The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-05-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.

line May term of Hartford Circuit
Court opened on Monday.
The textile mill at Baldwin was ex
pected TO resume operations on Monday.
The 1Iovro de Grace city council is
to b" requested to employ night watch
man.
Tho Harvester Mission Band, of
Zion. cleared SD from its recent enter
taumcnt.
-I;r. Rev. W. +. Adams. Bishop Of
EH>t"0, confirmed a class in st. Thomas
Church. Newark. on Sunday evening.
The net profits from the Old Fash
iourl iIU>kih' Bee held Recently for the
benefit of Calvert w. G. 7. /. We're
about SO.
Work on the elevated railroad near
Fr,urh Street Station. Wilmington. was
10 I've resumed this week and will be
pushed rapidly to completion.
some Hartford farmers have already
planted corn, but it is thought they will
have to reckon with cut worms, which
the haItin=. cool spring has made num-
"r,u~.
Tho contractors for the now sewer
system in llavrc de Grace. have COM
pl,rrI nearly half the work and expect
10 have it finished within the next three
weeks.
-Rt Rev. Bishop Coleman whose let
tors frnm abroad in the Delaware
Churohman have ben read with interest.
will sail for home from Liverpool OH
May 10.
but few >hat were caught last week
and they We're selling at from $2G to
$50 per hundred. Herring were in good
supply at 80 cents per hundred at retail
in llHvrc de Grace
An ice cream and strawberry fcs-
tival will lie held by the Hytheham
Club Of Port Deposit, this evening from
$50 to 10 O'Clock in the new ro"m of
the Riverside Cornct Band.
The fair and festival for the benefit
of the Newark Base Ball Club will CON
cludc this evening. \ handsome set of
furniture will be CHANGED pif to go to
the holder Of thc lucky number.
The annual ice cream and straw
berry festival Of the ladies of Havre de
Grace Presbyterian Church will be held
in the lecture room ON June {, s, 9 and
10. Proceeds for the organ fund.
A festival regardless of the weather,
will be held for the benefit of the Col0ra
Base Ball Club next Friday and Satur-
day evenings. Strawberries ice cream,
cake, etc, will be in abundant supplies.
The fish hatchery at the Battery
near IIuvre de Grace. has obtained
S9.OOO,0OO yellow perch fry from 1O9,-
100000 eggs this season. The prospects
for white perch and shad fry are not
reckoned good.
The Automobile Company of Har-
ford County has determined to establish
motor stage lines between Bel Air and
Carney. the present terminus of the Bal
1more-Bel Air trolley line. and between
Bel Air and Huvre de Grace.
The stockholders of Brookview
Cemetery, Rising sun. have elected II.
II. IIaincs. DR. G. :. Dare. w. NJ. Rog-
el~. 7. J. Wilson, w. Y. Il. X. Rober-
son, DR.. T. b. Moore. Wayne Reynolds,
w. l.. Ryan. and S. j. Terry Directors
for the coming year.
Mrs. John Little. and three dogs
and two cows owned by Dives ThOmp-
Som. Of Poole Hartford County. were
bitten by q supposed rabid canine. one
day last week. Mrs. Little was bitten
on the arm. but it is hoped, not serious
ly. The dog was killed.
The contractors on the Pennsylvania
Railroads low grade freight line are
arranging for the early firing of eight
great blasts near Safe Harbor, to re-
move the hilly tract that stands in the
way of the line. Twenty tons of dyna-
mite will he usel for the blasts.
The Baldt Steel Works. at New Cas-
tie, Del. have received an order for GOO
tons of steel castings for the Baldwin
Locomotive Works which it will require
about eight weeks to fill. A twenty ton
heat was poured at the Baldt Works on
Saturday including a large stern frame
for vessel.
The FillSton Farm Dairy Company
made hast week one of the largest deals
in blooded stock ever contaminated III
Maryland by purchasing 121 head OF
Registered Jersey cattle from Joseph
Z. Hopes. at from $50 to 5000 per
head. selected from the Cool Springs
Games Lees and the st. Omer herds.
Hartford county. Mr.. Hopes did not
sell any of his own fine herd to the Fill
ston Company but disposed of three
COWS to Mr.. llaggerty. of this county.
for 800.
Noting the item as to the big oak
tree. 121 feet in girth. on the Bartus
TTcw Farm in Quaker Neck, Kent
county. the Rising Sun Journal says
Richards Oak. which stands in the mid
die of the public read. about three miles
west of Rising Sun. can give the Quaker
Neck tree two or three feet handicap
and still beat it out in Siez. The dimelE
SionS of this celebrated tree, under
whose sheterng branches it is said
General Lafayette camped one might,
are:-Height. 60 feet; around trunk at
ground % feet, inches; around trunk
five feet from ground. 10 feet, inches;
around first limb, IL feet, inches;
around second limb feet, 5 inches;
spread of top across road, 100 feet;
spread of top with road, SO feet. These
measurements We're made June .. 1898.
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