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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-04
SUMMARY GIVEN OF
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
Thomas J. Fisher & Co. Sell Homes
and Building Lots in Sew
eral Sections.

Thomas j. Fisher and Company. in
corporated report the sale during the
past week for William p. KELLOGG of
two houses on eth street northeast
Immediately south of Florida avenue.
The dwelling at No. 1140 eth street was
purchased by Mrs. Mary A. Costello.
while house No. 1888 7th street. at the
corner of Orleans place, was purchased
by William \. Lippard. Each house
contains six rooms and bath
The same brokers also sold the house
No. 1345 A street northeast to Isabel
G. Steig. The consideration was $4975
The house contains six rooms and bath
Louis w. Eugster has purchased a
building site at the northeast corner Of
Woodley road and 36th street. Oakview.
Plans are being prepared by the new
owner for residence to be erected on
the site.
Rev. William l.. De Vries, canon Of the
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral, is just
completing a residence on the lot east Of
the site purchased by Mr.. Eugster.
Sales in Chevy Chase.
Thomas J. Fisher & Company, Inc. re-
port several sales in the Chevy Chase
district during the past week.
No. 1906 Ingomar street has been sold
for Frank B. Essex to Henry Pittier. The
sale was made in conjunction with the
office of Caywood Garrett. The house
is new and contains six sleeping rooms
sleeping porch and two baths. The
consideration was $500.
Newman G. Little has acquired lot /,
square 1864, located at the intersection
of Oliver, Patterson and 37th streets,
Chevy Chase, D. c. The lot has 'front.'
age of LAT feet on Oliver street and
155 feet on Patterson street The new
owner has had plans prepared and will
erect a home for his own occupancy
Thomas B. Ford has purchased a sixty
foot lot on Ridgewood avenue, north of
Chestnut street. in section 4, Chevy
Chase. The new owner will erect a home
on the site.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-04
What It Costs to Keep a Horse.
rom the Indiana Farmer.


An enterprising farmer of Boone county
npon keeping a feed and expense account
pr his horses for year found that each
team required four tons of hay. which. at
The market price Of ST. per ton. amounted
10 SIS; l3l bushels OF corn. at market
price OF Coo per bushel. made $50: and that
:hc work required 10 care for the horses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-04
Which It Really Was.

From the Catholic Standard and Times.
"Oh, john" she exclaimed. now that
you've seen my new hat you simply can't
regret that got it. Isn't it just a poem?"
"Well, if it is replied John. II sup
pose proper title for 1T would be Owed
to Milliner.' !"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-04

ed during the year to $75.
The total Of these figures is S24S, or, in
other words, the cost of keeping horse
on his farm for a year was SlH
The feed now, of course, is extremely
high. In some localities however il is
valued at more than the prices stated
i'm the above report, but for the year
round these prices are little above the
average. This is subject that all are
interested in, and we would like TO hear
from others experiences along this line
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-04

FRANKLIN
PARK
Situated just across the beau
tiful Potomac River. on a high
ridge of the historic hills of
Virginia. and overlooking the
city of Washington from an ele-
walton of 500 feet, is the select
suburban colony known as
Franklin Park
1t Is on the highest point in
the original District of Column
bia and therefore most health
full.
The location is magnificent
and is not only beautiful in
itself, but the whole surround
ing country presents one end
less and charming panorama.
Nature has bestowed upon
this beautiful suburb so many
advantages that words fail to
do justice to it's manifold
charms, and it must be seen to
be appreciated.
Every one who visits Franklin
Park is walking. talking ad-
vertisement ever afterward.
You are not off in the wilder
ness at Franklin Park-you are
in the very center of refine
ment. culture and wealth. You
are only 40 squares from
Westinghouse minutes by
electric cars to the Treasury.
All who visit this section
cheerfully admit that it is the
most beautiful, romantic and
healthful section about the
National Capital and if as
much money had been spent in
advertising the actual advan-
tages Of this section across the
Potomac lying north and west
Of the Capital City on the hills
of Virginia as has been spent
advertising the property along
the Tennallytown and Chevy
Chase car line you would have
to pay ten times what l ask
for these lots.
A visit to Franklin Park will
convince you that it is just
what l say it is and even bet
ter.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
SUBURB IN THE MOST
BEAUTIFUL CITY IN THE
WORLD!
FRANKLIN PARK is a Sc
ries of gentle hills, grassy
slopes, margined by native
shrubs, and everywhere the
tall, stately trees form sur
roundings most enchanting.
The land is high and rolling,
with charming views in every
direction.
Think Of trees-of tall,
straight, beautiful trees of oak
nuu SHcSluul dIiu anu
beach. Think of acres and acres
OF trees-of virgin forest full
of trees-of a tract of land SO
beautiful, so alluring, that to
live merely in tent amid such
surroundings makes life worth
while.
TAKE A CAR RIDE OUT
TOMORROW AND SEE THIS
BEAUTIFUL SUBURB.
The lots are 5Ox2OO feet. and
the prices are about one-half
asked for lots adjoining.
/ have 600 lots in this addi-
ton, and am going to sell 200
lots at the extremely low price
of $3.50 to $3.50 PER LOT.
After these 200 lots are sold
the prices will be just double
what 1 ask now.
The terms are easy, only 1919
cash, $40 per month.
Call at my Office and let me
tell you all about this beau
tiful property.
r. nj. CONWAY, Inc.
1912 G st. NV Phone 3722a-M.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13

