The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-03-07
LOCAL JOTTINGS

The Ladies' Aid of Leeds M. p.
Church will meet at the home of Mr..
Robert McCauley, Thursday evening,
March IL.
Mrs. DR.. Ellis, of Philadelphia, will
sing at Bethel Church, Pivot Bridge,
Sunday morning, Mar. 8; Summit in
the afternoon and Bethel again at
night. Come and hear this great Cos
pei singer.
The students of the Cecil County
High School will hold box social at
the High School building next Friday
evening, March 10. Proceeds for ben
eft of Athletic Association of the
school. All interested in the welfare
of the Association and the school
should turn out and help the boys
along.
The Elkton Development Company
has awarded to Charles E. Larzalere,
of Elkton, the contract for the cree
ton of a textile mill in Elkton, for
the Deibert Company, now of Elk
Mills.
While D. w. Hutchinson, of Down.
ingtown, Pa, was at the public sale
of his son, H. H. Hutchinson, near Lib
erty Grove, Friday of last week, he
was attacked by a vicious hog and
thrown to the ground but was pre-
vented from being seriously hurt by
bystanders who drove off the hog.
Frederick S. Henry, head of the
modern language department of the
Tome School, Port Deposit, has been
chosen by the Modern Language Asso-
citation of the Middle States and Mary
land, to serve on a committee consist
ing of seven representatives, secon-
Diary and collegiate teachers of French
and German, to consider certain ques-
tons connected with the training of
teachers of French and German in
secondary schools.
A horse belonging to Tony Wool
lyman, of Earleville, was badly injured
one day last week in collision with
another team, the shaft OF which was
driven into the horses shoulder and
broken off The piece of shaft which
was ten and one half inches long, was
removed by DR.. Black.
Professor Clarence Griffin Child, of
the English Department OF the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, will give an
address at the Tome School, Port De-
post, this Saturday evening at 500
o'clock.
The young people of Harris NJ. E.
Church will present play, Aunt Je-
rusha's Quilting Party" in Riverview
Council Hall, Elk Neck, on Thursday
evening, March II. If stormy, next
evening. Admission 20 cents; child
rem 10 cents. Ice cream and cake for
sale after the play Everybody in
vited.
Miss Mary Wright. of West Not
tingham, was ia ken to the German
Hospital. Philadelphia, last week, for
an operation for appendicitis.
Calvin Fox, Elkton, employed by
the Gilpin Falls Electric Light Co.,
while repairing a broken wire on top
of pole, at North East, Monday
! night, came in contact with a live
wire, which hurled him to the ground,
distance of 30 feet. He was remov-
ed to Union Hospital where he is re-
| covering.
Maud H. HIS Lass. No 1287S5, a
Holstein of the Delaware College herd.
| has completed a splendid record for
| the year ending February p, having
in that time produced 849 Ito pounds
of butter. This is not the Holstein
high record, but it is good one.
In addition TO the appointments for
| Cecil county already announced, Gov
| ernor Goldsborough sent to the Senate
| for confirmation last week the follow
ing.-To be School Commission =. Dr..
| John H. Jenness: to be Supervisors of
| Election, Victor r. Bennett and 7. En-
| nest Brickley, Republican, and John
| II. Black, Democrat.
| At Robert A. Boyd's sale, Rising
l., Il
| ed. Horses sold from $40 to sos;
COWS sold as follows: $S5, $50, $106.50,
sos, 500, SIS, $40; heifers sold from
S27.50 to 800. Small bulls, $37 to
| $3.50; brood SOW, S35; shoats, So to
| SO apiece; wheat in the ground, 500;
six acres of it. Geese, zoe ID; wagon,
S35; disk harrow, S31; horse rake, S13.
Corn shelter, $14. Harness, So a set
| Sale amounted up toward $4,000 and
one horse not sold Hindman was the
| auctioneer.
The ladies of Summit Bridge NJ. E.
| Church will hold an oyster supper in
Carnagy Hall Wednesday and Thurs
| day nights, March IL and II.
Lewis Seth has sold his interest in
| the pacing stallion, Austin Burns,
2:04 IA, trial, 2:07, to w. J. Gregson,
Jr., of Elk Mills.
Calendar of Tome School for March
is as follows: Saturday, Mar T, p.
M, address by Prof. Clarence Griffin
Child, University Of Pennsylvania
Sunday, Mar. 8, II a. M, sermon by
Rev. DR.. John E. futile, of York, Pa.
Saturday, Mar. IA, p. M, concert by
the Savage Club of Cornell Univer-
sity. Friday, Saturday and Monday,
| March 10, IA and 16. term examina-
tions. Wednesday, March 18, spring
vacation begins. Thursday, March 26,
| spring vacation ends.
Miss Frances Rittenhouse, of Zion,
recently fell on the ice while coasting
and is now confined to her bed with an
| injured spine.
The regular monthly meetings of
| the Orphans Court, County Commits
sioners and School Commissioners will
| be held at Elkton next Tuesday.
The Helping Hand Circle of upper
| Elk Neck will hold it's monthly meet
| ing at Johnson's school house, Tues
day evening, March 10. If stormy,
next evening.
Elk Mills Base Ball Club has been
| orpaniza1 for tho cop,ipm Samoan op1