The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-08-26
NEWS Nv BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for EaSty
PcruSal ny busy Readers.

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Herman letters has started his cider nil.
in West Elktou.
Mrs. Abraham Boyd has gone to hospital
for treatment Of her eyes.
There were two boats at the Ektou wharf
this week loaded With watermclons.
Frank Bradbury. Of the Batim1r. Bar
gain House WAS in Philadelphia on Wedues-
day buying fall stock.
There Will be Lawn Feter at the
rectory North East, this Saturday evening.
The Leslie band will enliven the evening.
Miss May KimbIe has been appointed
teacher in the "Ccntre" public school, in the
Fourth district, in place of Mi4s Helen Tut,
of Elkton, who resigned.
The sudden hot spell which came Sunday,
has given the bicycle another back-sct. Dur
ing the cool days the latter part Of last Week,
bicyclers on the streets were quite numerous.
"A force of men have been engaged this
week ia erecting poles between Elkton and
North East for the new telephone line The
work has been finished between Elkton and
Chesapeake City.
On complaint Of his father, John Bowser,
colored, Of this town, was arrested on Satur-
day last charging him with disorderly con-
duct He was given a hearing before Magis-
trate Grant on Monday, and discharged
John and James Davis, father and son,
Of Landenberg, Pa, were brought before
Magistrate Medill, of Newark, Del, on Sun
day morning charged with drunkenness and
disorderly conduct. fine Of 81, with costs
was imposed upon each.
Frank A. Street,, OF Pylesville, Hartford
county, broke the bones of his left leg Satur-
day in Il game of ball between the teams from
Clermont Mills and Jarrettsvie. In running
to base he collided with the baseman and
fell in such manner as to receive the injury.
During the Elkton Appleton base ball
game last Saturday, James Sykes, Jr., a small
son of james Sykes, OF this town, was hit on
the leg by batted ball and painfully hurt
1t is a mystery that his leg was not broken,
as the ball was going with terrible force when
it struck him.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union and the "Y'sn of Woodlawn, will give
a "Lawn Fete' on Friday evening, Septem-
Der 1st, on the lawn, at the home Of Mrs. H.
II. Keilholtz, near Hopewell NJ. Z. Church.
If stormy, next evening. Let every one come
and bring all their friends.
Mayor Master has triumphed in his fight
for an Independent ship in which to send
Batimores donation to the suffering Porto
Ricans. 1t is stated that the War Department
will send the transport Wright to Balt-
more to receive the relief supplies contributed
by the people of Baltimore and the state Of
Maryland, and transport them to Porto Rico.
Cecil county young men had better be
careful how they engage themselves to young
and pretty bellies, for fear they may meet the
same fate as a young man who had journeyed
many hundred miles to Delaware, only to be
refused when the preacher was ready to per-
form the ceremony. dispatch from Wood
side, Del. states Miss Annie Colt, of this
place, and Harry Anderson, of Denver, Col,
were to have been married Sunday night, at
the home Of Miss Colts parents, near Wood
side. But just as the preacher was to tie the
knot, Miss Colt walked into another room
and exclaimed ~ am too young and too
pretty to he a married woman, and | won
get married, either"