The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-03-23
News In Brief

Work is about to begin at the Govern
ments fish hatchery at the 'Pattery",
near Havre de Grace, in charge of NJ. J.
Glennon. Yellow and white perch fry
will first be Matched and shad fry later.
OF late years the output of shad fry at
the station has been comparatively small
The ice gorge in the sus luehanna be-
tween Shenk's Ferry and Pequea, broke
on Saturday, but another was formed in
the narrow stretch OF the river near Nc
Calls Ferry. Huge cakes were going
over the dam. The gorge at Safe Har-
Dor had not broken, bu. was wearing
away Al Columbia on Saturday after
noon the river was eight feet above low
water mark and steadily rising.
Miss Helen Taft, the Presidents daugh-
ter, presented fine bron card receiver
to st. David's Episcopal Church at Delta,
Pa, which was SO d last Friday evening
at ba ar held for the benefit OF the
church.
w. NJ. Worthington, of Havre de
Grace, has purchased and will work the
farm of Mrs. Susan d. Hopkins, near
Level.
will be held on April 10 for delegates to
the State Convention on April 16, to Sc
lect delegates to the National Conven-
tion in June.
Most of the terra Gotta drain pipes on
the roads in Kent county, it is reported,
have burst, after the severe frosts and
later heavy rains, and are to be replaced
with new ones made of iron.
Work was resumed last week on the
State road in Hartford county leading to
the Conowingo Bridge, at a point near
Gen Cove, where the old road bed was
hewn out of the rock Strata. The work
men encounter very little soil and no
mud.
William L. Amoss, or Hartford county,
former Director of Maryland Farmers
Institutes, has been appointed chief ag-
riculturist Spr a company owning $4,000
acres of land near Cumberland, Md,
which will be ultimately largely devoted
to fruit culture, but, in the meantime,
will be worked for growing grain and
other farm products.
Athletes of rural high schools are in
vited to the annual field and track meet
of the Maryland Agricultural College, at
College Park, Md, on May II, next. Gold,
silver and bronze medals will be awarded
similar to those offered last year 10 win
ners in the several events. Entry blanks
will be mailed to any school making ap-
plication.
For a mild easy action of the bowels,
a single dose OF Doans Reguets is
enough. Treatment cures habitual con-
stipaton. % cents a box. Ask your
druggist for them.
j. w. Skirven has bought George Bells
$40 acre farm located near Fancy School
"Dr. Thomas Eclectic Oil is the best
remedy for that often fatal disease
croup-Has been used with success in
our family for eight years. Mrs L.
Whiteacre, Buffalo, \. Y. -
Several tons cf hay In bales, piled to
a height of twenty eight feet, toppled
over in Duyckinck, Sterrett & Co.'S stor-
age house, in Rising Sun, one evening
last week The men who were loading
hay upon car had Just left the spot
with their trucks and We're in the car
when the tier of bales fell with crash
against the side of the building. heavy
heavy 6xS timber was snapped off, and
large hole was made in the weather.
boarding by the force and pressure of
the ling bales Had the men been
near the bales they might have met with
sarinus or faTal in iuripS