The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-01-28
LOCAL JOTTlNGS OF THE Wft|

huJuidHt 1SneFdis warned has IS
sued an orders,showing that the First
Regiment M. N. G., Of which Coinpaix31
! r, Of Elkton, is one Of the conn
mands, stands ahead Of the Fourth
and Fifth Regiments in small arms
practice during 1910, with percentage
OF o5.23, the highest ever obtained 81
any regiment in the States service
The basketball teams Of Delaware
and Moravian Colleges lined up last
thursday evening in one sidad game
on the formers floor. Delaware wins
ning by score OF As to II.
Assessor Weber has the lists Of
taxables Of White Clay Creek hundred
complete, which may be seen at
Browns grocery and .he rostcfice ia
Newark and the Postofice at Chris
tiana.
John Conner, recently assoc;ated
with E. Deibert & Bros. n cutt;ng
timber near Glasgow, is clearing 4
tract owned by the late Judge James
y. Waters in Hartford county, and
recently shipped FIVE carloads OF
wniteoak to the American Car Com
pany, OF Wilmington, much Of which
ran II to 10 inches and so feet in
length, grading as high as any timber
ever shipped to the concern.
Second Lieutenant Henry C. Al
vey has been chosen Captain OF Com
pany b, Of Hagerstown, First Regi-
ment, nj. N. g. vice Capt. George 4.
Fisher. retired on age limit
The stockholders OF the People,s
Bank OF Middetown, have chosen
George M. D. Hart, Zadoc A. Pool.
george L. Townsend, Thomas O.
Cruikshank. Jefferson B. Foard. Fred
erick Brady, ]. Frank Eliason. Chas
H.; Salmon, Richard I. Cam, jr.. and
John r Ernest, directors for the COM
ing year.
-Messrs. ]. Wilkins Cooch. N NJ
Motherall, Charles B. Evans. M
Donnell, F. A. Cooch and Dr.. Harry
Hayward have been chasen trustees
OF Newark Presbyterian Church.
III. 5. Arrison, OF North East
succeeds the late Charles S. Dempsey
as second trick operator at the p. d.
q w. K. K. station at Newark.
Lewis Smith, Of Havre de Grace.
one day last week won wager that
ne could not walk fifteen miles in three
hcurs by covering the distance in 2,
minutes under the limit.
w. b. Cooney and Ross .vneh
wlil conduct and enlarge the former,
Bakery IN Rising Sun, installing new
machinery and extending the business
-1he W. w. Barnes property on
Adams street. Havre de Grace has
been sod to the Misses Rose and
Bertha Gleason.
Water d. Biddison. Of OK
caugh his foot between the aoor of an
eleValor and the shaft in Green's Ho-
tei' Fhiladelphia, one day last week,
Ills shoe was pulled off and the bot
tom edge OF his trousers torp, but he
escaped injury.
-Wllllam ,. Cup, the we'll known
Builder and contractor of Chestertown.
Died on January Io, at the home OF w.
Z. Rnggold, where he boarded, aged
70 years. He was a native OF Mont
gomery county, Pa, but located in
1852 at kennedyville, where he resided
TIL 1883, when he removed to Ches
tertown, forming the firm of w. S.
and A. M. Culp. His wife, who was
Miss Isabella Melvin. died four years
ago. A brother, a sister, three sous
and daughter survive him.
delaware received $5o,o8oS3 In
revenue lor liquor licenses from VIII
mington and Rural New Castle county
last year, $I6o from eight druggists
licenses in Kent county and nothing
from Sussex.
An amendment to the Postofflce
appropriation bill carrying $4,000 200
Tor an increase of $Ioo per annum in
the pay OF rural mali carriers after
july l next, has passed. the House OF
Representatives and will likely pass
the Senate
"A dense fog lasting from about
to 10 O'Clock on Tuesday morning
delayed craft on the Delaware and
trains on the p, B. & w. and B. Il q.
K. RS. Objects forty feet distant
were hidden from view.
The Colchester Steamboat Com
pany and L. S. Costello, the owner OF
Gales Wharf, on Worton Manor
Beach, Kent county, it is reported,
have arranged for the sale OF the prop
erty to the former.
Associate Judge William H. Ad-
kins, Denton special says, will be
candidate for Chief Judge OF the
Second Circuit to succeed Hon. James
A. Pearce, whose term expires in 1912.
Judge Adkins, it is said, will have
strong support in Caroline. Talbot and
Queen Anne's counties.
-Strasbaugh, Silver & Co., leading
Gamers OF Hartford county, secured on
Saturday assurances from farmers OF
the Rising Sun section OF 100 acres OF
corn for the coming season for pro-
posed cannery in that town, site for
which will be obtained later.
Thomas and John Dunn have pur-
chased the Theodore Dempsey iarm OF
200 acres, near Galena, for, it is re-
ported, $4,000.
The farm Of the late J. c. McNa-
mara. near Lewsville, was bought last
Thursday, at pubic sale, by Mrs. Kate
YCcum, of Lebanon, sister OF the late
owner, for $2675.
Stock cattle are rising in price i'll
Chicago. A leading Hartford feeder
got carload, two weeks ago. at six
cents a lb. on the hoof Good TO
choice animals, weighing $50 lbs, were
quoted at from $3.50 to $s85, to which
90 cents for freight must be added by