The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1910-11-26
News In Brief

"A large mud machine was engaged
last week diggink around the wharves
OF the Delmar Lumber Company in
Havre de Grace to width OF 65 feet
at the top and so at the bottom, CIV
ing ample depth to vessels docking at
the wharves
Thousands OF barrels OF potatoes
pulvurized to a flour like fineness,
have been shlppel this year from fac
tory established at Hallwood, Va, i'll
the lower end of the Peninsula. The
product is sent to starch and yeast
factories in various parts of the coun-
try ana is i'll great and growing de-
mand 1t is Likely that similar plants
will be located III othef towns and
farmers will grow potatoes to supply
them, as they now do tomatoes Ior
canneries.
Missing chickens which she thought
were stolen, Miss May Robinson, OF
Havre de Grace, got up early one
morning last week and saw an opos-
sum leaving her hen house. Getting
a revolver she took a shot at and kill
ed the animal.
The P, b. & W. X. r. has COM
piled with the order OF the Harlord
County Commissioners and now has
night watchmcn at all the public road
crossings over its tracks i'll that county
A like order was issued to the B. &
o. r. r., which has not yet complied
Herewith.
The State Farmers League will
meet at the Fifth Regiment Armory
in Baltimore on December I, and will
discuss among other subjects the dis
missa OF Director OF Farmers lnsti-
tutes William L. Amoss.
w. A. Bell reported last week to
the Chestertown Transcript yield of
$50 bushels OF corn from four acres.
one acre giving ITO bushels.
Several Caroline county farmers
are using Angora goats for clearing
ground of briars, bushes, and other
underground from land. On the Rey-
nolds tract, near Denton, $50 OF the
goats have been ieeding and f. Nj.
Carey, in Tuckahoc Neck has 90, while
Joseph Hummell near Piney Grove:
has another large herd. 1t is claimed
that the goats i'll year or two will
kill off brush and leave the land as
clean as a garden.
Stitching piles provoke profanity,
but profanity won't cure them. Doan's
Ointment cures itching, bleeding or
protruding piles after years OF suffer-
ing. At any drug store.
Patrick Raincy and Edward Raj
ney, who were under treatment Tor
o,,;jn,tc n,,I I'll,
other patients at Delaware Hospital,
Wilmington, were given doses OF BIZ
chloride OF mercury, one day last week
in mistake Tor EPSON salts. by Dr. +.
L. Dunkelhcrg, a resident physician,
last Wednesday, He also took a dose
himself and thus learned his mistake.
Rainey and Jordan died, but the other
patients are recovering. The Cor
oncr's physician is inclined to think
that Rainey died from meningitis and
jordan from shock due TO a iall and
that the poison did not of itself cause
their deaths.
**Most disflguring skin cruptions
scrofula, pinples, rashcs, ctc., are
due to impure blood. Burdock Blood
Bittcrs is cleansing, blood tonic
Makes you c'car-oycd. clear, Drained
clear-Skinncd.
Mrs. amanda l.. Kegwein, vile OF
Rev DIR. Albert n kcgwcin. pastor
emeritus oi West Presbyterian Church,
Wilmington. died last THURSDAY at the
home CO. her SON. Rev. DR.. A. Edwin
Kegwcn. OF New York City. Funeral
services were held on Monday at West
Churrh 9pI intrrp,rut in branlyvine