The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-02-25
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The marsh back of the town Is iioH0
over tor the first time in mum Der oil year;
Rev. William Schouler will hold serVlc
in the Audora school house tomorrow 0"'
day, at 3 p. m.
Mrs. Laura Cameron, wife OF Andre'
Cameron, died last week at the residence
her husband on West High street
The Annual Missionary Anniversar.
of the Elkton NJ. +. Sunday School Will
held on Wednesday evening, March osh' I"
$50 o'clock.
Ray. A. dupont Coleman, OF Wllmlh
ton, will be the preacher at the thnrsoaN
night service in Trinity Church next wee
All are welcome.
Fannie, aged one year, daughter oil MI
Edward W. Morgan died on Sunday IRON
whooping cough. The funeral service
were held on Tuesday.
Charles HI. Smith represented Eiktof
Council, No -, Jr. O.U. A. NJ, in the con
vention of the Funeral Benefit Association
held in Chester on Wednesday.
William Carnathan of Thorndaie, and
Sarah Drennen of Bay View, were married
at the Elkton NJ L. Parsonage on TUESDAY
afternoon by the Rev. L. L. Wood.
Mr.. j. Swan Everist, son OF +. )
Everist. Esq, of Port Deposit, has pur
chased Speucer's Mammoth Store II
Havre de Grace, aud takes possession a
once.
The farm owned by he heirs Of the late
James T. Mccullough, situated on the roa'
leading from the Nottingham road &c
Marley has been rented by Samuel KILN III
of Elk Neck.
While hauling hay several days go
w. T. Bouham, Tho resides near Pleasa n
Hill, was painfully injured, his hand osihs
caught between the tongue OF the waso''
and the side of the barn and badly mashed
In the report of the Orphans Court
published last W, ak the statement W I"
omitted That the 18th account of George
w. Clifford, David l.. Clifford and w. l. Is
r Robinson, executors of the late BenJanl in
Clifford, was passed.
The construction of an electric railroad
from Turkey Point to Oxford, Pa, is being
agitated in North East, the object OF the
road being to develope the clay resources Of
the Point and open up the country as site
for summer residences.
AT the annual euCampment OF the
Departmen of Maryl and, q. A. r., held IN
Baltimore this week, Captain Frank Nolen
was elected Department Commander, and
Captain John w. Mccullough, of Colora,
this county, Senior Vice Commander.
Mr. W. Irving Walker formerly of this
county but now of Baltimore and who is an
active officer of the State Road League was
il Centreville, Nd this week for the
purpose of organizing le7gue there. y
meeting of citizens was held on Tuesday
night.
MIR. Flank MARBLE of Bay View,
who bought last June part Of the HAYES
property near Leeds is improving il, by the
erection of a new frame dwelling house
the foundation for the cellar being already
laid. Mr.. MARBLE is living on the property
in temporary building.
An infant daughter of Mr.. Walter II.
Denny of this town died on Sunday at the
residence of its grandparents Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Smith on High street after an i'll
ness from pneumonia and catarrh of the
breast. The intermenJ was made on Wed
nesiay afternoon in the Elkton cemetery.
"A festival and poultry Supper will be
held in the town hall. Chesapeake City,
March ,. 5. and An, Thursday, Friday aud
Saturday evenings, under the aus pieces #
ladies Mite Society NJ. E Church. IL will
De in charg of the young people of he the
church. Let everybody come, and aid in
worthy cause Proceeds for church.
AT the recent semi annual election of
officers of the Humphry Hall Literary
Society of St. Johns College at Annapolis
Mr.. John Cooper of this county was elected
Vice. President. Mr.. Cooper is the fourth
son OF Mr., w. c. Cooper the well known
contractor aud brick mason, Of Charles
town, aud was formerly a student at the
Elkton Academy.
The Cecil county real estate of the late
Charles A Cooper was offered at public
sale in Elkton on Saturday by W. S. Evans
trustee, the property being Withdrawn and
held at private sale, with the exception of
the small farm known as "Nowltnd
corner containing 6j acres in the Ninth
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B. Smith, for $4,000.
Record of marriage licenses issued by
the Clerk of the Court for Cecil county:
Feb. 16, James f. Price and Lena Web,ter,
colored, both OF Glasgow, Del j, fferson
Miller and Mary Carter, colored, beth OF
Appleton. Feb. 90, William Carnathan,
of Thorndale. and Sarah Drenuen, of Bay
View; Feb. 81, William j. Manlove, of
Ceclton, and Florence H. Daily, of Chesa,
peake City Hiram S. Diebert and Mary
Seeds, both of Elktor. Feb. %, Eugene
KetterIinus, of Boston, and Dayse Carter,
of Singeriy.
A pathetic incident Of the flood on the
Susquehanna occurred on Tuesday. Mr..
James +. Haines, who resides about two
miles north of Port Deposit while rowing
down the stream in a boat discovered an
unusual looking object in the wafer near
him and was startled to find a tiny coffin
floating with the tide. The casket contained
the remains Of young child of Carson
Larue a cololed man living on the bank of
the river, and which had been inferred two
weeks ago, TO be washed from the grave
by the relentless waves.
Oh irles Il. L)ag, s)a of the Iat9 job II
Long, OF this town, died on Sandy after
noon at o'clock after short Hines, from
penumonia, at the residence of his brother
in-law- Alfred Bender, in Port D.p1sit
where be was visiting. He was u years
of age, and Tor years was almcs5 entirely
helpless being wheeled from place to place
in care of an attendant his mis- fortune b..
ing the result Of paralysis The funeral
services were held from the resi- lance Of
his mother on Main street on Wedues lay
afternoon, iutermsut in the Pre- sbyter' an
cemetery.
Mr.. Thomas FTisby Henderson died at
the Albion Hotel, in Baltimore on Tues
day morning, while on a visit to that
city. Mr. Henderson was the son o
the late Andrew I. Henderson, the frs
president of the Old Bay line, and a broshe
of the late William Ward Henderson, OF
this town, whose widow still resides here
Mr. Henderson had lived Tor the last fifLses
years at his home on Long Island, bu
formerly resided in Baltimore He was
graduate of Princeton aud practiced Law
during his early life He leaves widow
who was Miss Kelsey, of Charleston, S C
bat no children. lie was a brother in Law
of Mr. John A. WhiTridge, of Baltimore
Mr., Henderson had been in Ill health f.