The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-06-18
NEWS in BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for HaSty
PeruSal by Busy Rea erS.

Sunday was the warnest June day since
1892.
-Carhart and Co.'S store at Zion, will be
closed all day on July 4.
William r. Fitz Simons moved his family
to New York on Saturday.
The Elkton Town Council made an in
spection of the t. wn on Tuesday.
DIR s. Claude Sykes and Charles n. Tull
made IL trip on their wheels TO Delaware City
on Sunday.
Captain Jack" Davidson has purchased
a soop in Annapolis, and which is now at the
Elkton wharf.
The EIkton colored base ball club on
Saturday in game played here, defeated
the Newark club-score % to 8.
A dance will be held at Happy Valley
Park. near Port Deposit. on Friday evening,
June "a, commencing at o'clock.
-Bulwer Lytton was the subject for dis
cusston at the Tuesday evening meeting of
the Elktor University Extension class.
John W. Jols will enter upon his duties
as postmaster at Middetown July /. He viii
continue the postof1ice in the Opera House.
The Compostors, Of Elkton, will cross
bats with the Elkton High School base ball
team today On the ground near High School
at o'clock.
Henry Il. Torhcrt. senior editor of the
CECIL WING, entered upon the duties Of his
office as Appraiser at the Baltimore Custom
House. on Wednesday.
The new Steamer Susquehanra. which
will ply between Port Deposit. Havre de
Grace, Betterton and Baltimore, is expected
to make her maiden trip on Tuesday next.
John S. Writ, Esq, of Elkton. has been
appointed Il member of the Commission
having in charge the construction of the new
armory fer the Fifth Regiment in Baltimore.
Governor Lowndcs will give a hearing
in the case of Charles Armstrong. aged 10
years, now serving u months in the Elkton
Jail on the charge of bastardy with Il view
OF granting pardon.
National Representatives Samuel j. Keys,
and Past state Councillor Rufus D. Rowland,
of EIkton, will attend the National Conven-
ton OF the Junior order of United American
Mechanics which will begin its session in
Louisville, KY, on the Dist instant
AT Il meeting of the Board of Trustees Of
the Elkton NJ. +. Church held on Thursday
committee was appointed to wait on the
lot owners Of tho Old Methodist Cemetery
situated on High street to secure a subsrrip-
ton for a fund to place the cemetery in order
as its present condition is disgrace to the
community.
Theodore ]. VannemaD, of Port Deposit,
has been named by Governor Lowndes Il
member of the Antietam Battlefield Commits
sion. Mr.. Vanneman is a veteran of the late
war through which he served with distinction
in SHOWS Maryland Battery. An appropriate
ton of $4,000 was made hy the last Lcgisa-
ture for the election of a monument in the
cemetery to the Maryland soldiers who lost
their lives in the conflict.
That entertaining story-"An Obstinate
Maid"-translated from the German by Mrs,
Mary L, Ireland, of Washington, sister Of
Reuben Haines, ESD, of Elkton, is enjoying
a large sale-and is finding well merted
place in nearly all school libraries-a as have
her other TRANSACTIONS, for they are pure,
wholesome, attractive and instructive. The
book is being published by Philadelphia
house, which at the solicitation of the Ladies
Aid Society Of the Eastern Presbyterian
Church OF Washington, has generously agreed
to allow the Society so cents upon all copies
sold by them--for the benefit of their church.
The published price of the book is s1.25.
Under special arrangement the Society is
supplying the book for 81. Any Cecil county
friends Of Mrs. Ireiands can secure copys at
the above mentioned price and at the same
fine help a good cause-by helping the
Society-by addressing Mrs. j. II. Jamison,
20S North Street, N. E., Washington, d. G.
It's folly, to lose your poultry when theuse
of Bragdon's Poultry Remedy is guaranteed
to you for % cents. For sale at Startling and
Beck's, Elkton. iune11-6mo.