The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-05-07

L. Marshall Haines was a visitor at Camp
Wilmer on Sunday. Mr.. Haines' two sons
are members of Company E, Warren j.
being sergeant and Fred I. only having
enlisted just previous to the commands going
out in answer to the call Both of the boys
are determined to volunteer in the service OF
the government, and are well calculated to
carry their countrys arms with credit and
earn early promotions. Fred T. Haines is
associated with his father in the practice Of
law, and is graduate in civil engineering at
Lehigh University. For a while he was con-
nected with the engineer corps of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, and owing to his technical
and scientific education will prove to be a
very useful man in the army service, should
there be a need for him.
In volunteering the Messrs. Haines are fol-
lowing the example Of their father who,
when the late war broke out, entered the
Union Army as schoolboy from Millersvile
Normal School, Pa, with several of his class
mates. They joined the Eighth PENNSYLVANIA
Cavalry in front of Petersburg. At the time
OF the Baltimore riots in 1877 Mr.. Haines,
with Col. l. d. Davis and the late Capt. John
Z. Wilson, organized a company in Elkton
and served in the State Militia. Colonel
Davis was captain of the company. Captain
Wilson, First Lieutenant, and Mr., Haines,
Second Lieutenant
Last week the CECIL WING sent a number
of copies of its current issue to the camp for
a hOma wi bp or hot
were glad to receive the home news.
There were certainly two welcome visitors
in camp on Sunday, and who came as minis
tering angels of comfort to the soldier bows.
They were Miss Nan Summers and Miss
Laurine Wilson, of Elktol, both John E. and
Harry Wilson, Miss Wilson's brothers, being
members of our home company. The ladies'
went laden down with thoughtful CULINARY
supplies, and which the boys distributed to
their comrades. To say they were enjoyed
only mildly tells about it. And by the way
the Wilson family also has another member
of Company L, who, owing to sickness is
now confined to his home grieving over his
enforced absence from the line, Everett b.
Wilson, who has been ill with typhoid fever,
but is now fast recovering. John E. Wilson
left his law practice at Centreville to join his
company here, and in which he is now First
Sergeant.
Charles B. Finley, Jr., Of Elkton, son of
Charles B. Finley, Esq. Cashier of the Ma.
tional Bank of Elkton, who is n sophomore
at Princeton University. was one Of the col
lege boys who came on to Philadelphia, on
Wednesday to enlist in Battery A., Volunteers
of Pennsylvania. under command of Captain
Barclay Warburton, of Philadelphia, but who
with his comrades was not accepted because
OF the commands already having the re-
quired number. However young Finley
stands ready fer call in any other quarter.
In the minds OF certain usually well-in-
formed people there exists an idea that MAY
is time of gladstone spring days, of verdant
fields. yellow flowers and pastoral sweetness.
This delusion was caused, no doubt, by the
deceiving efforts of certain poets, who per-
sisted in giving May these gifts of nature.
Nowadays May is a month of rain and hail
and mud, and the lash youth or maiden who
indulges in May Day. festivities is generally
accompanied by macintosh, an umbrella
and gum boots. In anticipation of "May
Day" at the fishing shores today the Bard OF
the Barrens has this bit of Tennysonian verse:
Wake and call me early, mother,
Don't fear my gentle snore
For tomorrow is the glad May Day"
Down at tho fishing shore.
Folks will be there from everywhere,
From Turkey Point to Zion
And on the strand l'll take my stand
And watch the fish a-fryin'