The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1909-08-21
Local lettings

tti SiONN has Dtcn ulaCOuiiHuCu.
Improvements costing $4,000 will
be maze III Bethesda NJ. H. church,
Middletown.
Miss Violet Jones, oi North East,
has been apopin,eu principal oi Bay
View school
Crouch Chapel Sunday School will
hold picnic at whitehall ON Elk
river, next Wednesday.
-George McCool, ui Elkton, is
troubled with blood poison caused by
wound by barbed WIRE.
Preston bros tomato and Baker
Bros corn cannery at Miudetown,
were TO start operations tins week.
Laurence buckley, OF Rising Sun,
lost a purse containing $40 ON the ex-
cursion TO Atlantic City last week.
The ladies ui Sassairas NJ. L.
Church will hold an ice cream and
peach festival on its grounds tins even
ing.
"A turkey hen owned by Mrs. Thos.
Simmons, ol Xix Neck, has laid o.
eggs thus lar this year and is still on
the job.
The need oi material Tor nearby
improved roads has led To the reopen
ihb VI tHN pEhS stohS uudIIlts near
Rising sun.
An unknown colored man was
struck by train and fatally injured on
Bush river bridge, F., b. x W. r. r.,
on Tuesday.
The State Camp Patriotic Sons OF
America, which met in Baltimore last
week, decided to hold its next annual
meeting at Elkton.
Mrs Annie Armstrong, widow oil
b. +. Armstrong, ded at her home in
Delaware City last Friday Her fun
eral was held on Tuesday.
The Companies OF the First Regi-
ment, NJ n. g., made the best record
at Saunders Rifle Range this summer
with a percentage OF 1897.
The ladies OF ST. Stephens Church
near Earlcvile, will hold peach and
ice cream festival on the Rcctory lawn
on Tuesday aitrnoon. August u.
Frank Harris, son OF Samuel J.
Harris, OF the Grcenhurst section, for
merly OF Elkton, is at Union Hospital
for treatment for injuries received
some time ago.
Charged with stealing the savings
OF Nickel Wcithios from his trunk, at
his boarding house in Kcmbleville.
ieorgc Sanko has been lodged in Jail
At West Chester
DR. W. h. Jordan. OF Liberty
Grove, has hen which it is reported
laid 3oS eggs in Cos days. and finally
laid double yelk one, which gives her
a record oi one egg a day for a year.
While David Stein, Chester mcr-
chant was crossing the b x % Z r.
tracks AZ FELTON, station on Tuesday
train struck his team. lie was scri.
ously injured and his wagon was
smashed
William -. Bratton. Alexander
Peoples and J Polk Steele were an
nounced As Cecil members al the d
mocratc State Central Committee, at
the State Convention held in Balti.
more, last Wednesday, August H.
Il Lum Holt. OF Elk Neck. reports
a yield oi has bushels Of wheat from
forty acres. or slightly more than 2S IL
bushels per acre. \ nearby farm OF
II. NJ. Mccullough gave a yield but
little less than Mr.. lIolt'S. on the
acreage Sown.
A lawn ictc will be held 10y Leeds
N + Church on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, august 10 and ~,
in the grove adjoining the church
Chicken supper will be served and re
ffeshmcutS for sale. Proceeds for int
Iru, Cmcnt fund
Hartford and Cecil farmers report
dry rot in tomatoes w. A. Lamb
right. 81 Benson. says that but few
really good tomatoes we're found in
a one horse wagon load that he pick
cd last week The rot was caused by
the continued drouh.
From 1000 To- 1000 b. Skcts at to-
matoes have been shipped daily from
Pcrns Grove. n J., through the
Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. to Bal
timorc. by Denny Bros. who bought
them at - cents basket The rush
oi Jersey tomatoes is now about over.
Reports made to. the Tri-Statc
Packers Association at its meeting in
Wilmington last week. indicated a
prospective yield OF from IS to 80 per
cent al an average crop III some sec
tons and from onc-iourth to a full
crop in others contingent OH sufficient
rainfall
AT the Glasgow races last Thurs
day Henry Georges Acolytc won the
class \ race. leading in two heats in
40 and 236. running second in two
others KILLERS Torino Wilkes won
the Class b race in IA and 80. Buck
worth'S Stanton was second in the
Class - race
Old Union NJ. Z. Church. near
Townsend. will hc the scene oi re-
union services on September 5 Rev.
II C. Ridgcway -. D., a former pas.
tor OF Elkton NJ f. Church, and Judge
Henry c. Conrad will attend, the for
4 al.