The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-10-15
NEWS In BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for HaSty
PeruSal by Busy Readers.

S. Kennard Blake had u yield Ct almost q
hundred bushels of corn per acre on sections
of his farm at Singerly.
The newly built West Amwel Sunday
School building near Elkton will be dedicated
on Sunday, October 30th.
The Elkton Stock Farm shipped fifty
horses to Morris Park yesterday to be sold.
They are all thoroughbreds.
The new dam at the Marley paper mills,
has been completed, the work being done by
Contractor Mcdowell, of this county.
H. Winfield Lewis, one of Elkton's most
experienced printers, has accepted a position
with the Cecil Wing Printing Company.
Thomas Reed, of near Elkton came into
town on Thursday night with Il bald eagle
which he had shot that day on his farm.
The track foremen of the p, W. & B.
railroad have been informed that the annual
inspection of the Maryland division will take
place on October 2Sth. and are Fastening
work on the track improvements.
The gunners on the Susquehanna flats
are anxious lest the search light used on the
steamer Susquehanna plying between Port
Deposit and Baltimore, will brighten the
ducks from their feeding ground on the flats
Section Foreman John Murphy and
force of 80 men, on the Philadelphia, vii.
mington and Baltimore Railroad at North
East, We're put under arrest on Sunday for
working on that day. A small fine was i'm
posed upon each one.
John S. Green, Deputy Clerk Of the Cir
cult Court for Cecil County, will be at
Charestown on Friday, October %, from
a. m to II u. m. for the purpose of issuing
ducking licenses. The afternoon Of that
day and all day Saturday, October 30, he
will be at Perryville, at Camerons drug store,
for the same purpose.
The new iron bridge over the Big Elk
creek, at Childs, replacing the old wooden
structure carried away by the May flood, has
been completed, and is now being driven
over. The structure is very fine one, both
as regards the stone and iron work. 1t is
about ninety three feet long, with sixteen
foot driveway, and is solid and substantial
monument to county improvement.
But for the Keifer pear harvest. which is
now at its height Kent county's fruit crop
would have been almost total failure. The
crop of keifers is nearly an average one, and
prices range from 25 cents to 80 cents Il
highly satisfactory price to the growers who
simply gather and deliver the fruit at the
points of shipment. This pear is an enor-
nous bearer, one gentleman having gathered
eighty baskets from four trees. While most
OF the fruit is being shipped in baskets, some
o: it is shipped in neat, new barrels, to be
reshipped direct to London and other Eu-
ropean markets.
-Elkton's society folks and lovers Of
antique furniture had a great treat on
Wednesday and Thursday at the sale of the
personal property of the Partridge estate and
the executor and auctioneers Shockley and
Smith have no reason to complain Of low
prices. Indeed the way the ladies bid over
each other and sometimes topped over their
own high bids in their excitement and
eagerness to secure the priced articles, was
encouraging to all dealers in old furniture
and those who have such sales in prospect
We're made joyful exceedingly over what the
future has in store for them. Fully four
hundred people gathered at the Partridge
homestead on West Main street for the open
ing of the sale on Wednesd day afternoon, and
buyers were there in goodly numbers not
only from Elkton and all the county around,
but from Boston, Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore, and even a Chicago resident
was in the throng. Thirty dollars was the
bid for piece Of siverware that an Elkton
jeweler claims he could duplicate for SIS,
while other articles in many cases brought
correspondingly high prices. The sale
aggregated almost two thousand dollars and
even that could not have been called the
limit of the buyers for as one lady remarked
after paying upwards OF eighty dollars for a
wine cabinet, 81 was determined to have it,
had it cost more than hundred" ~ am
determined to have that was the expression
written on the faces Of many bidders, and
they accomplished their purpose, fortunately
for the estate. 1t was indeed a gala occasion
and altogether social affair of no little
Importance. Everybody looked prosperous
and most all appeared in their Sunday
clothes, and the writer hopes that its equal
will soon again be seen In Elkton. We would |
advise all to keep lock and chain on their |
old and rare furniture, because they may
have veritable Klondike at home. So much |
for the liberality Of the American buyers, as
the Frenchmen say.