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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-03-13
Watson.

Born, to the wife of J. b.
Watson, a son-Walter Christie
pher.
Mrs. G. R. Feese, who has
been on the sick list has about
recovered.
Misses Fannie and IRA Bault
were visiting the family of Mrs.
Hancock, last Tuesday.
Mrs. C. E. Walker was visit
ing Mrs. J. B. Watson, last
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Monte Hovious
passed through this place last
Saturday, to visit the latter's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. W.
Bault, of Holmes.
Mrs. W. S. Bault is on the
sick list.
Anise, the little daughter OF
MIR. Overstreet, is very sick at
this time.
Several of the farmers in this
community burned plant beds last
week.
MIR. and Mrs. Robert Watson
were visiting the latter's sister,
Mrs. Currie, last Saturday night.
]. H. Beard, the Holmes mer-
chant, has purchased the J. B.
Russell farm, for $12, 900.
Mr.. Beard sold his arm at
Holmes. to his father and broth
er, for $4,000.
Miss Bertha Dillingham; was
visiting Mrs. Ethel Russell, last
week.
Mrs. Lettie Beard was visit
ing her mother last Tuesday.
Several from this place attend
ed ]. ]. Humphreys auction at
Knihey, last Saturday.
G. A. Bault, of Holmes, spent
Sunday with his brother, W. D.
Bault.
H. C. HUMPHREYS bought OF
Matthew Overstreet one calf fol-
$40.
I'D. Eubank was IN this vi
cinity last week delivering goods
to parties.
Mrs. H. C. Pike was visiting
her uncle, w. S. Bault, last Fri
day.
Mr.. S. H. Jones and Llttletor
Beard passed through this neigh
borhood last Sunday.
Mrs. Fount Bean is very SIC
. with pulmonary trouble.
Matthew Overstreet delivere
: his last years crop of tobacco t
Spurlington, last week.
Our merchant, c. E. Walker
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The Roundup.

The ocean liner, the Olympic,
has twenty-nine steam boilers.
Nova Scotia coal mines employ
thirteen thousand persons.
The Japanese make vegetable
isinglass from six varieties of
seaweed.
A fifty mile telephone cable
will soon connect England
and Belgium.
Telephone service between
England and Switzerland has
been established over two routes.
A method of planting eyelashes
and eyebrows has been develop
ed by a French surgeon.
By the newest methods of max
ing diamonds, reported from Ber-
lin, the carbon crystals are form
ed by decomposing ordinary coal
gas with metallic amalgams of
mercury.
With modern machinery and
the employment of 10000, 900
stonecutters, masons, haulers,
ouarrymen and laborers, the
Cheops Pyramid could be dupli-
Gated in about two years.
There are scientists who de-
clare that the Gulf Stream does
not, as has been supposed, carry
warmth to the British Islands,
but that the temperate weather
of the islands is due to the warm
surface water on a long shelving
shore.
business men have been sur
prised to learn that the United
States Treasury Department only
introduced double entry book
keeping in the conduct of its
affairs within the last four years.
A small item was overlooked
in the bookkeeping department
of the United States Navy. 1t
was the charge for guns Install
ed on the battleships Florida and
Utah. The item was for the
trihing sum of 1890, 900.
Bridegrooms in Australia last
wear ranged from 16 to SO years
of age, and the records show the
youngest bride was Is and the
oldest 80. One man of II mar
ried a girl of Is. 1t is not sur
prising to learn that more marrl-
ages were reported from the
country than ever before.
Among the strange gifts Mrs.
Taft,has received are several sa'
cred tea plants from the garden
of the Buddhist priests in Ceylon'
The plants were sent to the Sec
rotary of Agriculture, who vii
have them cared for in the tea
farms of the Carolinas, whicf
are under supervision of the de-
partment.
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mean all except the United States
And, that being the case. Amer.
leans may as well become re-
signed to the gracious but I'M
grateful role of the benefactor. .
Louisville Times.
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is enjoying a good trade.

