The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1910-01-29
Local lettings


week, James White, OF Woodlown, was
seriously injured.
-1he December term of the Circuit
Court TOR TINS county, cost the coGiity
$1,000, not including snerit's fees.
The breakup Of the ice in the Big
and Little ELK cheeks blocked several
OF the county ROADS tor some days this
week.
Fishing through the ice at the dam
at Liberty Grove, Richard Caldwell
caught us mullets.
Failing from porch at his home
in Port Deposit, Richard Kerwin broke
his arm, one day last week
H. Edwin Vinsinger, formerly OF
Elkton, has been reelected cashier OF
the National Bank OF Newark, Del.
Company X, First Regiment, M.
N. g., OF Havre de Grace, and Com
pany E, OF Elkton, will be inspected
respectively ON March 7 and 3, by an
officer OF the regular U. S. Army. The
Guard will get large increase OF the
National appropriation this year under
the Dick law.
The address on Ship Subsidies,
to have been delivered by Mr.. Bernard
N. Baker, of Baltimore, to the students
OF Tome School for Boys, Port De-
post, last Friday evening, was post
poned. owing to Mr.. Bakers illness, at
Clifton Springs, N. Y, whittier MIR.
Baker was called.
DR.. Eugene Dell, 'or the past
twenty years, prominent druggist OF
Aberdeen, died at his home there, on
Sunday, OF spinal and brain trouble.
Rev. Amos K. Brown OF Delmar,
is assisting Rev. ]. P. Otis, former
pastor OF Rising Sun NJ E. Church, in
revival meetings at Greensboro, Caro-
line county. where Mr.. Otis is now sta
toned
The Delaware College Basketball
team on Saturday night defeated the
Susquehanna University team by a
score of As to Is, in game marked by
superior team work, on the part Of the
winners.
Charles r. Burns, of Havre de
Grace, started fer Florida last week
and was threatened with appendicitis,
on arriving at Jacksonville. His ply
sicins, however, relieved him without
an operation.
Hon. w. II. Jackson, former Con
gresham LOT lHc LdSlclH .Diclc, Has
nearly recovered IRON his fall from his
carriage, about two months ago, and
will shortly be able to resume attention
to business.
The Kent County Commissioners
have appointed Capt. Jamse E. Wood
all, keeper OF the Sassafras river bridge
at Georgetown.
Examinations were on at Delaware
College. and the stuIrnts were nard at
work this week, facing the ordeal
Newark is looking for quite a
building boom this spring. A number
Der OF dwellings, will be erected and
the two fibre mills and the Thomas
wall Paper Company will rebuild or
make extensive additions to their
plants.
w. T. Devalinger, who formerly
kept a grocery and provision store in
Elkton, and has for some years past
been engaged in the same business at
Townsend, Del, last week filed petit
ton IN bankruptcy. J. Frank Biggs
was appointed receiver for Mr.. Deval-
niger, whose liabilities are $1,000 and
assets $4,000.
Correction. The WING last week
ton Journal, stating that Mrs. Mar
garet Wilson, OF Newark, Del. had
died The item was confused inasmuch
as it stated that Mrs. Margaret Will
son was dead when the fact was that
Mrs Nora p ODaniels, daughter OF
Mrs. Rebecca Wilson, had died
Next Wednesday is Ground Hog
Day, and the willy rodent will regulate
the weather for the next six weeks at
his pleasure.
"A Tableau Entertainment, which
will include "A Dream of Fair Wo-
men" and "reminiscences of Aunt Jane
of Kentucky" will be given in Trinity
e Parish House. oil the evening Of Mon
day, February !, at eight o'clock Ad-
mission, rs ceuts.
Bernard Effing, for several years
book-keeper in the Rising Sun Ma
tional Bank, has accepted the position
as teller in the Swarthmore, Pa, Ma
tional Bank.
The comet was visible in the West
ern sky about six-thrtv Sunday even
ing. The unusual sight was enjoyed by
many.
Mr. II. Eugene Mackie, Of the
Fourth district, has secured place
among the Senate employees at Annap-
oils, as folder; and Mr.. George II.
Houck, OF the Second district. as an
engross;ng clerk.
The small farm of Oscar Fowler,
three miles south of Elkton, on the
river, has been bought by Mrs. Charles
Duer, of Colwyn, Pa, for $1,000.
The ladies of ST. Johns Roman
Catholic Church, Newark, gave their
Mid-Winter carnival in the Opera
House on Friday evening OF last week.
The affair was a delightful and success
full evenings entertainment, netting
5000 for its promoters. Elliotts Or
chestra, of Wilmington, furnished the
music. Several visitors from Elkton
were present.
Mr.. Mortimer Whitehead, the
noted Granger, whose work in the in
terests of the farmer is of national
fame. will address Cecil Grange. No. 3,
Patrons of Husbsndry, in Rosebank
Hall, Calvert January 20. at O'Clock