ed a new law for those counties which
violates every principle of Democratic
government and will be denounced by
nine-tenths of the people over whom 1t
operates. The Republicans in the Legis-
lature offered very simple solution Of
the whole matter. They offered the Re-
form Leagues Australian Ballot Lava
law that would be uniform for the entire
State. But nothing SO simple and fair
as that proposition could possibly ap-
peal to the Democratic managers, and
they have enacted special law for the
old Wilson-law counties, which virtually
denies the right of suffrage to thousands
of citizens of all political parties. All
names are to be arranged alphabetically,
but with no designation after the name
of the party to which the candidate be-
longs. 1t Is made crime to publish, in
any form, the ticket to be voted, prior
to the election. The voter is not to see
the ticket until he goes into the polling
place and has it handed him by the cleo
tion officials. That simply means that
when a voter is handed a ticket with if
teen or twenty names thereon, he will
vote many of them wrongly or not at all
Intelligent as we'll as unintelligent men
will do so. We do not anticipate that
this law will damage the Republicans
any more than it will the Democrats
perhaps not so much. But 1t is a dis
tinct blow at manhood suffrage, denial
of Democrat, political doctrine. For
this reason the people will resent it and
rebuke the "overlords" who are respon-
sible for 1t. We venture to assert that
these Democratic "overlords" have made
stupendous political blunder; they have
enacted an election law which will prove
more and more unpopular every year it
lives. Whom the gods would destroy,
ETC., etc"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13

sic Pyle, said to be grass widow, Of
Newark. He admitted driving OF the
team and was committed In default of
$500 bail. He Is also, the police say, the
man who stole the team of Barrett Camp
bell Of Childs, which Mrs. Ellis Ritten-
house, Wife Of the station agent at that
point, had left hitched in the rear of
the Hurn Block in Elkton, on the even
ing OF December 81. This team had also
been left at German stables, and the
proprietor, 1t is stated, identified Rem
shaw as the party who drove 1t there.
Renshaw, when arrested, was wearing
an overcoat which belonged to Richard
Lokau, of Wilmington, at whose house
he spent night last week, with a rela-
tive who boards there. Renshaw Is also
suspected Of firing the barn of Joseph
Pyle, near Newark, several weeks ago
Mrs Pyle, Renshaw's affinity" lives at
Joseph Pyles, and he is said to have left
the place about thirty minutes before
the fire started. His brother, it is said
states that he has not been right men,
tally since recovering from an attack Of
typhoid fever two years ago. Sheriff
Miller went to Wilmington on Sunday,
20 endeavor to gain custody of Renshaw
but as he is wanted in Delaware he could
only lodge detainer against him until
1t is determined whether or not he will
be prosecuted there for the theft of his
brothers team or other offenses
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13
WHAT DOES IT MEAN

