The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1903-08-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Grabs are reported plentiful in Elk
River.
John Morgan. we'll known citizen
OF Chesapeake City, is critically ill with
the dropsy.
The annual excursion from Chesa-
peake City to Colchester will be CD
Thursday, August 6.
George Robinson. aged twenty years,
Of Airville, Pa, died last week from
pneumonia, while on visit to friends at
Lombard.
The annual meeting of the Mutual
Fire Insurance Company of Cecil County
will be held today at the Office of the
company in Elkton.
On Monday night. the Eighth Street
Market House and several adjoining
buildings in Wilmington, Del. were de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at
$125,0OO.
A meeting Of property owners was
held last night at the Office of Justice
Henry Gilpin, in Elkton, loloking to-
ward the laying Of large sewer on East
Main street.
The old pavement on East High
Street is being replaced by n new one.
The old pavement was laid while the Late
A =. Shockley was Town Baiiff twenty
two years ago.
The only child of Mr.. and Mrs. r.
Wilson, of Middletown. died on Saturday
after long illness, and the funeral took
place on Monday, interment being in
Forest Cemetery.
The Orphans Court was in special
session on Saturday last, when the argu-
ment of counsel in the case of White VS.
White was concluded. The Court re-
served its decision.
Rev. X. X. Stephenson. pastor of
Scott NJ. E. Church, Wilmington. form
erly of Elkton NJ. E. Church. has min
isterial charge of Brandywine Summit
camp meeting, which opened on Thurs
day.
ALI the friends Of Prohibition. and
all who favor the strict enforcement of
the Prohibitory Law now in force in this
county. are invited to attend a meeting
at Woodlawn Camp Grounds, on Friday
the 9TH of August.
Star gazers can see Boseli's Comet
any fair evening with the naked eye
Early in the evening, it can be seen in
the northeast northward of the cross in
Cygnus, and looks like hairy star. 1t
is nearly overhead by II o'clock. and
with an opera glass. the denser part of
the tail near the head can be seen.
90 h., L.,
ers' and Mechanics Mutual Insurance
Company, the following officers and
directors were chosen for the ensuing
year Alfred Wetheril, President f.
ID. Carhart, Secretary and Treasurer:
Directors, Alfred Kirk. A. j. Mchener
John L. Wilson, William 7. Patton. .Jno
T. Dewitt. Thomas B. Miller and Chas
W. Shippers.
james L. Racine, tenant on the Ray
mond farm. about three miles east Of
Elkton, is the champion to date for the
best yield of wheat cut on Il farm and
grown on stalk ground this season. His
yield was 440 bushels from - acres. or
a yield per acre of twenty bushels of
good Fultz wheat. On another sod field
his yield was not so good. being an aver
age Of thirteen bushels to the acre.
The Mutual Building Association Of
Cecil county held its annual meeting at
the Office of the Secretary, George A
Blake, Esq, on Monday evening, Mt
which the officers and directors were re-
elected for the ensuing year as follows :
DIR. c. NJ. Ellis, President; George w.
Cosden, Vice President; Geo. A. Blake,
Secretary; l.. Marshall Haines, Treas
urer; Directors-George McQuilkin, H.
c. Wells. c. c. Strickland Samuel ].
Keys, Roger Witworth, Alfred Wetherill
and John Gilpin; Counsel, Robert c.
Thackery.
The "Whig" had a pleasant call last
week from Mr.. Thomas J. Little of 1912
Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa,
where he manufactures ladies undergar-
ments and employs a number of women
and girls at the sewing machine. As we
stated in our last issue. Mr.. Little was
prospecting here for suitable building
In which to conduct that business. He
found one building, mitchell Hall" on
the old Fair Grounds, which is large
enough for his purpose. No doubt Mr..
Little after reading the Elkton papers,
felt unduly inflated with sense of his
Importance, at being heralded as the
Heaven sent forerunner of a textile mill
to be erected by him in Elkton which
would employ hundreds of hands, and
disburse thousands Of Imaginary dol
lars. We hope Mr.. Little may decide to
locate in Elkton. and that the owners of
Mitchell Hall may offer him inducements
to come. He would possibly employ from
thirty-five to fifty females at sewing
machines, whom he could undoubtedly
readily secure here, and who would find
this employment remunerative.