The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1904-07-23
LOCAL NEWS.

The hay crop is reported from fair
10 good throughout the county.
Bank postoifce is now callod Elk
Mills with w. Y. Seth us postmaster.
The total insurance paid on account
of the Baltimore fire of February laSt
amounts to S:}0. 5ONmO.
-AIillingtOn is preparing to rebuild.
The two principal streets of the town
will he widened ten feet
Ell ghtetn bushels to the acre is the
expected average wheat yield on the
EaSte'rn Shore this seaSUir
Twenty graduates of Goldey
College are employed by the II. *. Null
ford Company, of Philadelphia.
-Hmvre de Glgce has purchased three
new hose CARTS mt Il cost of 5000 for the
SuSquehama Il ile Company of thit city.
THE Harlan Il Holingssworth plant
in Wilmington are Said to have more
work than they have mad for several
months past.
--Cnptin John c. Constable. of Com
Iany f. First Rcgt. NJ. y. g.. who hs,N'
decided to remain in Denver. Col. hats
resigned.
-HaiNStomtS us large as beans and
marbles fell with the shower of Monday
morning and did some damage to gar
den crops and fruit.
The City Council of Huvre de Grace
has voted $1,000 to supplement the
Woo,Sey bequest of $4,000 for the pix
ing of the Churchvile 1U;rd
ATTEND the festival mt Hopewell NJ.
f. Church on "Wednesday evening, July
-. Proceeds for church improvements.
If stormy, next fair evening.
The Sunday School picnicrs held by
the MothodisttS and Episcopal collgregn-
1iolrN ut Plum Point on Wednesday and
Thursday were well attended.
A train of thilty-tive freight cars
escaped collision with another train in
the Bay View yards of the T.. h. X w.
on Sunday night by IA margin of II foot.
-Chif,k Sunday School viii hold III
lawn fetc at Mr.. Daniel Harveys resi-
d,'nce at WILMA next "Wednesday even
ing. July ~. If stormy. the next fair
evening.
The County Commissioners have
granted permission to the Farmers Tel
cphune Company of Cecil County to
erect poles AMI string wires along the
public roads
The Good Old Summer Time" ws>
le,tk ut the old stand on Sunday. Mon
day ;lml Tuesday. People Inv and out of
doors hard Turkish baths furnished free
by old General Humidity.
MISS Margaret Bowen. of Newark.
is now acting ars stenoginupher and type
writer for the j. {. Parker X SON Conn
PENNY. of Middletown. She is n recent
graduate of Cooley College.
Henry A. Warburton. son of Will
liam 4. Warburton. Esq. wifi shortly
be udmitted 10 the bar. having just pass
tni a crcditable examinations before the
State Board of Law Examiners.
THE. choice of the church i'm Whining
t0m where the next Conference will hold
its st~>1icmN has been left to Presiding
Ebler Mowblly. 1t is not yet settled
whether ministers, will meet their own
expenses.
Rev. Vaughan :. COLLINS. Of Po1t
Deposit. was elected secretary Nnpd Rev.
II. X. Stephenson. a member of the Adj
visory Board of the Fourth District Con-
ference of the Epworth League held at
Mountain Lake. Md, last week.
A mi-county base ball league has
been formed by the Oxford. PottstGwn.
MohicanS of .Icmett Square. Brandy
wine and Gainesville teams nnd the
Philadelphia Chants. Cannes ut the last
poiN viii be played ON the Athletics
grounds.
-The F.. b. q w. r. r. mas large
white pllcnltlS reading For White pas
SomgcrS Only printed in large black let
tens ATTACHED to the white compartments
of its cans on local trainS. Colorcd pas
Scngcre% are expected to read, mark and
flTwalrlly digest the legend.
William Cnmn. of Kcmblcvillc and
a party of his neighbolS, one day re-
Gently. removed his hay cropfrOm bis
barn in an effort to rescue William
BooOth. who declared he was smother
ing under the NOW. He was not found
but an empty whiskey bottle was and
Cann and his helpers are wondering
where Booth went or was SOME wag
hoaXing them.