The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-03-23
LOCAL JOTTINGS
Moving Day next Monday.

a newly formed religious sect Their
daughter, Mrs. Howard MCGUIRE, arrived
with them, and her husband has recalled
a proposed sale of his property
Elk Mills Base Ball Club will hold a
festival and ba ar in Carter's Hall on
Friday and Saturday evenings, March 80
30. Messrs. Cecil Creswel and Samuel
Moffett will contest for a $50 sci of driv-
ing harness now on display at H. Cars
store in Elk Mills. There will be other
interesting features and the committee
in charge will endeavor to make the af-
fair enjoyable. The public is cordially
invited to attend.
James S. Hopper, for some time past
Collector of Tolls on the Chesapeake e.
Delaware Canal, at Chesapeake City, has
been appointed Superintendent, succeed
ing the late Waitman Smithers Harry
Sherman succeeds Mr.. Hopper as Collec-
tor and DR.. Delmar Smithers has been
appointed Ass slant Collector
The Ladies Aid of the Leeds NJ p.
Church will be held at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Lawrence Keir, Leeds next
Friday evening, March 29. If stormy, the
next evening.
The oyster and poultry supper held in
the old church at Johntown, near Earle
vile, last week, netted SIS.
Mrs. Nora McCleary James, wife of
Parker James, formerly of Lewisville,
died at her home at Philadelphia last
Thursday. Her husband and five child
rem survive her.
Mrs. James Cannon, of Sylmar, tripped
on the platform at oxford railroad sta
ton on Sunday morning, and narrowly
missed falling under the wheels of
train.
Pros Roy McC.enahan, formerly of
Port Deposit, a member of the faculty
of Princeton University, will deliver the
address at the Tome School Commence
ment in June.
Thieves stole As chickens from James
McGuire's premises, near Colora, last
Friday night. They picked the fowls,
leaving the feathers in the poultry house.
Robert Storey died at his home near
New London last Thursday aged Il years.
The large dwelling, known as Sweet
Air. on the home farm of the late Sam
uel NJ. Johnson, near Leslie Camp Meet
ing Ground was burned on the night of
March 8. The loss, ST. 500, is partly COW
cred by insurance.
The annual meetings of the Woman's
Home and Foreign Missionary Societies
OF New Castle Fresbytery Will be held
in PITTS Creek Church. Pocomoke City,
Nd, April 10, II and 70.
Young people of Warwick will present
in the hall of the P. o. S. of A. on Thurs
day and Friday evenings, March 2S and 20
the farces That Rascal Pat, "Econo-
mical Boomerang and Awful Boots"
with musical selections. Ice cream and
cake Will be on sale.
Henry NJ Mccullough will address the
pupils of Cecil County High School and
Charles b. Finley, Jr., Esq, those of the
Havre de Grace High School on Monday,
March 25 Maryland Day.
H. l.. Harvey and k. c. Shippers were
chosen town comm: ssioners of North
Easi at the election held on Monday,
defeating John A. Tobin and Edward
Campbell.
The Elkton Improvement Association,
owning the old Fair Grounds, at a meet
ing on Saturday elected o. C. Giles Presi-
dent and Mrs. George R. Ash, Treasurer.
William S. Evans, Esl., trustee, sold
the Railroad Hotel property in Port De-
post, to Mrs Mary E. Lamm for 200.
William G. Jones, of Cecilton has been
appointed as constable for the First dis
trict.
The 80 acre home farm of the late IT.
win G. Griffith, ST, in the Second dis
trict, has been sold b.. the heirs to JOS
eph H. Steele, of Chesapeake City, for
$4,000. County Commissioner Irwin G.
Griffith has purchased the farm on which
he resides for $10,0 900.
he Fe'ton Ho. s., F kton, was reopened
Oh Monday by Mrs. A. NJ. Crosby, of Bal
tlmore, who will be assisted in his man
agement by her uncle, Mr.. George Stan
ton, of that city.
Mickey & Terkes Garrett Mackey and
James Yerkes) will conduct the Chanler
ccal and lumber yards, planning mill, etc.
in Oxford, which Harvey II. Mackey, of
Providence, has purchased.
Monday temperature of So degrees has
been exceeded but once since the estab-
isament Of the Weather Bureau on the
same day of the year. March 49, 1905, the
record was 10 degrees.
The frogs chorus is heard on the mar
shes these nights Spring according TO
the almanac, began at 62l p. m. on We'd
nesday.
The Right Rev. Frederick j. Kinsnan,
DID, Bishop of the Diocese of Delaware,
will preach at the Tuesday evening Len
ten service in Trinity Church, next
week Hour of service on Tuesday and
Friday evenings, 7.90. On other days,
4l5 p. m. All are cordially invited.
Governor Colds 3orough on Tuesday sent
number of nominations to the Senate,
among which were for Justices of the
Peace George c. Morgan, for the First,
Charles w. Ward, for the Seventh, and
E. d. Carhart for the Ninth district of
Cecil county.
Cecil share of the quarterly distri-
button of the State School tax and free
book fund made by Comptroller Har-
rngton last Friday is 81, 1873 and S770.49
respectively.
Five thousand people make good sized
town, yet more than this number are
employed at STRAWBRlDGE & CLOTH
lERS in Philadelphia. In addition to
the immense business of our Retail Store
thousands of good merchants all over the
country sell STRAWBRlDGE & CLOTH
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