E. S. Rice, of near this place,
and Misses Emma and Clara
Robertson attended the party at
George Bault's last Saturday
night.
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13
DOINGS OF THE MARYLAND LEGISLATURE

When the Democrats came to the .ac-
tual point Of repeating the Wilson Bal
lot Law, they baked on doing the job
thoroughly and decently. The Republi-
cans offered in Its place the Reform
League Bill, making a uniform ballot for
the entire State. The Democrats prefer
red to adopt and jam through bill, Of
fered by Senator Bosley, of Dorchester,
which repeals the Wilson Law. but still
makes special election law for the So
called Wilson counties. The law pro-
vides that all candidates shall be put on
the ballot in alphabetical order, without
the words Democrat or Republican or
any other party designation after them.
1t also prohibits the use OF sample ball
lots or the publication of the ticket prior
to election, making 1t punishable Of
fense for any one to be found with
sample ballot in his possession. The
Republicans objected to this measure on
the ground that 1t would disfranchise
thousands Of voters, white and black;
that 1t vas against the whole doctrine
cf manhood suffrage" and created
class vote, that 1t unfairly Disseminated
against certain counties of the State,
etc. Minority floor leader Warburton
warned the Democratic majority that
their failure to deal honestly with the
ballot laws of the State spells disaster
for them two years hence when they seek
the peoples endorsement again.
The Democratic majority, however,
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Heirs To Share In Large Estate

Heirs of the late George p Whitaker
VIII shortly share in his residuary es-
tate now valued at about 1870, 900. The
late Caroline c. I'pdegraff, one of his
grand daughters, Joined with other heirs
some time ago in an effort to have the
Orphans Court authorize a distribution
but this was refused. Resort was had
TO bill in equity which was argued be-
fore the full bench of the Cecil Circuit
Court at the September term of 1910, by
Messrs. John s. Strahorn and James NJ
Munroe, of Annapolis, for the petition
ers, ana Messrs. F. T. Haines and George
A. Blake, for the respondent, Joseph
Coudon, Mr. Whitaker's surviving exc
ecutor. In December, 1910, Judges
Pearce, Adkins and Hopper signed a de-
cree ordering the distribution of the
residuary estate among Mr.. Whitaker's
grandchildren, they holding that the
trust estate created by Mr.. Whitaker for
the beneft OF his widow is ample to pro-
vide for her needs and that no part of
the residuary estate need be drawn upon
to support the trust estate. Mr.. Whit
aker by his will left $50 shares of the
Whitaker Iron Company, of Wheeling,
w. Va, in trust to his executors, the
dividends from which were to go to the
benefit of his widow, the residuary es-
tate supplying any deficiencies. The di-
vidends have supplied Mrs. Whitakers s
income and yielded large surplus, the
residuary estate now totalling about
$37O,00O. Mrs. Updegraff died since the
Courts decree was issued, and her ex-
ecutor, Maria c. Whittingham was made a
party to the proceedings on appeal in
her place. The Court of Appeals on
Tuesday affirmed the decree of the Cecil
Court and ordered costs to be paid cut
of the estate. The residuary estate will
accordingly be distributed but the trust
estate will continue during the life Of
Mr.. Whitaker's widow.
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Cars Piled Together At Childs

Traffic on the B. & o. r. R. was held
up on Saturday night and Sunday morning
by freight wreck at Childs, just above
Elkton. breaking arch bar caused the
derailing of one of the forward cars on
freight train, early In the morning,
and fifteen cars were piled up behind
Several were loaded with sIeep and cat
tie, two with cotton seed oil, one with
furniture and the others with miscel-
laheous contents. The grinding and
crashing of timbers were heard through
out the neighborhood. Twelve head Of
cattle and upwards of thirty sheep were
killed, and others of the animals were
injured. Some of the sheep ranabout
the fields. One car crashed against the
freight station, damaging 1t to the ex-
tent of $780, it is said. The damage to
stock, freight, ETC., is put at 100000
Wrecking crews from Wilmington work.
ed for the whole day and part of the night
clearing the tracks. B. & o. trains were
sent over the p, B. C w. tracks be-
tween Wilmington aud Perryville, until
the line was opened, at about s a. m. on
Sunday.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13

