The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-12-01
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
POINTS FROM HERE AND THERE
Various Local Items of Interest Collected
in this Vicinity.

The organization of a Grand Army Post
is talked of in Elkton.
John r.. Little, of North East, has been
granted an original pension.
-Four new members were initiated into
the order of Heptasophs on Monday night.
"A pension has been re-,ssued to Richard
G.. Buckworth, of st. Augustine.
Richard Stevens has bought out the
bakery business of Mrs. Haaga on East
Main street.
Contractor A. NJ Strickland is building
Il double frame dwelling house at Childs for
William Harry.
The work OF town Improvement still goes
on. BailiiT BouIden on Tuesday re-aid the
crossing at North and Wing streets.
-Governor-Elect Mary of Delaware. has
appointed Ex-Congrossman n. b. Smithers,
of Dover, as his Secretary Of State.
The alumni of st. Johns College, Annap-
oils, are proposing to hold their annual ban
quet on til" l4th Of December at the Hotel
Renncrt in Baltimore.
bury have opened a sale and exchange stable
in EIkton on West Main street, and have
already made a number of sales.
"A full attendance of the members of Elk
ton Grange No. l45, p. of H.. is requested at
their next regular meeting in Elkton on Sat
urday Dee. 3, for the election of officers for
the ensuing year.
The pumpkin which has been displayed
at J. O. M"Culloughs news-store on Main
street waiting some one to guess the number
of seeds in it and win Il photograph album,
will be cut open tonight.
The jury in the condemnation case of the
Elkton and Middetown Railroad Company
awarded William Boomer - 300 for four
acres of land near Chesapeake City. The
company builds and maintains the fencing.
Rachel Robinson, residing near Newark.
met with peculiar and what may prove Il
atal accident few evenings ago. While
eating Sh" swallowed her false teeth, which
the physician called in was unable to remove.
Owing to lack of orders the Providence
Paper Mill reduced its force this week. thirty
The firm recently received an order for 800
reams of writing paper to Ice shipped to Lon
don
Jacob Leach, an empoye at the PrOvi-
denrc paper MILL recently found iiy" gold
rings while ricanng out the digestcr. The
rings had gone into the machine among old
scrap paper which had been bought in the
cities
Smyrna, Delaware, now has Il complete
sewer system which was put in successful
operation last week Il is known as the
WARM system, and the whol" plant inrlud-
ing work material, etc.. cost the town Il little
over 50, 200. The same improvement should
Elm tn" near future for Elkton, together with
permanently built streets.
George A. Blake. attorney on Tuesday
sold the farm rs Amor Tallcy, one mile north
of Elkton, AT public sale at the Court House
door the purchaser being John f. Alexander
at It bid Of 1928. The property is known as
the Collins farm and contains 100 acres Of
land. There is Il new eleven room frame
dwelling house on The farm.
Mr.. j. Sesal, representing Il New York
firm was in Eiktpn on Tuesday and consulted
with the Board Of Trade and several persons
respecting the location OF II shirt factory
here. Nothing definite was done i'll the mat
ter as the inducements the firm required the
town TO offer seemed out Of all proportion 20
the benefit that could possibly be derived
from the Industry.
The Vrasty House. at kits Hammock.
the rayorite watering place of Kent county,
Delaware. was destroyed 10y fire early Monday
morning. r. T.. Vcascy the proprietor, dis
covered the fire shortly after it started. but
owing to the high wind, was unable to eXtn-
guish the flames. All of the furniture was
destroyed The loss is about $1,000 partly
covered by insurance.
As announced in the WING last week, the
celebrated DcMoss family, popularity known
as the "1yric Bards, will give one of their
musical entertainments in Odd Fellows Hall,
Elkton, ON Tuesday evening next, Dee. 4, for
the benefit of the Elkton VI. +. Church.
Admission % and 35 cents During the past
twenty one years the DeMoss Lyric Bards
have appeared with great success in nearly
all the prominent cities from the Pacific to
the Atlantic and from the Lakes to the Gulf.
and during the Worlds Columbian Exposition
were engaged to give daily entertainments to
the thousands in the Horticultural Building,
composing and rendering the Columbian
Souvenir Songs, for which they have received
more than forty certificates of merit from the
officials of the Fair. In their entertainment
they will render quartettes, glees, anthems,
patriotic and sacred songs, interspersed with
Instrumental selections on forty-ilve musical
instruments constituting eight bands; Violin
band, Spanish mandolin band, French
ocarlna band, banjo band, martial band,
cornct band Chinese ngee sine band and
xylophone band.
That palatable piece of food for which
the good Eastern Shore housewife has become
noted-the Maryland biscuit-bids fair to
remain Il rural luxury, as far at least as its
entering into competition with the breads,
rolls and cakes for favor on a Philadelphia
table is concerned. An Elkton family now
living in Philadelphia, thought one Saturday
that for the Sunday meal the Maryland bis
cult would form Il capital part, and forewith
the Seryant-whO was from the Eastern