The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-08-19
LOCAL JOTT|NGS OF THE WEEK

day. evening, for the benefit of
the church. Ice cream, cake, con-
fectionery, ETC., will be on sale.
Everybody is invited to attend.
The depth o; the restored chan
mel of Elk river from Cedar Point
to Elkton, has been incorrectly
reported. For most OF the distance
the depth is seven feet and is at no
point less than six feet.
Mrs. Alfred Cheadle and Mrs.
Harry Mahoney were thrown out
OF carriage near Theodore and
more or less hurt in a collision
with livery team from North
East, one day last week.
Last weeks dance at Kemble-
vile was we'll attended, Miss Mary
Daley taking the gold ring prize
for the best lady Walter and Miss
Bessie Denver, of Iron Hill, the
second prize, gold locket.
Biddle & Blackwell will rebuild
their storage house on Church
Point, North East, which was
burned recently.
Chestertown M. f. congres a.
ton have invited Rev. DR.. L. E.
Barrett to continue as pastor for
another year.
Walter Harrington, of Rising
Sun, was crushed against a gate
post by a runaway team, one day
last week, and was painfully in
jured.
Sheriff d. NJ. Golderon Tues
day read the death warrant to
William I. Burke, who will be
hanged at West Chester on Au-
gust 81, for the murder Of John
{, Mcnamara, near Lewisville, on
February 20, 1910.
Flint Hill Sunday School pic
mic will be held in Halls woods,
near Strickersville, next Thursday,
August "a.
John d. McHenry, formerly of
New London, died at his home in
Lower Oxford township, last Fri
day, aged u years.
The Hungarian pheasants re-
leased in various sections of the
county by the Cecil Game Pro-
tective Association, are reported
thriving with broods O: varying
size, and promise to multiply, if
not extermnated by gunners dur
ing the coming season.
Four bushels of mangled grass
hoppers were gathered up while
Harry Glacken, OF Rising Sun, was
threshing oats last week.
Burglars entered Albert Cald-
wells store in Conowingo, one
night last week, after removing a
panel in door in which they had
bored many holes, and got away
with SI6,75,
Bass are reported plentiful in
the Susquehanna, off Port De-
post. Admiral Thomas Perry
caught a string OF 10 and Capt.
Philip Spencer II along with a 26
lb. rock fish, one day last week,
while many boys made good cat
ches.
Rowlandville Modern Wood
men cleared SIoo from their re.
cent fair and festival.
Falling at her home near Fair
Hill, one day this week, Mrs. Mary
Armstrong was hurt quite severe
1y.
Lightning on Tuesday killed a
valuable horse and a COW owned
by W. B. Wooleyhan, tenant on
the Pennington farm in the First
district. The horse was insured
for 5000 and the COW for $50.
Mrs. Sarah A. Roach, who for
many years conducted the ice
cream business in Newark and
was we'll known in nearby sections
died at her home in that town on
Wednesday, aged 70 years.
Lightning last Friday night
struck and killed horse on Miss
Elizabeth Bowers farm, near
Newark.
A band OF gypsies went through
town on Wednesday.
Emil Gettman, 65 years old, for
merly o; Oxford, for many years
engineer on the Oxford Baltimore
accommodation train, who for sew
eral years past ran the morning
Fish Special out of Baltimore, was
fatally crushed between the ten
der OF his engine and a stone
bridge standard, near Union Sta
tion in that citv while oi1ipu l;c