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

DO not forget to feed the birds.
Their chances are very slim these days.
Robert Richardson was stricken
with paralysis at Rising Sun, on Thurs
day.
Raising cauliflower under glass is
being tried successfully by Thomas
Grier, OF New Castle.
Samuel Terry, rural carrier on
. Route 3, from Rising Sun, uses an
automobile on his runs.
\ The GA acre farm at Gelana, Kent
bounty, has been purchased by Mr.. Al
NY Clemens for $3o,3so.
a -Muchs offering is resulting from
DC storm and cold; now is the time to
remember those who need help.
y Thermometers in most exposed
places arer eported as registering the
zero mark on Thursday morning.
The barn on the Russell farm be-
tween North East and hCarlestown was
destroyed by fire Saturday morning.
Saturday will be New Years Day
and will be observed as holiday by
the banks, public offices and rural mail
carriers.
The milk wagon OF George r. Ash
lost wheel in collision with team
OF f. N. Sweets, on West High street,
Thursday morning
Mr.. Charles S. Pee cock will as
sumo his new position, as Chief De-
putty to Clerk OF the Court, Cecil Kirk,
on Monday next, January 3.
Owing to January being holi-
day, Dr. A, d. McConachie's appoint
ments at onion Hospital for January
have been changed to january 8 and e.
The Ethel Morton Company, to
have appeared at the Elkton Opera
House Monday evening, was snow
bound and could not keep the engage.
% %Thers ~ special services at the
Sunday. aff% Sfu, at 80 o'clock.
a a full attendance AZ the Sunday School
The last meetiiigaAf the Rising Sun
Euchre Club was held at Mrs. M. E.
Founders. Miss Blanche Biles and
NJ; J, N Ste1SetS made the high
scoress OF the Burrsvile school de
"a a public debate that it was
eide to own horse than an automo-
bein Delaware, or in any other State
& would add.
George W. Ingram has sold for s.
M. Lockwood, his home farm. Sunny
Side" adjoining Middletown, contain
@g OF acres, to J. c. Aston Con-
Sheraton, $1,000.
The remains OF John Murphy. age
70, who died in Wilmington Hospital,
on Monday, were brought to Elkton
on Thursday, and inferred in the
Catholic Cemetery.
Senator Richardson, of Delaware,
has announced that the Delaware Sena-
tors will recommend Harry RAYMOND,
of Dover, as the successor to Collector
of Customs David s. Clark.
Robert Crawford. of the Rising
Sun section, is seriously i'll with paraly-
Sis, with which he was stricken, while
returning from the woods with al
Christmas tree. on December 20.
James W. Dennng has been elect
ed master, Mrs. James w. Denning,
lecturer, Wilkinson f. Cranston, sec
rotary, and Mrs. Bessie Cranston,
treasurer, OF New Castle Grange.
Three turkeys roosting in a tree
close to the Mrs. Judith Tome resi-
dcnce, at Port Deposit, were shot by
thieves. who made their escape with
them beforeSthey could be caught.
William ]. Bratton, OF Elkton, haI
been chosen by the faculty OF Della
ware College as a member OF thcI
Kappa Phi fraternity, an honor bel
slowed for character and scholarship
James Mckclyey, section boss of
the Baltimore Central Division OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad, between Colora
and Sylmar, mas been awarded $50 by
the company ior having the best sec
ton OF track equipment between Octo-
raro and Philadelphia.
. The funeral OF William Chapman
fhe Cecil county farmer who died last
week at the nome OF his son. John
Chapman, i'll Newark, to be he'd on
Sunday last, did not take place until
Tuesday, owing to the BLIZZARD. The
remains were brought t. Sinserly an
the b. & O. R. r.. and taken to Cherry
Hill Cemetery.
-Messrs Milan & Kefauver, con-
tractors, oi Baltimore, were the Sue
cessful bidders for the work OF the pro-
posed change Of line for the Baltimore
lqeA Ohio Railroad Company, at the
Pend OF the Susquehanna river
.hge. 1t will require about a year to
complete the work, and it is under
stood 1t viii he commenced It once.
The u. S. Postofice department
has sent word around to the various
postmasters, asking them to spread
the news IN every way possible that the
Government would much prefer to have
the farmers along the R. F. D. routes
purchase stamps in quantities than to
lay loose pennies in the mail boxes.
The loose coins are the cause of much
trouble and frequent complaints, which
by little forethouvht on the part Of