The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-08-15
LOCAL JOTTINGS

day and evening. Ice cream, cake,
candy, ETC., for sale. Everybody well
come.
A lawn fete will be held at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Price next
Thursday evening. Proceeds for
benefit of Union M. E. Cnure.I. Ali
are invited.
During the thunder storm of Tues
day evening lightning struck the stab
les of James Lusby, near Cecilton,
burning them to the ground, causing
a loss of about 25 tons of hay, and his
harness, which was partly insured.
Neighbors and friends saves the other
outbuildings and grain.
The annual picnic OF Zion Presby-
terian Church will be held in Stewards
Grove, next Thursday.
A fire broke out Monday night in
the storage warehouse of Middletown
Farms creamery, causing a loss esti-
mated at about $400. 1t is believed
that lightning entered the building
during the electrical storm in the early
part of the evening, and that the fire
had smouldered nearly three hours
before it was located.
The Holiness Camp at Cop
son Park, near Leslie Station, will be
held August 1870 inclusive.
The officers and commissioned
officers of Company E, M. N. G., have
been ordered to attend camp of in
struction at Glen Burnie August
24-29.
48 tickets were sold at Elkton for
the COLCHESTER excursion on Wednes-
day.
The carnival held at Leeds last week
for benefit of the M. p. Church of that
place, netted about 1925.
Calvert Epworth League will be en-
tertained by Mrs. Walls next Thurs
day evening.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Calvert
will give play entitled "The Voice OF
Authority" in the High School build
ing, Wednesday evening, August 27.
Admission, 25 cents.
George W. Merritt, farmer of the
Warwick section, lost valuable horse
last Saturday, from the intense heat.
This is the third horse Mr.. Merritt has
lost since last March.
II. Linn Worthington was high gun
in the regular events with score of
98 out of 100 targets, at the second
annual shoot of the Rehoboth Beach
Gun Club at Rehoboth Beach last
Saturday.
The week, beginning October ~, will
be celebrated as "Old Home Week" in
Wilmington.
John Moore, a much respected COL
ored store keeper, of Elkton, died sud-
denly of dropsy, last Sunday, aged
about 45 years. He is survived by a
widow.
Warren England, of Oxford, Pa,
formerly of Zion, was thrown from
motorcycle when it collided with All
auto, last Saturday, and sustained
painful but not serious injuries.
An enlargement of Delaware Col
lege extension work is being planned
for the coming year.
A frame dwelling house belonging
to John Deckman, near Oakwood, was
burned to the ground, together with
its contents, one night this week.
The final reports from the Fire
mems Carnival, held at Newark two
weeks ago, show the net proceeds to
be $2,010.SS.
The war is holding up the shipment
of an order of fruit juices which Per-
kins G. Perkins, of Elkton, have ready
W go 10 oyuney, AuSIfalla.
John Futty, prominent farmer of
Elk Neck, is confined to Union Hos
pital suffering with neuritis of the
sciatic nerves.
Despite the threatening weather,
good sized audience greeted the Hon.
Henry M. Mccullough when he made
an address before the regular monthly
meeing of the Helping Hand" Circle
of Upper Elk Neck, held in Johnson's
Schoolhouse, on Wednesday, A spec
ial program had been arranged for the
occasion, consisting of readings, reci-
tations, vocal and instrumental music.
The exercises were opened with |
prayer by Mr.. Andrew D. Dean, of
Elkton.
Members of Troop No. l, of New
ark, Boy Scouts of America, are camp
ing at Otis Landing, on Elk River.
Warren l.. Taylor and H. Herbert
Hirzel, of Rising Sun, have formed a
in the undertaking busi-
ness, and succeeded the firm of Sam
uel A. Taylor and son, of Rising Sun.
A well attended business meeting of !
Rising Sun Milk Producers Protective
Association was held on Wednesday
in Woodman's Hall, when a
number of new members were enroll |
ed. P. E. Sharpless was present and
conferred with the Association, the
of the milk producers and |
he Sharpless Company being adjusted |
in measure.
The section of the road beween Zion |
and Calvert, left unfinished when the
road was graveled. is being improved.
Postmaster o. c. Giles, of Elkton,
has been notified that Rural Route No. |
will be established between Elkton
and Lewisville, on October l. This
will necessitate the closing of post
offices at Cherry Hill and Providence.
Clinton White, an Elkton colored
youth, aged about 21 years, dropped
lead while dancing in Providence Hall
Thursday evening. 1t is thought that
1eart trouble caused his sudden death.
Under the reorganization plan of
The Lancaster, Oxford and Southern
Railroad Company, George W. Wag-
ler, agent for the Pennsylvania Rail
'oad Company, at Port Deposit, has
been selected as its general manager.
Charles E. Thomas and Joseph
lacks, two Baltimore laos, were SEN
.enced to Elkton iail for 70 days on