The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-04-22


East, now of Chester, Pa, is reported
seriously i'll.
| Presiding Elder Mowbray held the
| first quarterly conference in North East
NJ. f. Church on Thursday evening
| Fred Racine has sold his interest
in the CnSt!eton store near Conowingo
to Burton Smith. who will conduct the
| business
The Kcnnett Foundry and Machine
Shops ut Kennctt Square which has
| applied for charter, will be capital
! lied ut $4,000.
b. b. Warren is erecting n new one
story frame uilding with floor space
| 1896 for the Riverside Cornet Band
on High street. Port Deposit.
The trees on the sidewalk from Mid
dletown to Forest Cemetery, destroyed
| last Halloween night, have been re-
placed with thrty-twc new ones plant
ell last week.
The disbursement for pensions by
the United States treasury for the fiscal
year ended June 80. 1904. were Sill
I0G2.S1S.IJ. making Il grand total since
1850 of 50. 123 .O3O.S1S.7
The Delaware State Sunday School
convention met in eighteenth annual seS-
sion in Newark VI. +. Church on Thurs
day and yesterday. An interesting pro-
gram. with three sessions daily. was
followed.
Mr.. Cecil Lynch and Miss Agnes
McKinSay were married ut the resi-
dcncr eff the brides mother, Mrs. J.
Frank Willis, in Newark on the 10Th
inst by Rev. +. G.. Atkins. After a
Northern wedding trip they will reside
on choNtr street. Newark.
The property known as the Dublin
Hotel 81 years N'p. WIS burned by Il
fire caused by defective tluc one day
,nSr week. j. X. Thompson occupied
the premises ~ Il store and dwelling.
There WAS an insurance of 81 800 on the
building and $3.50 IN the contents.
-patnr Bah,r'. ,c,orcd. was tried be-
f>rc Judges rcarcr. Martin and Brown
1T DcHton. Crip.inc county. last week
and found guilty of kidnapping the in
FAINT of Eimila Richardson. colorcd. On
being given Is months in the pcnitcn-
tiary. rlatina promptly went into hyS-
tories.
The building used rs u store and
railroad StatiCn nt Bynum on the Mary
land X Pennsylvania Railroad. near Bel
Air. was burned one night recently with
all its contents. The property was own
cd by Joseph ii. Davidson. Loss.
$1,000. Insurance. 1.S0O in the Ilar-
ford Mutual Company.
.
Charles Savage'$ legs while he was at
work for McAullcn n McDcmott, the
bridge pier contractors at IIavrr de
Grace. enc day hast week, and crushed
them badly. 1t was feared that Nmpu-
taton would be needed but it wuS hap
PLY found not to he required.
Mrs. Lctitia Kcarney recently pre-
scented her granddaughter, Miss Anna
NJ ToSh. of Pleasant View Farm. Sixth
district five quilts worked nearly CEN
fury ago by the lattcr'$ mother. Two
are of Irish chain pattern. one double,
with III pieces. and the ether single.
The three GthclrS are of novel pattern
and brilliant in effect
The catches of shad on floats and
shores last week wee reported light but
are expected to be heavier with warmer
weather. GilcIS were reported catch
Ing from - to 300 per boat nightly.
The >had are reported fine and large
AMI sold ut IIavrc de Grace nj from $50
t. $40 per hundred. Herring were quot
Ell III 10 cents per hundred.
The annual meeting of the Maryland
T,lrpE>Ir Company Wa held at Sails
bury On last riday. All the officers
wrir reelected. 1t was determined to
COY ,oli'vrtc the Maryland X Delaware
Tc.yl huar Company with the Eastern
Shore Telephone Company and the Dia-
mead State Telephone Company. which
will be accomplished in the near future.
The sinking of two new caiASons.
cnc on clch side of the SuSquehannl.
was begun by McAIullcn X McDcrmott.
the contractors for the new pcrryville
lIavrr de Grace bridge piers. last week.
Are Nights erected ON Holpcr'J and
FrcdrrickS wharvcS. which the firm has
leased, will permit operations at night.
and the work will be rushed with large
gangs.
The body Of Albert $. Grove, of
Colts station. Kent county. Md, who
had been employed n> an extra motor
man by the Peoples Railway Company,
of Wilmington. and who disappeared
about Il month ago. was found floating
in the ChliStianW river last Friday.
Eighty-iive cents and n watch found on
the body showed that he was not Il vic
tim Of foul play. The body was sent
tH his relatives at Colts.