The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-12-09

cleared about $50 from their bake and
lancy goods ba ar held on Saturday
Herman R. Tyson, of Newark, has sold
his trotter, Sir Thomas Upton, 2.15 IL,
to Cleveland, o., parties for $1,000.
A bull dog and a coon had a lively
battle under the shooting gallery in
Hayre de Grace, one day last week. The
dog cut the coons throat with his teeth,
but was badly clawed in the contest.
Curtis Glees, tough young negro, of
Middietown, was held for Court by JUS
| tice Cox, on Saturday, charged with re-
s.sting Town Officer Atwell who had ar
rested him for disorder at colored fair
on Thanksgiving night. Glees blacked
the officers eye by striking him with the
handouts which Atwell had snapped up
! on him Gees was also charged with
| shooting at John Dickinson, colored, on
| Halloween.
! Sixty odd head of heifers and steers
from Wisconsin and Michigan were sold
by S. H. Chambers, of New London, Pa,
| at the Middletown, Del, Hotel on No
! vember % the former bringing from
| S16 to s25 and the latter s1S and $40 each.
| John P. Fockler, superintendent of
Schools of Washington county and bro
ther and Principal of E. B. Fockler, of
the Cecil County high School, died at
his home at Cavetown, Md, on Tuesday,
| of paralysis, aged 81 years.
! Reports of the Democratic and Repub-
lican party treasurers of Hartford county
| show the formers expenses incident to
| tha recent election to- have been
| onl 1att
A big boulder weighing several tons
| fell in the deep cut, near Avondale, on
the Newark G. Pomeroy r. R.. last Thurs
day. but luckily dropped clear of the
track, but the cars of passing train all
but grazed the rock.
| The total receipts from the recent ba-
ar for the benefit of Havre de Grace
Hospital reached s1,755.61, and after
payment of $14399, for various items OF
expense, the net balance was $1,6I162.
At the shoot for turkeys on the du-
| Pont Clubs grounds in Wilmington, on
| Thanksgiving Day, C. o. Williams, of
North East, made the best score, 40 out
of 80 possible breaks.
| The new railroad station at Port De-
posit is $50 feet long and so feet wide,
built on the site of tine old one destroy
ed by the flood of January, 1910.
William P. Schoenfelder succeeds Cap
tain George w. Mitchell as keeper of the
Battery lighthouse, near Havre de
| Grace.
Samoset Tribe of Red Men, of evel
had ba'ar on Thursday and last even
ings, which will be continued this even
ing.
The degree team of the State P. O. S.
of A. attended the institution of Camp
s6 at Aberdeen on Thursday evening.
Ladies of Gelena NJ. E. Church cleared
$50 from their supper held in Caldwell S
Hall last Friday and Saturday evenings.
Maryland NJ. P. Conference will hold
its next annual session in the new St.
PauTs Church, Sit. Paul and 9th streets
Baltimore.
Slipping on the attic stairs at her
home at New Bridge near Rising Sun
one day last week, Mrs. Ira W.tcraft
was severely Jared and bruised.
Rival Republican factions in Newark
are reported to have agreed upon j. W
Brown as postmaster of that town to
succeed the late Delaware Clark and his
appointment was looked for this week
Isaac Alexander, awakened by smelling
smoke, found the carpet on fire in the
parlor at his home in Rising Sun, ont
night last week, and managed to pu
out the blaze with little damage re
sulting.
Falling on concrete walk at hel
} home in Havre de Grace, one day las
week, Mrs. John Touchsto tone was severe
!, ly injured.
Ladies of Havre de Grace Presbyterian
, congregation cleared s235 from their re
J cent entertainment.
; A follower of Elias Hertz the lat
famed goosebone weather sharp, o
I Reading, Pa, rises to say that winter
. will set for fair on December 20, ant
( will be of the old time order.
I,O72,99S has been apportioned for th
work of the foreign missions of the vi
I E. Church of the United States to be al
8 lotted as follows during the comm,
year: Europe, s164,715 India, $S5,476
China, 15S,903; Siam, 1918; Japan, $685.
1903; Korea, a3s,679; Malasia, $4S.O43
| Africa, $45,s43; Mexico, $5s662; genera
expenses or collecting, etc, 1884 800; mis-
sionary bishops emergencies, needs o
missions, etc, $127,250.
The Third Quarterly conference O
Ehenezer, Zion Union, Calvert Churches
gave unanimous invitation to the pasto
w. H. Briggs, to return for the mex
conference year.
Harry Price, of Principle, while paint
! ing at D. B. McDowell's, Lombard, las
Friday, fell 16 feet from a ladder resting
I on a box. He landed on his head ant
| shoulders, but escaped with a broker
wrist and a severe jarring.
, Ladies of Calvert NJ E. Church vii
) furnish dinner for the Cecil Detectiv,
Association in Rosebank Hall next Tues
!, day and will serve an oyster supper il
the evening Tickets % and 35 cents.