The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1904-12-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Hunters dam near Rising Sun sup.
piled inch ice last week.
New Castle has "a mad dog scare and
more than 30 CANNES have been killed.
-Haines Harlan is erecting a wind.
mill on his place in the Fourth district.
-lavre de Grace has u mad dog scare
and unmuzzled CANNES will be killed by
the bailiff.
Rev. c. 7. Wyatt has been invited
to continue as pastor of Bethesda NJ. L.
Church, Middletown.
The ladies of Havre de Grace NJ. E.
Church cleared S303.65 from their re-
cent bazaar and supper
Sixty per cent. of the people of West
Chester are said to own their houses
and have bank deposits.
Italians are grading the route for the
Oxford eorgetown trolley. Shanties for
the hands are under way Mt Bartville.
w. r. Holt is confined to his home
near Union by a dislocated knee cap,
caused by Il kick from q horse one day
recently.
The Pennsylvania Railroad last week
placed orders for 1922. 900 tons of steel
rails for the coming year with leading
manufacturers.
New London prcSbytcrians will hold
their Christmas entertainment on Christ
mas night and the McthodSts theirs ON
Christmas Eve.
The young men of IIavrc de Grace
M. +. Church have organized "a Social
Club with membership open to all who
may choose to join.
The Junior Christian EndCslvor of
Warwick will hold their Christmas en-
tertainmcnt in the NJ. =. Church on We'd
ncSdny evening, December rs.
Twelve thousand five hundred and
eighty firms failed in the United States
during the past II months with liabili-
ties exceeding S149,0O0000.
A number of shad have been caught
near Colchester recently and shipped to
Baltimore. 1t is thought they were
stlNys from the run of last spring
Over POO marbles, stored away by
rats, We're found by workmen employed
in tearing Gown the old Methodist Church
on Stokes street, Hayrc de Grace.
Ten bargcs bound through the canal,
delayed in Baltimore, left there on Mon
day tOwcd by the tug Albert ii. Ellis in
an effort to get through the waterway.
w. II. Salmon, of Elkton. owner of
the Hopewell, Chester county, -four mills
has had q new gable built on the build
ing and has the machinery overhauled.
Preparations have been completed
for the fair and supper to be held by
Bohemia Lodge, |. .. O. F., of CheSa-
peake City, December 2S, 20, so and 81.
The Cecil Farmers Telephone Com
panys wires have reached Rising Sun.
The exchange will be located in the resi-
dence of the Misses Emma and Ella
Haincs
james Cannon, of Pennington. Fl boy
who resides with Samuel Smith. ST., is
carrying II eat rifle bullet in his foot. ac
cidentally lodged there by himself, Il
short time ago.
A porkcr which he was about to
slaughter near Newark caught the right
hand of Charles IIaman. colorcd, in its
mouth and bit off his little finger enc
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Ny T. IIuttruInck iouitor nr thn
Central IFi~h SchonI phiIodrlphio has
purchased "Glpnworth Farm" the home
of the late Rev. J. s. Willis. at Milford,
Del fan. 81 GOO
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Col Charles Lift" is the ranking
Colonel CT the Maryland National Guar"
ANA the FIRST Is thus the SENIOR re@l-
meht. Metals are to awarded members
of the guard who have served nine years.
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ton villa ruu,,inr with ALLOW NL,ii rnI
wild geese on the SuSSafras river one
night last week had the end Of his nose
shot off hy the accidental DISCHARGE of
the lattcr'.% gun.
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