Evening journal., 1913-03-10
ELKTON

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
ELKTON, Md, March 10.-The will
of Joseph r. Burns was contested
last week. Joseph w. Lewis. of Up
land, Pa, was made sole heir Alice
Y Logan and Mary A. Logan contest
ed the will, charging undue influence
and mental incapacity. The jury
brought in a verdict for the defend
ant.
The Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal Company has appointed James
Watson bridge tender at Pivot bridge,
Cecil county.
The committee in charge Of the
charity fund of Elkton, will give a
Saint Patrick's Tea at the home of
Mrs. Robert B. Frazer.
Delegates to the annual Methodist
! Episcopal Conference from Elkton
are Henry Vinsinger, with Andrew ID.
Dean as alternate.
Little Ruth Adams, of Fair Hill,
was burned on the face and hands
when she fell on a stove.
The Singerly Fire Company has ap-
pointed a committee to ascertain the
cost of an automobile hose carriage.
Taylor w. McKenney, Clarence c.
! Strickland and Oliver c. Giles have
the matter in charge.
The members of the New Idea
! Club we're guests of Mrs. Harry
| Sheldon at the last meeting.
Another Democratic candidate for
Sheriff is in the field, V. B. Algard,
of Charlestown, having announced his
candidacy.
Providence baseball team will hold
h.
house at Providence tomorrow even
ing.
Alfred Churchman has offered his
home for a chicken and waffle supper
for the benefit of Zion Methodist
Episcopal church
BY an accident in Cecil Paper Mill,
Walter Wright, Jr, was caught and
seriously injured ere help could be
secured.
Bohemia Lodge. Of Odd Fellows. OF
/ chesapeake City, is preparing to cell
citrate its sixty-third anniversary.
The death of Mrs Bridget Cain,
wife of John p. CAIN of Lombard
occurred on Thursday, aged 70 years
She leaves her husband, one daugh-
ter. Miss Marget Cain, and three
sons. Thomas, John and Robert
Cain.
Miss Florence r. Shivery, one OF
Cecil countys youngest school teach
ers. was married in Newark, Delaware
on Wednesday to Elwood T. Russell
of Wilmington, by the Rev. C. T. AL
derson.
The marriage Of Miss Edith A
Carlsen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
August Carlsen, of North East, has
been announced to Victor NJ Sweet
of Darby, Pa. The wedding took place
on January Ia by the Rev. George
is. Bell, in Annapolis.
Leslie b. Kelly and Miss Mollit
Trout, both Of Havre de Grace, an
nounced their marriage in Baltimore
J June 3, 1912.
. The engagement of Miss Esther
White TO Reginald Shippers, Of Nortl
East, has been announced.
The friends of Alfred Crothers, o
Greenhurst, we're lately apprised o
his marriage to Miss Catherine Sapp
of Philadelphia.
Mrs. George E. Brown has had a
her guest her sister, Miss Caroline
Bye. of Baltimore.
Dr. William ID. Cauley, Of Elkton
! performed a delicate operation OF
J Mrs. Simmons, lately OF the Wetheril
! farm, in Union Hospital. strs. Sim
mons is rapidly recovering.
Seven-year-old Sammy Moore, WHIT
i shot and killed Henry Herbert Dor
/ sey near Conowingo, has been sen
! to the Henry Watson Home" of Bal
timore, by an order of the court
= Charles Moore, brother, who is elev
en- years old. has been held in tn
: Elkton Jail since the murder as 2 wit
, ness. He too must go to the home
/ Both boys will remain till they ar
of age.
! Cecil Countians are mortified owe
, letter in the Baltimore Sun in ref
erence TO the bad condition of tn
roads in this county, but especial.
= the six miles between EIkton an
| North East. The writer of the lette
5 was from Washington and mad
scathing remarks about the road
5 because he had trouble with his auto
! mile while going through Ceci
? county.
. Thomas Harlan had a sale Of horses
COWS. carriages and farming imple
ments on Saturday.
: Edwin Vinsinger and children. o
: Newark. are guests of his parents
] Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Vinsinger, ol
East Main street-R. K Barnes wa