The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1901-06-15

court Tor Cecil county Will convene III ELK
ton on Monday morning next, June II.
Albert Constable of Elkton is counsel for
James G. Kirby of Queen Anne's county in
his $40 600 suit against the George W. Todd
Co.
The case of Algard VS. Cox, dispute over
fishing boundaries and rights. has been post
poned until the ground under dispute is sur
veyed.
DR.. G. +. Bradford. well known in this
county has recently been appointed on the
editorial staff of the Wilmington Every Eve
ming.
Examination Of boys and girls who wish
to be students at the Jacob Tome institute, at
Port Deposit, was held yesterday and will be
continued today.
james Carson has accepted position in
j. E. Gonces store. Robert X. McNeal
is filling the position vacated by Mr.. Carson
in T. ]. Murrays store.
"A young man named Kenworthy was ar
ested on Tuesday night by BailiT Bidde, for
riding without light upon his bicycle, and
fined fifty cents and costs
Rev. F. E. Williams, pastor of the Bound
airy Avenue Presbyterian Church, Baltimore
has closed his house and removed to his sum-
mer home in Cecil county
The steamer Sassafras, will be used as
an excursion boat. The steamer Kitty Knight
is now running on the sassafras route from
Fredericktown, this county TO Baltimore.
The excursions from Baltimore, on the
steamer Susquehanna to Port Deposit and
Betterton will begin today Saturday and be
given on Tuesdays, Thursdays and saturdays.
Mr.. George Simcoe, instructor in the
Elkton High School last year, has been award
ed a medal for sculpture and clay moulding
at the Institute Of Art and Science, Trenton,
j.
-Childrens Day exercises will be held in
the Bay View NJ. P. Church tomorrow even
ing, at seven thirty p. m. The usual program
appropriate to such an occasion will be rem
dered
Edward Hannah, "A former pupil Of the
Cecil County High School is seriously ill at
hi; home in Gloucester, y. j.. with eonsump-
ton. The physicians have no hopes of his
recovery
An important meeting of the \. o. L. W.
of Elkton. will be held at their headquarters
in the Odd Fellows lodge rooms, next We'd
nesday evening. All members are urged to
be present,
The we'll which was being driven on the
Fair grounds for the Elkton Ice Company
has been abandoned. The depth of five hun
dred feet was reached and not sufficient wat
er was found.
The next annual meeting IF the Protest
ant Episcopal Convention of the Diocese OF
Easton will be held in Elkton next June
The meeting this year was held at Salisbury,
Md. last week.
The mills of D. Trainer and Sons Manu-
featuring Company at Trainer Pa. where a
number Of former Elktonians are employed
closed down last Saturday, throwing about
500 hands out Of employment.
M. c. Reeder represented Cecil Grange
W. U, VI hlsluE ouu' AZ lut neetluB Vi the
farmers of Maryland at College Park, last
week. Elwood Balderson and George W.
Clifford the Cecil Farmers Club.
Quite nun her OF our Cecil county school
teachers have resigned. They are as
follows Bertha Graham, Ellen A. Price,
Susie G. Wilson, Evelyn s. Foard, Eva L.
Brickley Helen B. Pierson. Alma Dean.
A delegation OF patrons from Chesapeake
City appeared before the County Commission
ers on Tuesday, and entered a petition for an
appropriation of Il $50. for the purpose of
increasing The educational facilities in that
town.
Joseph II, Ching, convicted OF cOnspiring
to make fraudulent census returns from ST.
Mary's county, Maryland. was sentenced to
two years in Jail and to pay a fine of $1,000.
but was released on $4,000 bail pending an
appeal.
The council OF the order of American
Mechanics at Calvert, will turn out in Il body
at Olivet NJ. p. Chhrch at 10 o'clock 4. m. on
Sunday June % to hear special sermon by
I''N' - L o'9t'l' i''7'Oi 'Nt4'l bNuu'IlS anu
friends are invited.
The Delaware College \ Dung Mems Chris
tian Association has appointed J, Harry Nit
chclI, Charles W Bush, Eugene II. Shall
cross, Howard q Welch and Joseph y. Trux-
ton delegates TO the students y. il. c. \.
conference to be held ut Mortified Mass June
Is to July :.
The foundation is in course Of erection
for the new addition being erected to the
Hour mill OF 'ethro Johnson ~ Company, at
Gilpius Falls, near Bay View, this county.
When rebuilt the mi. will be twice its pre-
8 mt size. The firm makes shipments to var
iOus points outside this county.
A runaway team came to E!ktou on Sun
day evening, and was caught and taken to
b. b. Dunbar's livery stables and kept until
the next day. The team was driven by a
travelling salesman, and escaped from him at
Newark. 1t ran into Frank IShnson, but
did no damage.
"A fierce fight between tramps and the
crew of a railroad train on the Delaware Rail-
road occurred Monday night in the vi cinity
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