The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-12-30
LOCAL JOTTINGS OF THE WEEK

valuable papers on plant pathological
and meteorological subjects.
Miss Elsie NJ. Reynolds, OF Baltimore,
Mr.. James Cannon, of Chesapeake City,
and Mr.. Harry Cannon, of fredericksburg,
spent Christmas with their mother, Mrs
Mary l.. Cannon, near North East.
The 11.S4 a. m train south now stops
regularly at Elkton. Heretofore it
would stop to discharge passengers.
Regular service at Zion M. E. Church
has bee presumed on Sunday evenings
The LeBarge Musical Company will ap-
pear at the Newark M. e. Church on
Monday evening, January 1, 1912, in the
third entertainment of the Lyceum
Course for the benefit Of the Ladies' Aid
of the church. Those who have attended
former entertainments speak highly of
the talent and programs presented.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyndal Murray were re-
Gently rendered surprise party, at their
home, near Bay View, in honor of their
twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
Mrs. Betsy Keilholtz and Mrs. Susan
Mallock, two aged sisters, who occupied
a house to themselves, about a mile
from Aberdeen, were burned to death
early Tuesday morning. 1t is thought
that coal-oil lamp exploded and caused
the fire. Howard Osborne, neighbor,
discovered the flames, but found that
they were too far underway for any at
tempt to be made to rescue the sisters.
The Crescent Club held banquet in
the Mason's Banquet Hall on Tuesday
evening. On Wednesday evening the
Masons held one in the same place. o.
c. Giles was the caterer for both occa-
sions.
Quarterly conference began last even
Ing, In the Pleasant Hill Free Methodist
Church, and will continue over Sunday.
Monday, New Years Day, will be
legal holiday and the banks and public
Offices will be closed
Preaching service will be held in CAL
vert Church at 7.30 o'clock every Sunday
evening until further notice.
Miss Esther Witworth, of Elkton, who
recently underwent an operation at I'm
ion Hospital, is improving and has been
removed to her home.
Mrs. s. A. Hilliard, whose death is
noted in another column, left an estate
valued at $23O,OO0. Amongst her be-
quests are one Of $4,000 to Mrs. John A.
J. Creswell and one of $4,000 to Virginia
and Anna s. Taylor, of Cecil county.
A horse belonging to Bayard Campbell,
OF Leeds, was stolen on Wednesday even
ing from the rear of the Brown & Lewis
store. The team was later disposed of
in Wilmington. The county authorities
a % ha froi nf ~
The Elkton Sunshine Circle, an Or
gani7ation of Elkton boys under the d.
rection of Miss Lille Alexander, on
Christmas day distributed baskets OF
fruit which were much appreciated by
the recipients. The Circle is composed
of Reuben T. Dunbar, President; Has
son TerrellI Vice president; Hooper
Giles, Secretary; James Moore, Treas,
urer; Lewis c. Sentman, Mercer Ter
rell, Henry Sprinkle, Marion Boulden,
Noble Ricketts,, Roberts Perkins, Car
roll Edgar and Gerald Dunbar
The Old Year will be ushered out and
the New Year will be ushered in with
the ringing of the church bells. 1t will
not mean fire; 1t will only be ring out
the old, ring in the new"
Rev. Samuel Polk has rendered his re-
signation as pastor of West Noting
ham Presbyterian Church, to accept a
similar charge at Lawrenceville, N. ].
The Glass of 1912, of the Cecil County
High School, gave a we'll attended dance
in Mechanics Hall. Thursday evening.
While James Shea, of near Rising Sun,
was at work on the Pogue dwelling, We'd
nesday morning, the scaffoldng, upon
which he was standing, gave way and
he was thrown heavily to the ground,
sustaining a fractured rib, sprained
wrist and sundry cuts and bruises about
the head and shoulders.
Judges Burke and Duncan, in the Balti-
more County Court, have declared as
Unconstitutional, void and of no effect"
the law providing for a $1,000, 900 loan
for building good roads in that county.
The Elkton Opera House will present
an unusually striking bill on Monday and
Tuesday, when Dante's Inferno will be
presented in the moving pictures, the
great Poets vision of He'll being repro
duced therein.
The new house of w. D. Fell, OF syl-
mar, Is near completion and is being
painted by Roland Marshall.
On account OF the inclement weather
Bethel NJ. P. Sunday School has postpon-
ed its Christmas entertainment until
New Years night. Admission 10 and Is
cents. If stormy the next clear evening.
The ladies of the Church of the Good
Chepherd, Chesapeake City, will hold
box social at the home Of Miss Ida Bou-
chelle, Wednesday evening, January 8.
Everybody invited. Ladies please bring
boxes
A horse owned by Thomas Appleby, OF
New Castle, Del, which he valued at
5000 was killed by train on Christmas
morning.
Young Friends Association of Rising
Sun, will hold its January meeting to-
morrow.
The Cecil County High School basket
ball team was to play with the Whining
ton High School team last evening, but
the game was postponed on account Of
illness OF some of the players.
Revival services at Bay View NJ p
Church will begin tomorrow Sunday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Fulton, of Como
wingo, celebrated their tenth wedding