The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1913-05-03
LOCAL JOTTINGS OF THE WEEK

| MISS LYDIA Terrell, OF Elkton, whose
Illness was mentioned in last week
WHlG, was operated on last Saturday by
DR.. John NJ. d. Finney, in Baltimore. For
time she was in critical condition,
but improvement began Tuesday, and still
| continues
The graduating exercises of the Della
ware Hospital Training School for Nurses
will be held in the Bush ward OF the
Nurses Home, 14th and Washington SITS
Wilmington, Del, on May 9th, at S:15
O'Clock. Glass of 1918 Is as follows:-
Laura E. Carr, Newark; Margaret U. Lo-
man, New Castle. Del. Elizabeth s. Nor
man, Port Jarvis; N. Y; Alice Pierson,
Singerly; Belle Kay Brown, Elk Mills;
Mary R. Flaharty. Wilmington; Martha
F. Mills, Clayton, Del
| At the twelfth annual meeting of the
| Home Building and Loan Association OF
Cecil County. held at their office, Perry
Vile, the following were elected directors
for the ensuing year: James Gardner, w.
H. Cole, Jr., N. C. Cameron, A. c. Jack
son, Paul Patterson, ]. A Hartenst1ne,
C. w. Ward, John w. Alexander, Thomas
Kane, Sr A. H. Owens, and George B.
Campbell. The following officers were
| elected: James Gardner, president; N. C.
| Cameron, vice president; w. H. Cole, Jr.,
treasurer; j. A. Hartenstine. secrteray.
| R. R. Atkinson, of Port Deposit, and C.
P. Rutledge, of Perryville, will leave
! early in May for five weeks tour with a
special party of friends for the Pacific
| Coast, going by way of the Canadian
/ Rockies to Vancouver, B. c., where they
will board the Royal Mail steamer EN-
| press of Japan, via Puget sound and
| Seattle for Southern California, return
Ing home by way of the Grand Canyon
| of Arizona and Juraz, Mexico. The entire
rail trip of over 10000 miles will be made
| in special Pullman Broilers. This will
4 be Mr.. Rutledge's sixteenth trip across
/ the continent, covering all trunk lines
! between the Atlantic and Pacific; also
| from the City of Mexico, to Vancouver,
B. c..
| Mr.. Lyman A. Spence whose marriage
to Miss Ada Witworth was announced in
| last weeks WHIG, will engage in the
! plant and Flower business at his resi-
| dence, Wood Knoll near Carter's Mills.
Mr.. Spence has erected extensive green
houses on the property for his new bust
! ness.
Harry Woods and Chester Mayhem, ne
! groes, convicted last week in Lancaster
, County Court of second degree murder
were on Saturday sentenced by Judge
, Lands to separate and solitary confne-
ment in the Eastern Penitentiary for a
| period OF not exceeding twenty years and
not less than eighteen years. Woods and
/ Mayhem are the men who attacked and
robbed Patrick Rooney, in his lonely
home near Andrews Bridge, just across 5
: the Mary nd limo la or
died a few days later in Lancaster Gen
eral Hospital.
Quarterly Conference will be held at
Mt. Pleasant Church, Colora, this CSat-
, urday) afternoon.
| West Nottingham Academy Colora, de-
feated the oxford High School at Oxford
| last Saturday, by the score of l-z.
| The Ladies Home and Foreign Mis-
s.onary Societies, of Rock Cnurcn, Fair
Hill, Will meet at the home of Mrs
Samuel Gatchell, this Saturday after
noon, at 2:3O o'clock
| Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Deaver of Rising
Sun, have bought large restaurant in
Che ster, Pa and are doing a prosperous
business there.
About $40 was realized at the Box and
| Shadow Social held at the home OF John
McCool, on the Elkton- Chesapeake road,
Wednesday evening. A large crowd was
present and an enjoyable evening was
| spent by all
| Harry Woodrow, of Rising Sun, lost
| his valuable old family horse one day
| last week.
| Tome School base ball team defeated
Baltimore City College team by the score
| of Cd, in a game played last Saturday
| afternoon.
H. T. McCleary, of Lewisville, has pur-
chased five passenger Ford automobile
| The Ladies' Aid of Moore's Chapel at
Blake was entertained at the home of
Joseph Scarborough, on Tuesday evening.
The Rising Sun Cornet Band mas betn
reorganized with John Hatfield as direc-
| tor.
| While William Brehm, of Rowlands
| vile, was fishing, one day recently, fifty
| dollars in cash. watch and some valu-
able papers were taken from his coat,
which he had hung on bush close by.
An ape owl captured by Earl Ward, of
the Zion section, one day recently is on
| exhibition in Rising Sun.
Zion Presbyterian Sunday school will
be reorganized tomorrow, Sunday.
| Mr.. Dickinson, of New York, has been
appointed superintendent at the paper
mill at Rowlandville.
A new hymn board and Sunday school
register have been placed in Calvert
| church
| Mr.. Herman F. Kraft, of the u S.
Naval Academy, gave an illustrated lee
| ture on Shakespeare and the Age of
| Queen Elizabeth at Tome School, Port
| Deposit, last Saturday evening.
| Teacher and pupils of Butler school, at
| Greenhurst, will hold festival Wednes-
day evening, May Z. If stormy, next
clear evening.
a pie social will be held in Rowland
willie NJ. p. Church on Saturday evening,
May 10.
| The Aid Society of Wesley Chapel, Elk
Neck, will meet at the home of Mrs.
George Holden, Friday evening, May 8.
| Everybody welcome.
| The peach crop on Spesutia Island, near
Havre de Grace, is said to have been
ruined by the recent frosts.
| William l.. Baldwin, representing
| Washington College, Chestertown, was
| awarded first honOrs in the ANIMAL cOn =