The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1904-06-04
LOCAL NEWS.

and others are the incorporators of the
Hartford County Boat Club.
A strawberry and ice cream festival
will be held at Crouch's Chapel ON Fri
day and Saturday evenings. June 10, H..
The alnala examination for teachers,
will be held ut ElktOn ON Monday and
Tuesday EHXt.
-Beginning with tomorrow the hour
of evening service at Trinity Church will
be half pHst six.
-Children'S Day services will I've held
at Harris NJ. +. Church, Elk Neck, to-
morrow. ut $50 Il. m.
The ladies of HaIt's Church held II
successful festival in Riverview Council
Hall on Saturday evening.
A steel ceiling will he placed in the
Newark NJ. +. Church and the front en-
trance will be changed.
-Bailiff McGready is experimenting
the laying Of n new brick gutter on the
east side of South street.
Omar ID. Cl.uthers has opened law
office with Justice Y. B. Cranmer in
North East and will make weekly visits
there.
. WIN. Mckinney and Herbert Garrett
caught II snapper weighing 10 pounds in
the creek off Elder Park early in the
week.
Strawberries on the lower Peninsula
are said to be suffering from drouth.
Growers say the fruit is falling off be
fore Tipening.
Miss Mary Emily Clark, of Cecilton,
is one of the valedicto1ians at the COM
ing commencement of Western Marylan
College, Westminster.
Lewis Wake CrIikshank, of Cecil.
ton, will deliver the ssllutatory at the
Maryland Agricultural College com
mencement ON June 10.
Rev. w. p. Compton,, lately Of Zion
is seriously i'll from his overwork at his
new charge in Camden, Del. 1t is said
that he will recover
Miss HeIen Barton, of Newark, has
accomplished the novel task of papering
a room at her home with Cancelled post
age stamps.
II. J. Shallcross government crop ne
porter for Kent county, reports his OWL
Keifer pears as seemingly all right AND
wheat looking we'll and promising q
good crop
The Sloop Bertha May was libelet
in the United States District Court al
Baltimore Monday by Waiter 7. Jack
son, of Havre de Grace, to recover SIC
for wharfage and 500 additional for rails
ing the craft which sank at the wharf Of
the hbellant.
The ladies Of Ebenezer NJ. E. Churcl
at Grenhurst will hold am ice cream ant
strawberry festival ON the church lawr
on Thursday evening, June g. for tn,
benefit of the church, and Sunday School
IL stormy, next fair evening.
As the northbound passenger trail
due at French Street Station, Whining
ton, at 1916 p. m, was passing Ston!
Run on last Friday the two rear Pull
mans were sideswiped by a freight. A
woman and Il man in one of the cosit!he.
; were hurt by flying glass. The tops o
the cars We're broken and the window,
= smashed ~ ...,
Mr. Alfred Ws,therin villa represen
Trinity parrish as lay delegate at the an
nual convention of the Diocese of Eas
ton in Princess Anne on Tuesday next
The convention is made up of the rector
and hay Delegates of the several parishes
lN. KEY. w lWlpilll roTHS iaudille, III
Bishop. will preside.
Rev DIR. w. f. Corkrah who ha
been made the subject of sharp criticism
because Of his dealings in stocks, aske'
to be excused last week from amy furthe
attendance upon the General Methods
Episcopal Conference ut Los Angeles
saying that there was trouble in hi
church and he desired to return home.
Tt is thought THAT the contract 70
the erection of the twenty piers require
to support the double track steel bridg
of the p, b. 4 w. X. X. over the Sus
quehanna between Perryville and Havr
de Grace will be awarded Within the Try
few days. With the new bridge i'm us
the big locomotives will be employed am
tlp time between New York and WatN
ingtan reduced considerably
The battalion Of st. Johns Colleg
Cadets. in command Of Major J. VIII
Wilmer. went into camp mt Tolchestt
on Wednesday evening for Il stay of
week. They will i've inspected by an off
Ger of the United States Army. The
will return to Annapolis in time for tn
commencement on June -, at whic
Cen l.. \. Wilmer, of Charles count!
win deliver the address to the graduate,