The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-10-12

James F. Hall, of Horse Shoe Farm,
New Bridge, obtained verdict against
Milton Kreider, of KinseyviIle, for dam
ages 10 his crops by the latter's cows.
A festival will be held in Carter Hall.
Elk Mills. this Saturday evening for the
benefit pf the Latter Day Saints Church.
All are welcome.
The trustees of the Cherry Hill VI e.
Church will hold a supper and bazar in
Red Mems Hall, Cherry HILL, ON Wednes-
day and Thursday evenings, October 2S
and "a. Proceeds for benefit of Improve
ment Fund.
william l.. Smith, of Cecilton, has
made an assignment to John H. }la.k for
the benefit OF creditors Mr.. Black has
filed his bond in the amount of $1,000.
with R. B. Merritt and John Anderson as
sureties
Miss Mary Brevard Roberts, of Phila-
de.phia, will give a dramatic recital of.
the Blue Bird, by Maeterlinck, in the
Elkton Opera House, Tuesday evening,
October 29. for the benefit of Union Hos
pital.
The ladies of the Head of Christiana
Sewing Circle will hold supper at the
home of Mr.. Bowen Mblburn, Barksdale,
Wednesday evening, October 3O Supper
rs cents. Public invited.
Frederick West, son of DR.. Frederick
West, of Kemblesville, Pa, was recent
ly injured in an automobile accident near
Newark, Del.
Donation days will be observed at I'm
ion Hospital Elkton, October 16 and H.
Ebenezer NJ. E. Church, near Green
hurst, will receive fresh coat of paint
at an early date.
Herbert Kirk, of the Rising Sun Sec
tion, received 7O3 bushels of wheat from
field of eighteen acres.
Rev. William Robinson, OF Wilmington,
has been appointed pastor of Rowland
vile, Bethesda and Porter's Grove Me-
thod.st Protestant Churches.
West Amwell Sunday school, County
Treasurer p. NJ. Groves, Superintendent,
will observe its 50th anniversary tomor-
row afternoon and evening At O'Clock
there Will be program of music and re-
citations with an address by w. T. War
burton, Esq. The address at 7.30 will be
us ihoiudo o. ciiiilu, VI DiluSeFiile, btl.,
former pupil of the school. The school
was organized in 1852 by the .ate John
Perkins, who was superintendent for 80
years. being succeeded at his death by
his son, j. Will Perkins, who served for
IL years and was in turn succeeded two
years ago by the present superintendent.
Failing from train at Port Deposit,
brakeman William Woodrow, of Liberty
Grove, fractured a hip and two ribs.
John NJ. Clark, of near Elkton, shot
chicken hawk, Tuesday, which measured
to inches from tip to tip of his wings.
A Democratic mass meeting is sched-
uled for next Fridoy evening in Elkton.
Governor Higgins. OF Rhode Island, Hon.
William l.. Marbury, of Baltimore, and
Congressman Covington are expected to
speak.
Mr.. William A. Wilson, of Elk Neck,
was operated ON at the German Hospital,
Philadelphia, last Saturday, for serious
abdominal trouble. About a year ago
Mr.. Wilson was operated on for appen-
dicitis and never fully recovered from
the effects of the operation. At last
accounts Mr.. Wilson was improving.
The Elkton cannery paid off its hands
yesterday and dismissed them. 1t wiz.
continue, however, to take tomatoes, so
long as they are not frost killed, ana
make them into tomato pulp for the
Snyder Preserve Company, Cincinnati.
The window of J. J. Minister'S Jewelry
store, on Main street, is displaying a
handsomely engraved copy of resolutions
adopted by the Baltimore City Council, on
May rs, as a tribute to the late Governor
A. l.. Crothers.
The Quarterly Conference of Zion Cir
cult was held in Zion NJ E. Church on
Thursday afternoon.
Princess March, the fine Prince March
colt of Boulden and Jones of Cecilton,
won from field of good horses at AL
tentown Fair, week bedire last, and
again last week at Trenton, n. j., Fair
taking a mark of 215 Ia
Mr.. Joseph Coudon (of Henry sold a
suckling calf last week that tipped the
scales at 300 pounds.
The Teachers Institute will be held in
Elkton, beginning on Monday, October 81.
A full program will be published in next
weeks WHIG.
A livery team, belonging to Thomas
Harlan, was mixed up in a driving acci-
dent on the Newark road, just above
Cow Run, last Saturday night. Mr.. Har-
lan's horse was punctured by the shaft
of the other team, but not fatally.
Col. John Gilpin, his sister, Miss Mar
garet, and his brother, David, are about
to move from their farm, near Elkton to
the Partridge Mansion on Main street,
owned by the former.
j. C. Crothers, of Colora, won a schol-
arship from Cecil county in the recently
organized chronological schoor of Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Michael Gardullo, the recent purchaser
of the Mrs. l.. H. Bennett property on
Main street, opened up a we'll stocked
grocery and provision store there last
Saturday.
Theodore Bouchelle, who has been
spending the summer near Elkton, has
gone to Nicaragua where he expects to
engage in gold mining.
regular monthly meeting of the Elk
ton Improvement Association will be held
in Council Hall next Monday evening, t
8 O'Clock.