WE offer a liberal reward for anyone
who will find a line of personal abuse"
in the editorial columns of the WING,
during the years we have controlled
those columns. Our criticisms are con-
fined, exclusively, to the public conduct
of public officials, which is a good deal
more than our Democratic contempor-
aries can legitimately affirm. In pur-
suance of this policy we again declare
that 1t is an outrage that Murray Van
diver, Treasurer of the State of Mary
land, should be allowed to go unarraign
ed in his defiant violations of the law,
and that Governor Crothers and Attorney
General Straus, after "a their show of
cal for the Corrupt Practices Act,
should have made no move to prosecute
this man for his violation thereof. What
does it all mean anyhow? Is Mr.. Vandi-
yer entirely above the reach of the law,
because he happens to be a Democratic
official? Is such an exhibition calcu-
lated to awaken the peoples respect for
the law or its loud mouthed advocates?
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13
Barnes Miller Sheriff Contest

Testimony of several Judges Oh Elec-
ton was taken before Justice H. H. Gill
pin, on Monday morning in connection
with the petition OF Richard X. Barnes,
defeated Democratic candidate for Sheriff
praying for recount of the votes cast
in certain districts or IN all the districts
of the county, for Sheriff, at the recent
election, as the Court might, in its dis
erection, deter nine. Mr.. Barnes and AL
bert Constable, Esq, one of his solicit
tors were present at the examination.
Miss Estelle Smith was sworn to take
down and transcribe the questions put
to witnesses and their answers thereto.
Charles P. Fitzgerald, of Calvert, one
OF the Judges of Election for the Ninth
district, was called first and testified
that, to the best of his recollection, at
least ten ballots were counted which
should have been rejected. They were
marked for the two nominees for Gov
ernor, but were correctly marked for
the other candidates. The judges acted
under the Primary instead of the Gen
eral Election Law instructions. Ballots
also were counted upon which the cross
| marks were not distinct but blurred
of the Sixth district judges, testified that
a number of ballots were cast there
which had been marked for too many
candidates for the Legislature, but were
| correctly marked for the other nominees.
These ballots were counted for those
| nominees for whom they had been mark
ed correctly. There might have been six
of these ballots. The judges had the
| books of instructions upon both the Pri-
| mary and the General Election Laws,
and as they had received the former
| last they thought it should govern them
| in the counting.
w. w. Burkley, of Elkton, a Judge for
| the Second Precinct of the Third district,
testified that two ballots were rejected
that bore slight pencil scratches which
| he thought were not identifying, but
| purely accidental marks. He thought
these ballots should have been counted.
| They were marked for Richard X. Barnes
| and the other Democratic candidates. He
| thought they should have been counted
| He was overruled as to the first and
| made no protest as to the second
James p. Mccoy, of Cecilton, one of
the First district judges, testified that in
| his opinion the tally sheets as made up
1 We're not correct. The clerks were at
times three votes apart in the count
| This occurred at least a dozen times.
They made frequent corrections. Wit
ness objected to signing the returns be-
cause he felt sure that there were err
rors in the totals, but he did sign them
finally, at the instance of a member of
the Democratic State Central Committee,
under protest, however.
Further testimony as to the count in
other districts or precincts is to be
| taken, and all that is obtained will be
| submitted to the Court so that it may
judge of it's sufficiency to warrant a re-
| count of the vote cast for Sheriff in the
whole county or in particular districts,
as in its discretion it may determine.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13
MORE ELECTION LAW FOLLY

THE managers of the Democratic party
In this State seem determined to dig
r. cir partys grave both wide and deep
and then push the party in for inescap-
able political interment. Any one seek
Ing the grounds for this statement is
respectfully referred to this Legisla-
lures handling of the Wilson County Bal
lot Law. This disgrace to the very name
of fair elections, this blot on the poll
tical history of Maryland has been exc
Grated by the States best citizenship and
Its repeal urgently demanded. The De-
mocratic bosses have turned deaf ears to
all such appeals, preferring to profit by
the trick ballots" in the Wilson law
counties. But the election OF Republic
can Governor gave the matter a new as
pect. 1t meant the appointment of a
Republican majority of the Election Sup
ervisors in those counties and the posi-
bility OF the Democrats being handed
the hot end of the poker If the Wilson
law continued in force This was differ
ent, you see. 1t was very admirable
law, so long as it's administration was in
the hands of Democratic officials and 1t
could be manipulated to suit their own
good pleasure. But when il came to
facing the prospect Of Republicans ad-
mnistering the law-well, that is such a
different matter as to be intolerable.
Hence the sudden anxiety of the Demo-
cratic bosses to be good and repeal the
law But when it came to drafting a
new measure, there were hitches-all
sorts OF suggestions, differences of opin-
ion, and political s-currents. The
result is that the Legislature has enact
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13
THAT PRIMARY LAW

