The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-01-20

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again after three weeks illness.
John Fitzgibbon has accepted position
with the Standard Oil Company.
Magistrate Reynolds is having n hand
some new Office erected in Middletown.
Frank Pratt has purchased the property
and store goods of Thomas p. Dale at Bank.
Much good is reported to have resulted
from the revival services in progress in the
NJ p. Church at Bay View.
"A number of large German carp and
other fish were washed ashore by the break
ing of the dam at Farr Greek.
Tho Susquehanna river is still frozen
over, the ice being about six inches thick.
The skaters are enjoying the sport.
The hardware store Of Samuel II. King,
Main Street, Elkton. is being enlarged to
accommodate increasing business,
Chief Judge James Alfred Pearcc on
Monday drew the jurors for the April term
o. the Circuit Court for Kent county.
Several nocks of wild geese, numbering
several hundred each, are reported to be
making their headquarters in the Elk Greek.
Miss Nora Finley of Appleton, has been
appointed by the School Commissioners as
assistant teacher at the public school at
Earlevilo
An oyster and poultry supper was held
evening by the ladies Of st. Andrews Epis
copal Church.
During Il family quarrel at Dcrrickson
Corner, near Middletown, Del, on Monday,
Mrs. Lizzie Reddeu was brutally assaulted by
her husband.
Mrs william T. Singles, Of Newark, died
at her home in that town very suddenly on
Friday night, last week. She had just gotten
in bed when she expired.
The Guy Brothers minstrel troupe ap-
peared before a large audience in the Elkton
Opera House on Wednesday evening and gave
one of their excellent performance.
Thomas Harlan, of near Elkton, has two
horses that have been suffering with the
maIady that has recently made its appear
ance among the horses IL lower Cecil
There was quito an ice gorge i'll Elk
Creek this week, above Cedar Point, and
there was some fear that the new iron bridge
at Elk Landing would be carried away.
Quite an interesting fox hunt was given
at Glasgow on Wednesday morning by Harry
L. Dayett. number of horsemen and
hounds took part and lively chase cusued.
While cutting pound poles with an exc a
few days ago Edward c. Wilson, of Elk Neck,
net with painful accident. The instrument
slipped and struck him on the leg, infictng
a severe wound.
The ladies of Moore's Chapel. near Blake,
will hold an oyster supper in the chapel on
Wednesday evening, January q. Supper
from five to eight O'Clock. Tickets 80 cents
All are invited.
-Four candidates were initiated into the
mysteries of Odd Fellowship by Elkton
Lodge last Friday night. They were Joshua
Clayton, Henry Laws, Isaac Miller and James
Carson. They all rode the goat well.
The saw mills OF Ash & Garrett, which
have been in operation in Joseph Couden's
woods in the seventh district, near Perry vile,
for several months past will be moved in a
few days as the wood has all been sawed.
The trustees of Hickory Grove public
school, near Colora, have appointed Ruth
Brown as principal of the school to I'LL the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss
Mona Dean, daughter of John B. Dean, of
Elkton. Miss Dean is now principal of Pier
son Grove school, near Elkton.
The Elkton Odd Fellows will give
public entertainment in their handsome lodge
room on North street ON Monday evening at
O'Clock The object of the entertainment
is to raise funds for the maintenance OF the
reading social room on the second floor of
the Tucker building. Tickets will be % cts.
C L. Crockett proprietor of Park Hotel,
Chesapeake City, gave fox hunt yesterday
morning at 10 o'clock. In the afternoon at
2 O'Clock there was Il live bird and blue rock
shooting match, including several sweep
stakes. At night wild duck and terrapin
supper was given at the hotel. Nearly two
hundred guests were invited.
The old Mason and Dixon Line, which
starts in Cecil county at the Delaware bound
ary passes through Sylmar and continues
westward between the States of Maryland
and Pennsylvania, will be restored if IN APP
preparation is secured at this session of the
Maryland Legislature. The line is about 200
miles in length, and was run between the
years 1862 and l76S by Mason aud Dixon. A