The Cecil Whig., 1911-10-14
LOCAL JOTTINGS OF THE WEEK

| First and second g ade pupils Of the
| Howard street school were dismissed for
the day on Wednesday to permit fumi-
cation of the room they occupy in the
| building one of their number having
developed case of suspected diphtheria.
Arrangements were made to have the
northbound train due at Elkton at II p.
m, step at North East on Friday even
ing to accommodate Elktonians attend
| Ing the Republican mass meeting in
| Grand Army Hall.
j Mrs. Maud Feldmeyer Biles, now resid
! ing in Annapolis, has entered suit in the
| Anne Arundel Circuit Court for limit
+, ed divorce from her husband, DR.. c. r.
i Biles, of Elkton.
! Howard Smith Of Elkton, has been
appointed superintendent of the Newark
electric light plant.
Hynson Washington Anderson, better
known as "Blinkey', pulled his gun in
Paradise Alley on Saturday night and
threatened TO let daylight through Lewis
Warrington. On Monday Justice Gilpin
fined Anderson IS and costs.
Justice A. G. Cox, of Middletown, was
aroused after midnight last Friday by
two couples, prominent in the younger
social set of the town, who stated they
wished to obtain H.. .asv ilvc.5es.
They accompanied him to his Office and
v bile he was filing out the blanks told
him they had changed their minds. The
parties profess to have been joking. 1t
is said that enc of the couples meant
| business bu that the lady in the case
concluded to defer ceremony.
| Messrs. German, Poe and Harrington,
the Democratic State candidates, have
| set their engagements for meetings
throughout the State for the remaining
weeks of the campaign. They will visit
, Elkton next Saturday, October 81.
Revival services conducted by the pas
tor, Rev E. c. Prettyman, assisted by
other ministers, began in Glasgow M E.
Church on Sunday evening, when seven
persons professed conversion.
X. c. Thackery, Esq, sold the Esther
+. Coulson property near Port Deposit,
at the Court House door on Tuesday, at
attorneys sale to Charles A. Morrison,
for $4,000
Sparks from threshing outfit last
Thursday caused a fire which DESTROYED
thc pdi H. ana OIueT DullQlnSS ON
the farm of Mrs. Eliza Green, of Middle
town, located near Centreville, Md The
tenant lost 900 bushels of seed wheat and
40 tons of hay The losses were insured.
Seven of the alleged lynehers of Zach
| Walker, colored, who was burned by
mob at Coatesville, Pa, on August 12
have been acquitted in Court at West
| Chester Two acquittals were ordered
| by the Court for lack of evidence of
| guilt, and in the five other cases the
juries found verdicts of not guilty. Gov
ernor Tener insists that the trials of the
other persons indicted proceed
Ladies of Newark Presbyterian con-
| gregation are arranging for poultry
supper to be served in the Opera House
on Thursday, October 26.
Chicken thieves thr wv stones at Mrs,
Mary Springer, one niglt last week, when
she discovered them at work on her
premises near Conowingo
| Methodists in Oxford have purchased
| lot on New street in that town as a site
| sor new church.
Asher Robinson, Rising Sun lad
while playing with another boy, one day
| last week, was struck on the head by a
board containing several nails and was
painfully injured
Bohemia Bril-, entered and driven by
w. B. Biggs. of Middletown, won the 2.15
at Mt. Holly, N. J., last Thursday.
A Sherif's jury on Saturday, pronounce
ed Harry o. X. Foster, of North East,
incompetent to manage the interest he
has in certain property and trustee
will be appointed to care for thesa me
Ladies of Lapidum NJ. p. Church will
serve an oyster supper on the evenings
of November and 4, for the benefit Of
the church.
patent for an internal combust ion
engine has been issued to Raymond P.
Gaskill of Port Deposit.
The Cecil Farmers Club will hold it's
October meeting at the home of C. Ross
Biles, near Blue Ball. today.
Port Deposit Presbyterian Sunday
School cleared $50 from its recent fes-
| tival
Ralph C. Clifford, of Zion, Maryland,
graduate of the Tome School for Boys,
'O9, was elected one of the new directors
of the Athletic Association of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Clifford was
one of four elected to fill the vacancies
caused by graduation.