The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-08-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for HaSty
Perusal by Busy Readers.

Abraham Boyd has been laid up for the
past two weeks suffering with boils.
A new and comfortable hack has been
added to the livery of ]. Il. Foraker, North
East
An increase of pension has been granted
Lewis r. Kirk, of Rising Sun, from Sc to 80
per month.
A number of Elktonians went on the
excursion from Chesapeake City on Thursday
to dorchester and Annapolis.
independent Council, 0. L. A. NJ, of
North East, has decided to hold fair and
festival September IA, 10 and 10.
Tho festival held by the members of
Crouchs Chapel Sunday School on the lawn
of the chapel last Friday evening Melted 50
The annual picnic OF Jackson Union
Sunday School will be held in the grove adj
Joining Jackson Hall, Cowentown, Oh Tues
day, August o.
By slipping and falling against II feed
box on Monday Amassa Churchman, prom
inent citizen Of the Ninth district, fractured
his arm near the elbow.
Two mills of the DUPONT Powder Com
pany. near Wilmington. blew up Tuesday
afternoon. but no one was hurt. How the
powder ignited is not known.
Henry Wilkinson, late editor of the
Times at Milton, Del, and DR.. Howard Will
kinson, of Dover, have purchased the Milford
Herald, formerly owned and edited by the
late Col. f. T. Cooper
Rev. l.. z. Corkran. a well-known min
lister of the Wilmington Conference, tainted
in his church at Fairmount, Nd, during the
service on Sunday evening. Overwork was
the cause Of the prostration.
The Auditor of the United States War
Department has sent to Governor Lowndes
draft for SIS, G5 ms the first payment of
the claims OF Maryland for expenses incurred
in fitting out troops for our recent war with
Spain.
Two stacks Of wheat, valued at $3.50, on
the farm OF Mrs. Sarah Cleaver and tenanted
by Joseph Ceaver, situated near Delaware
City. caught fire from sparks from an engine
last Saturday. The wheat crop was being
threshed when the fire occurred.
While several small children were play
ing with matches a few days ago they started
fire in the carpenter shop belonging to
Samuel P. Ryan, at Rising Sun The FIRE
spread rapidly but after hard work was ex-
tinguished by chemical extinguishers and
bucket brigade
AT Dover few days ago the Crescent
Mining Company, whose works are on the
lIli1ltt farm, in the Fifth district, near North
East. this county, was incorporated under
the laws of Delaware, to engage in mining
clay and other deposits with capital stock
of $4,000. The incorporators are William
Thesis, OF North East; Franklin b. Hooper
and Thomas S. Hodson. OF Baltimore; Gard
ner w. Kimblo, of Wilmington. The main
office Of the concern will he in the Delaware
Trust Company's building, Wilmington.
considerable interest is being manifest
by the citizens of the neighborhood Of wilma,
Hartford county, over the building Of new
Methodist Protestant Church to take the
place of Union Chapel, which is the oldest
Methodist Protestant Church in this country,
having been built in 1921. The new building
will cost $4,000 The dimensions will be
thirty-nve by forty-two feet in the main
building with lecture room eighteen by
twenty-six feet and tower scventy-llve feet
in height, and will have Il seating capacity OF
about four hundred persons. The present
chapel building is very small, having room
enough to seat about seventy-flye persons.
1t was erected by the Joint efforts OF Episco-
paians, Methodists and Friends, and used
by all in common until 1928, when 1t was
used solely by the Methodist Protestants. and
who have used it ever since