The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-06-17


will hold a strawberry festival for its
benefit at Harry d. Diapers home. near
J the village. this evening.
The barn of Harold Stokes, near
Conowingo, was badly damaged by llghtn-
ing, one night last week
DIR. H. Arthur Mitchell, OF Eikton,
has been appointed resident physician
for the p, B. & w. R. r., succeeding the
late Dr.. Charles M. Ellis.
The trustees of Ebene er M. E.
Church, Greenhurst, cleared $36 from
their lawn festival held on Saturday
evening.
-Children's Day exercises in Beth
esda M. e. Church, Middletown, on Sun
! day, were well attended The collec-
| lions reached $500. Special music, vio-
,, Inns, cornet and organ. was rendered.
-ilroyn out OF his carriage in Q
collision with an automobile, from
Quarryville. Walter Kane, of the Colora
section, was severely injured one day
this week.
| Cecil Paper Mill hands at New
Bridge, near Rising Sun, want a fort
nightly pay day
The full brigade OF the Maryland Ma
tional Guard will encamp in the Column
bus Kemp farm, near Frederick City,
July 1922. The camp will be known as
Camp Henry M. Warfield," in compli-
ment to the State Adjutant General. The
captains of the several companies of
the Guard have received final orders for
preparation. The men will be inoculated
for the prevention Of typhoid fever, and
Sergeant jenkins of the Medical Corps
is performing the work as rapidly as
possible.
Fruit pri es to the value of $500 will
be offered by the Peninsula Horticultural
Society at it's annual exhibition to be
held next winter.
-Kembleville second matinee races
will be held on Thursday, June 20.
There will be service at ST. Marks
Church, near Perryville, at 3 p. IN. Sun
day, June is.
ALL Prohibitionists of Cecil county
are urged to attend as delegates, the
State convention of the Prohibition
Party of Maryland, to be held at the
Auditorium of the Baltimore Business
College, N. w. corner of Charles and
Saratoga streets, Baltimore, on Thurs
day, June 20, at 1890 a. M. Charles R.
Woods, State Chairman; Louis H. Kel-
ley, County Chairman. ,
John H. Herbener, for more than
twenty years past a we'll known tailor
of Newark, died suddenly on Saturday
at the home of his nlaw near Elk
Ridge, Md Two of his sons, George and
Edward, reside at Newark
Justice Gilpin on Wednesday fined
Charles Startling and Dave Anderson, col.
ored, IS and costs, s12 in all, for crap
shooting. Anderson paid his fine, but
Startling did not have enough cash and
went to Jail.
Work will begin at Richardsmere it
is said, upon the State road, when the
Calvert section is finished.
-Ravages Of the wire worm forced Is
rael and Alfred Reynolds, of the Eighth
district, to replant all their corn land.
Wheat harvest is on in Kent county
and lower Cecil.
Charles Ford, eldest son of Edward
Ford of Still Pond, died at his home
there on Sunday of kidney trouble, aged
"a years.
The festival for the benefit of Wash
ington Camp p. o. S. of A. of Elkton,
set for last evening and this evening.
on the lawn in rear of Mechanics Hall,
has been postponed until next Friday and
Saturday evenings, June 1924.
Jackson, generally known as Jacob
Barrow, died at his home in Conowingo
last week. Interment was made at Oak
wood.
hi
Huber farm, near Newark, Mrs. William
Reed was severely stunned by lightning
on Tuesday evening, the bolt striking a
tree near which she was standing.
Leeds M P. congregation will hold
Children's Day exercises tomorrow.
-Asbury M. E. Sunday School will
hold its Children's Day service on Sum
day evening, June %. Service begins at
7.3O o'clock
The Elkton Improvement Association
| regular June meeting set for Monday
evening, was not held, owing to slim at
tendance of members in consequence of
the storm. 1t will be held next Monday
evening.
Washington College, Chestertown
will hold it's 129th commencement next
Wednesday, June 81.
-Ehe Elkton Music Clubs choral class
will hold no more meetings until Septem-
Der. The cantata set for this month has
ben postponed.
The venerable Henry S. Coudon, Of
Aiken, has attended all the conventions
of the Diocese of Easton, save one, and
at the one held last week was the only
delegate who had sat in the firsS con
vention after the creation of the dio-
cese in 1868.
Trinity Church, Elkton. Sunday SER
vices regularly at II a. m. and 6.45 p.
m. Sunday school at 10 a. m.
Services will be held in the Church of
the Good Shepherd, Chesapeake City, to-
morrow at 7.30 p. m.
A Sunday school has been organized
at Liberty Grove.
Joseph Wilkinson, a well-known far
mer of the Kembleville section, died at
his home on Tuesday of paralysis, aged
6S years. lnterment was made yester-
day in st. Johns Cemetery, Lewisville.
The strawberry festival held at War
wick last week was in every way sue
cessful
la Citv NJ ;o,,