The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-07-29
LOCAL JOTTINGS

to Colchester is set for next We'd
nesday, August 2.
Mrs. Fannie Hindman, widow
of S. T. Hindman, is reported seri-
ously i'll at her home near Colora.
The congregation of the Rock
Presbyterian Church will hold a
bazaar and festival on the church
lawn on Thursday evening, Au-
gust 3. Everybody come and see
the Japanese maidens and Dutch
girls selling tea and tulips. There
will also be all the usual features
of first class festival such as ice
cream, candies, cakes, orangeade
and lemonade. Music furnished
by the Utopian band. If stormy,
the next evening.
George E. L. Hess, of the
Fourth district, will enter the De-
mocratic primaries for nomina-
ton for long term County Com
missioner.
States Attorney Albert Con-
stable will seek and doubtless Sc
cure denomination at the coming
Democratic primaries.
Divine service will be held at 3
D. m. tomorrow in St. Mark S
Chapel, near Perryville.
The Bayside Band of Havre de
Grace will hold its COLCHESTER ex-
cursion on Friday, August II.
James Willis, of Phoenix, Ari-
iona. has sold the Cosden farm in
Kent county to Alfred S. Crouch,
for $1,000.
On advice OF his physician, DR..
Galen Wright, John J.. Dorsey, of
the Warwick section, underwent
a successful operation, last week,
at the German Hospital, Philadel-
phia, for appendicitis and is re-
ported recovering.
Newark postottice has been de-
signated as depository .;or saw
ings funds which will be received
on and after August FL.
Wishing to be rid of a goat,
which was playing havoc with his
garden, Frank Mitchell, of Havre
de Grace, offered the animal to
Henry Christie, colored. Christie
undertook the animals capture,
but was "butted" out, and his arm
was broken in his fall.
Fifty-nine tickets were sold at
North East railroad station last
week for the first railroad excur-
sion to Colchester.
A street corner festival held by
Annie and Nerna Crawford, Net
tie Holly, Helen Hand, Leroy Nc
Master and Brooks Crawford, for
f.the benefit of -'Havre de Grace
Hospital, yielded $50.
Oxford schools running ex-
penses for. the past year totalled
$I6,ooo.
Rebecca, the young daughter OF
Rev. Samuel Polk, OF West Not
tingham, while trying to stop a
fight between her bull dog and an
other. one day last week, was Bit
ten on the wrist by one of the ami
mails.
|. Wayne Reynolds. of the Ris-
ing Sun section. reports yield
of upwards o s. bushels OF oats to
the acre.
Work was begun last week on
the extension OF concrete pave
ment on Main street, North East.
Former County Treasurer Viii
liam H. Holm, OF Port Deposit,
will seek nomination for sheriff at
the coming Democratic primaries,
The Hartford County School
Board has dismissed charges OF
favo:ttism and indifference pre-
ferred recently against Principal
Gilbert Cooling, OF the Jarretts-
vile High School.
DR.. Walter !. Lowe, of Wells
College, Aurora, y. Y, felt inn
PEELED to decline appointment to
the New Chair OF History in Della
ware College. Prof, Ernest V.
Vaughn, Of the University OF Mis-
souri, was considered among others
for appointment at a session OF
the special committee Df Della
ware College trustees OH Tuesday,
but the matter went over TO the
next meeting, to be held next
week.
The Bell farm, with a front OF
one and a half miles on the Sus-
quehanna, near Conowingo, was
offered at public sale at Perryville
on Tuesday by S. A. and F. R.
Williams, trustees, but was with
drawn for lack of bids.