The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1904-08-27

-RlShtS OF way nave been secured TO
n trolley road from ParkcSburg to OK
ford.
Mrs. Harriet Atkinson, of Farming
ton, is in Portland, Me-, us "A delcgat,
to the convention of the Daughters o
Liberty.
The report of Treasurer j. Finne,
Wells, states THAT on August 3, Harfor,
county had Il balance on hand of SIS.
31O.1S.
The Susuuchanna Marine Work.
Company is erecting IL boat building es
Establishment on the water front, n0rtl
side of Warren street, Havre de Grace
-Barbam kready. of Lancaster. h;l.
sued her neighb"r, Sally Geib. for 81 .OOt
damages for the alleged circulation OF
reports that she had thrown repper il
her cows eyes.
The combined store and residence AT
Principle. belonging to Shocklcy Jenness
and James Lynch. Respectively WAS de-
Stloyed by fire one night last week, en-,
failing Il loss of $4,000.
Harrison w. VickcrS. Esq. of Chcs
'''A'N H. ll'tF~ httI ldllltH IN 'TtENtlllbl
N"rllSld as II delegate to the Farmers
Material Congress to be held at St
Louis On September 20
The Rising sun Journals Farming.
ton correspondent Says Miss Lizzie
iroNt.S. grandniecc of Jonathan krallSS
of Rock Springs. has disappeared from
her home ut that place.
1t is reported the Lancaster, Oxford
" Southern Railroad is to be newly
equipped III the fall and extended from
Paramount to Quarryville. nrcesSitating
an expenditure of SlJ000O.
charters have been granted the Ken
nett Gas. Fuel and Heat Co., with n
capita! of SoWn. and the Kenneth Gas
Light Co. with II capital of $4,000.
both Of kennett township, Chester Co.
The one hundred trains that pass
over the F.. b. n w. Railroad. take
4oo.Wn gallons of water every twenty
four hours from the water troughS be-
tween the tracks mt EdgewoOl station.
Fire detwyed the large straw ricks
on the farm tenanted by Charles Webb,
near W"rton. Kent county. one night
last week. The entire years straw crop
was destroyed. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
Owners of thrcshing rigs in Kent
county complain of various parts being
removed and obstacles placed in the way
of their machines by parties whose chief
distinction is what is known as general
cuSSedncSS."
A copperhead snake fastened its
fangS in the arm of James Ruff, while
he WIS fixing his fence near Belair, one
day last week. 1t had to be shaken v0-
lcntly to be removed. The wound was
promptly treated.
A steel pin about IL inches in
length. which Miss Anna Baker. of Bal
timore, who is on II visit to Aberdeen.
swallowed. and which has not been re
moved, is giving her much pain in the
region of the chest.
The Wing invites attention to the
announcement of Me&Sls. H. H. White
j. Ed Davis. successors to S. T. Sim
pens in the general store business at
North East Their many friends wish
them the fullest success.
Price n Topping's mill, one of the
best in Kent county, located near st.
PauTN Church. WAS sold last week to
John f. Morris and Charles NJ. Brown,
by Harry Moore for $1,000. The latter
will remain slS manager.
Parties who sold wheat too soon at
something like so cents per bushel are
gnawing some rather tough files over its
present upward range. The Northwest
ern Miller declares the advance is not
justified, but all the same the price r.
climbing steadily.
The scaffold upon which John Joiner
the negro murderer, is to be hanged at
the New Castle county work house on
September ., is completed at Media and
was tcsteG satisfactorily last week by
Sheriff Stidham. Joiner is not worry
Ing and eats three meals Il day heartily.
The stone cruSher to be used in
crushing stone for the Churchville- Havre
d" Grace road has been placed in posi-
ton in JEAN WolthMgton'N field near
Hartford Seminary. and T. being op,lat-
ed. The matter of the selection of the
route-AldinO or Levcl-has not been de
eded upon.
The Havrc de Grace Republican
thinks there may be something doing
arIEl ConownGo. if the offer made by
George *. McGdw of SusquehanEu
Power Company, to furnish Baltimore
city with electric light and power at Il
rate ID per cent. lower than competitors
terms should be accepted.