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

Normdi Scnooi, Baltimore, Two, male. or
| female.
Everybody attending the Elk Neck
Farmers annual picnic at Thompsons
Shore, Elk River, on August 16, will ps
| assured day of pleasure and profit.
The Committee Of Arrangements is ar
ranging the details, and tine program will
shortly be ready for publication
-Saimon's mill pond has been empiied
to permit repairs to the bridge over the
waste gates, on the read leading from
Chesapeake City.
Regular sessions of the County
Comm ssioners, School Board and Or.
phans' Court will be held next Tuesday.
w. H. M. Ramto is laying cement
pavement on East Main street, fronting
the residence of w. Sterling Evans and
the double dwelling occupied by Charles
G. Wells and DR.. e. j. Jenkins
An excursion will be given next
Wednesday on the "Ono H., to Better
ton, for the Improvement fund OF Elk
ton M. E. Church. Tickets, so cents; on
sale at J. II. Groves and C. H. Jeffers'
stores. Boat leaves Jeffers' Wharf at
foot of Bridge street, at 100 p. m. al d
Betterton at 8 p. m.
Port Deposits new railroad station
is to be completed by November. Work
men are clearing the ground on the sl,,s
OF the old station and a large nearly
frame building.
Lewis Taylor, of Richardsmere, it is
reported, was hurt seriously in ret en-,
runaway.
Failing from ladder few days
ago, Ella beth Ferguson, 10 years OLD,
of Mt Pleasant, was hurt severely.
A Tea Parlor" for refreshment vi
automobile tourists has been opened. by
Miss Mary c. Haines at her home, Glen
Mary" on the Glasgow road, near town.
Governor Crothers certainly has the
services of a good 'press agent" The
Baltimore Evening Sun, OF Tuesday, said
About 200 of Governor Crothers' fell
low-citizens of Cecil county called un
him at his Office in Elkton last nighl,
praised his administration and enthus-
lastically endorsed his candidacy, ETC.,
ETC." Thus the press agents" story.
The real story Of what actually occu.-
red will be found in another column OF
the Wing under the captfon-"The Gov
ernor Calls in His Cohorts"
Mrs Beninga Wentz, of Port Deposit,
who was recently operated on at Union
Hospital, is much improved.
Miss Marietta Mearns Of Zion has
been sojourning at Ocean City, stopping
at the Marlborough while there
The directors of the Farmers and
Mechanics Fire Insurance Company held
their monthly meeting last Saturday.
"A dance will be given in Spa Sprl n
no
ust 8.
Mr.. Henry Vinsnger's Sunday
School class, Mrs. Vinsingers class, the
VI. E. Choir and few other invited
guests enjoyed trip to Betterton on
Ono H." on Wednesday. The boat left
Elkton about 1.3O p. m. and when Bet.
terton was reached the crowd took sup
per at the Betterton House The party
left Betterton at s O'Clock and reached
Scott's wharf at IL.
Harry Montgomery, member OF the
Glass of 1910, of the North East High
School and a teacher at Conowdngo
school during the past year, will enter
Delaware College in September.
-Westamwell Sunday schools annual
picnic will be held next Wednesday, Au-
-Rowlandville M. p congregation
cleared $lS from recent porch party,
held for the benefit of the church.
Grant Cooper, a tough colored deni-
zen of the Middletown section, is lodged
at Greenbank to await trial for peddling
liquor without license. Another ne
gro, known as "Peg-Leg Tom, a pal
OF Cooper's, was arrested in Middletown
on Saturday on a like charge
William p. Roe, 81 years old, OF Bal
tlmore, Secretary to President j. w.
Cain, of Washington College, Chester
town, was caughd in a whirlpool, off
Beck & Walkers wharf on Chester river
while swimming on Sunday afternoon,
and was drowned. His body was recoy-
cred later in the evening.
The largest gasoline power boat
ever built in Delaware has been launch
ed at Milford. Its keel length is 12l
feet beam, 26 feet and depth of hold
feet. 1t will have an engine of $50
horsepower and will be used in the in
land trade between the Delaware and
Chesapeake Bays.
Street fairs, for the benefit of Ha,re
de Grace Hospital, held by young people
OF the city are proving profitable One
Melted $15, another $26 and another $55
for the fund.
Frederick Wassamer whose father.
William Wassamer, recently removed to
Newark from New York State, disap-
peared from his home on Delaware ave-
nue. in that town, on July 16, and has
NOT been heard Of since. He is IS years
old, of slight build and medium height
with dark hair.
-Barses heavily laden with tomatoes
from New Jersey for the supply of Bal
timore canneries are passing through
the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. One
carrying $500 baskets went through the
locks last Wednesday, and another SINH
!arly laden on Saturday.
Plans for a new overhead bridge at
the st. Anne's crossing of the Delaware
Railroad, near Middletown, have been
prepared. Several accidents have occur
red at the crossing which the bridge
VIII render safe.
-Workmen are erecting a large steel
tower on the draw of the P, B. & w.
R. R. bridge over the Susquehanna to
carry the cable of the American Te1e-