The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-01-13
NEWlS IN BRIEF.
GocdI matters Boiled Dow3
for Hasty PerusaI BY Busy
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Readers.
The Elkton Athletic Association has dis
banded.
Richard Merritt, Jr, has opened store
in Warwick.
A government pension of 512 per month
has been granted Martha Cephns, of Cecilton.
Mr.. Frank McChesney, OF Philadelphia,
has been appointe bookkeeper for the South
ern Pulp Company at the office in Elkton.
The Rev. W. w. Shaw, of Port Deposit,
conducted the services at the First Presby-
terrain Church, New Castle, Tuesday evening.
An entertainment was held at Jefferson
school house, near Principle, last night for
the benft of the Hopewell Improvement
Fund.
John l. Moore, Jr., a 4 months-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Moore, Of North
East, died Friday. last week, after brief
illness.
The volunteer fire companies in Maryland
are almost unanimous in their demands that
the position of State Fire Marshall shall be
abolished
The official board OF the North East NJ.
E. Church at meeting held on Monday in
WED Rev. George W. Townsend, their pastor,
to return the next Conference year.
The work OF making transcript of the
testimony in the Naudain will case has been
finished at the Clerks office. 1t contains $50
typewriter pages, and has been forwaded to
the court printer at Annapolis.
Robert b. Foard. formerly clerk in the
store OF W. Don Price, who has been In
business in st. Augustine for several months
past, was on Monday commissioned as post
master at that place by the Post Office De-
partment.
While skating on the Susquehanna river
one day this week Miss Eileen Drennen, n
yolng lady aged about Is years, of Havro de
Grace, iell into an air hole and had narrow
escape from drowning. She was rescued
with difficulty.
The case against Mrs. Grace Nj. Furman
on the charge of abducting her son
from Elkton on December last was tried in
Philadelphia yesterday but tho outcome Of
tho case was not known us tho WING went to
press last evening.
Mis-, Pickering, of the junior class at the
Jacob Tome Institute, Port Deposit, has been
superseded by Miss Elliott, and Miss Martha
Washington, DR.. Mackerzie's private secre-
tary, has been superseded by Miss Dekeayne,
Of New Castle, Del
The School Commissioners of Cecil
county have placed with the Equitable Fire
Insurance Company OF Snow Hill, of which
Governor John Walter Smith is president,
over $4,000 worth OF insurance on school
houses in Cecil county Manly Drennen is
agent for the company at Elkton.
The Cecil Detective Association at their
meeting held in Rising Sun on Saturday
elected the following officers for the ensuing
year. President, Alfred Kirk: Vice-President,
DR.. l.. r Kirk: Secretary E. f. Ewing;
Treasurer, Jesse A. Kirk.
Harry McIntire, of near Elkton, has been
troubled with owls and hawks stealing his
poultry for some time past, and several nights
ago he set IA steel trap and succeeded in
catching a large owl, which he brought to j.
Frank Frazer's drug store who now has it in
cage on exhibition.
John Piner, respectable colored man
of the First district, died at his home on
Monday aged about 6S gears. He was the
giant of that part of Cecil county, being over
six feet four inches tall. Mr.. John Morris,
the undertaken, went to Baltimore on Tues
day to get an extra large casket for the de-
ceased.
The meeting at Music Hall, Baltimore,
on Saturday evening next, January 20, to be
held under the auspices of the Maryland
Democratic Association, mt which Col. Will
liam jennings Bryan will be the principal
speaker, viii be presided over by Albert
Constable, ESD, of EIkton, President OF the
Association. He will introduce Mr.. Bryan.