Newark post., 1912-11-27
Cecil County Letter

roof. which the Pure On Company
is having erected on Jeffers or
Turner S Wharf, at the foot OF
Bridge street, Elktom.
Bricklayers from Baltimore had
finished on Friday the basement
wall of the Elkton Banking and
Trust Company s new building on
North street. and on Saturday the
floor beams Of the bank room were
placed in position. Work Oh the
building will be rushed as ii is to
be completed by New Years.
Elliott Graham Of ConoWingo,
brother Of jhr late Clerk Of The
Court James T. Graham, who broke
two yprteblue of his neck by re-
cent fail from a ladder al Holt
wood. where he was in the employ
Of the NcGdI.s Ferry Power Com
pauy. was treated at the Columbia,
Pa, Hospital and was last week re-
moved to Union Hospital, Elkton,
where hopes are entertained OF his
ultimate recovery.
Sheriff Perkins on Thursday
night was called to North East 10
arrest Earl Diffenderfer, a fourteen
year old boy, who was offering for
sale there horse and buggy which
he had stolen from a farmer named
CreswaIl, living near Blythedale
in the Port Deposit section. The
boy was lodged in Elkton jail.
The LindIr farm in upper Elk
Neck, recently bought by W. Ar
thur Mitchell Of Elkton, at public
sale has been sold to PhiIadcl-
phia purchaser.
The Amos Lewis farm, fronting
on Elk River, just below EIkton,
has been sold. it is reported, by
Julian Nandegrift, executor Of his
wife. daughter Of the late owner,
10 a purchaser from Philadelphia,
John and David Gilpin and their
sister. Miss Margaret, removed this
week from the Gilpin farm. near
EIktom. to the Partridge mansion,
owned by the former. The farm,
it is reported. has been or is about
to be sold to Omar ID. Crothers,
Esq. of Elkton. for $4,000.
Elkton has vertiable mad
log scare, caused by rabid
hound. one of number owned by
the Elkton Hunt Club, which was
killed on Friday, on Landing Lane
! by Bailiff Potts, after it had bit
ten a dozen or more dogs which i
met on its run through severa,
streets of the town. The dog I
head was sent to Baltimore for eX
animation, which showed that tn
animal was really rabid. The bit
ten dogs have been tied up to awai
developments, and will likely al
have to be killed. One thought t
be mad but which, it is said, ha
really been poisoned was shot b.
Henry Mitchell, near Union Hos
pital, on Saturday, after it ha
frightened a number of people
passed Oh the streets.
Quarelling on their return frol
the Democratic parade in Ches;
, peake City ON Saturday night, Ec
ward Naylor and Charles DiIke
; two young men employed at tn
Radnor Pulp Mill, came to blow
: near the foot of Bridge street. Ell
ton. Dilkes was pummelling MAJ
lor when the latter drew pist,
of heavy caIiber and beat the form
er over the head with the butt, al
finally fred bullet which struc
Dilkes in the leg. No action ha
! been taken up to Monday by ii
J authorities, and it is said tn;
, Dilkes is not disposed to prosccut
The Wilson and Marshall eel
= bration held in Elkton last Tuestia
night was notable demonstrate
in which the delegations from Il
Fourth district, including =
Mills and Iron Hill. bore lead Il
parts. The line Of horsemen, foe
men, floats, wagons, carriages al
D. automobiles was fully a mile
length, many horsemen ridil
four abreast. The largest crov
f seen in Elkton since the S!ni
f Mass meeting in 1899 was mass
y on the strets. Five bands and
r fife and drum corps from Wilmin
d ton were in line, and the Mort
l. East and Aberdeen Bands play
selections, after the parade, at
> tervals until the arrival of t
r Southbound midnight train. 7
f. parade broke ranks at the Cou
House, after the circuit of t
: town, and the great crowd was a
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