The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1913-04-12
News In Brief

The Crisfeld Times says The new
well at the Crisfield Water Works IS one
Of the best on the Eastern Shore PENN
sula. On Wednesday when at a depth of
1000 feet, it struck a flow of $50 gallons
per minute and when fully developed is
expected to deliver from 100 to $50 gal
Ions per minute The water is of a high
quality, and the city authorities are very
much pleased with the new we'll"
Governor Goldsoorough has invited DR..
Wallace Buttrick, of New York, general
secretary of the John d. Rockefeller Edu-
cational Fund to inspect the educational
work in Maryland along agricultural
lines. Er. Buttrick's WORK has been on
agricultural education of the colored race
in the South. He will be asked to in
spect the colored school at Bowie and
Morgan College at Princess Anne. The
Governor hopes TO have a part of the
Rockefeller Educational Fund diverted to
Maryland Dir. Buttrick has accepted the
invitation.
j. Booker Clark and Thomas C. Forsythe
were awarded contract to build a sec
tion of the county h ghways in the Sec
ond district on the Old Frederick road
The plans call for roadbed to be graded
for the width of is feet in cuts and Y
feet in fiji S. The cost per mile of this
improved road is est mated at about
81 600. The plans and specifications are
about the same as are required by the
State Roads Commission for State roads
The Bayard Harbor PARKS farm on
Bush river at Havre de Grace has been
sold to w Carl Holloway, of Perryman,
for $500. The property had been laid
off into number of building lots by J. J.
Watson, of Baltimore and number of
shore sites sold. Harry Tyson has pur-
chased from H. A. Whitaker, of Belair
no Ia Wprt,hinp " nm IN Hn
de Grace for $1,000.
The first Susquehanna shad We're
caught recently by Philip Torbet, at Port
Deposit. He landed 30 as fine specimens
as were ever taken out of the river. The
prospects are for bountiful season.
Prices are 80 cents for melt and 60 cents
for roe
An income tax, beginning at rate of
/ per cent, upon all incomes of $4,000
year and ranging to per cent. upon an
nual incomes of 100000 or more, virtually
has been decided upon by the Ways and
Means Committee of the House.
*Itching, torturng skin eruptions dis
figure, annoy, drive one wild. Doan s
Ointment brings quick relief and lasting
cures. Fifty cents at any drug sore adv
Milford, Del, farmers are trying all
experiment in pea culture, which, if sue
cessful, will revolutiOnize the method of
cutivating the crop in Delaware, which
has become quite extensive in conjunction
with the canning business. heretofore
and hundreds are still clinglng to that
method-the peas have been planted in
rows about ten inches apart. Now the
farmers have hit upon the plan of plant
ing the peas with an ordinary wheat drill,
which plants rows about inches in
width
*Everybody's friend DR.. Thomas Ec-
lectic Oil. Cures toothache, earache,
sore throat Heals cuts, bruises, scalds.
Stops any pam advt.
After July LIST, Delaware will join her
sister state. Maryland in the enforcement
of Jim Grow" Law. The Owens Jim
Grow Law" introduced in the Delaware
Legislature provides that all railroads
operating in Delaware shall provide sep
arate cars or coaches for the transporta-
tion of colored passengers. The Delaware
Legislature places fine of from 5000 to
81 900 upon any railroad ignoring this
law. Heretofore Maryland passengers
have been forced to mingle with colored
passengers soon after striking the Della
ware line The new law will prevent the
intermnglng of the whites and blacks
until the Pennsylvania line is reached.