held its forces in line, jammed the bill
through. and 1t was signed by Governor
Crothers on Tuesday.
Tuesdays session was marked by the
rush passage of the new Primary Law.
BY many it has been thought the best
thing to do with the whole Primary Law
was to bury it entirely. Instead, the
Democrats have hastily concocted and
more hastily enacted an amended Pri-
mary Law, which Governor Crothers
signed as the last act OF his admlnistra-
tion and which will be more objection
able to the people tnan its predeces-
sor This new law preserves the ''enve-
lope" system of the old one, provides
for recount, for punishment of brih-'
cry, for first and second choice, for a
new registration in the whole State, with
reference to party affiliation, and for
Presidential and Congressional Primar-
les to be held the first Monday in May
next. The Republicans voted solidiy
against the measure and were Joined in
the Senate by Senator Hammond Demo
craft of Howard county. The Bill was
thus jammed through, without any ex-
animation or debate, and was signed by
Governor Crothers shortly after mid
night Tuesday.
Wednesday was given up to the new
Governors inauguration, after which the
Legislature adjourned until Monday next,
to give time for the presiding officers to
name the committees
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Total .......... ........12 IL miles
The road in the sixth district Is known
as the Rising Sun-Cather's Corner and
Corner Ketch road: Fifth district, the
North East-Bay View road; Second dis
trict. the Chesapeake City-St. Augustine
road; First district, Cecilton-Warwick
road, and Fourth and Ninth districts,
Blue Ball road
The County also has under construc-
tfon two miles OF road In the Fourth
district, between Fair Hill and Appleton,
Contractor e. Ward Brown; and has
contracted for two miles OF permanent
road from Gilpin's Bridge toward Barks-
daole, Contractor Thomas ]. Forsythe;
and two miles of permanent road from
Belle Hill to the Delaware line near Iron
Hill, Contractor Allen Engineering and
Contracting Compan-. The two latter
roads are in the Third Election district,
and work on same will. commence as soon
as the weather will Lermit. Contracts
call for completion Of both roads by
September 1.
The $106,079.50 expended on permanent
roads (with the exception of about $1,000
spent on the Blue Ball road was under
Survey, on whose certificates the above
amounts were paid.
In addition to the above bond issues
of $4,000, the County Commissioners
have solo $4,000 worth of 20 year bonds,
as of date December 5, 1911, to Mrs.
Evelyn s. France. at $1O4.30. This issue
of bonds has not as yet been delivered to
the purchaser.
SINKING FUND.
The County has OH deposit in the Ma
tional Bank of Elkton. for the use Of the
Sinking Fund, the sum of 15.7S3.91, draw
ing interest at the rate Of 8 1-2 per cent.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN H. TERRELL,
Clerk to the County Commissioners
OF Cecil County.
THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHESA-
PEAKE CITY.
Chesapeake City, Nd, Jan. s, 1912.
e. X. Taylor, Esqre., Tr. asurer
Elkton, Md
My Dear SIR
The balance on our looks, in the de-
partment subject to cheque, to your
credit is $S,087.63.
The amount or your interes.-bearing
certificate is $5,57S27.
Yours very truly,
RICHARD s. WALLIS,
Cashier
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PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Mr.. John Wilcox, of Westerly, Rhode Is
.ani. has returned home after spending
swo weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua M.
Ash.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank E. Williams, who
we're invited to join Governor Goldsbor-
ough's party on the trip to Annapolis, to
attend the inauguration, were prevented
from going by the formers illness. Mr..
Williams is again at his office, after be-
ing confined to the house for some days.
Mr.. l.. Price King, Of Warwick, and
Miss Beulah May Cullum, daughter of
Rev. c. NJ. Cullum. the recent esteemed
pastor of the NJ. P. Church, in that town
were married on December 28, at the
home of the brides parents in Pittsville,
Va. They will reside on farm near
Warwick after Monday next.
Little Elk Valley Five Hundred Club
will meet on January 20, at Mrs. David
Lindsey's. near Fair Hill:
Mr.. and Mrs. G. NJ. Senderling, long
residents of the Blake section, last
Thursday, to the regret of their many
friends. removed to Camden, N. j., where
they will reside with their son, Howard
Senderling.
Mr.. Clarence Brown and Mrs Eva Nc
H. Briggs, at Calvert NJ. E. parsonage
on Saturday evening.
Mrs. Agnes Evans, of Rising Sun, was
the guest of Elkton friends this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George R. Ash enter
tanned few of their friends at their
home Holly Hall, last Saturday even
ing.
Mrs. Albert Constable, Mrs. Frank b.
Evans and Miss Mary Hance gave a re-
ception to large number of their
friends, last Friday afternoon, at the
home of Mrs. Constable They were as
sisted in receiving by Mrs. Charles B.
Finley, Jr., and Miss Schofeld, of An
napolis, and Mrs. Robert c. Lewis pre-
sided over the dining-room. Several out
of town guests were present
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Donnelly have
been visiting in New York.
Miss Corinne lamar is entertaining
Miss Given, of Philadelphia
Miss Bessie Clements was the recent
guest of friends in Philadelphia
Miss Eli -abeth Street, of Philadelphia
has been spending some time with Miss
Mary Hanoc.
Mrs. Walter Boyd, of Baltimore, has
been visiting friends here
Mrs. Henry s. Young, of Wilmington,
was the recent guest of Elkton relatives
Miss Maude Vincent, of Christiana,
Del, has been visiting at the home Of
Mr.. Howard Vincent.
Governor Crothers and hrs nephew,
Emerson R. Crothers, returned to Elk
ton from Annapolis on Wednesday even
ing The former will recuperate at
Haddon Hail. Atlantic City.
Mr.. Charles R. Nesbitt, of Principle,
and Miss Mary f. Slicer were married
at the home of the brides parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William R. Slicer, near Rising
Sun, on Thursday. by Rev. Samuel Polk
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13
GOLDSB0R0UGH ISaINAUGURATfD--
/ GREAT CROWDS WITNESS CEREMONY
i DELIVERS A STRONG INAUGURAL

