The Cecil Whig., 1912-05-04

fhOM certain rumOrS that reach US
every now and again, somebody may be
SO over jealous In these days as to have
to face Grand Jury under the provi-
sions Of the new Corrupt Practices Act.
The election officials, registers, judges
and clerks qualified before the Board of
Supervisors at Elkton on Monday for
service at next Mondays primaries.
Look for Woodrow & James sale of
Holstein cows in another part OF paper.
The Calithumpians turned out on Tues
day night and complimented Mr. and
Mrs, Rufus E. Bowland, Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Egner and Col and Mrs. |. ID. Davis,
with trousing'' serenades.
Frank Cooper, we'll known colored
resident of Elkton, died on Saturday of
consumption.
Barnum Baileys circus is billed In
Wilmington for Friday, May 10.
Mark E. Founders, Cashier of the Ris-
Ing Sun National Bank, went to Whining
ton on Monday for treatment for appen-
dicitis.
Ladies OF Trinity congregation cleared
$3.50 from their bake and cake sale held
in the vacant store in the Hurn Block on
saturday afternoon
Teachers and pupils of Andora School
are arranging for Carnival" to be
held on its grounds on Friday evening,
May II. Everybody will be welcome.
Bay View Council o. U. A. M. will OBJ
serve its eighteenth anniversary ON Sat-
urday, May IS.
a little daughter of Oliver Burton, of the
Earlevil4e section. The dog was killed
and found, after an examination of its
head to have been rabid. The child was
taken to a Pasteur Institute for treat
ment.
Communion services were held by Rev.
B. ]. Brinkema. the pastor, in Rock
Church, Fair Hill on Sunday.
The Woman's Missionary Society, of
Rock Church will meet at 2 p. m. this
Saturday. afternoon at Mrs. David Lind
seys home at Providence.
Primary election Monday. Republi-
cans will vote for President and conven-
tion delegates; Democrats for President,
delegates and Chief Judge of the Circuit
Court.
The net proceeds from the box social
he'd on Saturday in the old church at
Johntown, near Earleville, exceeded SIS.
Miss Bertha Lynch, of Warwick, is at
Union Hospital for treatment for appen-
dicitis with which she was seized last
Friday, while visiting her sister, Mrs
Harry Pensel, in Chesapeake City.
DR.. William B. Lowry, veterinary sur
geon, of Washington, ID. c., will locate
In Elkton next week for practice, with
an Office in the new Taylor building on
the Howard House yard, North street
E. T. b. Day has erected new office
building at his basket factory in North
| East
The report that Rev. Wilson T. NJ.
Beale, of Salisbury, former pastor si
Z:gG and Rock Churches had been ten
dered call to West Nottingham Presby-
terian Church. is denied by the trustees
OF the latter church.
The ladies Guild, of st. Anne's Church,
Middletown, cleared S22.33 from their re-
cent bake and rummage sale
District Superintendent Rev. E. l.. Hof-
fecker preached at North East on Sun
day evening and held quarterly conference
| in the new parsonage Monday morning.
Among brood of chickens, Matched
out on Sunday by one of his hens, John
| E. Alexander, of Elkton, found one hav-
| Ing four perfect legs.
| Edward w. Lockwood, of Vancouver,
| British Columbia, has been spending the
| past two weeks with his sister, Miss Ada
| Lockwood, of Middletown, his former
home, which he left twenty eight years
| ago.
Stewards of the NJ. E. Conference for
| Wilmington District met in Asbury
Church in that city, last week. The sal
| superintendent, was fixed at $2O50, as al
| present. The amount of the Episcopal
! fund was set at $4OO, the Freedmens Aid
fund at $500 and the Conference Academy
| .und, $500 r. S. Doomis r. /. Finn and
j. w. Winner were appointed auditors OF
/ the District Superintendent accounts.
| Rev. Joel Giltillan, Evangelist for New
| Castle Presbytery, has been reelected O
member of the Newark Board of Educa
tion for term of three years.
| Amos l.. Ewing has been chosen Sup
erintendent and Miss Annie Yerkes Sec.
| retary- Treasurer of Blake Sunday
School, reorganized for the summer.
| Friends and relatives of Scott Gregg
the we'll known base ball player of New
| ark, are troubled as to his whereabouts
He left about a month ago for Wilkes
Barre, Pa, where he was to play third
base on the team of that city, and has
not been heard from since.
| Delaware College and the North Caro-.
lima Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege teams lined up on the formers dia-
mond last Friday and the visitors wor
in game that was quite close after the
| first inning, by a score of II to 7.
| Tome met the Boys Latin School team
| of Baltimore, on the formers damon
| on Saturday and in a loosely played
| game the latter won by a score of II tc
!. Weems, Tones "aptainf1 did no.
as he is nursing a broken leg.
| Robert j. Morrisons home at Newark
was entered one day last week by a sneak
| thief, who stole a pair of gold mounted
| eye glasses and several other articles.
| Samuel Miller, tailor, of Newark, has
| learned that his brother was on the lost
| White Star liner Titanic, and left fol
New York. hoping for news of the re-
covery of his body, as his name was moi
| in the list of survivors.
| Surveying and other preliminary work
on the "Fra7er" Memorial athletic field
| at Delaware College has been completed
and 1t is expected that it will soon be
| made ready for use.
The handsome ambulance donated by
| the Rurns Bros. to the Havre de Grace
Hospital, is now finished and can BIZ
seen at their show rooms on Green street
and is fully up to the standard of splen-
did workmanship for which this enter
prising firm is noted.
Rev. o. b. Rice, of Lewisville, viii
preach in Rock Church at p. m. to
morrow. Rev. b. j. Brinkema, the pas
tor, is attending the Centennial celebra
ticn Of Princeton Seminary.
Georye \. Blake, ESQ, President ant
for sixteen years a member of the Ceci
County School Board. has owing to thu
! oonl'tion of his health rendered hi
-. on,