The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1909-05-08

Primaries. (Signed)
WILLIAM l.. TAYLOR.
-Mil.crs 10 Chester county are re-
ported to be offering Sal per bushel
ior wheat
Upper Cecil farmers are, il is re.
ported. offered rom $I.Io to SI2s per
bushel ior July wheat.
a Clipping Social and bake
will be held at Jackson School. Thurs
day evening. May 20. All invited
The festival held last evening for
the benefit oi the Elk Mills base ball
team will be- continued this evening.
Mr. Daniel Baldwin has purcha scd
from Mr. William ID Summers his
valuable pacing mare Nan Summers.
Col and Mrs Isaac Hcchi. OF
llavrc dc Grace, will sail this month
Tor Europe. where they will spend
several months
DR.. Howard Bratton. OF Elkton.
President III the State Board oi Health,
delivered an address before the Queen
Annc's County Medical Society. ON
Monday. a, Centrcvillc.
Crouch Chapel congregation will
hold a measuring social at Mrs. John
UrbanS' next Wcdnc sday evening.
Proceeds for improvement fund The
public is invited to attend
The bake held at LcwiSyillc last
Saturday ipr the St Johns Church i'm
pruvcmcnt fund, yielded SEQ. and the
social held at Harry Millcr'S a like
,um Tor the same purpose.
The llavrc de Grace city election
was held On Monday \. II. Carver
was chosen Mayor and I. NJ Carroll,
W. NJ Cnalc aud f. NJ Smith we're
elected Ia the City Council
The pupils Of Union Grove school
will hold festival ON Thursday even
ing. May ~, on the lawn adioin-
ing the school house. for the benefit oi
library. II stormy, the next clear even
ing,
The Joseph Iightcap farm 81 IA
acres, near smyrna. has been sold To-
J. J. Warren. oi Spruance City. for
S4.5oo. he selling Mrs. lightcap his
residence tor $1,000 in part payment
for the farm
The Maryland Dredging Company
will dig drainage channel from the
main channel ni the SuSquchanna To-
the mouth ri the llavrc dc Grace
sewer system. 50 that tides may carry
of the inflow
Thomas Claringbuld. OF Whining
tom the Journal. oi that city says, sue
cccdN John I. Dickcy x Son, as pro-
prctor If the grocery and wholesale
liquor business nj the wcll-known
stand in Newark The Mcssrs Dickry
will return To Wilmington
The pupils oi the Rising Sun
Grammar School will hold a festival
on the school grounds, on May IL.
Proceeds for library iund Ice cream.
candy and cake for sale The Rising
Sun Band VII be present and furnish
music. II stormy. the next clear cvc,-
ing
The Hartford Commissioners have
fixed the tax rate at Si.oS. five cents
higher than last years rate. and re-
solved I" buid the proposed new
bridge over Deer Creek, Al Forge Hill.
on the proposed Bel Mir Conowingn
new road via Kalmia. despite vigorous
protests
Roland aud Elwoud Bias and Or.
Nlllc fbfwnpd, Cplprcd. arct lall al
West Chester. charged with murder
ing Clarence White, colurcd, on the
line ui the Wilmington aud West Chc>
ter trolley, carly Sunday morning
near kcnnctt Square White was a
brother oi George White, who was
burned at the stake near Wilmington.
some wears ago Tor the murder OF
Miss Helen Bishop. Whites murder
was the outcome oi 4 general row, at a
negro dance at Sharpcss Park. near
I"uehkcuamon. on Saturday night.
Rev Father George l.. OFT, for
fourteen years pastor ri St Johns
Church. Newark. died at the Mcdico-
Chirurgic;l Hospital Philadelphia, on
Monday evening. aged IS years, He
was very popular with the residents OF
Newark. and had many friends on the
Peninsula HIS father and mother.
Mr.. and Mrs George OFT. 81 Whining
tom. survive him His funeral was
held yesterday. with services at 6,
John, Church. Newark. conducted by
Bishop Monaghan and priests oi do
ccsc. aud intcrmcu, in Cathedral Gene
terry, Wilmington