The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-04-29
News In Brief

Edwin Clendenin, vel knawn re-
tired farmer OF Pencader hundred, Inc
las, survivor o, his parents family,
died on April 10 at the Red Mems
Home in Newark, ageo u Yeas. In
terment was made in We sh Tract
Cemetery, las: Wednesday.
Governor Crothers has issued
proclamation setting forth the changes
in representation OF Mary and counties
in the House OF Delegates, based on
the results OF the last census Ale
gany, Garrett and Caroline each gam
and Queen Anne's and Hartford each
lose member. TIL; next House wi
contain Io2 members, net gain OF one.
The cold weather retarded the run
OF slad and herring in the upper bay,
but caches increased last week, and
large ones were looked for this week.
Shad were selling last week at Havre
de Grace lor from $50 to $40 per hun
bred, and herring at 40 cents.
Mr. John B. Proud, OF New Castle.
and Miss Elizabeth E. Simmons, OF
St. Georges, were married IN VIE
mington las, Thur day, by Rev. Z. c.
MacNichol.
The power schooner William t.
Wiling, OF Baltimore, bound for that
city from Chestertown, with cargo II
baled hay, was set on fire in Chester
river las: Tuesday morning, by spark
from The exhaust and burned TO the
waters edge She was built in 1888,
was 50 feet long and was 10 tons capa-
city She was owned and run by Cap
tain J. Fred Robinson.
The IL year old son OF Charles
Hines, tenant on Capt. Andrew Wood
all's Rich Neck" arm, in Kent
county. died OF measles, one day last
week The boy had never uttered a
word from his birth and had lived en-
tirey on milk sucked IRON a bottle.
Eighteen OF 81 COWS OF the dairy
herd OF James McSparran. OF lower
Lancaster county, were found affected
with tuberculosis and were killed by
order OF the State Veterinarian.
J Joseph T. Hopes has sold his St
Omer arm OF 40 acres in Hartford
county, to J. F. Dorrance, OF Philadel-
phia, FOR $4,000. The farm contains a
10 acre apple orchard, which vii bear
fruit this season.
stitching piles provoke profanity,
but profanity won't cure them. Doan S
Ointment cures itching, bleeding or
protruding piles after years OF suffer
ing AT any drug store.
Upwards OF two hundred visitors,
including prominent business men and
capitalists went on special train one
day last week to the Proctor Safe
quarries near Cardiff. Hartford county,
recently sold to a syndicate, and about
to be largely worked.
**Most dshguring skin eruptions.
scroiula, pimples, rashes, etc, are due
to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bit
tiers is a cleansing blood tonic. Makes
you clear eyed, clear Drained. clear
skinned. ~
Engineer f. c. Moxham last Fri
day began the pre- .minary survey from
Delmar, on the old Sage road. north
ward, for the line OF the proposed du
Pond boulevard, which will traverse
Delaware rom the Maryland to the
Pennsylvania line
**Srops earache in two minutes;
toothache or pain OF burn or scdli in
FIVE minutes; hoarseness, one hour;
muscleache. two hours; sore throat,
twelve hours-Dr. Thomas Eclectic
Oil. monarch over pain. ~
Thomas Skeggs, Of Townsend,
Del, 10 years Cd, who had been en-
gagged in blowing stumps with dyna-
mite ior some time pas, while at that
work on Frank Rauch's farm, about
four miles from Middletown, one day
last week. was partly blinded and seri-
ously injured He had fired several
charges and had tighten a fuse Tor an
other asst As no explosion followed
he Looked into the hole in he stump
and just then the b asst occurred. He
managed to get up n his feet but lei!
forward on the ground Bys 'anders
raised him. and physician was called
who found one o; his eyes destroyed,
his face badly torn and severe InJur e.
about his BODY