Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-09
OVER IN MARYLAND.


OVER IN MARYLAND.
The Elkton pulp mill is shut down for
extensive improvements. IL is being
greatly enlarged.
W; H. Weber, D. W. Hopkins and j.
W. Bauer were yesterday elected Town
Councilmen of Havre dc Grace.
The directors of the National Bank Of
Chesapeake City have elected Byron
Bouchelle cashier to succeed the late
John Banks.
Winfield Nichols, aged II years, Of
Denton, while handling a revolver, acci-
dentally shot himself. The bullet lodged
in his abdomen.
Tied TO tree, a mule owned by A.
b. Posley of Naniamoy Church, became
entangled in its halter and strangled to
death before it could be released.
Messrs. c. Hal. johnson, J. Finnev
Wells, Henry Tarring, Charles b. Osborn
and c. NJ. kreits were elected town COM
missioners for Aberdeen on Saturday.
Mrs. Beulah w. Wilson, wife of Capt
William j. Wilson, prominent citizen
OF the Fifth district, died Monday night
at her home in Elk Neck Of appendicitis.
Mayor Armstrong and the Councilmen
of Port Deposit yesterday asked the
County Commissioners for an appropria-
ton OF 500 for the fiscal year, beginning
July ist
The Cecil County School Board reorgan-
lied at Elkton yesterday, re-electing
George A. Blake, president, and George
Biddle, secretary treasurer and County
Superintendent.
The outlook for large strawberry crop
from the Eastern Shore Of Marylandiw twas
never more promising than at the present
time. Growers expect to make shipments
within the week.
T.. Kinsey Asher, who for the past Is
years has been station agent at Aberdeen
died on Monday at the home of his sister
in Baltimore, of typhoid fever. He was
in his 50th year.
The Northern Convooation of the Dio-
cese of Easton, Protestant Episcopal
Church will convene in the Church Of the
Good shepherd, Chesapeake City, today
for a three days session.
The County Commissioners for Har-
ford county have fixed the county tax
levy at the rate of s on the 500, the
same as last year. The assessable basis
of the county is SIS, l3S,707.
Several human skeletons were un-
earthed al Salisbury by men digging
away the big hill near a cranberry bog
This property was recently purchased
by Major Charles r. Disharoon.
The Cecil County Commissioners yes
terday received a petition from PerTyville
residents asking that the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Co. be compelled to maintain a
watchman at the Aiken crossing at Perry
Vile
The llth annual session of the State
Council Maryland Daughters of Liberty,
will be held in Havre de Grace on Wednes-
day. Mrs. NJ NJ West Of Baltimore,
State Councillor, will be the presiding
officer.
The owners Of Piney Island, in the
Susquchanna, located Just below the
breast of the projected dam at Mccall 5
Ferry have refused an offer of S25 900
for the property from the power plant
promoters.
WR. d. Bowland, Herman Jeffers. Joshua
Clayton, j j. Minister and ID. W. Wilson
we're elected delegates to represent the
Elkton Fire Department at the Maryland
State Firemens Association Convention
which meets in Westminster next month.
Eleven Centreville girls, all under ] 1
years Of age cleared S33S for the San
Francisco sufferers by fair. The partici-
pants we're Misses Della and Dorothy
Brown, Frances and Nellie Tilghman,
Caroline and Louisa White and Anna
Thompson.
The will of the late Gen. Andrew Wal
lace Evans. of the United States Army,
who died two weeks ago in Elkton, has
been filed for probate in the Orphans
Court for Cecil county. The estate is
divided between his widow and his sister,
Mrs Mary +. Clayton of Haverford, Pa.
Mrs. Sarah Mitchell, wife Of John s.
Mitchell, a prominent Hartford county
citizen, died suddenly Sunday at her
home 81 Aberdeen, aged Sc years. Be
sides her husband she leaves two sons,
Malcolm NJ. and Howard Mitchell, who
are prominent business men of Hartford
county.
Rev. Arthur J. smith Of New York,
and Rev. Musgrove Roberts of London,
noted evangelists. will arrive in Belair
today and conduct evangelistic meetings,
TO be held in Masonic Temple, for the
next two weeks All the Protestant
churches in the town have joined in the
movement A choir of 80 voices will
sing and from piesent arrangements the
success of the meetings has been assured
The stockholders Of the Eastern Shore
Trust Co. reelected their same board of
directors yesterday for the ensuing year.
with George W. Woolford, president, and
John G.. Mills. treasurer. The trust COM
pany has branch offices in Cambridge,
fredericksburg Hurlock. Sharptown. Price.
Frederick and Solomons Island, and has
the means of providing banking facilities
for many communities that never before
enjoyed them. Its capital stock is
100000.