The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-06-22
LOCAL NOIEC

The Cecil County school Board On
Tuesday morning held a meeting with the
Trustees and Pr,ncipaI OF our local
school to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of
building the proposed addition to the
present building this year The meeting
was held at the High School and was
att Ter ded by Wilmer j. Falls, President,
W. d. Bratton, Secretary and Superinten-
dent, Arthur Harvey and DIR. j. II. Jen-
ness Commissioners, James S. Hopper
and Joseph Schaefer Trustees, Hugh w.
Caldwell Principal After considerable
discussion it was decided to have few
minor changes made in the plans as
previously drawn and advertised for
bids. 1t is hoped to have the work well
under way by the time school opens in
September. The amount levied for the
addition is si5OO-this however. includes
the amount to b, expended in installing
modern heating plant. 1T is estimated
the heating plant will cost about $1,000.
| This would leave 5000 for the new addi-
ton.
The contractor for the Elkton- Chesa-
peake City road has sold his horses
wagons, etc, and IS about to stop work
on the road. 1t is an outrage that this
work should stop. The contractor of
course is not to blame, as he is acting
on the orders of the State Road Com
| m ssion. The fault lies with this Com
mission. But does it? Have you done
your part? Have you written to the new
| Governor and to the new Chairman urg
ing them to build this road? With the
| citizens of other sections of the State
lpl. mo hara
there we are not likely to get what we
want in Elkton and Chesapeake City I'M
| less we get busy. So let's get busy! Let
us urge upon this Commission that the
| ELTON Chesapeake City road should be
constructed at once! This road is not
only the outlet for the Second district,
but also for the First. 1t should have
| been the first road built in Cecil county.
! We feel we are right about this. Put
| the proposition to any unpreJudiced man
and see what lie says. Elkton Is the
largest town in Cecil county and Chesa
peake City is the third largest. Chesa-
peake City has no railroad communca
| tions. The only means of communica
ton, except by water which freezes In
winter, is by using the public roads. And
yet, instead of building a road in a place
like this the policy in this county has
been to build roads in close proximity
to railroads and in sparsely settled. sec
tions of the county. When the roads are
bad WE MUST use them, other sections
of the county can use the railroads until
the roads improve. Even now a spec
ial appropriation" has just been made
by the Legislature to build road from
Elkton to Perryville-TO BUILD A ROAE
PARALLEL WITH THE RAILROAD. II
would seem for road to be of the
greatest benefit to the county that II
should run perpendicular to the rail
road and not parallel with it. Will We
ever wake up? How long are we COINS
to let this go on? How long before we
realize that if We do OUR PART, 1t will
do much towards securing this road. LIE
us act today!
! The regular meeting of Cecil Lodge No
125, A. F. "a. NJ, will be held on Tues
day, June 25, after which the Lodge will
LAY off" for the summer
Hugh W. Caldwell has been at tn,
Tome School for Boys this week con
Quoting the College Boara examinations