The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1904-02-06
LOCAL NEWS.

-SItlpuluR has Decu BOOu uuIluB lhD NCOh
on the roads.
Mrs. f. E. Marsh Is critically i'll at her
home in Warwick.
There is said to be scarcity of school
teachers in Hartford county.
-Perryville NJ E. Church wishes Pastor
Greenfield to continue for a fourth year
The W. G. T. U. of Cherry Hill will meet
at Mr.. N. W. Sebold's on Thursday Feb
ruary 18th.
The Misses Florence and Harriet Dean
have left Newark to join the Dowieltes at
Zion City, III.
The work OF erecting the proposed new
hall for Childs Council, Jr. o. U. A. NJ. will
be started shortly.
The Denominational Convention of the
8. G. E. will meet in Baltimore on Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday next.
The Spring term of the Cecil Public
Schools began on Monday. 1850 pupils were
on the rolls during the winter term,
A large audience heard Presiding Elder
Watts lecture on 1.-The Cosmopolitan Bug -
inRerryville NJ. E. Church on Monday night.
-Messrs. Davis & vinsinger the Elkton
milers. lost from collie on Saturday the horse
which recently bit two of its mates in their
stable.
The steamer City Belle, sunk last week
at Port Deposit, when raised by her owner,
Capt. Emil Holm, was found to be but little
damaged.
Joseph A. Bottomly, who left Chester
recently for Dowie's paradise, Zion City, ILL.,,
has returned and, with his wife, will locate
in Newark, Del.
Prof NJ. Bates Stephens, of Ridgely,
Caroline county, is strongly endorsed for
reippolntment as State Superintendent of
PuulIc Instruction.
Trouble with the nues at the Elkton
Public school On Howard street filed the
building with smoke on Tuesday afternoon
The children were quietly dismissed.
The P. r. & W. r. r. now occupies its
new shops at Todd's Cut. The old shops in
Wilmington will be RACED to make room for
the new railway station and elevated tracks
Joseph NJ. Street, Of Bel Air editor Of
the Hartford Democrat, who wanted to be
Secretary of State, is now endorsed for State
Fire Marshal. to succeed DR.. r. NJ. Price, of
Queen Anne county.
To supply water for the Head OF Elk
Mills the dam at Farr Greek, injured by the
recent freshet, has been reinforced with sand
bags Repairs to the dam will be- made as
promptly as possible.
Miss Miriam Cooley, of Liberty Grove,
has been appointed instructor in Music in
tn Downingtown Pa. High School. Miss
Cooley was a student, Of the Broad Street
Conservatory Philadelphia.
Justice Groves on Saturday gave hear
ing to Capt. Thomas d. Walmsley, OF
Fredericktown, whom he held for Court,
upon the charge of assaulting William
levitt, the son of a neighbor
The Gamers associations of Maryland
Delaware and New Jersey were merged into
one body, at q meeting held at the Clayton
House Wilmington on Wednesday, under the
name of the Tri-State Packers Association.
james CHM died on the "a tn inst. at
his residence, 1.-The Tent" near Backbird,
Del, OF Stomach trouble, in his Twenty
Ninth Year. His funeral was held In Town
send Church, with interment in the adioin-
ing Cemetery.
A fine gold watch and chain have been
presented to William ]. Holton, station agent
at Iron Hill, by the members Of the Order OF
Telegraph Operators OF the Maryland Divis-
ion in recognition Of his services as secretary
for the past fifteen years.
DIR. Ashbrook, of the American Denta
Parlors, Wilmington, Del, will open an office
in Newark. Del. in the home Of Mrs. Todd
next to the Presbyterian Church. He or one
of his assistants will be there Mondays and
Fridays of each week, commencing February
8, 1904.
The following officers were elected by
the directors of the Elkton Cemetery Com
pany at their annual meeting on Monday
DR.. J. H. lamar, W. II. Elder. L. p. Price,
W. FL. Mackall, J. s. Writ and DR.. Howard
Bratton. The Directo RS organized by elect
ing DR.. J. Fl. lamar, President F. p. Price,
Treasurer W. II. Mackal, Secretary; W. Il.
Elder, Superintendent.