The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1910-05-28
LOCAL 4JOTTINGS


along the bay shore.
Oak Grove School cleared SEA
from its recent festival
Races will be held at Jackson Park
track ON Memorial Day
There will be preaching at Jones
Chapel, Elk Neck, at 7:3o p. m. tomoi-
row.
Miss Mary Strickland is adding
new porch to her residence, on East
Main street.
w H. Cole is adding iull sizeo
front porch to his residence on East
High street.
Henry Atkinson is superintendent
Sunday School.
-kDenezer and Zion Nj. Z. Churches
will hold Children Day exerc SEES on
Sunday, June IL.
w ii. Gross, OF the Calvert Sec
ton, has a chicken with a head like a
bats and feet like a frog S.
Monday, May 80, Memorial Day,
being legal holiday, the banks AMI
public Offices will be closed.
The ladies OF Trinity congregation,
Elkton, will hold strawberry festival
on Wednesday evening, June IS.
The ladies OF Zion M. E. Church
will hold a strawberry festival on next
Thursday evening, June 2, on its lawn
The teachers and pupils OF Wilson
School No ], District 5, have post
poned their festival until Tuesday even
ing, May 81.
While playing at the party at the
Elkton High School, on Saturday,
Miss Bessie Witworth fell and broke
a bone in her arm.
The ladies OF Wesley Chapel will
hold strawberry and ice cream festi-
val in the nearby school house next
Wednesday evening, June 1.
Principle Furnace School will hold
a strawberry and ice cream festiva!
this evening with music by the North
East Band. Proceeds for the library.
The. Ladies' Aid Society OF Sum-
NIT NJ Z. Church will hold straw
berry festival on the lawn next We'd
nesday and Thursday evening, June l
and ?.
w. Arthur Mitchell removed this
week to the Hurn house on East Mahl
street, having sold his residence at
Main and Church streets to DR.. w. l.
Morrison.
--11GT1lldll DSliiel lCll 20 lSNl NUN
a ladder while painting at Summit
Bridge, on Saturday He struck a
porch in his iall, but escaped with
some bruises.
The ladies Auxiliary Committee
will hold strawberry festival for the
benefit of Union Hospital, on its lawn
next Friday and Saturday evenings,
June 3 and !.
--Children's Day services will be
held in Elkton Presbyterian Church to-
morrow at 1890 a. IN. and 7:3o p. m,
with chol uses. solos and recitations
by pupils OF the Sabbath School.
delaware Clark, formerly OF Glas-
gov, now postmaster at Newark, was
overcome with vertigo in the Recorder
OF Deeds o...ce in Wilmington. on
Saturday morning. Physicians treated
him and he returned to his home i'll
the evening.
Prof Louis A. Freudenbergcr. who
filled the chair OF Engineering in the
Faculty OF Delaware College, died on
Wednesday after ten days illness
with typhoid lever. He was an able
instructor and quite popular with the
students and citizens,
The Circuit Court for Kent county
has granted an absolute divorce to
Mrs. Clara Thompson Warburton. for
merly OF Chestertown, now OF Phlla-
delphia. from her husband, Charles L.
Warburton, of Elkton. Each entered
suit on the ground OF desertion.
The American Telegraph & Tcle-
phone Co which absorbed the Western
Union system. purposes putting its
Ay,.I,,,,,t,, ,,nlnr
ground and viii lay cOnduitS along the
Philadelphia Baltimore road and the
Baltimore-N ashmgton Boulevard.
Traffic was tied up ON the Colum
bia & Port Deposit Railroad on Sun
day by an engine and several box cars
leaving the track oi siding at Nc
Calls Ferry and falling on the Main
track Nobody was hurt and the
wrecking crew from Perryville cleared
the rails
Robert Brookngs. who recently
gave $ooooooo To Washington Uni
versity St Louis, Mo. is son Of the
late DR.. Brookings OF the Pleasant
Hill section. In company with his
brother, John. he removed to st.
Louis, many years ago and lecame
very wealthy.
The eclipse OF the moon came off
on schedule time on Monday night,
beginning hereabouts at Io:4o. To
tally was reached at IL :oS, and ended
at 1850 The moon left the shadow
at 2:22 a. NJ Tuesday 1t was visible
here from start to finish and many peo-
pie watched some or all OF its phases.
Records for IooS-co show that out
OF 200. 762,o5S passengers carried on
the $4,000 miles OF the Pennsylvania
Railroad system, but one was killed
in train wreck In 1000 the passen-
ger train collisions were less and
freight collisions IS less than in 1908
but freight dcrailments increased 90
Mr. William c. Wood, iormeriy OF
Chesapeake City, but for many years
connected with PHILADELPHIA steamship
companies, has purchased the property
OF Mrs. Clara Zilonka, about one mile
north of Elkton. Mr.. ,,ood will inn
prove the property and make it his
permanent residence after March next
"A Rising Sun special says that EN-,
ployes under IS years, at the State
Road stone quarry, on the Reynolds