The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-09-16
LOCAL JOTTINGS

TWO Gays cunning, near Ocean
City, last week, bagged 257 shore
birds of several varieties.
Dogs recently killed seventy-fve
OF Herbert Hawley's chickens at
his home near Calvert.
Rev, Vaughn S. Collins has been
enjoying strawberries o: the fall
variety picked from plants in the
M. (. Parsonage garden in Mid
dletown. -Four plants each OF the
Americas and Productive variety
were set out as an experiment
The former began yielding on Au-
gust &c and the latter will shortly
ripen.
The Forty Hours Devotion be-
gan in St. Johns Church, New
ark, on Sunday. Rev. Fathers
Edward Mealey, Thomas Waldron
and James Quigley preached ON
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
evenings.
Trinity Church, Elkton. Ser
vices tomorrow Sunday at II a.
m. with Holy Communion) and
7.3o p. m. Bishop Adams will
preach and administer the Rite of
Confirmation on Friday evening,
OF next week, September 22. Ser
vice at 7..3o, also in St. Andrews
(Goldsborough MemoriaD Church,
Andora, on Saturday, the 23d. Ser
vice at 2.3o p. m.
Service will be held in the
Church of the Good Shepherd,
Chesapeake City, tomorrow, Sun
day, at 7.3o p. m.
Eben B. Frazer, of Newark, for
merly OF Elkton, has been grant
ed letters Of administration on the
estate, valued at $25o,ooo or more,
OF his son, Joseph Heckart Fra
ger, who died al Oruro, Bolivia,
early in August. He was engaged
in railroad construction for the
Bolivian Government and his firm,
Frazer & Yount, had a rating OF
$l,OCo,COo. He was also interest
ed in silver mining and was on tie
highroad to fortune when death
cut short his career.
The county schools opened on
Monday, after the summer vaca-
ton.
Jane Robinson, colored. an es-
teemed colored resident of Elk
Neck, died last Friday, aged 90
years.
The Ladies Aid Society of IN
ion NJ. f. Church will be guests
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Lort at their
home this Saturday evening.
The Village Fair" held for the
benefit of Zion NJ. f. Church, last
Wednesday and Thursday even
ings, yielded about $IoS.5c.
DIR. Daniel Bratton has opened
dental Offices in the Lewis Block
OF MAIN street, next door to !.
Frank Frazer's drug store.
A social will be held at the home
OF Mrs. JAM Spence at Provi-
dence next Wednesday evening,
September 20, by the ladies of
Rock Church, Fair Hill. Every
body is invited to attend. Silver
offering at the door.
Norman Cornell met highway
man in the Turner woods, near
Rising Sun, on Saturday night,
but whipped UP his horse and es-
capped trouble.
One Of Howard England's driv-
ing horses died on his farm, near
Calvert, last Friday.
One OF Baker & Sons cannery
hands at Middletown. was night
last week, lying in a side street,
beaten and robbed and stripped of
most of his clothing.
Dogs killed nineteen turkeys on
the farm OF the Misses Mary ard
Belle Nickle. near Rowlandville,
recently.
Charles Blackiston, of Whining
ton, and Samuel Blackiston, O.,
Chesapeake City, both formerly of
Chestertown, who separated q
years ago, met last week in Will
mlngton, where the former drives
MehargS auto delivery truck.
Cassius NJ. Childs, formerly OF
Elkton and Rowlandville, now of
Wilmington, stepped from a train
before it stopped at French street
station in that city on Sunday eve
ming and falling was stunned Sc
verely. He remembers parting
with his brother at Union Station.
Baltimore, but cannot recall any
thing that followed on his trim 70