The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-07-27


horse last Saturday.
Elmer Reese has purchased the Clay
ton Balderston estate near Colora, for
$35OO.
Clifford England, of near Calvert, lost
valuable work horse last week from
throat trouble
The Elkton Junior base paIi club gave
pleasant excursion to Betterton on
Tuesday on Ono ii.
COW belonging to Harry Alexander,
near Woodlawn, was recently struck by
lightning and killed.
The dance held in the K of p Hall,
at Lewisville, on Friday night of last
week was well attended.
Children's Day services will be neld at
Bethel NJ. E. Church. Summit Bridge, to-
morrow, Sunday. evening.
Samuel Boyd of Nottingham, fell into
the cellar Sunday evening, wrenchng his
side and badly jarring him up.
While playing games at a lawn party,
Charles Nesbitt, Jr., of Colora, badly
strained the ligaments of leg.
Mrs. Boyd McCay, of Summit Bridge, Is
suffering from painfully injured foot
caused by a horse stepping on it last
Saturday.
Leroy Bloomer, of Chesapeake City, was
taken to Baltimore by Dr.. Clifton Laws
yesterday and was operated on for ap-
pendicits last night
A buggy belonging to C. H. Cameron,
of Colora, was run into by an automobile
last Monday. wheel was taken off,
but Mr.. Cameron was not injured.
The members of Company E, Maryland
National Guard, returned to Elkton on
Wednesday afternoon, after spending ten
days in encampment at Mt. Gretna, Pa.
DR.. E. S. Rowland, of Liberty Grove,
recently gave chase in his automobile, to
dog infected with rabies and killed the
animal by running over it with his ma
chine.
Joseph Hopkins, who disappeared from
his home in Elkton some time ago, has
returned to his family and refuses to
make a statement as to his sudden dis
appearance.
Rev. Huffman, pastor of West Not
tingham Presbyterian Church, will preach
in Octoraro Peoples Meeting House every
other Sunday, beginning the second Sun
day in August.
William Queck, Jr., who has been en-
will leave next week for Los Angeles,
his future home.
The Ladies' Aid of Leeds NJ. p. Church
will hold their July meeting Wednesday
evening, July 81, at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. w. Barrett Campbell, Childs.
All are welcome.
An automobile struck the carriage in
which Mrs. Frank Price, colored, was rid
ing on Sunday near Middletown. The
woman was thrown from the carriage and
sustained a fractured limb.
Rev H. B. Phelps will conduct SER
vices and the Sacrament of the Holy
Communion in St. Andrews Episcopal
Church tomorrow Sunday afternoon at
8 o'clock. Sunday School at 2.3O.
Odd Fellows of Pennsylvania, Della
ware, Maryland, District of Columbia
and Virginia are making arrangements
for the third annual reunion of the order,
which will take place at Pen-Mar Aug. o.
An excursion to Betterton will be given
next Wednesday for benefit of the I'm
provement Fund of the Elkton NJ. E.
| Church. Boat leaves the wharf at 1.9O p.
m. and returning leaves Betterton at S
o'clock. Tickets, 65 cents.
After an illness of some months Mrs.
| David W. Colpitts, wife of the station
| agent of the p, B. & w. r. R., at Mount
| Pleasant, Del, died last week of tuber-
cuosis. She is survived by her husband
son and daughter, Miss Dorothy.
The B. & o. r. r. Co. is now running
trains over the new cutoff at the west
| end of the Susquehanna bridge, Havre de
| Grace. This Improvement. which has
been in progress for the past two years,
removes a dangerous curve in deep cut.
The Cecil Farmers Club will hold an
outing at Betterton, on Thursday, Au-
gust s. The trip will be made on the
steamer Susquehanna from Port Deposit,
and arrangements have been completed
| to secure dinner at the Rig5ie Hotel at
| Betterton.
| The Ladies' Aid Society of Mt. Pleas
ant Church Colora, has elected the fol-
lowing officers for the next six months:
| President, Mrs. Samuel Kennard; vice
president Mrs Harry Poist; secretary,
Mrs b. l.. McFarland treasurer, Miss
| Esther Poist.
There will be no services at the Head
| of Christiana and Christiana village
| churches during the month of August,
| owing to the absence OF the pastor, the
Rev. Adrian NanOveren, who will spend
| his vacation at his former home, Grand
! Rapids, Mich.
James Oldham, student at the Elkton
| High School, who has been making his
vacation money at the Elkton Pulp
| Works, met with a painful accident on
| Thursday morning when several bones
| of his left hand were broken when
F., caught in a machine
| The directors of the First National
Bank of Havre de Grace have chosen
| William NJ. Coale, cashier to succeed
Robert X. Vanneman, deceased Mr..
| Coale has been connected with this bank
| for 20 years, having begun his work at
| the time of the banks organization in
| 1888. He has been paying teller for Il
| number of years.
An interesting Friends meeting under
the auspices of Rising Sun and Penn
Hill associations was held Friday OF last
| week at Octoraro Peoples Church, when
two prominent English Friends were pre-
sent. They We're stephen Hobhouse, who
| spoke on Peace from the Young Friends
| Paint of View" and Francis Taylor