The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-03-04
NEWS In BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for HaSty
PeruSal by Busy Readers.

REFUSAL NY busy NSduSIS.
-Chestertown is now lighted by electricity.
james Drennen has accepted a position
in Munce, Ind.
Martin Hutchinson has been succeed in
the grocery business by Vincent & Co.
Levi X. Brown, one of the directors of
the Conowingo Bridge Company, died on
Monday at Goshen, Pa.
Samuel Z. Worth, who was recently ap-
pointed postmaster at oxford, Pa, took
charge of the office last week.
"A donation party was given the Rcv. S.
H. Jones, pastor Of Providence A. U. NJ. P.
Church Elkton, on Friday evening, February
a.
Hon. John S. Writ and DR.. John II.
lamar, of Elkton, attended the Schley testi-
monial banquet in Baltimore on Tuesday
night.
Mrs. Thomas 2. Smith, Of Singerly, has
been taken TO the Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, for treatment for disease of the
spine.
p. E. Tome is director in the new com
pany which is to consolidate the Howard ana
the National Fire Insurance Companies of
Baltimore,
B. H. Sapp has bought the Theodore OFT
farm in Elk Neck, now tenanted by James
Kincaid, for $1,000. Mr.. Sapp will o ecu py
the porperty the coming year.
Charles ]. Hibbard. instructor in the me.
Nal
died in Newark on Thursday OF last week of
consumption, aged forty-eight.
The Susquebanua ducklng flats are
clear Of ice and ducks are beginning to gather
on the celery beds. On Saturday last fully Il
thousand canvas backs were seen on the fats
in one rank.
The Town Improvement Association of
Port Deposit il wide awake and progressive
body Of citizens. They will soon give con
cert to secure more funds to push their good
work further along.
At "A surprise party given by the colored
folks near Summit Bridge on Friday night of
last week colorcd boy from Mount Pleasant,
called 'Reddy,' was shot by another in a
quarrel, but not fatally wounded.
The Mission Band Of the Elkton Prosby-
terrain Church will hold ii Colonial Tea and
missionary entertainment in the Chapel next
Wednesday evening at hall-past seven O'clock,
Refreshments will be sold, The public is
cordially invited.
The last of the series Of revival meetings
will be held this Saturday evening under
the charge of Rev. John McElmoyle, at
Persons Grove school house. All are in
vted, especially those who have professed
conversion during these meetings.
George W. Sutton, of Perryvile, sent to
the CECIL. WING this week two copies Of
THE American" q little eight page daily
published in Manila, Philippine Islands.
The American is the only daily newspaper
published by Americans in the orient.
-D.B. Arthur, of the firm of Armstrong
& Arthur of Aberdeen, was in Oxford, Pa ,
whore he will establish a tomato cannery, on
Tuesday supplying the farmers with tomato
seeds. The seeds will be planted. the young
plants set out and the tomatoes therefrom
used at the cannery.
Calvin Shippers, who lives on the Blue
Ball road, few miles from Elkton, was be-
fore Magistrate s. B. Grant on Monday after
noon charged with vagrancy. Frank Burns
made the complaint. Albert Constable, Jr,
appeared for Shippers and States Attorney
VIM. s. Evans for the State From the testi-
mony 1t was found that Shippers, his wife and
six children live in squalid surroundings, but
could not be found guilty Of vagrancy. The
case was dismissed at Mr.. Evans request.