The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-05-27
LOCAL JOTTlNGS

terday for the summer vacation.
Tuesday next Memorial Day
will be a legal holiday, and the
banks and public Offices will be
closed.
Elkton Grange, P. OF H., will
hold its May meeting at $50 p.
m. today.
The Craigtown base ball club
will hold festival opposite Mr..
]. R. Craigs residence Friday and
Saturday evenings, June 2 and s..
They will have band present on
Saturday evening. Ali welcome.
A marriage license was issue |
this week to George Cruikshank
and Luna Riley, both OF Rock
Springs.
Joseph 7. Richards, Chief Engi-
neer OF Maintenance OF Way OF the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, addressed
the students of Tome School on
Thursday afternoon.
Mayor J. Harvey Spruance was
renominated at the Democratic
primaries in Wilmington on Sat
urday. Fred H. Steinle was nom
mated for City Treasurer and S. J.
Newman Tor President OF City
Council.
Thomas Cole has recovered Sis
from the b. & Q. K. K. for the kill
ing OF his horse on defendants
traA at Darlington, near Havre
de Grace.
Willard Taylor, colored, IS years
old, who came to Iron Hill from
Virginia several years ago, vas
given hearing by Justice Rob
ekrson, in Wilmington, charged
with stealing 500 pounds OF meat
from Edward Green, OF Iron Hl,l,
on November 25 last, and also
setting fire to Green's barn, when
was DESTROYED along with TWO
horses and a COW. He was held
for court under $500 bail on the
first charge, and the second one
was dismissed for lack OF evidence.
Governor Crothers has named
James F. Powers. OF Elkton, and
DR.. Thomas s. Baker, OF Port De-
post, from Cecil, and Thomas +
Robinson and Stevenson A. VIII
liams. from Hartford. on the gen
eral committee to arrange ior the
celebration on Tuesday, June g, OF
the twenty-hith anniversary OF the
elevation OF Archbishop James
Gibbons, on. Baltimore, to the Car
dinalate which President TAFT and
other men OF prominence will at
tend.
The iortr-third annual conven-
ton o. the diocese OF Easton will
be held in Christ Church, Easton,
on Tuesday, June o, lasting three
DAYS, with upwards OF 100 clerical
and lay delegates in attendance.
Among matters calling Tor action
are the division OF North Elk Par
ish by the forming OF Susquehanaa
Parish, the merging OF the dioces-
an clergys relief fund with thel
general fund and changes in
church canons.
Joseph Bancroft and Charles G
Guyer, OF the Delaware Automo-
bile Association recently went
over the route from the Delawa..
line between Elkton and Glasgow
to Newark. Marshailton, Whining
ton. and along the Concord pike
and Faulk road to the Pennsvl-
Vania line on which signs will be
erected. The Maryland Club mas
posted the routes from Baltimore
via Conowingo and Havre de
Grace to the Delaware line, and the
Philadelphia Club will post the
route from the Delaware line to
that city,
School No. I. Fifth district,
Miss Annie G. Arrants, principal.
will have a flag RAISING this alter
noon.
With the thunder storm and
heavy shower OF Tuesday night,
the mercury dropped about 80
degrees, breaking the May hot
wave which held the record ior
the month since 1880.
The Ladies Aid Society OF In
ion NJ. +. Church will entertain
the 6. y. X. on Memorial Day, at
? p. m.
Helen Neithiey. the Young wo-
man who abandoned her infant
child in Copson' Park, near North
East. on April p. was taken back