The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-01-21
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ICE TELEPHONE, No. 20.

D, mandolin and guitar club has
9ed at Delaware College.
Eme building to be used as livery
So being erected on the Howard House
f.y HB. Dunbar.
s,s3n Monday, Jacob Biddle, stable foreman
sc Pulp Mill, received a fall. and is con-
I'D to the house from the injuries received.
Mrs Charles Deamon. of North East, was
&recently stricken with paralysis. and is now
n being treated at the Hopkins Hospital Bal
timore.
The Senior class at Delaware College has
decided to graduate in caps and gowns. This
will be the first class of Delaware to graduate
in this costume.
Sheriff Conoly, on Wednesday, of last
week, levied on and sold the personal pro-
perty of William P. Haines, who conducts a
general merchandise store at Pilottown.
Prof. James A. Kealey who resides on
Red Hill. near Elkton, was severely burned
while trying TO extinguish a fire caused by
the upsettng of an oil lamp on Saturday
night. DR.. John Il. lamar rendered medical
aid.
graph poles along the public road from Hep
bron station, on the Baltimore and Delaware
Bay Railroad, by way Of Still Pond to Bet
terton, Kent county. This extension will be
n great aid to business.
The Friends Normal Institute, of Rising
Sun, has secured Clarence w. Broomall, OF
West Chester, Pa, to deliver his famous
lecture "From Ocean to Ocean before the
school on Monday evening, January 3d. at 8
o'clock Admission 10 cents.
The burial OF Samuel W. Webb took place
in Still Pond Cemetery, Kent county. Friday
afternoon. During the month of December
Mr.. Webb's hand was crushed in corn
shelter. The hand and wrist were subse-
quently amputatsd, resulting in blood poison
ing and death.
On Saturday last during the run of ice,
a fourteen ton bug.eye. owned by William
McNamee. of Elk Neck, broke from its moor
ing, in Elk river and was overturned three
miles below Town Point wharf. The sails
and other fixtures of the boat have been re-
covered but it will be difficult task to save
the boat, owing to the amount of ice in the
river.
The contract to carry the mails between
Chestertown and Prices station, Kent county,
has been awarded to w. C. whiteside, of
Tayloria, Pa. Commencing with February
the mail facilities of Chestsrtown will be
somewhat commensurate with the import
ance OF the town as a business center Not
only is improvement needed for Chestertown,
but for other prosperous and growing East
ern Shore towns.
Joseph Wright, condemned to be execut-
ed at Chestertown, March oath, and whose
death warrant was read to him on Saturday,
called in Sunday, spiritual adviser Rev. D.
A. Ridout, of the Chestertown Colored Me-
thodist Episcopal Church. Wright expressed
himself as reconciled, but during the reading
of the warrant he utterly failed to appreciate
the gravity of the situation. Sheriff Roe said
Monday, that ex-Sheriff Plummer had remov-
ed the scafrold on which four OF the Hill MUIR
derers were executed, and he had been told
had used the lumber in a small building on
his farm. SO 1t would be necessary to erect
new scaffold for Wright. The execution will
take place in esmall yard in the rear Of the
jail, almost on the spot occupied by the big
scaffold used for the Hill murderers.
"A number Of interesting tomato expert
ments were conducted at the Maryland Agri-
cultural Experiment Station. The tomato is
the most important as an early market crop,
probably exceeding In value any other crop.
1t is grown more largely for canning than
any other vegetable used for this purpose.
The statistics show that the annual packing
OF the entire country now averages nearly
$500, 900 cases. The tomato leaf blight was
destructive to the trucking interests OF the
State during the past two or three years.
The first serious outbreak OF this disease In
this State occurred near Baltimore city about
twenty years ago. Since that time other
sections have been more or less involved.
The disease is caused by bacterial germ,
and may begin its attack when the plant is
very young in the seed beds or at any stage
thereafter 1t always begins by attacking
the older or lower leaves first and gradually
extends upward. The disease is contracted
by the plant in three ways-through the use
OF seed from diseased and enfeebled stock:
through The agency Of the spores which live
over in the soil of the seed bed or the field.
The spores may attack other plants besides
the tomato. The infection may also be pro-
duced through the agency OF insect pests
The use of the Bordeaux solution proved an
effectual means OF holding the tomato leaf
blight in check. In 1896 spraying with this
solution four times produced with thirty-flve
varieties an average increase in yield OF two
and five-tenths tons per acre Of marketable
fruit.