The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-02-03
Vull moon yesterday at S.5s p. m.

View. this Saturday evening. February
I3. Admission, 15 cents. Come and help
the boys along.
Members of local Equal Suffrage League
| advocated the franchise for women es-
pecially in municipal elections, before
| the Wilmington City Charter Commits
sion and provide for equal suffrage in the
proposed new charter. The slogan of the
| women is For the taxes we pay. for the
| laws we obey, we want something to
say"
Master Harry T. Grant has been quite
| sick at his home near Cowantown, with
bronchitis.
| NJ. F. Magraw announces elsewhere
clearance sale of farm implements, car
riages, wagons, etc., at the Singerly
warehouse near Elkton railroad station.
| at p. m. on Saturday. February 10.
Growers in various sections are re-
ported as fearing that temperatures
| around and below zero have not only
| killed peach butts, but trees as we'll.
many having been split open during the
| recent cold spell. Fears are felt also
| for strawberry vines.
Aspirants for local political plums are
coming forward. Col. Joshua M Ash
and Levi q. Cameron are reported as
| willing to serve as magistrates, William
P. Dean as Coroner and j. Will Perkins,
John R. Mahoney, Grason l.. Bennett and
]. X. P. Racine as notaries public.
| The Amos Hughes property, near Lapi-
| dunn, has been sold to John VI. Macklen
for $500.
| Mrs. Kate E. R. Clark, wife of E. l..
Clark. died at her home in Delaware City
| on Tuesday. Interment was made yes
terday in St. GEORGES cemetery.
Lord Mott & Co., of Baltimore, are
contracting with Kent farmers for toma-
toes for the coming season, at 50 per
ton, 81 more than last season. Caroline
growers are disposed to stand out for
S11 per ton. The Snider Company Is
offering SO per :On to growers in the
| Newark section.
Falling from a freight car in the West
Yard. Wilmington, one day last week,
Arthur w. Lindsay, of Perryville, P,
Is. & W. R. r. workman, was severely in
jured. His left leg was hrOken below
the knee. his wrist fractured and his face
bruised. He is under treatment at Dela-
ware Hospital.
| Mrs. Rebecca A. Harriott having sold
her farm, on the outskirts of Chesapeake
| City, will have public sale of stock,
farm machinery, implements and other
personal property, on the farm, on Fri
day, February 20.
| Thomas ]. Murray, of Elkton, Journal
Clerk of the House of Delegates, has filed
application for appointment as State Au-
| tor a ba vi.
Havre de Grace Presbyterian cungre.
CATION Will hold meeting next Saturday
February 10, to call pastrr
George Murray, has bought George j.
Cashos 100 acre farm, near Iron Hill, for
900.
Miss Helen VI. Cast, OF Mechanicsburg,
Pa, will succeed Mrs. Ida r. McCrone as
a teacher in Middletown Academy
CAPT. Carroll Edgar. of Company E, OF
Elkton, First Regiment NJ N. G., has
been chosen director of the Maryland
State Rifle Association for the next two
years. He and Private Leroy Sykes, OF
Elkton, are eligible as contestants for
membership in the National Rifle Asso-
ciation's team to enter the Argentine,
Canadian and Swedish International rifle
contests. Tie try-out for the Argentine
contingent will be held on the Marine
Corps Range at Winthrop, Md, on April
10, and the men selected will sail for
Buenos Ayres on April 20
Prof. Rowland Watts, formerly of the
Eighth district who lllled chair at
Washington College, Chestertown, for
some years, has been appointed one of
the assistant superintendents of the
Baltimore City schools, at a salary OF
$22OO year. He was a member of the
faculty of the Baltimore Polytechnic In
stitute when nominated
Fishing for yellow perch with lead
minnows through holes in the Ice is a
popular sport with North East residents,
who are making good catches.
Charles A. Benjamin has been chosen
President, Andrew Anderson. Vice-Presi-
dent. II. G. Reeder. Cashier and Clar-
ence Diggs, Assistant Cashier of the Ma
tional Bank of North East.
President w. T. Warburton, of the Gill
pins Falls Electric Company, has noti-
fed Rev. j. P. Otis that the company will
make no charge save for material (which
Will be supplied at cost for wiring the
new M. E. Church and parsonage in North
East.
Residents of the Darlington and Glen
vile section ot Hartford county, are
working for a new bridge at Deaths Ford
Deer Creek.
Mrs. Thomas B. Miller is President of
the newly organized Ladies' Auxiliary
Committee OF Union Hospital for the
Fourth district.
Singerly Fire Company will choose
twelve directors for the coming year at
its annual meeting in Council Hail. on
Monday evening
Sleet-covered sidewalks this week call
ed for confidence as we'll as agility to
keep ones footing.
The dates for the Mission Study class
in Trinity Parish House, Elkton, were
changed from Monday and Tuesday OF
this week to February and g. The
opening session will be held from to
430 p. m. on Monday. Sessions will be
held on Monday evening and on Tuesday
in the morning and afternoon. Mrs r
w. Keas. of Berlin. will conduct the
class. Ladies of the congregation and
all others interested are cordially in
vited to attend the sessions.
Joshua Clayton, Esq, attorney, has