The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-08-04


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Five interments TOOK place in / x. or
Wednesday. Four of the services were
held in the town.
The Town Council WAS III scsa.yn Oh
Thursday evening. The business N'f II
, routine character.
I Tho regular monthly meeting OF the
Siugerly Fire COMPANY will be held on
! Monday night next.
Mr.. Z. +, Taggart has rented the resi-
dence at Howard ard John streets owned
by II. f. Torbert, Esq.
"A. G. Brown, the North street mer-
chant lost a valuable horse on Sunday, the
animal dying from collie.
Iii estimated that 1000 people attended
the Local Preachers and Exhorters Camp
meeting near North East on Sunday.
Six live rats a mother and five we'll
grown yonng ones were captured in wire
trap at one coup by q Main street merchant
this week.
| Frank Carpenter, colored, was COM
mitted to the Elkton jail on Saturday for
dlsorderly conduct in Warwick, during
which he used fire arms,
| Charles Shivery hand on the farm of
Harry B. Boulder, near Elkton, on Tues
day night fell down the funnel of the barn,
dislocating his arm at the shoulder.
The Cecil WING Job Office delivered
the first lot of Fair Catalogues for 1894, TO
the Association yesterday, and which
copies are being Immediately issued.
A meeting has been called by mum
Der of leading democrats in Hartford county
for public meeting in Belair, August H.,
in behalf of tariff reform and to uphold
the President.
WIN. S. McCombs, editor of the Havre
de Grace Republican has just received a
dangerous gift from Mr. Fred Carroll who
is um bering in West Virginia. The gift is
large rattle snake.
| -Juries of condemnation will meet today
and place a valuation npon the Cleland and
Groome lands near Elkton, through which
the route of the proposed Elkton and
Massey's railroad passes.
While being wheeled over the foot log
at Farr Creek on Wednesday an infan5
child of Mr.. Reuben Dunbar fell into the
water by the overturning of the carriage,
and narrowly escaped drowning.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
| recently made a number OF test soundings
| to determine whether the recent floods had
| injured the piers of the Susquehanna river
| bridge. The investigation showed them to
| be in good condition.
The cannery of McGaw and Smith, in
Elkton, will it is expected, begin operations
for the season next week. Tomatoes will
be packed this year the intended quantity
being 5000 cans-fruit About 100000
cans of corn will be packed.
The Board of County Commissioners
was in special session on Monday. The
final report of Ex-Treasurer d. NJ. Craw-
ford was accepted. The Commissioners
met at Kenneth Square on Tuesday and
examined several stone crushers it being
intended TO buy one for use on the county
roads.
The repairs to the Susquehanna
and Tidewater canal which runs from
Wrightsville, York county Pa, to Havre
de Grace, are not of a permanent character.
The work being doue is to get twenty five
or thirty canal boats to Wrightsville.
The boats are stranded at McCalls ferry,
York county. Several boats are stranded
at Lapidum also.
-Elk:on Chapter of the Epworth League
will picnic at Locust Point on Wednesday
next, August Sth. All the members who
intend going, excepting those who have
private conveyance, will please report to
either of the following committee on or
before Monday next: C. E. Alexander, J.
H Groves. Harvey Mackey, John H. Ter
rell, Howard E. Ash.
1t is said an Elkton man has discovered
an economical crab bait in rats, which he
successfully used on Wednesday afternoon
in the Elk river. Authority states that
he halved the rodents and completely
took the crabs by storm and bewilderment
so that they allowed themselves to be
captured in goodly numbers. Who the
inventor Is C1uNOJ YET Ue puUi!C.
Many of the canning houses in Hartford
county will commence work about the
middle of August. Many new ones have
been put up during the past year and more
goods will be packed in this county this
year than ever before. Many acres have
been planted this year in this State, which
ranks third among the States that are
largely engaged in packing fruit for the
market. 1t is said that the crop will be
poor and that the small acreage of corn
will make large demand for it.-Bel dir
Democrat.
Almost all the privileges at the Elkton
Fair have been disposed of, and at good
figures Indicating that the purchasers
expect large attendance. The important
concessions are to the following persons:
Fruits, cigars, ice cream, George Booth,
Elkton; merry-gC-rounds, George L. Nc
Cay, Chester; soft drinks, Samuel B. Foard,
Elkton; souvenir fair program and race
card, V. NJ. Torbert, Elkton; dining room,
C. II. Burns, Chester; peanuts, John Rel
singer, Baltimore Pools will be sold on
the track the privilege being secured by
Joseph Walters of Baltimore.