The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-08-19
p. FL. Cleaver has joined the ranks of the

p. I'll. Cleaver has joined the ranks OF the
Elkton bicyclists.
George Witworth attended the Mt. Gretna
Pa. fair on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The next regular meeting of the County
Commissioners will be held on September u.
Crouch Chapel Sunday School held their
annual picnic at Locust Point, on Thursday.
The annual picnic OF the Cherry Hill NJ.
L. Sunday School will be held next Thursday
in Arbuckle's grove.
Hickory Hill Union Sabbath school will
| hold their annual picnic in Oxford Park
next saturday, August 26.
Tho new "auncry Of Armstrong and
Arthnr~'. At oxford started operation this
wc"s Tomatoes are reported to he ripcning
very slow in that Iaighborhood
Deputy Register OF Wills Rufus D. Bow
| land ia becoming a crack shot. The other
! morning in a miliet field near his residence
/ he brought down seven birds with nine shots.
! Several OF his friends claim the birds were
! sitting.
The Port Deposit and Columbia Railroad
Company carried l.lsO people over that road
last Thursday, to 70 on the excursion from
/ }erryyiie to Colchester. Most OF the pas
| senger5 wore from Oxford, Rising Sun.
Coiora and Port Deposit.
Only seventeen more days remain before
it will be lavfu to shoot rail and reed birds
in this county. A wel.-known gunner told Il
WING reporter this week. that from present
| prospects there would be very few rail or
reed birds this year. Black birds are plenti-
| ful.
director Amos, of the Department of
| Farmers Institutes is at the Agricultural
| College comforting with Captain Sylvester,
| preparatory to holding fall and winter insti-
tutes throughout the State The law REQUIRES
that one institute at least shall be held each
year in every county.
The dances at the Ericsson Park Pavil-
ion, Chesapeake City, every Friday evening
are attracting large numbers of people from
the nearby towns and neighborhood and
their popularity Is increasing. The best Of
order is maintained. The music is by Price IS
orchestra OF Mddletown.
N'iII'tN 'SNl'lI' ~. 90, ii. ". I. a. NJ,
will hold q festival AT ChiIds this. Saturday.
evening, 10 which the public is cordially in
| rited. Refreshments will be served and
every arrangement made TO insure au enjoy
able evening Addresses win he made 10y
several prominent speakers.
Horses in the vicinity Of Smyrna. are
| dying with a peculiar disease, and the prin-
cipai owners who have suffered losses are
! Waiter Knots John Dcakyne and Charles
Jones, all Of whom have lost valuable stock.
This disease is an inflammation Of the mucous
membranes, and when horse is attacked by
it, ali food and water 20 back TO the nostrils,
and the animal will die within few DAYS
unless medical treatment is secured.
"A news dispatch from Annapolis on
Thursday stated that eight or ten applicants
are before the Governor seeking appoint
ments rs officers in regiments to the Philip
pines. Col. ". ?. Lane and State Senator
Stevenson A. Williams were there and recon-
mended John G. Constable, of Eikton. 1t is
thought he will be one Of the four to be ap-
pointed. Mr. Constable was Lieutenant in
the First Maryland Regiment Volunteers.
"A freight wreck occurred Monday even
ing AT Van Bibber Station, on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, about seven miles from
Belair, Hartford county. one engine was
demolished and four freight cars We're
burned, The local freight train had taken
the siding at the station to allow two fast
trains to pass, and then left the siding to
shift ear across the tracks and while doing
this was struck by a fast west-bound freight
train. The crews OF both trains saw the i'm
pending danger and had time to escape un-
hurt.
-"Col.n Sam Foard had more sorrows Of
his own OH Monday over his fast roadsters.
Of late he has been rubbing the speed making
oil on his "Christmas Chimes and even had
him clipped with the view of rendering him
invincible to all corners. But Chimes
failed to chime out in race with Little
JOe,' another Of Col. Sans horses, on Mon
day-bring beaten in contest on Davidson :
track near Chesapeake City, Tom Harlan is
handling joe but the Col. thinks his own
driving over the Elkton streets and across
the nearby roads is good enough for Chimes.
| nut nt now sees MS mistake ana recognizes
the proves of Tom Harlan when it comes
to sending horse up to the mark for fir st
place. Sometime ago. however, Chimes
beat Joe on the same track-and this rice
cerSH business between his steeds is keeping
Col. Sam on the pinnacle Of uncertainty and
doubt. "Col.' Manly Drenncn has also
caught the fever and is having his trotter
''Robt. r. T. c. regularly logged by his
groom Parson Thomas. and in few days a
big race may be expected between Col.
boards two, Col. Drendcns "Robt. c." and
Frank BraGbury's PAGER Ben 'iBen" is
now being handled on the Elkton Fair
Grounds track by trainer FitzGibbon.
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