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

The Prohibition State convention will
be held ut Salisbury on Tuesday.
Nearly 15.OOO.OGO Shad fry hare been
hntched cut the station near pcrryvillc
this scas'on.
The Hotel Rigby at Bcttelton will be
managed by w. X. Pippin, of Chester
town.
j. +. Cochran. of Gulcnn. last week
showed Il bunch of asparagus Of II stalks
9 inches long AND weighing 49, pounds
Joseph Condor. of PerTyville. hsls,
been granted patient for an "akcn decoy
duck.
-B. +. Jordan ST.. Of Trump. Balti-
more county. died last week from the
effects of drinking butter colcling in
mistake for milk.
The lnta!li"n of cadets of the Mary
lan3 Agricultural College left on May 30
to attend the st. Louis Exposition and
will be absent 10 days.
The clecto1s: of the town of Aberdeen
on June Is will vote upon the propcSi-
ton to issue $1,000 worth of bonds to
construct an electric lighting plant.
The Epworth League of Tome NJ. T..
Church, Port Deposit, will continue its
strawberry AMI ice cream festival in the
Guild Hall this evening.
Miss Mabel Matthews. OF the teach
ing corps of the North East High School
will take Il six weeks course. at the Cor
nell Summer School for Teachers
Robert Ferguson has sold his mill
property at Spruce Grove to the Octo-
raro Waiter Company. The property in
cludrs the mill. a dwelling umd niretecn
acres of ground.
Ground WAS broken last week by \.
NJ. Srntmln for Il FINE mo fern dwelling
for Mis-. Martha J. Moore. ON Ontario
street. HHvrp de Grace The building
will be- 2JX34 feet with nm addition.
w. +. niSling. Of Bcnir. WINS show
ing hast week green wheat four feet in
length and of vigorous growth taken
from II field on HIS farm near that town.
In the Ninth Internal revenue dis
trict. of which Lancaster county is ii
part. IS1. 1O2.253 cigals wer. mamlfac-
tured in 1903. for which 14,6S3 .252 MS.
Of tobacco WAS used.
A little 3-year-Old son of Raymond
Noshell. of Che>tertown. ftll int" Il Lar
rel of freshly Stacked lime one day last
week and was badly burned. especially
about the eyes.
-WUrkmen are repairing some Of the
damaged buildings mt Safe Harbor
Fences Hnl necessary buildings are also
bei'g put up. Some of the ice still re-
mains in the place.
In Columbia IvllminpllSC sixty men
have Recently been laid off by the =. r.
r., AMI the working hours have been cut
t" mine. The company has laid off hum
GArr,!S of men in it's shops ami round
houses elsewhere.
Charles ESpur. charged with felorl-
allS assault upon BCs,,Gr Thompson. aged
ID years. of Hnvre de Grace. at Darling
t"o. in February. WAS arrested in York.
Pa. recently and iea lodged in B,.lair jail
-Midllctown has Il newly organized
Camp of Modern WDrlmcn of America
with 26 charter members. W. II. Shall
cross is consul and W. r. Comellee
banker.
Lester Ford, son Of Robert Ford. OF
lOm~,9l. Kent county broke his should
cr blade one day last week by failing
from Il horse. He wsl> removed TO IL Bal.
timore hospital.
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$4,000 for the Supp,rc Steam Engin,
Company. of Columbia which has asset.
Of about SlO.O0O ami liabilities exceeding
$4,000.
The season mt Rochester opened on
| WrthmS lay. The first excursion WA.
taken to the beach on We,lnr> lay of laat
week from Baltimore by the Louise
which has been Thoroughly overhnuleG
| and reprinted.
A spontaneous fire which threatened
| the whole town broke out in New Castle
Del. on Saturday and destroyed the resi-
dencers of Edgar Broas and r. +. Ian,
custer There was insurance on botl
and the contents of the latter but tn,
| formers effects were not covered.
| Il l.. lnn1S. or Tie American Mono
Tail Company. proposes establishing THAI
system of transportation between Tol
chester and Chcestcltown. 1t is claimel
THAT the distance. II miles. could be coy
cred in minutes by cars run un the sys
tenn
| Mrs. Margaret e. Boyd has sold her
double frame dwelling on Warren street
llavre de Grace. to the F.. b. II W. Il
Il. for $500. This is the filEit prlrchas;
Of property made IN connection with thu
rev bridge project.
A farm he'll which Mrs. William L
Rogers of Chestnut Level. WAS Tingn!
Il few days ago, fell from the high polI
upon which it waS suspended and S;rIcl
her upon the head, inilicting II sever,
wound.
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