The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-04-07
Personal and Social

| Items of personal and social interest are soic
tied from all parts of the county. All eommuni
| cations intended for this column should b.
received previous to 10 a. IN. on Friday, eaci
| item being endorsed with the name and addres
| OF Its author.
Miss Annie McKenney is visiting il
Belair.
Mrs. James p. Merritt, of Baltimore is
visiting Elkton friends.
Miss Carrie Lewis spent Sunday with
friends in Philadelphia.
Miss Sallie Cook, of Philadelphia, has
been the guest of Mrs. r. B. Frazer.
Miss Addie Brown, of Philadelphia, was
the guest of ElktoD friends this week.
Miss Minnie Alexander, of North East,
spent Sunday with Miss Lille Alrich.
Mr.. T. Bond Brown. of Baltimore, form
erly of Elkton, was in town this week.
Mrs. Virginia NJ. McCabs has returned to
Elkton after an extended visit in the West.
Mrs. r. E. lamar is visiting her son
Mr.. \. Price Whitaker, in Wheeling w.
| Va.
| Mr.. Edwin Purnell. of Philadelphia, was
in Elkton on business on Monday and Tues
day.
| Miss Blanche Hudson, of Lancaster
county, Pa, is being entertained by Miss
Berthe Graham.
| Mrs. Millicent Gottier Howell, of Phila-
delphia, has been the guest of Mrs. Thomas
Drennen this week.
/ NJ nf
town, were in Ekton on Sunday visiting
his father Mr.. w. T. Miller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ryder, of Philadel-
| phia, visited Mr.. and Mrs. H. Frank Wit
worth in Elkton on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Wiley and Miss
Mamie Smith. of West Grove, Pa, visited
Mrs. Chalkley Phillips this week.
Master Charles Finley, son of Chas. B.
| Finley, Esq, cashier of the National Bank
| of Elkton, who is student at Lawrence
vile, n. j., is home for sh ort vacation.
Miss Bessie f. Scott, who has been under
instruction in music in Baltimore during
the winter, returned home on Saturday.
She was accompanied by Miss Maize Taylor
of Virginia.
Miss Carrie Brady, of Chesapeake City.
is attending the Easter entertainments at
Princeton College, given by the Junior
class, of which her brother, Ii. H, Brady,
Jr., is member.
Messrs. Richard Reese and Ricketts,
Nelson represented Trinity Chapter,
oF of
the meeting OF the Local Council held on
Tuesday evening, in St. Mary's Church
Hampden. Baltimore.
Rev. E. X. Miller, of Newport, Del, paid
| the WING office pleasant visit on Tues
day, accompanied By his brother-in-law,
Mr.. Henry Durbin, of South Milwaukee,
Wis, who has been visiting his Eastern
friends for the past three weeks.
Rev. j. p. Otis, formerly the popular
pastor of the Elkton NJ. E. Church, with
his family spent Sunday and Monday
in Elkton the guest of the family of Mr..
John f. Alexander. Mr.. Otis is now
stationed at ST. Michaels, Talbot county.
Mr.. r. c. Lewis returned home on Thurs
day from his Mediterranean tour arriving
in New York on Wednesday night by
the steamship Fulda of the North German
Lloyd line. Mr. Lsvis visited Italy, Spain
and France and returns after a most
pleasant and enjoyable visit to the Old
World.
An Improvement is reported in the condi
ton of Mr.. Thomas Hoffman, who has been
critically ill at his home in West ElktOn.
Mr.. Hoffman is suffering from suppurative
peritonitis, and on Monday as an only
alternative, au operation was performed by
DR.. w. w. Keen, the eminent surgeon of
Philadelphia, assisted by Drs. lamar and
Bratton of Elkton. The operation proved
very successful, and Mr.. Hoffman's chances
of recovery are encouraging. A trained
nurse is in constant attendance.
The statement made in a number of
Philadelphia papers last week to the effect
| that Mr. Z. Frank Ewing, a brilliant
checker player of that city, and a former
Elktonian was matched to play series OF
| twenty games with the champion of Ger
| mantown for stake of $50, is without any
| foundation. Mr.. Ewing is in every sense an
amateur player and never enters contest
| for a prize nor had a wager even been meu-
| toned in the arrangements for the contest,
| the first games of which are to BIZ played
| April 11th.