Newark post., 1912-09-04

alarmed. The party should have
reached North Fast before midnight
but did not arrive until about 4
o clock the next morning.
While at work on a pole in West
Elkton one day last week Edgar
Plummer. a lineman, employed by
the Home Electric Light and
Power Company. was shocked by
a live wire and fell twenty feet to
the ground. He was severely
shocked and Jared, but as his belt
had been holding him upright he
fell on his feet and thus escaped
serious injury.
The Progressiyes or ''Bull
Moosers' of the Eastern Shore
have called convention at Eas-
ton for tomorrow (Thursday) to
nominate a candidate for Con-
gress. Hon. j. Ii. Covington. the
Democratic candidate, has been
thus lar unopposed. The Roose-
veltites do not expect to win the
seat but they think nominee for
Congress will swell their vote in
the district and State for their
electoral ticket. The matter of
separate electors is to be decided
this week by the recalling of the
Republican State Convention to
name ont and out Taft electors.
Those chosen after the MAY pri-
maries, who favor Roosevelt. are
expected to resign.
The Cecil County Commission
ers and Road Engineer Richards
on Thursday inspected the bridge
over the Big Elk, near Cowan-
town. recently damaged by foods.
The structure will likely be re-
paired shortly.
Emerson r. Crothers Of Elkton.
Harvey II. Mackey of the Fourth
district, and William M. Pogue of
Rising Sun are the Cecil members
OF the advisory committee Of 100
members selected by the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee to
manage the Wilson and Marshall
campaign in Maryland. Local
district committees have been
named to organize campaign clubs
in Cecil. For the Fourth district
Heister Hess Of Fair Hill and Will
mer d. Thompson of Providence
have been chosen.
Cecil marksmen made fine
showing in the second annual
tournament Of the Maryland State
Sportsmen s Association, held at
Prospect Park. Baltimore. on
Wednesday and Thursday. The
first team of the Rising Sun Gun
Club was second in the team race
on Wednesday with score of 1872
out Of 15O targets, and the club s
second team was third with
score of 129. j. w. Ewing of the
club IN the amateur contest. broke
l42 out Of $50. On Thursday
Ewing won the State individual
amateur championship with gen.
eral average for the two days of
277 out of 300. He won besides
the special prize for the winner of
the event, an elegant gold medal
with diamond setting.
The bulk of the stock of the
proposed Elkton Banking and
Trust Company. chartered by the
Legislature of 1910, has been sub
scribed and the concern will short
ly start business. It's promoters
are greatly encouraged by the
marked success of the Newark
Bank and Trust Company and are
confident that profitable field lies
open in Cecil. The stock could
have readily been disposed of to a,
limited number of investors but it.
was deemed preferable to have it
widely distributed. An organiza-
tion will be shortly effected! The
capital will be placed at $50. 900
divided into 1000 shares. Many
business men and other residents
OF Elkton have taken stock in the
concern, which will be quartered
IN new building to be erected on
the site of the old Mccullough of
flee building on North street. re-
Gently sold to the company by
Manly Drenncn.
Harry Thayer, employed at the
Delbert barge building plant at
Chesapeake City, is laid up with
a fractured shoulder blade and
two broken ribs caused by fall
OF twenty feet from a scaffold
while at work.