The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-07-13


Office from July Is to July 27
Company E, Maryland National Guard,
will leave tomorrow for an encampment
of two weeks, at Mt. Gretna, Pa.
James Moran, aged seven years, VINO
was bitten by mad dog last week, has
been taken to Pasteur institute for treat
inent.
The Rev. H. T. Huffman. of Cincinnati,
Ohio, who has accepted the call to the
West Nottingham Presbyterian Church,
assumed charge of his new duties last
Sunday.
Amos Allies. for the past tnrrty years
| superintendent at the Cecil Paper Mills,
at New Bridge, has resigned and Theo-
dore Bickney, of Coatesville, Pa, has
| been appointed his successor
Eight young white men of Elkton, who
were indulging in crap game on tn~
| outskirts of town last Sunday, made
hurried trip over the Delaware line when
| local officers made visit to their camp
| for the purpose of arresting the VIOLA
| tors, who made a practice of conducting
crap games and other forms of gambling
| on Sundays.
The actual work of grading for the new
Delaware College Athletic Field, to be
known as "Joe Frazer Field" was start
ed on Monday.
The 221 acre Lockwood farm, near
Warwick, has been purchased by R. B.
Merritt, Jr,, for SIT $50.
The owners of the Elkton cannery nave
contracted with the farmers to grow
more than 200 acres or tomatoes.
The Cecil Farmers Club, which has
suspended meetings for the summer, will
give a banquet to the wives and daugil
| ters o, it's members, in August.
| A recent festival given by the ladies of
Colora, netted $40.
| Services have been discontinued at
Port Deposit Presbyterian Church for
the month Of July.
New buildings are being erected at the
| Colora Cannery.
| The Epworth League OF Norca East NJ
E. Church will hold bake to be follow
ed by a porch party, at the H. H. Sim
pers building on Main street, this Sat
urday) afternoon and evening.
The congregation of Leeds NJ. p.
Church will hold their annual carnival
on the evening of July "a and 25.
The National Bank of Elkton has been
repainted.
The construction of an electric light
| plant and waterworks for Rising Sun,
began this week
Thomas Duff, of New Bridge killed two
copperhead snakes, sc and 3S inches in
| length. which he caught devouring his
young chickens.
While bathing in the Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal at Lorewood Grove, near
st. Georges, Del, July 4, Evan Forderer,
aged Is, of Philadelphia, was drowned
He accompanied his parents on an excur-
sion, and although unable to swim, he
went into the canal with several other
| boys.
John Stout, a farm hand, of Mt. Pleas
ant, Del, drove his team across the
| Pennsylvania Railroad tracks in front
of the Norfolk express train, on Friday,
July s. The locomotive struck the car
raige and reduced it to splinters and
Stout was hurled thirty feet, but escaped
with few bruises.
Miss Dora Davis, of Elkton, was award
ed the piano in the voting contest con-
Quoted by the Cecil Democrat.
While putting tin roof on building
at Colora, recently, Edward McMullen
split one of his fingers open with piece
of lin.
Helen, the eight year old daughter of
L. R. Vansant, rocked off the porch at
her home in Galena, on Tuesday, and
broke her arm.
The Fifth and Ninth districts of Cech
county will organize a Sunday School
Union in the Bay View Methodist Pro-
testant Church, tomorrow.
The 1913 class of Calvert High School
will hold a fair and festival on the school
lawn, Wednesday evening, July II.
The Christian Endeavorers, of Mary
land will hold an Institute at PenMar
from July 22 to July 2S.
The funeral of Washington Brown, a
respected colored citizen of the Ninth
district, took place on Sunday with in
terment at Cedar Hill Cemetery
While harvesting near Rising Sun, Cech
ameltz recently lost his purse contain
ing about so.
Bethesda NJ. p. Sunday school at Como
wingo, will hold its annual Children 5
Day services on Sunday, July 81.
Mrs. Benjamin Devonshire of the Con-
owingo section, was recently operated on
at lHlois hospital, lol dpeHulClIls.
A colored boy, employed on the farm
of Mrs. Ellen Tosh, near Colora, fell
from a load of hay last Saturday and
severely il iured his hand with a pitch
fork.
Scarlet fever has broken out in the
home of Luther McCardell at New Valley.
horse belonging to Samuer McCardell
of the Rising Sun section, died last Sat-
urday.
Thomas H. Harlan, of Elkton, lost a
valuable horse last Saturday.
Dr. Charles Dawson, formerly bacter-
iologist at the Delaware College expert
mental station, has been awarded a gold
medal by the Baltimore Medical College
Alumni Association for research work
on anthrax
Two Italians and a negro held up and
robbed a Pennsylvania Railroad track
walker at Principle, on Monday night,
relieving him of a watch and a small
amount OF IN, rey
The ladies' of Wesley Chapel, Elk
Neck. will hold an ice cream festival on
| Erilly evening July lg II stormy neXi