The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-08-10

proved with a new dam breast.
James Polk. son of Rev. Samuel Polk.
formerly of Colora, is a patient in the
Mercer Hospital, Trenton, N. ].
The members of the Methodist Sunday
School of Zion, will hold their annual
picnic, August 21, in Alfred Cameron's
grove.
Raynor Carey, instructor of the man
ual Training Department at North East
High School, has resigned his position
and will go to Alaska and teach manual
training in Sitka.
The body of Harry EeIchart, aged 16
years. sum ner boarder at Prum Point,
at head of the Chesapeake Bay, who lost
his life by drowning in Chesapeake Bay
Monday afternoon, has been recovered
and sent to the home of his parents in
Philadelphia.
Prof. Thompson F. Williams, of Port
Deposit, has accepted the appointment
as choir master and organist at St.
Michael's and All Angels Protestant
Episcopal Church, Baltimore.
C. C. Pyle, retired Cecil county
school teacher, sustained a paralytic
stroke at his home in the upper section
of Cecil county and is in a serious con-
dition.
Big Elk Sunday school will hold its
annual picnic in Elmer E. Janney's
grove, Friday, August :S, all day and
evening Ice cream, cake and candy for
sale. IL stormy, next day.
The members of the Junior base ball
club, of Elkton, will hold a lawn festi-
val on the grounds back of Mechanics
Hall, on North street. on Saturday even
ing, August II. All kinds of refresh
ments will be for sale. Everybody turn
out and help the boys along and spend
pleasant evening.
While attending the funeral of her sis
ter in Camden, n. j., last week, Mrs.
Charles H. Howell, aged II years, mother
of Miss Ida V. Howell, principal of the
Middletown High School, met with a
painful accident by falling heavily over
foot-scraper at the front door and dis
located her shoulder besides injuring
some of the ligaments. She was taken
to the Cooper Hospital and after an ex-
animation was pronounced by the physi
clans not hurt internally and that she
would soon recover
The ladies of Sylmar Churcn Will hold
pie social on j. C. Reynolds lawn this
Saturday evening. Come out and buy
wear Sunday pies. In addition there will
bSAice cream and cake for sale.
New sanitary machinery has been in
stalled in Liddells creamery at Liberty
Grove.
Rev w. w. Jones, who ror the past
year has been pastor of the A. U. NJ. P.
Church, Elkton, was given a hearing be-
fore the bishop of the Conference and the
official board of the local church We'd
nesday night on the charge of conduct
unbecoming a minister. He was sus
pended as pastor of the church and from
pastoral duties in the Conference.
Thomas B. Tinney, of the Fourth dis
trict, has been appointed to succeed
Raynor Carey as manual training tea
cher at North East High School. Mr..
Tinney is graduate of the Mechanical
Engineering Department at Delaware
| college in 1910, and the Latin-S Scientific
course in 1912.
Rev. William Crawford, pastor of Port
| Deposit Presbyterian Church, was in
| jured in an automobile accident last
week at Holyoke, Mass, where he is
spending his vacation.
William E Riley purchased the small
| farm of w. j. kearney, near Rising Sun,
| on Tuesday at Attorney R. C. Thackery' S
\ sale, for $525.
DR.. Marshall Price, secretary of the
State Board of Health, asserts that be-
tween thirty and fifty per cent. OF the
cows in Maryland are tubercular, and
| their milk is not only unfit but danger
Gus to drink.
| Failure to agree upon cemetery in
which to inter the remains of Jane
! Clarkson, colored, who died at the resi-
dence of Martha Taylor, at Iron Hill
has resulted in a serious outbreak among
the surviving members of several negro
| families, all closely related to the de-
| ceased.
| j. Clarence Emrey, who graduated
| from Millersville, Pa, Normal School in
June, has been elected principal of the
Nottingham High School for the coming
school year
David Duncan, of Philadelphia, a Cen
tral High School athlete, narrowly es-
capped a watery grave in Elk River, one
day this week, by the upsetting of his
| canoe, He was, however, rescued BY
Harold Garrett, of Elkton.
The blacksmith shop or a. b. Keen, in
| Rising Sun, narrowly escaped being
burned on Friday evening of last week
Mr.. Keen, in lighting his gasoline torch
| preparatory to doing some rubber tire
work, set fire to some of the fluid that
had spilled on the bencn. IN reaching
for the receptacle containing the gaso-
line to move it to a place of safety, ii
| was upset, the gasoline splashing about
and catching fire Immediately. After {
few minutes the flames We're smotheret
by the use of some old bags that hap
! pened to be near at hand
The net amount made at tne recent
carnival of the Aetna Hose, Hook anC
Ladder Company, of Newark, proves tt
be the large sum of $2406 90.
a going barge of 1900 tons capacit!
is about ready for launching at tht
Henry Deibert Barge Building Com
pany's yards in Chesapeake City
Harry Moore, of Elkton, employed b,
the Moro Company, of Elkton, wa
badly Jruised on Thursday Afternoon
when the pair of horses he was orlvinj
became frightened when part of thu