The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1904-07-09
NEWS in BRIEF.

the faculty of the Jacob Tome Institute,
Port Deposit.
There are many applicants fer the
principalship of the IIavre de Grace
High School.
The Hartford Bank. of Belair. has
declared a scmi-annual dividend of per
cent.
The Nottingham CDrnet Band real
lied about 500 by the festival held in
that town recently.
The Cecil County Law and Bar
Library Association has been incorTor-
ted mt Elkton.
The net proceeds from the festival
held in st. Johns Parish House. Havre
de Grace. last week. WAS over 500.
The New Castle Levy Court will be
urged to speedily complete the Middle
town and Odessa read.
The Rising Sun Journal reports that
as Il rule the hay crop gathered in that
section 81 fan. is light
1t was expected THAT work on the
trolley extension from Middl"town to
Smyrna and Townsend would begin this
week.
The first Peninsula peaches of the
season were marketed ut Ch"Swold. 10y
Edward Ford. ,n Saturday. They were
of the Sweet Mountain variety.
Omar u. tlothrrs E.l.. has opened
nm office in the Star building in North
East. where he will spend MoG.ays and
FRIDAYS of each week.
The National Bank Of Rising Sun
has declared its usual hnlf-ycarly divi-
d"Nl Of ) PER cent payable t" Stockhnld-
rr~ of record July LIST.
On" Of the biggest cherry crops, ever
known in Lancaster cGunty has PASSED
into history. In mdny places three cents
quart WAS the Price.
strawberry shipments this season
over railroads in Maryland ana Delaware
amounted to l2.4l6.1S5 quarts. against
l2,SSl.3 quarts last year.
William May joel McCunr and r.
Flanagan. all of Philadelphia. are in
Elkton jail charged with robhing T., Il.
n W. II. K. freight cars.
Kaufman Katz. the Baltimore cloth-
Ter. well krown in Cecil county. will
shortly pay visit to II brother in san
Francisco. whom he has not seen for 81
years.
w. {. Cullcy. for thirty-fCnr years
passenger and freight agent at pelryvillc
on the F.. Il. Il w. Railroad retired on
July |. George \. WentZ of Elkton, be-
ing his successor.
A shell fired from the guns ut North
Point. near Baltimore. one day last week
exploded near the bay shore in Kent
county. causing horses attached to two
rcapelS to run away. dcmGishing 10th
machines and injuring the horses,
The Maryland Agricultural Expert
ment Station has issued bulletins No. 81.
Experiments with NitlogenouS Fertili-
Zci'>': No. %. Notes on Apple Culture.
and %. Second Report on the Pithinc>S
of Celery. These bulletins may be OBJ
tanned free by anyone desiring them
Address the Station ut College Park Md
Harry MARSHALL. after being bitten
by II mad dog over nine weeks ago. died
at his home, about tive miles out of
PennS Grove. \. j.. from hydrophohis,.
1t was necessary to tie him and when
the fits came over him it took four men
to hold him in bed
Teams driven by Cecil Cummings.
of Rising sun. and Alfred Kirk. of Not
tingham. cOllidcd Cn South Queen street
in the borough ONE day last week. The
shaft Of Kinks buggy penetrated the
breast of Cummings horse and came
out at the witherS. Several >plintcrS
Were taken from the wound which it was
thought would prove fatal.
One day hast week rs Mrs. Kirk
Springer of New London. was holding
Il rope the other end of which WAS tied
WIS about the horns of II fractions COW
which WAS being MIXED. the animal
gave sudden lurch. throwing Mrs.
Springer to the ground and causing in
juric> from which she died two days
later.
!-Da. Nam Er>'hrm2., n TAI If Is
years. fell flnm II cherry ire, at B,jlr
Bali one day recently and suffered II
broken wrist and other injuries. IL was
taken to Delaware Hospital. Whining
ton. for treatment.
DR.. u. w. Lewis. of Middlct0wn.
who wHS hunt ,DlIr time a-r by his horse.
becoming frightened at traction en-
gine. is rapidly inn owing and has start
ed for Il brief >ojourn 1T the home of his
parents i'll Virginia.
E. Ward Brown. of Port Deposit,
WAS the lcwCst of several bidders, who
hailed from Wilmington. Camden and
other places for the complr tion of the
matchmaking of n SrCtiupn of the Ris-
ine Sun-FurmngtOn road. The Sixth
District Road League will urge the uc-
coptal.Cr of his bid upon the County
Commissioners nj their meeting on Tues
day. One mile of the road improvement
has hCrn finished. leaving Il mile and
seven hundred feet to be complctcd