IN opening the New jersey legislature,
Professor Prince, President of the Sen
ate, very perIinently reminded his COL
leagues that they We're not there as a
mere mouthpiece, pledged to every va
gary of the hour, shorn of the right to
use experience, mental power and even
conscience with regard to many ques-
tions of importance" Pity those words
could not have been branded into the
thinking compartment of our Annapolis
Legislators before they made themselves
a spectacle on Tuesday by shutting their
eyes and voting blindly for the new Pri-
mary ELL. A little conscientious exami-
nation of the Bill little independent
exercise of menta lpower, a little quiet
hour with experience, would have saved
them, we rather think, from infiicting
such piece of monumental legislative
folly on the people of this State. What
are the objections to the Law? Well, it
is pretty much all objections" We
cannot take the time and space just now
to recount them all The people will
discover the OBJECTIONS" with emphatic
disgust, when the thing goes into opera
ton. Just as a starter, think of holding
Presidential and Congressional Primar-
les the first of next May! Think of hav-
ing to express a preference for, to pick
out and designate, Congressional can
didate six months before the elections
Why not name him for Congress at his
babyhood christening, and be done with
1t? Think of expressing first and sec
ond choice for the Presidency of the L..
s. on the first of next May, The idea
Is too ridiculous, or eXasperating, to
command a respectful discussion.
And this is only starting the train of
objections to this Primary Law which
the Legislature and Governor Crothers
gave us on Tuesday. There are others,
a-plenty. The whole thing is cum
bersome, ill-joirted impractical, unde-
sirable, and withal highly expensive af-
fair, which can serve no good purpose,
except to show into what folly men will
decline when possessed of a-no, no, not
devil, not at all, not that at all-of a
FAD. Grattan's boy statesmen, rotten
before they're ripe" can do more harm
to genuine good government with few
popular fads Of the hour, than can be
rectified by the sound judgment of a
generation.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13
BACK GIVES OUT
Plenty OF EIkton Readers Have This
Experience

You tax the kidneys-overwork them
They can't keep up the continual strain.
The back gives Quit aches and pains;
Urinary troubles set In.
Don't wait longer-take Doan's Kid
ney Pills.
Elkton people tell you how they act.
George c. Lammey, North street, Elk
ton, Md, says: Il am convinced that
Doan's Kidney Pills did me far more
good than any other remedy ever used
and for that reason ! am only too pleas
ed to publicly endorse them. l suffered
constantly from pains in my back and
the secretions from my kidneys annoyed
me by passing irregularly. / had seen
Doan's Kidney Pills highly recommended
for complaints of this kind and / pro-
cured a box at Frazer's Drug Store. The
results of their use were speedy and
gratifying l am now free from kidney
trouble and ! do not hesitate to give
Doan's Kidney Pills the credit for max
ing this cure"
For sale by all dealers. Price 30
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New
York, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and take
no other.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13
RISING SUN.

Miss Sarah Conard has returned to her
home in West Grove after wishing Mr..
and Mrs. Charles s. Pyle.
Miss Mamie Gerben, of Baltimore, has
been recently visiting Mr.. ]. c. Hind
man and family.
Mr.. Timanus ]. Wilson, of Tonawanda,
N. Y, visited his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
T. j. Wilson, Maple Lawn, last week.
The Social Sewing Circle was enter
tanned by Mrs. Albert L. Burlington on
Wednesday afternoon. Usual crowd
present.
Miss Marietta Mearns, of Zion, was
the guest of her cousin, Miss Grace A.
Wilson, over last Sunday.
Mrs. Harry Sheppard and daughter,
Emma Jean, have returned from visit
with relatives in Middleton, where Jean
has been quite sick since Xmas.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13
PERRYVILLE

