The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1910-04-16
LOCAL NEWS

-GreennurSt puDllc ScnOol cleared
SI2.42 from its recent supper
-Chestertown will vote on April IS
on its proposed sewerage bonds issue.
Mrs. Hiram Logan and family re
moved from Elkton to Richmond, Va,
last week.
The postoflicc receipts at Havre dc
Grace show an increase oi $732.7o over
those OF last year.
Governor Crothers has designated
Friday. April 22, as ArLor Day, and
Highway Day III Maryland.
John l.. Moore IS occupying his
new drug store IN North East, which is
finely fitted end tss,efuv arranged.
Port Deposit residents are using
ice lett there by the flood OF last Win
ter Tor freezing ice cream and keeping
fish
James T. Armour Will lay out
half-milc track On his farm, at Green
hurst, for training and racing pur-
poses.
Farmers i'll upper Cecil have kept
fires burning in orchards on several
nights Ito save fruit blossoms from
irosts.
The run OF Shad has begun IN Elk
River, but the weather Tor several
days this week was not favorable for
fishing.
Howard F. Gier, OF Philadelphia,
moved this week To Mrs. Louise Mil
ler's farm, near Blake, which he has
rented.
-Catharinc Kirk, two years, fell
iroma wagon At Sylmar one day last
week Her arm was brnkvl md She
Az. Ia,niully bruised L
Queen Esther Circle oi Bethesda
NJ. Z. Church will present drama IN
the Mi, lletown Opera House on Fri
day evening, April 20.
DR.. GGlen Wright succeeds to the
practice OF his father, the late DR.. j. J.
Wright, OF Warwick, in which section
he is well and favorably known.
st Annc's, Midtown, Sunday
Schools Missionary Mite offerings
totallcd $43o7. she ladies oi the CON
gregaton will hold bake to-day.
KEY Vaughn ). Collins and wife
age ol Bethesda NJ. L. Church, last
Friday evening, by the congregation.
Crouch Chapel will elect officers
alter the afternoon services tomor-
row. Rev. X, Da! Cantwc.l will
preach at , p. IN. Everybody is in
vited to attend the service.
David {. Rose aud DIR. Walter
.Stece defeated Joseph thomas and
George Brooks ior town comm: ssion-
crs OF Newark. on Tuesday. Lynn
wood Jacobs was unopposed for re-
election.
-E.hott " iliiams, oi Port Deposit,
who pitched Tor the Shamokn, Pa,
base ball team last year. lett last week
tor Charlotte, n. G.. where he has
H@n booked by Manager Cross for
e season
Smoke from fire which burned
/. IL. Lotland's stable OH Mary street,
Wilmington, on Monday night, smoth-
cred 700 pigeons confined III an upper
lott, among which were number OF
prize winners
-FarmcrS II SUSSEX county. Del.
are now getting but 25 cents per
bushci for potatoes which they could
have sold for S. cents last fall. Sweet
potatoes arc selling i'll carload lots at
10 cents 4 buShel.
The five churches i'll the Delaware
Association oi Old School Baptists
WIll hold their annual convention in
the Ne,sh Tract Meeting House. near
Newark, May 25-27. liOmiu,nt mn
lslerS will attend the session
Frank +, W i'll ans will attend the
banquet OF the Psi Epsilon FRATERNITY
COMPOSED mostly uf alumni oi taste !,
Colleges, to be held at the Ralc III.
Washington, y. G.. to-nlght 1.esl
dent Taft, oi \ &lc Chapter, wi lie the
guest OF honor ut the least.
The Delaware, and Er,pL Ia, !,
Marshall College teams m,t On he lat,
ier's grounds on Saturday. and in a
game marked by loose fielding the lat
ter won by a score oi 10 To Q, making
ten runs after the seventh inning, when
they got onto knopi the Delaware pit,
cher
The employees oi the Principle
Forge Company were given an i'll
crease OF ten per cent in wages on
April L. Thcp LIANT is now lighted by
e.ectric current and the office and
residence oi Manager John a. iIar
tenstlnc srec onnccted with the forge
y telephone.
Forest fires which had ragged for
several days i'll Western and South
crn Marylaiil were controlled this
week. The greatest damage was done
in ST Mary's and Prince Georges
counties between the POTOMAC and
Patuxent, where $Ioo 600 worth Of
timber was destroyed
The drama, Down in Dixie"
given by number Of young people of
North East, under direction oi Mrs
J. r. Shippers, proved popular and
profitable. The total receipts were
$ioTI5. and the net balance was ap-
piled toward meeting the debt oi the
lately dissolved Nth ctic Association
If North East.
The Postoiticc Department. it is
stated, wishes residents along rural
delivery routes to paint mail boxes
and posts white and imprint their
names on the boxes in black block
letters. two inches IN height 1t is
also desired that posts or boxes at
crossroads be inscribed with the
names OF town or VILLAGES to which
he roads lead with indicators show
mp the direction.
Amos Dougherty has been chosen
Superintendent. Georre B. Gregg AS
sistant.M iss Ella Caun, Secretary: