The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-10-14
Oehn's Acme Hall
So w. Baltimore ST., adj'g Charles
Baltimore, Nd.

Hope H. Barroll, of Chestertown. has
bought the Locates farm, near Betterton, for
5000.
The first annual exhibition of the Har-
ford County Agricultural Society was held at
Belair this week.
The Ladies Aid Society of Rowlandvlle
NJ. P. Church will hold festival in the base
ment of the church tonight.
A special meeting OF tho Mutual Fire In
suranco Company of Cecil County was held
at the Office of the company in Ekton on
Tuesday.
Admiral George Dewey passed through
Elkton shortly after midnight Monday en-
route from Washington to Now Yotk on a
special train.
A horse h;ched to a dog cart belonging
to Benjamin Walmsey ran away on the
Glasgow road on Thursday afternoon. break
ing the vehicle in several places.
Mrs. Ellen Studdeford Graf Harter,
daughter of the late Rev. j. j. Graft, and
wife of DR.. George A. Harser, president OF
Delaware College, died at Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Baltimore, Monday, after linger-
ing illness.
A number OF the Ekton colored folk
held another cake walk in Providence Hall
on Wednesday night. Quite a few of the
white people took in the show and got great
deal of merriment out of the antics of the
colored walkers.
Eli Reynolds, the progressive druggist of
Rising Sun, has had steam heating plant
placed in his building His store is lighted
by an acetylene gas plant The steam heat
ing plant was put in by E. al. Hunt, OF Rising
Sun.
The Monocacy Tribe. I. o. r. NJ, will
assemble tomorrow at 230 y m. in the
Bethesda N. p. Church, Oakwood to join in
religious worship to be conducted by the
pastor Rev. j. Earle Maloy. The Susque.
hanna Tribe, of Colora, IL lso expected to
attend
"A choir has been organised at Bay View
NJ. P. Church with the following officers.
President Mrs. r. j. Reed: secretary, Miss
Maude b. Leedom; treasurer, Miss Annie
Simcoe; preceptor, James Simpson; librarian,
Miss Mabel Tyson. The music will include
cornet and clarionet.
Owen Stanley has been given permission
by the Elkton Town Council to locate n
blacksmith and wheelwright shop on the lot
belonging to Mrs. Shiyery in West Elkton
He is now conducting the same kind of bust
ness at Jones Chapel in Elk Neck. He will
remove hero in the spring.
Herman Ball, the well-knUwn Elkton
clothier, appears in n new advertisement in
this weeks issue of the Cecil. WING telling
the public Of the bargains to be secured at
his Oak Hall Clothing Store now in the line
of fall and winter clothing for men and boys,
and gents furnishing goods.
The Elkton branch Of the Needlework
Guild, which has done much good in the past
in our town, has reorganized for the winter.
Miss Mary 3. McIntire is president Of the
Elkton branch.
AT the meeting of the Elkton Chapter of
the Epworth League on Wednesday evening,
Mrs. William ]. Smith, and Misses Ella Wit
worth and Lidie Alexander were elected as
delegates to the Epworth League Convention
in Wilmington, on the 26 and 9th inst.
"A large barge built for J.. W. Munn, of
Philadelphia. was launched at the hoatyard
of Henry Debert & Sons at Elk Landing, on
Thursday. The boat was about ITO feet In
length % feet in width, with capacity of
over 700 tons.
Mr.. Kessler, the Conowingo baker who
was assaulted several weeks ago in that town,
and later taken to n hospital in Baltimore,
suffering with slight fracture of his skull,
is so far recovered as to be able to resume his
trade in Alexandria, Va 1t was first thought
that his wounds won Id prove fatal.
A large brown bear was the cause Of the
| stopping of a passenger train on the Colum.
bia and Port Deposit railroad one day the
past week. The bear belonged to several
Italians who were tramping around the
country giving performances and when 1t
saw the approaching train broke away
from its owners and started TO capture the
train. The animal gallopsd faster and the
engineer seeing 1t coming stopped the train
but none Of the crew got out to drive the
bear off the track. Whistling did not scare
the stranger but 1t scratched and snuffed
! about the pilot and had just left that part of
the locomotive when the engineer backed the
train and came up with rush. striking and
killing the bear instantly. After the owners
found their animal had been killed they
became very angry and wseM to whip every
one on the train.