The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-06-03

Pr. WF"g
5, 1898
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sn years of age fell
Tuesday and broke
making the furni'
SSS ,erry Hill. Rsad his
rs age of THE WING.
nberg has purchased
"a N re from John Pitt, the
Zoo an of New London. Pa.
No aiming % acres of land
AZ lew, the estate of Eliza
20 has been sold to David
N1a iment at West Nottingham
6s n Tuesday and Wednesday
week was quite a success,
Is amounted TO 81 dollars.
Duuning former resident
City died last week at his
iiladelphia, aged sixty three
remains were inferred at Mid
Friday.
MON NJ. Z. Sunday School will
3 nnual strawberry festival on We'd
rening, june J. All are cordially
If the weather is unfavorableit
ield the next fair evening.
,Pawnee Indian Medicine Company
IN. exhibiting in Elkton on the lot IN
ie rear of the Farmers Hotel, High street.
zee performance are given each evening
be company comprising several Indians.
The letters ivertsed as uucalled for
at the Elkton postoftice this week are
Addressed as follows: Mrs. Agnes Banks,
Mrs. Anna NJ. Burns, Frank Carroll. Mrsl
N. J. Clark, Miss Clara Johnson, George
q Jones.
Stoves Uncle Toms Cabin Company
appeared in Elkton on Saturday, the tent
being erected on the Fair Grounds. A
matinee and an evening performance were
given, the latter being attended by fully
six hundred people.
The ladies of Crouch Chapel will hold
their annual festival in the grove near the
chapel on the evening of June 9TH, and if
not fair, the next fair evening. The Chill
drens Day exercises will occur Sunday
afternoon June 18th, at 2 80 o'clock.
~ cd hair Lot
entertainment at Colora. in Rising Sun hall
on Friday evening, May 26th to an excell-
emit audience. The original comedy of The
Preacher and che Postum" was highly
enjoyed, and ELECTED hearty applause.
The Bethesda NJ. Z. Church at Cayott
corner on Bohemia Manor will hold Child
ren's Day service on June 4th, at o'clock
p m, and will hold strawberry iestiva
on the church green on the evenings OF
June 6, I ard Sth. They invite all to come.
A correspondent OF the WING writes
that in drive from R)wlandville to Cal
vert some fine fields of wheat are to be
seen, but the grass is ger erally short, while
the young corn looks frail and feeble ow-
ing to the cool and dry atmosphere which
has prevailed this spring.
You can hire team in Elkton, have
pleasant drive over good road to Cherry
Hill, buy bill of furniture of r. c. Porter,
have it delivered free of cost To you, aud
save money besides, Read Mr.. Porter's
big card on the first page of THE WING,
and you will find six good reasons why he
can sell you so favorably.
An interesting program was rendered
or Thursday evening at tie meeting OF the
Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary
Society of Zion Presby terrain Church, and
which was largely attended Special and
attractive music was rendered. The Rev.
W. j. Fitz Simons, pastor, delivered an
address upon Foreign Missions and the
Rev. L. w. Lay field, of Zion, spoke upon
the subject of Home Missions.
The SPECIAL services held each evening
this week in the ElktOn Presbyterian
Church were well attended and in which
much interest was shown. The pastor,
Rev. John McElmoye each evening deliv-
cred brief addresses as follows: Monday,
"Lazarus, come forth" Tuesday, I'm
Christ" Wednesd ~, "Sin, Death; Right
business, Life" Thursday, Awaiting
convenient season" Friday, IL Corin-
thians 3:1S. preparatory No service is
held this Saturday evening.
The largest record ever rhade up in tie
United States Circuit Court at Baltimore
is that in the case of IL. X. & f. b. Thur
Der & Co., of New York, against the Cecil
National Bank and Major Arian n. Hancock
1t contains 900 type written pages ami
will be shipped to Richmoud and printed
for presentation to the United Safes Circuit
Court of Appeals. The suit was for the
recovery of the value of canned goods.
Judge Morris decreed that the bank should
pay the Messrs. Thurber Sl3, 1873, 80. with
Interest from July IA, 1886, and that after
this payment had been made the same sam
was due from Major Hancock to the bank.
AS Elkton has Away been considered
progressive il the line of church fairs and
festivals, the local managers ct them may
find a suggestion of novelty in some of the
variations of church fair schemes recently
introduced elsewhere. Ia lieu of tue time
honored grab bag, an old village pump,
moss grown and dark with age, apparently
flowed favoTs instead OF water through its
ancient spout. One OF sht stalls represented
a huge web, with ganG spider enthronged
therein. Caught in its meshes were all sorts
Vi tempting fancy work and notions, while
from above hoated banner enticiDgly
inviting the passing flies to Come into my
parlor.
While the Maryland school exhibit at
Chic go l. a disappointment, it is said
that the rooms i'll the Maryland Building
at the Worlds Fair devoted exclusively
to womens work are mos interesting. The
hangings portieres aud draperies of various
kinds are entirely the work of the Decorative
Art Society in Baltimore which Mrs
William Reed its President and the lady
Manager of Maryland at the FAIR, has
superintendent and collected Pictures OF
beautiful Baltimore girls adOrn the walls
the contribution and work of Miss Elizabeth
Adams. Specimens of china painting,
carved wood work, and brio brao are by
Maryland hands and the furniture in these
rooms was made with great care by the
oldest cabinet making irm in the State.
The new steamer Anthony Groves built
for the Ericsson Line, plying on the Della
ware and Chesapeake Canal between Phila
delphia and Baltimore arrived at the com
pany's wharf last Saturday in Philadelphia
She was built by Charles Hillman 81 Co., of
that city and is six hundred and five tons
burden, two hundred AMI eight feet long
breadth of beam, twenty four feet and