The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-06-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for TASTY
Perusal by Busy Readers.

Rev. joel S. Giliuau, of New JERSEY, has
been installed rs pastor of the PresbS teriGn
Church at Head Of Christiaun
William Davis hus succeeded Charles
Denny as cate tender at tho North street
crossing of the p. w * T. Railroad.
The Maryland pea pack will be smaller
than for many years. and prices Of the can
ned product will be considerably advanced.
st. Johns College. Annapolis, has con-
ferred the degree Of d. d. IN tn" Rev. i.
Irving Watkins, OF the NJ. E. Church at New
Castle.
John Edwards, IA farmer residing near
Sassafras, is reported 20 have had eleven
sheep of his flock killed by lightning during
the storm Thursday night.
The date for holding the Talbot County
Fair this year bias again been changed. This
time the dates selected are September 1920.
the latest it has ever been held.
AT Middletown. Del. on Saturday night.
the postotlice was entered by burglars and
$3.50 worth OF stamps were stolen. This il
the second time the office has been broken
into during the last six months.
H. H. Haines, ESD, President of the
Rising Sun National Bank is IL member Of
the committee of administration of the
Maryland Bankers Association which Is now
arranging for its fourth annual convention
at Ocean City on July 20.
The Brookview Cemetery Company, of
S,p bn, 4 nf
of lots recently, most of the lot holders doub
ling their holdings. Stephen J. Reynolds
purchased a lot which he intends to donate
to the poor for burial purposes.
A convention of the County Commission
ers OF the nine counties on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland is being agitated, and the differ
ent boards have been sent circular. setting
forth its advantages. The different counties
are favorable to the project, Denton is to be
the place for holding the convention.
The Odd Fellows of North East are max
ing extensive preparations for the ceebra-
tion of the Fourth of July in that town this
year. Severa! sister lodges will be invited.
A special program of different kinds of
sports is being arranged for during the day.
At night a big display OF fireworks will be
set off, Two bands of music will be in at
tendance all day.
William S. Evans, executor Of the late
Joshua Miller. who was murdered in his
home, near Leslie, by George Hardgraves,
now serving a sentence Of IS years in the
Penitentiary, has reported to the Orphans
Court that he has S166 in his possession, and
is unable to find any relatives to claim the
money. The Court set August l6 next for
the relatives to appear and prove their rela-
tionship.
On Saturday tramp applied to Mrs. l..
d. Bowen, of Thirty-fourth and West streets,
Wilmington. for aims. Being impressed by
the mans appearance Mrs. Bowen gave him
some coins. Shortly afterward the tramp
returned and surprised Mrs. Bowen by in.
forming her that she had made a mistake
and gave him IS gold piece for a penny
The tramp returned the gold and was suitably
rewarded for his honesty.
Dr. James Ward Scott, weIl-known
resident OF Belair, died at an early hour
Friday morning, last week, at his boarding
house, on CORTLAND street, that town. of
blood poisoning. The DOCTORS illness was
caused about ten days ago, ut which time Il
small sore on his chin became impregnated
from performing an operation on colored
woman in Belair without having taken the
necessary precautions against danger to him
self. On Wednesday his attending physicians
Drs. Archer and Richardson noticed A de-
cided change for the worse ard that death
was inevitable.