The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-08-05

A handsome new safe has bee plice'
| in the drug store of DR.. II. G. We,,'.
The Mt Pleasant NJ. E. Sunday Schoo
will pic uic at Happy Valley, on A isu't
| The Childs Republican club will hol'
a meeting in their room at Childs - night
| The Elkton Chapter Epworth League
| will pic mic at Locust Point on Wednesda!
next.
Presiding Elder L. E. Barrett filled thu
pulpit of the Elkton NJ. f. Church on Sun
day morning.
The personal property of John L
Drummond, of near Cherry Hill, was sole
at public sale on Saturday.
The Elkton and Rising Sun base bal
teams will play on the Fair Grounds mex
Saturday afternoon August II.
A full Attendance is requested at the
meeting of Elkton Council, No. %, Jr, O.
q. A. NJ, on Tuesday night next.
The bridge over Little Elk Creek al
Elk Landing will be closed for week tc
allow necessary repairs to be made.
The annual meeting Of the members
of the Cecil Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany will be held in Elkton to day.
u. S. Bank Examiner Kemp, of Bait
more, was in Elkton yesterday examining
the books of the Second National Bank.
-NIessrs. c. s. Garrett s. Sons mills
thprapub ranAir and will.
we hope soon be able to resume operations
Our readers who are farmers should
make a note of MIR. Palmer's sale 81 Dorset
Horn Sheep at Avondale, Pa on August
18th.
A marriage license was issued on
August l to Harvey b. Devonshire, OF
Rowlandville, and Alice Watkins, of Port
Deposit.
Caleb Burlington was badly trampled
by a pair of mules attached to a wagon on
Saturday on the farm of Henry Hess,
at Fair Hill.
The picnic to have been held on Wed
uesday last by the NJ. f Sunday School on
the Manor in Mr.. l. Boulden's grove was
indefinitely postponed.
Forty lights on the electric light circuit
were put out late Wednesday night by the
breaking of lamp socket on East Main
street which tore away the current wire.
The real estate and mill property of
Job Haines was offered at public sale in
Rising Sun on Saturday. The eutire
property was withdrawn because of made
quate bids
The improvements to the gas works
were completed on Wednesday and the
retorts are now i'll operation. The supply
of gas is now better and fully sufficient for
the heaviest demand. A brick addition
has been bailt which contains two benches
of three retorts each. The company reduced
the price of gas per thousands feet in
January to 81, and 81. so per thousand for
fuel purposes.
On the fly leaf Of an old inventory book
in the office of the Register of Wills for
Cecil county has been found the coupet-
"Mr John Young, his hand and pen,
He will be good but God knows when"
This hook contains records from the year
1863 to 1863 az which period Mr.Young was
probably a clerk in the office. The records are
written in the same hand as the lines. An
article recently appeared in the Philadelphia
Record stating that "Amoug other relics of
the boy hood of Abram Lincoln now in the
possession of a citizen of Atchison, Kan D., is
a ragged and yellow leaf from copy book
containing the following stauza, which was
PROBABLY Lircoin's first attempt at poetry:
Abraham Lincoln, his hand and pen,
He will be good but Tod knows when"
The discovery at Elkton evidently deprives
Lincoln OF the honor of the early compos
ton, and the citizens of Atchison of a
valued relic.