The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1901-10-12

NJ. f. Church. reports having raised
S3l III. The money raised will 20 to-
wards buying new seats for the church.
A game of foot ball was played in
West EIktom. Friday aftrrnoon last
| week. between two teams of the Flktou
High School. 1t resulted in victory for
tn" younger boys by the score of 10 to =.
The big frostS during the past few
nights have played havoc with Cecil
county tomato patches. The crop was
very late this year and many tons of the
| fruit wcr" still on the vines when the
| frost came.
Nearly all the canncricS in Cecil
county have closed for the season. The
pack at most Of them was much smaller
than last year. At Baker X Arthur's
canncry in Elkton, the pack is larger
| than last season.
AT the session of the County Com
missioncrS. in Elkton. on Tuesday, Geo.
w. BilcS X Son, of Singcrly. We're award
ed the contract TO furnish the county
buildings with Scvcuty-cight tons of coal
ut bid Of S4OO.322
Tho kcif'cr pear crop in lower Cecil
and Kent counties began To be shipped
10 market this week. \ full crop of this
| fruit would mean at least 100000 bnsk-
cts, but this years crop is comsrrvativcly
| estimated mt about Omc-fourth.
The postponed lecture at Wesley
! Chapel, Elk Neck, by Rev. AoysiuS
Green. ON 'ChooSing Il Companion on the
Highways and By-Ways to Matrmony."
will he delivered next Tuesday evening.
October 10th. Admission II cents.
Harry G. Evans. of Elkton. was one
of the players ON the Delaware College
| foot bah team which defeated the Mary
land Agricultural College eleven at Will
mington. by the score of "A to &. Evans
plays full back for Delaware College.
The Welsh Bros. railroad circus gave
two exhibitions in Elkton. on Friday,
October 18th. Both the afternoon and
| evening performances Were largely at
tended, notwithstanding the cold weather.
Every one seemed to be we'll pleased
with the show.
Sheriff +. Ambrose Price will sum-
| mon Il jury on Monday. to decide the
matter of the Dclmarvia Telephone Com
pany erecting II line through certain parts
of Elkton. The company has mel CON
siderable opposition in the building of
their line in Elkton.
-Rcv. DR.. Robert Watt. Presiding
rI''I, VI ',.H "'H''''' ~ 'n' l'l''lIs ,,,,
Mistakes Of Our NcighhorS." at Crouch
Chapel. near Elkton, next Tuesday even
| ~ Wv ',"': -h'i'''iHH'''' ~ ''"tH'
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Walter Bouthc, aged ~ years. SON IF
| Thomas Boothc, of Oxford, Pa, com
united suicide at Manayunk. last Satur.
day. by shooting himself in thr head. He
had been calling ON Young lady in that
WV It, anu 1t ~ ",'Nc! Sli' I'J'''''i hiil'
anu Nv GUM '''' "''l''''' "H 1t result
| The fall fair at Oxford, Pa, held in
September under the auspices of the Ok
| ford Agricultural Society. was Il financial
success I'll" receipts were $2.9l4.l
| expenses. S2.TlOS2: balance. SOB Is.
| The expenses included "A number of I'M
provcmrntS to the grounds and buildings.
llaTI'N i"Till&' II WEI! Nh"Wh pas
S'hS'r '"nIurt"r On IN" Mn'Fiahu DIVE
Baltimore RaiIrload. committed suicide
III his nome, in Chester. ON Monday. His
wife left him some DAYS previous and
family trouble is alleged to have caused
him to commit the rash act.
H'EPh'n h!E iloi"S' ol 'hc H'Aih MS
,mrt. mas III ms possession decd from
N'liaH rem l" lichFE h"Eh'iuS l"r
| y r'F'a'h pHrc'l ol i'aiid III inc ouhtN
"i hester Sllua'" on the "eSt sac or
III" hiN'f b'laWar" upon Naalnah ;
."rbo Twelfth dny of the Ninth Month,
One Thousand Siv Uuudr.d ty,htv
Three" Stephen REYNOLDS is Il de-
scunIunt of Henry RryuolJs
y hummer "I lhr oll'lalN Oh inc rem
HE'Vahla RaiIronh Company on M"nday'
made tour or inspection over the Mary
lama DIVISION OF the l'hI!hdrlphla' VIII
lhlnEtnh ana Baltimore kalIroad' from
ihlladtlphia I" w aShlhGt"h ana return