The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1909-08-28

one day last week.
One OF Fri Clendenin's horses
dropped dead in field. near Blake,
while at work on Monday.
While working on barn a Jew
days ago, Allen Wilkinson, OF KEN.
bleville, iell and broke his leg.
Painters are at work ON the Della
ware College buildings in Newark, pre-
paratory to its opening next month.
-Elkton dairymen announce an n
crease OF the price OF milk, from d to
B cents per quart, after September /.
The Perryvile- Havre de Grace
vehicle bridge, will. II is thought, be
ready for service by the close OF the
year.
The Harlan & Hollingsworth
Works in Wilmington will, il is said,
need 300 new hands within the coming
month
"A camp meeting, held by the A.
U. Nj. p. Church, will open near Cal
vert tomorrow, and continue until Sep
TENDER o.
A yield OF I25 bushels per acre is
looked Tor from three acres OF potatoes
on the J. ii. kimble farm, near Lib
erty Grove.
The contract for 4 silo at the De-
laware College Experiment Station,
to cost $1,000 has been awarded to
Arnold J. Naudain, Jr
Daniel II. McCauley, Jr., OF Childs.
has gone to Allentown. Pa, to enter
the service OF the Home Insurance
Company, of New York.
Robert Price, OF Colora. was
thrown out OF team upon hedge,
one day last week and many thorns
were picked out OF his body.
Patrick Coyne, employed at Rad
nor Pulp Mill, caught his hand in ma
chinery. losing one finger and badly
injuring another, one day this week.
The 2o7th anniversary OF the cree.
ton OF Brick Meeting House, Calvert,
was observed yesterday by Friends of
the neighborhood and nearby sections.
The reed and rail bird season will
open on September T. but il is said is
not promising along the MARYLAND
marshes. as the wild oats crop is not
plentiful.
The oyster longing season will
open next Wcdne sday II is said that
the coming season will be better than
the last, which was n good one, so far
AS the yield went.
The Epworth League OF Mt. Pleas
ant NJ. +. Church will hold a box and
neckiic social on the Church lawn, on
September l. II stormy, next clear
evening. All invited
1t is stated that the poSt-ofiice De
partmcnt has changed the title of
Rural Free Delivery Routes" to "Ru-
raj Delivery, and the Authorization
will hereafter be "R D." instead Of
"R +. d."
Prior to 1870 there were but four
National Banks on the Eastern Shore.
two at which were in Elkton and Port
. Deposit, Now there are % banks and
banking institutions doing business
within the territory.
AT {. K. Miller's COW sale at Ris-
ing Sun. on Friday. the Goth, good
prices prevailed. 20 cows averaged
$40 10; head selling from S3s to Ss3s so
apiece. so small shoat pigs averaged
S4.2s apiece Ilindman was the auc-
tionecr
A freight car jumped the rails at
a cross-ovcr near Newark. on the p,
b. & w K K. about 5 a. m on Mon
day. The early northbound train due
in Wilmington at 63o was delayed
about 10 minutes while the wreck crew
from Perryvilc was clearing the tracks
A number of the farmers of Elk
Neck are planning for an all day basket
picnic to be held on the shore of the
Thompson farm, tenanted by Edward
McKeown. The date has not yet been
selected, but it will probably be on
Saturday, September IL.
The Catholic clergy OF the do
cese al Wilmington, embracing the
Delaware Maryland and Virginia PEN
insula began their annual retreat at st.
Charles College, Ellicott City. Md,
on Monday. Bishop Monaghan pre-
sided over the exercises which were
conducted by Rev. l.. i. Kearney.
A destructive and the atening fir :,
thought to have been started BY loco.
motive sparks, burned over the harrens
south OF Nottingham, Pa. on Monday,
and broke on, again on Tuesday Section
hands from oxford. Not iughsm aud
Rising Sun, fought and finally CONTROL.
ed the blaze.
Washington Ewing, for whom
Sherin ftager ncld warrant OF arrest
on a charge OF non-support, brought
by his wife, came here from Newark,
on Mon lly night to attend the circus
The Sheriff took him i'll charge
Brought before Justice Gilpin husband
and wife c0aclrded to try the! ior-
tunes j., ntly again md departed III
He tcrr tine fp".cr had l. IN her.
A rumor has been circulated the past
week that Scott johnson had confessed
TO having sent the black hand letters
to j. Leedom Scarborough. for which
Evans Talbot, colored, was convicted.
There is no truth whatever in the
rumor, which probably arose from the
fact that Johnson passed along the
road and was detained by the officers
the night they laid in wait and cap
tured Talbot when in the act of Sc
curing the decoy package placed in the
spot Indicated in the black hand letter.
= IL ii.