Under favoring skies and before vast
assemblage of people from all parts of
the State, Phillips Lee Goldsborough
. took the oath of Office as Governor o.
Maryland on Wednesday at noon, in the
enate Chamber at Annapolis. The cath
as administered by Chief Judge Boyd,
the Court of Appeals. A joint COM
ttee of the Senate and House, OF
fch w. T. Warburton, Esq, was chair.
b, had notified Mr.. Goldsborough Of
election at the Rennert Hotel on
jlpsday evening. The newly elected
~1Governor, with a large party of personal
friends and party associates, was con-
veyed by a special train to Annapolis,
where the marching clubs and military
organizations escorted him to the State
House. There Governor Crothers de-
livered a brief farewell address and
Governor Goldsborough delivered his in
augural. 1t was comparatively brief, but
comprehensive and forceful, and deliver
ed in a most impressive manner. Some
of the main points are herewith sum-
married.
GOV. GoLDsBOROUGHs INAUGURAL
at is necessarily important that you
shall turn your attention to the passage
of laws which will guarantee to every
citizen legally qualified tn eright to cast
his ballot as his conscience dictates and
to provide for an accurate and nonparti
san count of the ballot as cast"
''The physical act of voting should be
made easy, but the Corrupt Practices
Act should be so amended as to make
the use of money or other things of value
for the purpose of corrupting the electo-
rate impossible
81 desire especially to call your atten-
tion to tha Importance of providing
means by which the assessment of prop
erty throughout the State shall be made
uniform. This can best be accomplished
by the creation of a commission with
ample authority to supervise the assess
ment CT property throughout the whole
State"
provision should be made by legisla-
tive enactment for the compensation of
workingmen injured in industrial acci-
dents.''
ut would be well to provide additional
facilities for the manual training depart
ments of our schools, and to make more
efsa,eat,--i possible. the teaching Of
Ssrcs and domestic science"
't<Tt will be necessary to establish some
|, system cf compulsory attendance of all
Shildren of school age"
There is no Tore solemn obligation
upon the State than that the INDECENT
insane and feeble minded and helpless
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13
c. & D. Canals Sale Up To Congress

Secretary Of War Stimson has forward
ed to Congress, with his endorsement,
the report Of General Bixby, Chief Of
Engineers of the U. S. Army, favoring
the Boston Beaufort system Of deep in
land waterways, an important link in
which is the Chesapeake & Delaware
Canal, of which the report favors the
purchase at a cost of $2,500,000 and it's
enlargement at cost OF s9,90O,OOO 1t
is possible that the home canals pur-
chase may be authorized by Congress,
and that 1t may be made the first ex-
perimental link in the proposed chain
of inland waterways
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13
Nesbitt Damage Verdict Upheld

