The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-07-24
WING OFFICE TELEPHONE, No. 30.
THE NEWS in BRIEF.

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Chapel will be held today, Saturday the Oath
inst.
Mrs. NJ. L. Hogan has been appointed
4 postmaster at Fair Hill, vice r. P. Seminar
deceased.
Alfred T. McCreary on his farm near
Cherry Hill threshod 227 bushels of reclcaned
wheat last week, cut off of five acres of stalk
ground.
Aiken Brothers will retire from the man
agement Of Falls Hotel ON Main street and
Samuel 3. foard will conduct it after the lst
of Angus.
The Maryland State Bar Association of
which john s. Writ, Esq, of ElEton is one
of the vice presidents. will hold its annual
meeting at Ocean City on Wednesday and
Thursday of next week.
The pulpits of Hart's and Wesley NJ. L.
Churches. Elk Neck. will be occupied by
Rev. j. II. Robinson. of Lima, Pa, next
Sunday. July %, at 1890 a. m and p. IN.
W. II. S. Loller, pastor.
The County Commissioners will soon
have improvements begun at SCOTS bridge in
S'"'''
town to Andora new stone abutment and
wing wall will be built ut the west end of the
bridge.
AT Il meeting in Pennington on Saturday
evening "Roanbud Club was organized,
with the following officers President, Le
titia Cameron; vice president, Nora liaIc;
secretary, Ernest Kirk organist, Alice Gift
M
Under the apportionmcnt by the Comp
troller Of the appropriation of $4,000 FOR
the pur.Aas Of School Books III the several
counties of the State and the City OF Balt
more, Cecil county, receives 2,9i4. OF for the
white schools and ?56709 for the eoIored
schools payable August lst.
The largest sale of real estate on the
Peninsula Of Maryland took place July ID,
when seventeen farms owned by John r.
Brown Of Centrevile, were sold at trustees
sale. The sales amounted to over $4,000
for about POO acres, including some of the
finest farm land in Maryland.
There will be Il festival held at Hopewell
Nj. L. Church Tuesday evening. July 9th.
commencing at p. m. If that evening
should be stormy come the next evening.
Fruits and ice cream OF all favors in album
dance to serve all who may come. The pro-
ceeds are for church improvements.
The Maryland Republican Editorial Asso-
citation met at the Blue Mountain House on
Monday. j. NJ. Post, of the Elkton Appeal,
and George L. NJ. Stengle, of the Port De-
post Press, attended. The next meeting of
the association will be held at Ocean City. on
August 2G, the occasion Of the Republican
State Convention.
AT the meeting Of the Republican State
Central Committee for the county in Elkton
on Tuesday, William j. Smith, who was
nominated as the candidate for Register Of
Wills, at the recent Republican County Con-
vention. announced that he had reconsidered
his notice Of withdrawal sent to the commit
tee and would remain on the ticket.
There are now at the disposal of Cecil
county six free scholarships. one ut Western
Maryland College, Westminster, board and
tuition free; four at State Normal School,
Baltimore. books and tuition free; one ut
Maryland Institute, Baltimore, tuition free.
competitive examination will be held at
the School Commissioners Office in Elkton,
on Monday, August o, at nine o'clock, to
determine the awarding of the scholarships.
Official notice is given in another column of
this issue of the WING.
The railroad improvements at Bacon Hill
and below North East on the p. W. & i.
railroad will put considerable amount of
money in circulation in the county for some
months to come as several hundred men will
be employed in the work. Those at Bacon
Hill are principally Austrians while the
Italians prevail at the North East work.
Provision Dealers bakers, and butchers from
both Elkton and North East will be called on
to furnish the supplies for this large number
of men, such contracts having already been
made in both towns.
There is hardly Cecil county farmer hoy
but what knows how hard it is to find four
leaf clover. and that such a find Is considered
lucky. An Elkton man in walking through
his front yard the other day discovered eight
four leaf clovers all together, and now he
considers himself eight times lucky and Is
talking Of digging for gold in Alaska, from
which such Arabian Night tales are now COM
ing. Several capitalists in Wilmington Della
ware have organized the Yukon Mining,
Tradina and Transportation Company, and
will shortly begin operations iu Alaska. The
company is chartered under the laws of West
Virginia, and it has also received liberal
franchise from the Parliament of British
Columbia. The capital stock is S3,OO0,OOO
and the idea of the company is to operate
mines and build railroads in the Yukon dis
trict. willard Salisbury, Preston Lea and
Charles T. Hutchins are the corporators.