The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1904-08-13
SATURDAY, AUG. 10, 1904.
NEWS In BRIEF.

extensive repairs.
st. Thomas rectory in Newark is to
be improved before the arrival of the
new rector.
Marshall Bros are building Il four
story fibre mill about three miles south
of Kennett.
The Havre de Grace NJ. Il. Sunday
School excursion will be run to Tolches-
ter next Friday.
-CnGer the Comptroller's recent dis,
tribution Hartford county receives ST.
442.O5 of the free school fund.
-PancoaSt's St Georges canncry on
Tuesday shipped 40 barrels of catsup
to s. j. NanIIill & Co.. of Baltimore
George Ryan. a well-known cattle
dealer, died mt his home near Blythcdale
one day last week. His funeral was
held on Friday.
The lawn fete on DIR. Housekeeper's
lawn in North asst. held recently Melted
about S44 for the st. Mary's Church
Improvement fund.
One of the Pogue X Sons livery
stable horses died last week from the
effects of cvcrdriving. coupled with the
heat. at Rising Sun.
Work has begun on the improve
mertS Mt st. Mary'S Church. at North
East. Upwards of 5000 will be spent
on the ancient editice.
The Calendar Club of the North
East NJ. +. Church has decided to hold
a feast of the seven tables" at the q.
A. Il. Hall September u.
James HosSingcr has purchased the
dwelling Of the Misses Martin in the
west end of Newark. 7 hey sold their
personal effects Also last week.
Thieves entered the b. & o. railroad
station ut Aberdeen one night recently.
They broke off the knob of the safe but
obtained no plumber of any kind.
A strike at TClchester Beach last
week among the employees owing to Il
cut in their wages, resulted in all the
amusC1ncnts coming to II standstil.
The supper held by the ladies of
Nottingham. Chester county, Presbyter-
ian Church. on Friday evening, last
week, netted $40 for the church debt
fund.
Claiming the miSappropriation of a
15-irch strip of his land, John Scott of
Valley township, Chester county, will
seek an injunction against a trolley COM
pany.
-Four hundred and fifty dollars was
Melted from the Country Fair" held re-
Gently on Delaware College campus,
Newark. for the benefit of the town IL
brary.
The work Of extending the Kenneth
and Wilmington trolley lime into Avon
dalc borough has been commenced. The
present terminus is about one-half mile
from that town.
The 124th anniversary of Barrett's
Chapel, Del. will be held on October %.
Rev s. w. Forbes, secretary of the
Church Extension Society of New York,
will be the preacher for the day.
Seventeen dollars realized from a
perch party held at the residence Of
Mrs. j. II. Dewitt last week will be
applied to erecting II class window in
the chapel of st. Georges Presbyterian
Church.
The store of c. C. Pussy & Co., in
Havre de Grace was robbed of $50
worth of razorS. knives, etc. one night
last week. by thieves who pIied off the
weather boarding in the rear of the
building.
Alexander NJ Fulford, of Belair has
magnificent Berkshire hog that weighs
over 700 pounds. He was recently offer
ed 5000 for his prize but refused to
take it. The animal win be sent to the
St. Louis exhibition.
The seventh annual picnic of the
farmers, of St. Georges and Red Lion
hundreds will be held in Reynolds grove
near st. Georges, on Thursday next.
Addresses will be made by prominent
speakers.
A valuable Shetland pony owned by
William NJ Pogue. Of Rising Sun, waS
found dead in it's stall one morning re
Gently 1t was II very tractablc and
trllr'tv animal for which am offer of $3.50
had been refused SHORTLY before its
death.
The funeral of William Dobson. II
Civil War veteran. who died ut the
Hampton. Va. Soldiers Home was
held from the home of his sister, MIS-
John Leitheiser. in Havre dc Grace
last week. with intcrment in Angel Hill
Cemetery.
"A slow freight q: twcrty-cight cans.
drawn by engine Jl33. was run by En-
gineer Brown and Fireman Witsel from
Baltimore to Edge Moor enc day last
week in one hour and fifty eight minutes
including a stop OF fifteen inmates at
Ilavre de Grace.
During an exciting game of Ease
ball last week mt Betterton between the
BctteIton ard Chesapeake City teams,
the gInndstand collapsed, inju1ing Mrs.
NELL. wife of Rev. VIM. Ncill, of Phila-
delphia, rather seriously, and brusng
several other spectators.