The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-07-15
LOCAL JOTTINGS

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more hospital, one day last week, Tor
treatment for lockjaw, said to be due to
effects of the protracted hot weather
Another postal savings bank for
Maryland will be established at Easton
on July a.
George Casio has purchased the
residence of the late DR.. Columbus
Henry, in Newark, and will, 1t is said,
quit farming.
Broken off in the sudden storm of
June n, the big ailanthus Tree that
stood just west Of the passenger shelter
shed, at Elkton station, has been cut
down. The tree was planted in the early
forties by the late Mrs. Benjamin Wells,
wife of the veteran station agent, who
died several years ago. The tree at it's
base was nearly thirty feet in girth,
and its branches cast a far spreading
shade.
Ladies of Mt. Pleasant NJ E. con-
gregation, Colora, cleared $35 from their
recent festival.
Sheridan Warwick, IS years old, a
respected and Industrious colored youth
of the Second district, died on Sunday
night, of typhoid fever, at Union Hospi-
tai, Elkton.
Rev. A. r. Eckles, pastor of New
London Presbyterian Church for the past
five years, will resign on August /, and
will go to Washington to enter upon
work of an educational character.
"A new modern dwelling is now I'M
der construction on South College ave-,
Newark, for the Misses Steel.
The raising of an Oregon pine flag
pole, 1913 feet in heigh, is inches at the
butt and s inches at the top at Hon.
Murray Vandiver's bungalow, on Spesu-
tia Island, reminds editor A. p. Nc
Combs, of Havre de Grace, that Muir
ray" in the early tifties was the only
urchin, and a Democrat at that, who
could be tempted by the promise Of a
levy" to shin up the Wings big pole
and reef the halyards, which he did, and
got the coin.
The Delaware State Live Stock SAM
tary Board has just paid $2115 for horses
and cattle inoculated with virus for the
prevention of anthrax which was too
strong, and caused their death on farms
in Blackbrd hundred. Horace VanDyke
was paid $3.50, Henry Hoffecker, $3.50,
crimson, 800.
-Horatio w. Pharo, Jr., was thrown
from load of hay on his fathers farm,
near Middletown, one day last week, and
his left, collar hone was broken
Thomas Francis, colored, claiming
to be cook at the Lawrenceville, n. j.,
school, who was got up in regular hot
weather attire, pulled off his coat in
MidGletown, one day last week, feeling
to- warm, but unluckily exposed The
butt 6. =, big revolver slowed in his hip
pocket. Caief Hlyard rushed him 10
the lock-uI' where he wired his ls.tner
to come ald bail him out.
While unloading freight at North
East, Monday, Milton Culley, of Perry
vile, was knocked down by large gang
plank dislocating his foot, which was
caught between the plank and the side
of the rail, causing a hemorrhage into
the foot. DR.. L. G. Taylor rendered
The Principle Band will hold fes-
tival on the Principle Furnace school
grounds; July 81 and %. Benefit of new
instruments.
The band and church festival held
on Walker Fell's lawn, Kembleville, on
July A. showed receipts of upwards OF
5000.
The late Dr. Charles p. Gilpin, of
Chestertown, carried $1,000 insurance in
the order of the American Woodmen of
which his sister, Miss Margaret A. Gill
pin, of Elkton, was made the beneficiary.
Reports to the mid summer meeting
of the Tri-State Packers Association,
held in Wilmington last week, showed
that the stock of canned goods in hand
is very light and that the outlook gen
orally is for little better than half the
usual yield of tomatoes.
General r G. duFont's proposed
State length boulevard for Delaware has
two alternative routes in Sussex county
forking from the main line near Hous-
ton. A syndicate has secured right of
way for the Eastern fork and will offer
it to General DUPONT as an inducement
for its construction, which would in
volve an extra outlay of about $375,000.
A special session OF the Legislature
would be needed to sanction the extra
construction.
r. j. Morrison, Robert Armstrong,
william r. Lyman and Winfield NJ. Gov
erdale, the three last cousins and the
first their uncle, are aspiran(s for the
postmastership at Newark to succeed
the late Delaware Clark. Mr.. Arm
strong is employed in the Office of Clerk
of the Peace H. A. Brown, and Mr..
Coverdale is a rural mail carrier and
son-in- law of d. c. Rose, a prominent
Democratic politician. Mr.. Lyman was
a deputy under Postmaster Clark.
Ground was broken on Monoay ID
Eleventh and Market street, Whining
ton, by the big steam shovel for the
new modern DUPONT hotel which is to
be finished by June /, next
The Kembleville Driving Association
will hold its third series of matinee
races on Thursday, July q.
john, an infant son of John G.
Green, of Mddletown, fell from a sec
Ond story window at his parents home
on Saturday to the ground, but escaped
unhurt.
Ladies of St. Johns Church, Ne>--
ark, reali ed $3.50 from their recent fair
and festival Most of the pri- es went .o
Newark residents.
-phe new cannery at ColoTa will re-