The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1909-06-26
Local lettings

val netied $50.
Wilma School cleared So from us
recent festival.
A fine cherry crop IS looked for in
Chester county.
Walter II. Taylor has a new run
about automobile.
The Rnwlandvillc paper mill has
closed ior lack 81 orders.
--Charcstown NJ L. Church will
hold Childrcn's Day services tomor-
tLc>l;c Camp Meeting will be held
,luly 2I-August :, and Nnodlawn. Au-
gust as.
J. T. Riaic, ui Rising sun. has re-
cciycd a fine, 10 horse power Thomas
touring car.
Henry Woodall caught two young
chicken hawks, forty feet mp a tree,
which he climbed.
A large congregation attended
Childrcn> Day exercises at outs
Chapel on Sunday.
-Octoraro Tribe al Red Men oi
Oakwood will hold it, annual festival
next Saturday. July :.
The Kent county tax rate has been
fixed at 81 - on the 500. an increase
oi l3 cents over the past years rate.
Wheat cutting began IN Kent
county early in ;hc week and has been
in progress IN some sections oi Cecil.
Benjamin BriScuc. Of Rising Sun,
will enter the Democratic primaries
irr nomination ior the House of Del
E.tcs.
The Pennsylvania Railroads Tol-
chester excursions will he run this
summer on Wednesdays. July - and
August ! and ~
a party claiming to be pushing
whccl-harruw from Chicago To New
York in 200 hours on wager oi 81 900
passed through town las, Friday.
Miss Bertha Tyson, at III" Wood.
lawn section. while looking for stray.
ing gguinca hens, found nests con
tanning to eggs which they had laid.
Two valuable Nngora goats own
ed hy Kurt Dicdcrich. oi Rowland
vile. died after eating half pound box
a. Paris green. left in potato patch.
The receipts from the lawn icte
gwen last Friday and Saturday even
ings hy Elktun Chapter al the Ep-
worth League were SsS, and the net
proceeds were about $40
a red running gear, end spring top
buggy was taken from Dunhar'> black
smith shop few weeks ago. and re-
ward is offered for any information
that will lead to- it, recovery.
Former President al Washington
College. Chc>,crtown. William J Rlv-
rr>. died in Baltimore on tuesday,
aged 81 years He was native OF
South Carolina and n graduate "i the
University ~ that State.
Glasgow Presbyterian Church held
il, Childrer'S Day services last SUN
dav Mrs John Frazier was organiSt,
and " X Brooks v:olnisi T0mor
row. Rev +. IT, l.aughln. a mission
ary in the China field viii preach AT
both services.
Joseph y. Baker. 81 Frederick
was chosen l'rc>ldcn, and W. !. W @r-
burton. at Elkiou. one al the vice
presidents "i the Maryland Bankers
Association. al II, session AT the Blue
Mountain House. which closed On
lhursd"N
Forty person, were injured, some
possibly fatally, IN collision ut tr"l-
lev cars at ilillcrcst near Shcllput
Park. Wilmington, on Thursday night
The injured were mostly member, OF
Trinity NJ r. Church. Chester. un an
excursion nip
Augustus 4 Brown. the we'll
known sc<,uu ui Elkrun NJ T.. Church
and un,tur ui the Court House. who
4, q survivor ui the charge al the
famed SIN Hundred" at Balaklaya, III
the CrImca. Is "a British pcu>iuucr, was
eighty wears DID on Monday
The Iuulata Construction Com
MANY. al phiIadclphia, which has the
contract. II Sp.4sb per MISE. began work
on Mnday um the section at pcrman-
,r, road winch the State t"mnl,si'S
will have huli from The l'm'i- OF thcS-
icrtuwu toward kcnucdyvil'c.
-I The sermons ui Rev { T. Me
Culuuph. ui Iced, NJ + Church, IN
the relations between the dead and the
living ar, exciting much interest o.
morrow hr viii preach "n the c"gni.
lance that the departed have "l the
live, and concerns ui the LIVING
Governor Cruthcts, 1t = reported,
will likely grant q pardon Ia George
Wright. ui Elkiuu, sentenced 1" the
Pru,icntiary iur ten wears, ~ zoos, Tor
a.sautiug and ruhbtng h.s brnciac
trr>,. the late Miss Mary J Ricketts,
Wright Is suffering from consumption
Til, Red Mcni Curnct Band OF
North East vii hold a festival on FRI
dan and Saturday cN culngS. July ; and
2. with open air concerts by visiting
bands The Chesapeake City Band
will be heard on the former evening
The proceeds will GO toward the pur-
chase 81 uniforms
Gas mains have been laid on South
and Church streets and the following
new consumer, have been added To the