Mrs. William Schumm and Mrs. L.
Grovenstine spent Tuesday last in Bal
timore.
Mrs. William Herman and son. Elmer,
of Atlantic City, visited Mr.. William
Schumm and family last week.
Mrs. David Shank and daughter, OF
Wilmington, visited her sister, Mrs.
Norman Nc <ullen, on Thursday.
Mr.. William Scott has this week NOV
ed his family to Wilmington.
Mrs. David Hoffecker entertained the
Ladies' Art Circle on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Smith have oc-
cupied one Of A. H. Owens new houses
on Otsego street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver McCabe of Balti-
more, Misses Annie and Lydia, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Smith, of Halethorpe, Mr..
Jacob Schneider, of North East, were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. William Schumm
on Sunday at which time their daughter,
Kathrina Christina was baptized by Rev.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13
Two States Want Horse Thief

Late last Thursday night or early on
the following morning the finest horse in
Wilmer Renshaw's livery stables in New
ark was stolen as well as a set of har-
ness and buggy. Last Friday after
noon the team was located at Germans
stables, Sixth and Shipley streets, Will
mington, where it had been left by Lewis
V. Renshaw, brother of the owner, who
had worked for the latter for some time
past, but had recently disappeared. Rem
shaw, who is 70 Yeats old, was arrest
ed on Saturday, at French street sta
ton, where he was waiting for Mrs. Ell
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13
sLIsHED is4I
JUST WHAT IS WANTED

I call attention to the financial
sment from the Commissioners Of
which Is published on the first page
this issue. This statement shows
457,744.O9 of the levy for 1911 uncollected
and unexpepded. From this amount you
must deduct about $1,000 for "insolyen-
cies,' bill of over $4,000 just presented
for bridge work, the December Circuit
Court expenses and other December bills,
the remainder will represent what the
county has to go on for the next six
months of it's present fiscal year, ending
June 80, 1872. In other words, out of
total tax levy of $156,446 there remains
only some $4,000 to carry the county
through the full half of the year for
which this levy was made. All of which,
we respectfully submit, fully confirms
our contention that the county has been
using the tax receipts of the present ifs
cal year to pay old debts, and amply dis
proves the misleading statements of the
Cecil Democrat, and other political fin
anciers, that the COUNTY HAD NO
DEBTS, BUT WAS IN SPLENDID FL
NANCIAL SHAPE"
Turning from this phase of the subject,
we most cordially commend this financial
statement as just the sort of information
to which the people are entitled and
which they will doubtless appreciate. We
contend and have for a long while con-
tended that it would be a wise and popu-
lar move for the County Commissioners,
after each monthly meeting, to publish
a statement of their receipts and item
lied expenditures, while that informa-
tion is fresh and of special interest. This
would not increase, perhaps lessen, the
expense 10 the county, by enabling them
to do away with the cumbersome and very
unsatisfactory statement which is pub
lished at the end of the year. Instead Of
that long involved statement, they could
then simply publish a summary, showing
the county's receipts and expenditures
and financial condition. Everyone to
whom this suggestion is made has thus
far approved it, and we hope our county
Representatives at Annapolis will put it
through.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13


Mr.. A. 4. Duyckinck ana dass1te
Mrs. Stewart n. Ward. wefe n FhfIade1-
phia On Friday Of previous week
Mr.. Frank Reynolds, Of 'Boeton, g9ye
an entertainment in the town hall Iaet
Wednesday night He proved 70 be very
entertaining. singing humorous sonss
and ballads. rectted, told stories and linz
personated characters.
Miss Mary Campbell, who has been
employed as milliner. elsewhere. II
spending some time at the home Of her
mother here.
Miss Ella Holden entertained the Daisy
Club ON Tuesday. January 2, and nine
members were present
Miss Mollie Keen Is enjoying a VISIT
in Philadelphia and West Chester.
The young folks have been enjoying
the SEEDING on DR.. Dare's hill The
snow last Monday spoiled the skating
on Hunters dam.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13

latter was found asleep in his room and
was carried down stairs by rescuers. The
firemen saved The building from total
destruction and got out some of the
household effects. Neghbors also lent
assistance. The loss is put at from $500
to $4,000, with partial insurance.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13
Stole $10O At A Fire

Fire, caused by defective fue, caused
considerable damage to the home of
Louis Klair in Havre de Grace, on Sat
urday morning. During the confusion
a purse containing 800, hidden between
the mattresses of bed, was stolen from
the premises by some party unknown.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13
Fight Blaze On Cold Nipht

Middletown firemen were called about
a. M on Tuesday to fight blaze which
started in the second story of the double
frame dwelling located in the centre of
the town, occupied by Isaac T. and
Harry r. Wilson, father and son. The