other damage was
done, delaying travel for a considerable
time.
We regret to say that Cecil county
will lose one of its oldest citizen this week
in the person of Mr.. ID. VI Way, of ROW
landville, who removes with his family to
Williamsport Pa, where he will !erman
emily reside with married d lughter Mrs
w. c. Suopbell.
Services will be held in the Church of
the Good Shepherd, Chesapeake City, TO
morrow, Sunday, at 80 and II a. IN, and
73O p. M; Sunday school, 10 a. IN, The
subject for the morning sermon j.: THE
Reward of Devil Worship evening, "The
Fourth Deadly Sin and its Contrary
Virtue
The remains of Mrs. Elizabeth Cameron
wife of Rev. John f. Cameron of Liberty
Falls, n Y, whose death occurred on
Friday of last week, were brought to
Elkton on Tuesday morning and inferred
in the Elkton cemetery. Services were held
in the Methodist Chapel. Mrs. Cameron
was a daughter of the late Edward Biddle
of North East.
We received pleasaTt,ctll on Monday
from Mr.. D. G. Way of Hasin Beaufort
county North Carolina. Mr.. Way who is
a native of this county and whose brother
VIM. Way is well known citizen
for a number of years in the lumber
business in North Carolina in connection
with the Messrs. Row land eff Port
Deposit
Mrs. Fanny Walter. wife If James
Walter of this town, died at the residence
of her husband on High street, about so
o'clock Monday evening For ac0nsiderabie
time Mrs. Walter had been troubled with a
humorous affection of the breast which
eliminated in her death. Her funeral
Thursday morning at 10 O'Clock, interment
in Elkton cemetery.
Mrs. Clementine West, an aged lady
living rear the Cecil Paper Mills, was
seriously burned last week while smoking
a pipe, several sparks fl-w from it igniting
her dress. She was powerless to extinguish
the flames and in a short time was
enveloped. Her son who was up stair,
heard his wife cry for help, and rushing
down succeeded in smothering the fl mes,
Mrs. Vests condition is considered critical
EXP. esident Grover Cleveland's sue
cesstul ducking trip to the Su~qurhannJ
last week, he having blggsd % duck
within two days, has given an iHpetus to
the spot. On Monday the Tvs below
Havre de Grace were covered by guunerS
from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington. Colonel G. w +
Vernon, of BALTIMORE, and party ABOARD
his yacht, 5agged - including a mum bel
of canvas backs.
Mr. j. Roman Way of WILLIAMSON
Pa. was in ElktOn on Thursday. Mr. Wa,
who is a con of Mr.. David Nj. WAY o
Rowlandville, left Port Deposit in 1869
and took a position with b G.. Bowman &
Co, a leading lumber firm at williamson
of which Mr.. J. Harvey Rowland of Por
Deposit, is general partner. In 1888 III
Bowman Lumber Company was incorpor
ated, of which Company Mr.. Way is Treas
urer. He resides in Williansport, and i
known there as one of the most active an,
successful men in the lumber trade
As previously announced in the WHO
spelling bee held on Saturday nigh
lAsL III INC Il dll mn SChbbi ubuSti
audience being present. The prizes in tn
first ass, for all under - years of age
were secured by Emily Biles, first, COL
pen and holder, Norman Brokaw, second,
gold dollar. In the second class, all owe
fifteen years of age, Miss Mary Warren, q
Pleasant Hill, received first, and Miss Id
Ewing, of Kansas, second. The priZ.
corresponded to those Of the first elias.
The amount of $50 was realized, for th
benefit of school. Mr.. A b McVey, {
the Rock Academy acted as pedagogut
and the referees were Mess Samuel Gatche
James Mackey and Abel NJ ckey
MIR. c. f. Swain who has been spendin
the winter with the relative Mr. f. I
Bradbury of this town, has taken postio
as day clerk at the Central hotel, Sixth an
French streets, Wilmington, Del of whic
Mr.. George w. Ortlip is proprietor NJ
Swain came to Cecil county in l849 an
lived some time near Elkton with his unc
the late Joseph Bradbury. He left he
when youth, and for the last thirty yea
has been commercial traveller, his busine
engagements extending from Maine
Kansas, and from Minnesota to Kentuck
and Virginia. Mr.. Swain is thorough
conversant by experience with the wan
of the travelling community, and being
gentleman of intelligence, aff.biity al
tact, we know no one more capable than
to fill successfully the position which
has engaged to fill in Wilmington. W
wish him the success which his charact
as "a good fellow" merits.