Judge Briscoe in the Court of Appeals
on Tuesday rendered it's opinion in the
case of the Cecil Paper Company VS..
William H. Nesbitt, affirming the judg-
ment rendered in the Cecil Circuit Court
at the December term of last year for
the appellee, for $1,000 damages for per-
sonal injuries caused by being thrown
out of his wagon on the public road
when his horse was frightened by bales
of stock that fell from appellee's wag
ons and left lying on the highway. War
burton & Warburton were counsel for
Mr.. Nesbitt and Evans & Evans repre-
sentted the Cecil Paper Company.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13

poor should be properly cared for"
1T is as much the duty of the State to
prevent the existence of disease in its
midst as to aid in the cure thereof 1t
would, therefore, be we'll for you to in
vestigate carefully this subject, and to
enact into effective legislation a system
by which this State can get the benefit
of the present knowledge in this SCIENCE %
1T would be wise to enlarge the au-
thority and powers of the State fire mar
shall in such manner as would enable
him to put into effective operation mea-
sures which are conceded to be of the
utmost Importance in preventing the
great majority of loss of property by
fire."
Il would suggest the wisdom of enlarg-
Ing the scope of the immigration Bur
eau"
1T would be wise to pass law Great
ing commission to investigate condi-
tions of country life as they exist in
Maryland, and to suggest policies that
may be undertaken on the part of the
State for the benefit of our r-farmers"
Some system of accounting and re-
ports should be established whereby in
formation regarding the administration
of the State road system may be easily
obtained by anyone seeking it,"
'strictest economy should be practiced
in carrying on the construction of roads. :"
1T is time that the oyster question be
dealt with in a generous and broadmind-
ed way by all the interests that in any
way touch it,"
pal limo ,hA
full measure of control over its local
affairs as shall be consistent with prin-
ciples of right and justice, and / recon-
mend that you grant that city a charter
which shall embody all the important
and salutary features which the party
whose candidate l was in the election
just passed, has approved"
The strictest economy should be exer-
cised in the use of the States money"
FIRST APPOINTMENTS.
Immediately after his inaugural, Mr..
Goldsborough took the oath of office and
then announced as his first appointments:
Mr.. Robert p Graham, of Baltimore,
life long personal friend, as Secretary
of State; Mr.. A. E. deReeves, of Balti-
more formerly of Cambridge, distant
relative, as his private secretary, and
Mr.. Carl Hardy as chief clerk-Mr. Har-
dy thus entering upon his fourth conse-
cutive trem.
The Governor then reviewed the par
ade from the steps of the State House,
and at o'clock gave a reception in the
Executive Mansion to a great throng of
V'sitors.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-01-13

given to the jury, who after an absence
of two hours returned verdict for the
defendants Moore e. West),
State VS.. Richard Berry, colored, charg-
ed with stealing six bushels of corn, on
October II, from Kurt Diederich, of Row
landville, was tried before the Court
Berry and Lewis Peto had been allowed
to till about five acres of the River Bot
tom or Shure farm, leased by Mr.. Died
erich. His cattle damaged the corn, and
he bought the crop, paying Berry $50 and
Peto $40, and agreeing that Berry should
have the fodder for the husking. Berry
took the corn on the stalk and hauled it
home, but maintained that he intended
to husk it and return it to Mr.. Diederich.
E. B. McDowTl Lewis T. Logan, Charles
A. Grubb and William NJ. Fulton all tes-
titled to Berry's honesty and good char
acter in general, and the Court discharg-
ed him with warning to be careful as
to his future conduct. Omar d. Crothers,
Esq, was his counsel.
The trial of Mrs. Clara Clifford Elliott
Roche, indicted as Clara NJ. Gaunt, for
b!gamy, was set for a night session of
the Court Frank Clifford the woman's
first husband, and the States material
witness, was called, but failed to answer.
States Attorney Constable informed the
Court that Clifford had promised to ap-
pear before the holidays and on the day
of the trial. A detect1ve had failed to
locate him in Camden, and the State
would ask that the case be continued to
the March term of Court. Mr. Clayton,
counsel for the woman, protested, saying
she had been in Jail in Camden and Elk
ton since November, and it would be a
hardship to confine her until Clifford
might see fit to appear. He might never
appear. Judge Adkins inquired how he
was to be gotten here. Mr.. Constable
said the State would consent to any rea-
sonable bail the woman might be able
to obtain. The Court Judges Adkins
and Hopper consulted, and the former
said its best Judgment was that the case
be set for January 20, when the State
would have learned whether or not it
could secure Gifford's attendance. Roche,
the woman's last husband, was in Court.
FRIDAY.
State vs.. Camille di francesca, charg-
ed with attempted felonious assault up
on Rosa Smeiss, an Austrian girl just
arrived in this country, on the road
from Aiken to Perryville, on October 10,
was put on trial before a jury, and Is
still in progress. The girls testimony
was given through an interpreter from
Baltimore. Omar d. Crothers, Esq, ap-
peared for the accused.