The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-03-03

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farming this spring. His son, Amos s
Ewing. will take charge of the farm.
Andrew H. Hushebeck has rented a store
room on West Main street, from George Tur-
nor and will open a shoe repairing shop.
-Eev. Joel 8. Ginllan will preach ut
Jackson Hall on Sunday March 4th at 3 p.
m. A cordial invitation is extended to all.
Owen Stanley has moved his family to
houses owned by George Turner, in West
Elkton.
The two local Cecil county bills-sign
boards on county roads and legal half holi-
day on Saturday have passed both houses of
Legislature.
/ Petitions were circulated and signed in
Elkton, this week. which will be sent TO the
Maryland Legislature, asking that body not
to repeal the present blue laws now on the
statute books.
Ground will be broken in short time
for the building of a new store house at kor-
ner Ketch. which will be opened by Eli
Coulson Jr., and VIM. B. Bechte, who will
have fine line OF dry goods and groceries.
New telephones have been put in at j..
Harvey Groves residence, Thomas r. Free
mans residence A. G.. Browns store, Ed.
Taylors livery office in Elkton, G. W. Bies
offices both at Singerly and Providence,
Carhart & Co. store Zion, r. ]. Reeds store
Bay View, Jetho johnson & Co. flour mill
Gilpins Rocks, Wakefield Fire Brick Co.
North East The Company now have 70
telephones connected into the Elkton Ex-
change and ~ into the exchange at North
| East.
| Several trains on the P. w. 4 B. railroad
have made exceptionally fast time during
the past few days. On Monday Engineer
Gus Rowe, with a train Of nine heavy
Pullman coaches made the run from Wash
ington to Philadelphia In three hours and
Is minutes. the schedule time for flvecar
trains He was the first man to make such a
run this year and when he reached Philadel-
phia Superintendent Barnard congratulated
him and said: THAT was we'll and nobly
DONE Tuesday Engineer Graham dapli-
Gated Engineer Rowe's performance.
The fishing season for herring will soon
open. Many of the fish have already been
caught in the lower part of the bay. The
indications are that these fish will come into
the Chesapeake and its tributaries in quaint
ties as large as during the past ten or twelve
seasons. The fisheries are numerous from
the mouth of the Chesapeake to the head oil
tidewater in the Susquehanna a short dis
tance above Port Deposit. At first the taking
of the FISH is confined to the gill net fisher.
ermen. Later on the large senes and pound
nets will be in operation and the floats OF the
Susquehanna will so into commission. Year
by yeal the industry of sailing, packing and
smoking herring for the markets has grown
until now it is spring industry giving en-
ployment to many men.
An important postal change for Kent i.
being agitated. 1t is proposed to secure Il
possible morning mail by way the steamer
Susquehanna, Of the COLCHESTER company
arriving from Port Deposit and Havre dc
Grace at Betterton at $50 a. m. From
Betterton the mail would be brought by way
of Still Pond by star route to Chestertown
giving Chestertown the daily papers anc
Northern mail at about IL a. m, instead o.
about ~ 30, as at present This would be
IA great business convenience to fishermen
and fruit growers of the upper section o.
Kent, as it would give them the benft o.
quotations on produce in time for iudicious
shipment. Betterton, Still Pond and Chester
town are much interested and will present
petitions to the Postmaster General asking
that the new route be inaugurated by early
spring.