The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-06-09

proved by repapering and painting.
-Children's Day will be observed in the
Elkton NJ. L. Church, tomorrow Sunday.
Allie Miller, of North East was held for
court on the charge OF assaulting Mr.. and
Mrs ". II. Lynch.
The Cecil Farmers Club will be enter
tanned at the home of the President, Mr. A. j.
Kitchener, on Wednesday next
The citizens of Conowingo are crculat-
ing petition which will be presented to the
railroad officials, asking for better passenger
train service.
The Oxford Agricultural Society took the
five large show cases. which they purchased
recently from the Elkton Fair Association, to
Oxford, last week.
Powell F. Johns, OF Warwick, has con-
traced with the Colchester Beach Company
to manage the moving picture feature of that
popular resort this season.
The fishermen along the rivers in Cecil
county are busy this week, taking up their
nets and pound poles, the law requiring them
to be out of the water by June 10th.
u. S. Grant Pest, No. 10, G. A. r., will
meet at the Post room, Cherry Hill, on the
evening of Wednesday the 18th inst. A full
attendance of the members is desired.
The Jr. o. L. A. NJ. of lakewood, will
attend church i'll body on Sunday, June
9th, at two o'clock, p. m, at Pleasant Grove.
Rev, Mr.. Macbeth will preach the sermon.
Cyrus Wilson, colored better known as
"Purvin" was arrested by Baili1 Biddlo on
Tuesday. for disorderly conduct. He was
taken before Magistrate Groves and fined 81
and costs.
The ladies Of Baldwin NJ. L. Church will
hold an ice cream and strawberry festival
this, Saturday, evening, June .. All are
invited to come. Proceeds for benefit Of
church
Rev. W. Il. Mowbray. of Zion, will de-
liver a temperance lecture in Leeds NJ. P.
Church On Wednesday evening, June 18th.
Admission 10 cents. Proceeds for benefit Of
the parsonage.
Whoa. harvest Will be Oh before the end
OF this month and at present the prospects
for good crop is excellent. Grasp is short
and the crop will be light, owing to the dry
weather in Apri! and May.
An examination Tor persons who desired
to be issued teachers certificates was held by
School Examiner George Biddlc, il the High
School building at Elkron, on Monday and
Tuesday and at Port Deposit on Wednesday
and Thursday.
The lawn festival and cantata, "A Dream
of Flowers held on the lawn " Trinity
Rectory, Wednesday evening. for the benefit
of Trinity Sunday School library, was very
largely attended and was q grand success.
The not proceeds were about $57.
The graduates at the Friends Normal
Institute ct Rising Sun, this year will be
Misses Maude Kirk, Margaret Boyd, Helen
Phillips, Mabel Duyckinck and Emily L,
Duyckinek. The twenty-siZth annual COM
mcncement will be held next Friday, June
10Th.
The trustees of the Jacob Tome Institute
at Port Deposit, have secured the sevices o.
Prof Thomas S. Baker, associate professor O
German ut Johns Hopkins University, BuIt
more, for next school year He will be pro
fessor Of modern language in the Tome In
stitute.
The colored people Of Kent county helt
a celebration near Chestertowu, on Wednes
day which resulted in a free fight between
the Chestertown and Millington negroes
-Four persons-two men and two women
were shot, and horse killed by a shot gun
wound, is the record made that day.
The steamer Sassafras, OF the Tolcheste
Line has resumed her trips to the Sassafra
river. She was laid up for a month for re
pairs to her pilot-house and smokestack
caused by a collision with q draw on tn
Sassafras river The Susquehanna has beel
running in the place Of the Sassafras.
The seventh annual session Of the Jr. O
L. A. NJ, Death Benefit Association con
vened Wednesday, the past week, at Thur
mont, Nd. Ricketts, Nelson, Of Elkton;
b. Lake, of Chesapeake City, and J. Il
Smith, of Cecilton, represented Cecil Count
Councils Ricketts, Nelson was elected
member of the board of managers.
The following gentlemen We're eleote
directors OF Hopewell Cemetery, on Monday
for the ensuing year: Enoch Mccullough
Henry G. Nesbitt, Theodore J. Vanneman
Cornelius S. Abrahams. Robert X. Rawlings
Geo. G. Oldham and Robert E. McClenahan
The board organized by electing the followin
officers: President, Enoch Mccullough; Vice
President, Theodore j. Vanneman; secretar
and treasurer, G. S. Abrahams, superinten
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