The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-08-05

| Persons employed by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad at Perryvifle. will, it is
stated, hereafter he required to live
there. Quite number OF hands who
work at Perryville reside in Havre de
Grace and at other points to whom the
new rule will work in convenience
Trouble with tire caused ]. A.
Bradley's automobile to skid and turn
turtle at Derrickson's Corner, near Mid
| dletown, one evening last week. He
and his driver were thrown under the
car, but both escaped injury, and the
machine was not damaged.
<, Mrs. Richard Eaton, of the Middle
F., town section, fell at her home, one day
last week, and her wrist was broken.
/ Mrs Gideon E. Hukill, of Middle
town, missed her footing on a stairwly
| at her home on Sunday, and falling
| AGAINST the banisters broke her arm,
above the elbow.
! "A large number of relatives and
friends of Mrs. Sophia Coulson attended
| the celebration of her 77th birthday at
her home near Rock Springs, last Fri
! day. Dinner was served on two large
4
J enjoyed ice cream and cake in the after
; noon.
| Lester German, of Aberdeen, at the
weekly shoot of the DUPONT Gun Club
in Wilmington, on Saturday, broke SO
| out of 100 targets. In Glass l, Foord
broke "a out of rs. Winchester in Glass
2, broke 25. Tomlinson in Glass 3, broke
% and Dr. Belts in class 4, broke 49,
| Holiness Camp opened on Thursday
morning with prayer service by Rev. ].
E. Dwight. The preaching services fol
Sunday are Rev. ]. B. Bowen a. m, Rev.
j. P. Otis afternoon, Rev. L. H. Joslrn,
night. Love feast at a. m.
! Divine service next Sunday, August
6, at p m. at the Parish House, Perry
Vile. Public cordially invited.
| Five hogs on S. d. McCullough's
place, near Colora, died last week, as
also two of Albert Barretts and one
owned by H. C. Matthews.
| Ladies of Zion NJ E. Church met on
Thursday to arrange for a village fair to
be held in the near future.
| Col. S. b. Foard left this week for
| Sykesville, where he will fill position
at Springfield Hospital.
| George W. Wilson, 6S years old who
served in Company E, of the Purnell
| Legion during the Civil War, died in a
| Soldiers Home in Tennessee, last week
He formerly lived in Rising Sun and was
| a brother-in-l law of George R. Grason.
| -Newark's Firemen's Carnival opened
on Wednesday night with an auto par
| ade. Twenty odd cars were in line.
Mayor j. H. Hossinger and E. c. Rich
ards divided the prize for the best de-
| corated car.
Children, grandchildren and great
| grandchildren of Street Brown, OF Col
ora, attended family reunion and din
ner at his home on Sunday, his 10th
birthday.
! John H. Kimble, of Port Deposit, has
been named by Governor Crothers ais
member of the commission to arrange for
| the See America First" Convention to
be held in Baltimore next May
| John Karl, of Elhton, while on the
railroad excursion to COLCHESTER on We'd
nesday, rescued Howard McClintock, OF
Iron Hill. who was seized with cramps
while swimming off the steamboat pier.
Young McClintoclS was revived, and is
| recovering at home from the effects OF
| his experience.
| -Hudders Greenfield, of Rising Sun,
lost his pocketbook containing 1928 while
attend ng Leslie Camp last Friday
| A special meeting of Elkton Or .',se
viii be held Saturday, August IL, at ~
p m. All members urged to atteni.
| Robert Owens, of Leslie, was badly
burned on the arm and hand few even
| ings ago, while on the comp ground, by
the overlooking of the gasoline in one
of the lamps.
| Elisha Kirk, of Pennington suffered
the misfortune of losing a horse one
day last week.
| Organizer Marion Dawson of the
| State Grange, reports prospects pool
| for crops, including even corn in the
| lower counties of the Peninsula. He
says that the effects of the prolonged
drouth can be seen when one crosses the
Sassafras, on this side of which the pros
kinds.
| Town Council is arranging for build
| in ga sewer east on West High street,
to Maffit to West Main to Bens Gut The
| Diamond State Telephone Co. has applied
| for a franchise for conduit line under
the towns streets for its wires.
| Twenty five cars were derailed on
the B. & o. r. R. at Herring Run, near
Baltimore, yesterday morning, cloud
burst having washed out the tracks for
quite a stretch. The engineer and fire.
man jumped and escaped injury.
| -Middletown's school tax rate has