The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1913-05-10
LOCAL JOTTINGS OF THE WEEK

Presbyterian Church will hold bake and
tea in the Session House, May is, from
to $3.50 p. m Supper, rs cents IL,
cream, candy, etc., Sor sale
John Perkins, the negro who Was ar
rested several weeks ago for shooting
another negro at Middletown. Del, has
been handed over by the Delaware au-
thorfties to the officers of Caroline
county, Md, where he is wanted on a
charge OF killing William Henry, cclored,
at Ridgely about year ago.
The Third Year class of the George
Riddle High School will hold bake in
the old school building Cecilton, this
Saturday. afternoon, beginning at 2
o'clock. Bread, rolls, biscuits, cakes,
pies, candy and ice cream for sale Pro-
t, ceeds for school purposes.
Tomorrow, Sunday, the Hon. John G..
Woolley will speak at EDenezer vnurch,
Zion Circuit, at 23O p. m, and the Elk
ton M. e. Church at p. m. The meet
ings will be held under the auspices of
the Anti-Saloon League, and the public
is cordially invited to hear this forceful
speaker for the temperance cause
West Amwell Sunday school, near Elk
ton re-organized last Sunday for the sea-
son. by electing the following officers:-
Superintendent, Philip M. Groves; Assist
ant superintendent, John E. Frazer; Sec
retary and Treasurer, George w. Ward;
Librarian, Leonard Brown; organist, Mrs.
Charles M. Kitchens; Assistant organist,
Miss Mabelle Short
Mothers Day will be celebrated to-
morrow Sunday. Special services will
be held in many of the churches in the
country and white carnations, symbol
izing the purity of mother love, will be
worn by thousands of people This will
be the fourth annual celebration of the
day.
The remains of Thomas Johnson, Mary
lands first Governor, will De femoyed
from the old Episcopal graveyard, at
Frederick, to Mount Olivet Cemetery.
The Strckersvlle base ball team will
hold its annual fair and festival on
June 1914
Mothers Day will be observed at
Hart's NJ. E. Church, Elk Neck, tomor-
row Sunday morning at 1O:3O O'clock.
A special program will be rendered and
everyone is invited to attend
The Cherry Hill NJ f. Sunday School
reorganized for the year last Sunday by
electing the following officers:-Superin-
tendent, Arthur Harvey; ass stant super
intendent, Charles S. Peacock; secretary
and treasurer, w. Palmer McFadden; IL
brarian, Joseph McFadden: organist,
Charles S. Peacock; assistant organist,
Miss Laura Ward; superintendent Infant
department Mrs. j. d Ford superintend-
ent Home department, Mrs. L. T. R.
Ward.
Miss Esther Poist, of Colora. enter
tanned number of her trends at her
home, Thursday evening of last week, in
honor of her eighteenth birthday ami
versary.
Harry Wesley, of Rock Springs is suf-
fering with a fractured leg. the result
OF being kicked by a horse
DR.. Daniel Bratton, of Elkton. it is
stated, will open dental parlor at Col
ora, which he will occupy two uays each
week.
The Sixth District Teachers Reading
Circle met at Rising Sun at the Gram
mar School building, on Friday, May 2. at
p m. Miss Helen Sheppard had charge
OF the exercises. The American Reyolu-
ton lI63-17S3, was the subject interest
ing talks were given or papers were read
by the following teachers Misses Bes-
sic Rawlings, Anna Fryer, Sarah R. Mil
Ter, Bessie Hartnett, Ethel Hall, Helen
Sheppard, Mrs. Jackson, Miss Holt Miss
Annie Jackson, and Miss Zsichel Rit-
tenhouse.
The May meeting of the Elkton In
provement Association will be held next
Monday evening, May 12.
Many Cecil countians attended the
Ringing Brothers Circuit, which exhibit
ed in Wilmington, Friday afternoon and
evening of last week.
Delaware College base bali team cas-
lily defeated Johns Hopkins University
, team, of Baltimore, in game played last
Saturday, the score being 9-3
Director of the Chautauqua to open in
ElktDn, June 8, will be DR.. A. E. Turner,
former president of Hastings College,
Nebraska
Isaiah Biddle, of North East has been
Reelected superintendent of the NJ. f.
Sunday school in that town.
Miss Ruth Clifford, of Zion, gave a
linen shower last Saturday afternoon for
Miss Mabel Mearns, of Calvert.
William P. Cummings has purchased
the Thompson F. Williams property in
Port Deposit.
First district, was sentenced to six
months in the House of Correction, for
carrying concealed deadly weapons, by
Justice j. NJ. Ash, of Ellkton, on Monday.
Believed to be Peter Honischild, of For
est Hill, Hartford county, the body of a
drowned man was found floating In the
Christiana "reek near Wilmington, Del,
Tuesday afternoon, by Samuel Bush, a
shad fisherman In his pockets was an
envelope addressed to Peter Honischild,
Forest Hill, Hartford county, Md, on the
back of which was written the address
1105 Fairmount Ave, Baltimore The
letter itself was not found.
A IT'S year old pear tree on the lawn
of Charles Fitzgerald's residence, at CAL
vert, that never has missed bearing
fruit is covered with blossoms and gives
promise of a large yield.
C. f. Lehman, Holt Woodafi A. R..
Prettyman and w. H. Boyd have been
elected town commissioners at Galena for
the ensuing year.
The assembly dance held Friday even
ing of last week by Miss Alice McEwan
in Mechanics Hall. Elkton, was partiei-