The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-02-18
LOCAL JOTTINGS OF THE WEEK


David Love, OF Pilot. has sold his
personal effects and will remove to
Havre de Grace.
The Mite Society will hold an ex-
perience social in the Principle M. E.
Church on Saturday evening, February
I8. Ice cream, cake and clips for sale.
Admission 10 cents; children, cents.
Proceeds for the benefit of the church.
Come one come all, d good time is
sure.
Mrs. William Miller and Mr.. E.
F Taggart will direct the presenta-
ton OF the Smith fanny and other
attractions to be given by local tall
ent in Trinity Parish House.. Elkton,
next Wednesday evening. Admission,
rs cents.
The banks and public offices will
be closed next Wednesday, Washing
toms Birthday. The schools will hold
exercises promotive OF patriotism.
Increases in fares varying from
to IS cents between stations on the
Pennsylvania Railroads lines East of
Pittsburg and Erie took effect yes
terday.
While using cutting box. one
day last week, Frank Maloney cut two
fingers severely at his home, near Elk
ton.
The large silver maple in the rear
OF the Drennen and Foard office build
lngs. on North street, was cut down
last week and was found to be mostly
a hollow shell with but a sender pirth
of sound wood.
Tuberculosis" will be the subject
OF an address before the Cecil County
Medical Society next Thursday by Dr..
V. S. Cullin, OF the State Sanitarium
at Sudlersville, and home treatment
OF the disease will be the main topic
OF the subsequent discussion.
baltimore is moving to secure the
meeting OF the Democratic National
Convention next year. Governor Gro
theirs on Tuesday stated that residents
OF Cecil would contribute $1,000 to the
iund OF 100000 needed to secure Bal
timore's selection as the meeting
place.
A fine table cloth and two dozen
napkins have been presented to I'm
ion Hospital by the ladies Sewing Cir
Gle OF Rising Sun.
-Services, with sermon By Rev. H.
A. g. Westerfield will be held at
Jones Chapel at 2.3o p. m. tomorrow.
Glover Seed will be the topic
for discussion at the meeting of Elk
ton Grange, P. OF H., this afternoon.
"A box social will be held at Mrs.
Henry Laws next Tuesday evening,
Feb. 81, by the ladies of Crouch
Chapel congregation. Ladies will
please bring boxes.
The lecture OF Prof. w. L. Hilton
on Greece in Her Golden Days.,
given i'll Elkton Opera House last
Friday evening, was well attended and
highly enjoyed by his hearers.
Cecil Odd Fellows will largey at
tend the grand rally OF the Order at
Havre de Grace. on Wednesday Feb
ruary 22. which promises to prove a
notable demonstration.
Upwards of dozen candidates
Tor rural mail carrier, to succeed Wal
ter {. Merry, resigned, on Route No.
l, from Elkton, will be examined here
Saturday, February rs.
Surveys ior another track for the
F., B. & w. r. r. through Elkton,
across the jail lot and thence eastward
to the Booth property, have been
made by engineers OF the company
with the view to future changes IN the
line OF the road hereabouts.
w T. Warburton. Esq, will de-
liver an address at the Cecil County
High School on Washinston's Birth
day, which the pupils will observe
with special program OF recitations,
essays and songs. The public l., cor
daily invited to attend.
-lhe February meeting OF the Elk
ton Improvement Association was not
held on Monday evening, as but few
members appeared at Council Hall.
Mrs. Mary J. Garman, formerly
OF st. Georges. Del, died in Wells
burg, w. Va, last Friday. Interment
was made at St. Georges on Monday.
There are few idle houses in Ris-
ing Sun, and more are needed to sup
ply people wishing to locate there.
The proposed cannery at Rising
Sun will not be erected, owing to diff
hculty in procuring site, it is said
C. Ross Biles. it is stated, will
remove from his iarm at Blue Ball and
reside in Rising Sun.
Mrs. w. H. Nesbitt, nearly sew
cred the end OF finger while remov-
ing fruit jar lid with butcher knife,
at her home near Richardsmere, on
Sunday.
The fourth quarterly conference
will be held in Bay View M. P. Church
at p. m today
Mrs. Charles Lawson, of Rising
Sun, discovered tarantula while pick
ing bananas from a bunch; one day
last week, and dispatched it with a
broom.
Former County Commissioner w.
A. Scott, Daniel Naylor and other
residents OF Townsend, have recently
lost valuable dogs which ate poison
ed meat, pieces of which were found
near them when dead.
-Linemen OF the p, B. & w. r. r.
have been installing an electric block
signal on the Newark to Poi,er's and
Delaware City. Operators at stations
will now throw the switches instead Of
trainmen. The signal dial in the old
et