The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1907-02-16
NEWS IN BRIEF5 R

air on Monday.
1t is expected that IS governors will
attend the opening day OF the James
town Exposition.
The exhibition of the Hartford
County Poultry Association was held
at Belair on'thc 10 and II OF this month.
The Junior League of Rising Sun
M. F. Church will hold box social at
the home OF Mrs. Gertrude Pogue on
Washington's Birthday.
Col. J. c. Mulikin, OF Easton, Md.
one OF the leading lawyers OF Talbot
county, and prominent in Republican
politics, slipped on the icy pavement
and fell, and broke his right ankle last
Saturday.
The steamer Susquchanna, which
was stuck fast in the ice in West river
was broken out by the steamer Cover
nor Thomas, under Commander How
ard, OF the State Fishery Police, last
Saturday.
Professor Robert d. Savage, one
of the most prominent citizens OF Eas-
ton. died suddenly at his home in that
town on Saturday from heart trouble
superinduced by asthma, from which he
had been suffering for about ten days.
Rev. Albert T. Clay, former resi-
dent OF Lancaster, now professor of
Assyrian and Hebrew in the University
of Pennsylvania, has written a book
on The New Light on the Old Tesla
mcnt from Babel that is attracting
much attention.
C. T. SNYDER, former manager OF
the Rising Sun Base Ball League team,
has purchased the grocery business OF
Benjamin BrlScoc, and the restaurant
business of Thomas Kirk & Son at
Rising Sun, and vii combine the two
at the Kirk stand.
Mrs. Emma KNIGHT. OF Hartford
county, has entered suit in the Hartford
county Court for divorce from her hus-
band, John :. Knight, OF Cecil county.
Ju1"r Van Ribbcr passed an order re-
quIr'ng Knight To- pay Mrs. Knight $40
per week pending the suit.
Miss Gertrude cchwab, sister OF
Charles NJ. Schwah, the steel trust mag
nate, will receive as wedding present
from him the sum OF s.. 900 900 and
Miss Schwab is reported to have said,
my brother is the best brother a girl
ever had Who blames herr?
Mrs. Emma Polk Svmons. widow
of Lieutenant Svmons of the United
States Navy, who was accidentally
drowned several wears ago, died Fri
day evening of last week at the home
of her sister, Mrs. Eugene II. Pomerov
of Abingdon, Hartford county. Her
death was due to heart trouble.
Tho oos,oI ,,,oo.;,. a- c,,d,
meetings for men. in Hartford county,
are growing in interest. Both at Hav.
re de Grace and Belair the attendance
increases right along from among that
class of men the meetings are designed
to reach. Cecil county should insti-
tutc a series of meetings OF the same
nature.
-Char,es Rrow, ,ood oho,. - ,.o,..
was 90 hod,v frozen u,h;ie ~ va VI ~,
dredpe boat in Chontanu, craol rnor
Oxford. Md that he d;ed IN Satrrdo,.
at the Emergency Hospital, Easton,
where he had been taken for treat
mcnt 1t is said that number of boats
have been frozen up in the river same
as the one Brown was on.
- he DrGO1ptprS Of tho GRANT Nc
Calls Ferry dam nroicct hoTe hornb+
more thon 900 mics ~ troIIon I;nns
0ncrotrI ~, thc anc,stnr oa,,n,,. p E'.'
way and T;ght CO toT.trer , ,,.;,,, '> a.
electric lioht and on. Wants j., 1aa
caster and CoI,nI,;o Tha Orarr,., .;'t'
Sim ;s outhor;t,, fnr ,bo ,to+%,,a,t . .L'a.
if is GENERALLY, bor;aved .t,ot +t,, pa ',,,,'
sv1vania Pa;Iroad Cnno,, ,. tooI L''l'
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1estown Pixie Scha ,,ip r 81 .'iG t"II-
severe s+nrr, T,,asJa,. ~ 49, - t'''. '',e
which knoclcd nrt 60 a,I '"'' WIZ .,,1
schools of t1o ca,,,,+,. ,, "iS L ~ ,.. ,Ie
effect mon hnrs T'ib, cro ,a"u W, i,t'ie
lars ot tbo;r dos1.s t1,t H.. e Mo:
ctaats irrtbnr sta+o, .ha. ""S A., U.s. ie
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scholars at ,bn schoai ond VII 20
arv tbe frst da,. [ ~ a., "''u o!l ieoru
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1tHp"! marked the Seml-centcn-
l,'ai "l 'I5e louhdinS OF the Peabody In
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