The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-09-11
SEPTEMBER.
WING OFFICE TELEPHONE, No. 30.
MARYLAND NEWS.

road.
Mrs Robert Durbin, of Hagerstown,
has growing in her yard sunllower stalk
with liz flowers on it.
The peach growers of Cherry Run and
Big Pool have formed an organization for
the protection of mutual interests
The trucking season is drawing to a
close in Anne Arundel county. Crops have
been good, but competition has kept prices
low.
-HaSerstown dog catchers are accused
OF buying dogs for twenty-five cents piece
any drowning them at the price OF 81 "A
piece to the town.
George Esterly, of Frederick, this
spring, planted Catawba grapevine in
a flower pot. 1t has now on the young
vine more than dozen clusters of fine
grapes.
A peach was grown on the premises OF
Mrs. q. w. Sullivan, OF Westminster,
which weighed three-fourths of a pound
and measured thirteen and quarter inches
in circumference.
A larger acreage than usual will be
seeded in wheat in Dorchester county this
fall. The higher price for the cereal has
encouraged farmers to hope for better prices
next year also.
A landslide occurred at the opening o,
the Consolidation Coal Company at Wood
land, last Monday, delaying work for sew
hurt in the slide.
Mrs. Jane Smith, Of Hagerstown, has
a cucumber that grew in a bottle forty
three years ago, 1t has been preserved in
whisky all these years and appears as solid
as when taken from the vine.
The large steel tanks for storing water
have been placed on the Timonium fair
the new artesian well pumping water into
them. The capacity will be over 90, 900
gallons.
"A contract has been made with Chand-
ley Bros. Il Co., OF Beaver Falls, Pa, to
construct waterworks for Taneytown, Car
roll county, to cost $4,000. The town has
authorized the issue OF $12, 900 in bonds to
raise the money.
A good road delegation appeared last
Tuesday before the Anne Arundel County
Commissioners in relation to the PROPOSE
ton to lay oyster shells on the Bay Ridge
road. The Commissioners agreed to fur
nish the shells if the local wheelmen raise
the money to put them down.
The Blue Ridge Electric Railway and
Power Company was incorporated Thurs
day afternoon in the Circuit Court for
Washington county, the capitalization
being iz.a al $2o0,00s. The trolley line
will extend from Waynesboro. Pa, to
Buena Vista, High Rack, Blue Mountain
House and .Quirauk
AS William Easton was digging well
:. .ha r.. .'i-.~',. ~ Ir~.-,r~s o.. 4. v.
became exhausted by foul gas, and his
assistants hoisted him up to the surface
''..-,. l~.. ,"1 to t,.a ,.,R, :
he fell TO the bottom, about twenty feet.
When finally rescued he was supposed to
be out OF danger.
Hon. Lee Fairchild, Of California, and
j. b. Williams, of Frostburg, have pur-
chased the plant Of the recently established
Frostburg News, and will conduct it as a
hepuulican paper. Mr.. Fairchild is n
humorous writer and lecturer, and cam
paigned in many states for the Republican
Presidential ticket last year.
The town commissioners Of Centreville
have concluded to take some drastic mea-
sures in order to terminate the annoyances
arising from the hogpen nuisance The
offensive odors emaDating from majority
of these pens has made of them veritable
nuisances. So offensive have they grown
near the outskirts Of the town, that urgent
complaints have been lodged with the
board. 1t is the nnrpose OF the commits
sioners to visit all The premises in the town
where hogpens are located. The owners
thereof are to be informed of the particular
degree OF care and precaution which the
commissioners will expect them to observe.
II these instructions are ignored, the board
will Immediately take steps to have the
nuiSancrs legally almted. The board will
no lnlgrr ailo" Il EN- To continue, either as
menacrs to cool health, or rs sources OF dis
comfort The hoIpens are mostly confined
to the negro Set,l, mcnts If the town: but
these are near enough to the better parts Of
the town to jeopardze good health, il they
are not properly kept