The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-03-17

following evening.
The pupils of Pleasant Hill school will
give an entertainment on Thursday evening,
March 22nd. Admission fifteen cents. Pro-
ceeds for benefit of school. Exercises to
commence at half past seven. 1t stormy
Thursday evening, will be held Friday
evening.
Two nine months old Pride of England
colts sold at bids of So each at the sale OF
Thomas Stanley, of Elk Neck. These
prices are the highest realized for young
horses this season either in Cecil or New
Castle counties, and speaks we'll for this
vein of stock.
Miss Hanna Louisa Peterson, fourth
daughter of Tobias Peterson, of the Fourth
district, died in Philadelphia on Monday.
Her funeral took place yesterday, Friday.
morning in the Cherry Hill NJ. E. Church,
at 11.3O o'clock, interment in the church
cemetery.
The failure of crop this year will
double the price of ice in Elkton during the
coming summer months. A dealer stated
the other day that Eastern ice would be
retailed at 70 cents per hundred p Uunds and
furnished wholesale buyers at so cents
The cost of domestic ice last season was 40
cents retail, and % cents wholesale,
-Spruance & Barrett, pharmacists and
dispensing chemists, of Wilmin gton, have
purchased the drug store of w. 7. Has
singer, in the Payne building on Main
street and assumed control of the business
on Saturday. The store is Under the man
agement of Mr.. A. G. Barrett, who is a
graduate pharmacist. In another column
of this issue appears the firms advertise
ment bespesking a share of the public
patronage.
The Howard House, Elkton's leading
hotel, changed management on Monday,
Frank Phillips, late proprietor of the
Robinson House, at Delaware City, succeed
ing W. W. Burnley as host. The transfer
was made on Monday morning in considera
ton of $4,000, Mr.. Phillips securing the
entire fixtures and stock. The new proprie
tor is son of Chalkley Phillips of Falls
hotel. Mr.. Burnley has removed his family
to the Cruikshank property on North street
now owned by Charles G. Crothers, Esq.
john T. Ford proprietor of Fords
Grand Opera House, Baltimore, profession
ally known throughout this country, died
Wednesday morning from an attack of the
grip. Mr.. Ford was in point of service the
oldest theatrical manager in this country
having been known in that capacity as
early as 1851. He was brought into national
prominence in 1865, when manager OF
Fords Theatre Washington, where Presid-
ent Lincoln was assassinated. He was u
years of age.
The next meeting of the Maryla land
State Teachers Association will be held in
the Hall of the House of Delegates, Anna
polls. Nd. on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, July 10th, 18th and 18th, 1894
The committee expect TO formulate pre-
gramme which will compare favorably witt
any preceding one. With this object il
view the leading educators from othel
States will be asked to take an active par
in the proceedings of the meeting. County
School Examiners, especially, are requested
to render every possible aid to the COM
mittee in their efforts to make this meeting
one of rare instruction and entertainment
The heirs of Jacob De Haven hav
begun legal proceedings in Washington t.
recover S5,G00,0 900 as claim against tn
Government. Among the heirs are Mis-
Mollie,E E. Falls and Mrs. L. T. C. Crouch
of Elkton, and Mrs. John NJ. Bowen, o
Newark, whose mothers maiden name wa
Mary DeHaven, she being a great gran,
daughter of Jacob DeHayen. Mr.. DsHave
lived at Norristown, Pa, during The Revc
lutionary War, and it is claimed, turnishe
$4,000 worth of supplies to General Was
ington's army at Valley forge and at othe
times, for which settlement was never mad
by the government, the amount bein
really loan. The claim now amounts I
about S.. 600, 600, and which it is reported
the government is ready to ADJUST an
settle upon the heirs being produced. Thel
are about thirty claimants, the majority
whom reside in Pennsylvania. The case
in charge of r E. Doan, of Washington,
1t is intended to make the advertiser
columns of the WING, from week to wee
most profitable reading, In that they abour
in the very information everyone desires
know-where to secure needed purehas
to the best advantage, for everyone b
constant needs to supply. Every week W
be displayed the offers of the seller to u
buyer In changed and attractive FORM al
these bulletins will be read throughout d
county. Advertising to be successful mu
be fresh, the merchant must offer bargai
most frequently and make his display ca
attractive and contain offers of mer
Winter goods cannot be profitably adve
tised in the spring nor can poor stock
sold because it is advertised. Therefore
advertising must be seasonabe and t
goods worthy of purchase. In the way
attractively arranged business bullet
seasonable in their contents, and present
in fresh form, purchasers are referred
the business columns of the WHrG In d
issue appear the advertisements OF G.
Boulder, w. Don Price and Spruance
Barrett, leading business houses of Elktt
TO which the readers of the WING
referred. Attention is also called to
new advertisements of Balls Oak II
Clothing House, John Frazer and Frank
Kerr & Company, merchant tailors, and
P. Price. Advertisers desiring space, v
be furnished rates upon application,