The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-10-10
LOCAL JOTTIkGS

the Circuit court on rlQay nearQ ar
gument for the removal of the Wood
lawn arson cases, wherein Mrs. Vir-
ginia Rutter and Mollie Sims, colored,
are indicted. The cases will be tried
in the Talbot County Court.
On Monday of this Week the Circuit
Court confirmed the. verdict of the
jury of inquisition in the case of the
State Road Commission VS.. Robert =.
Shelton, for condemnation of land for
the State road near Bohemia Bridge.
An Oxford exchange says that the
Rev. Geo. H. Turner, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church in that town,
created something of a sensation
amongst his male members last Sun
day morning after service, by getting
them into a corner and asking them
point-blank why "sin-e saey paid him
to hold midweek prayer-meetings,
they didn't attend them"
The regular monthly meeting of the
Elkton improvement Association will
be held in Council Hail, at 8 o'clock,
next Monday evening. Officers for
the coming year will be elected. No
special topics will be an::uunced, but
there will be a general discussion on
"How Can Elkton Be lmproved?"
Rising Sun Gun Club will hold
tournament next Monday.
Rev. H. T. Quigg will preach Mt
Westamwell Chapel tomorrow, Sunday
afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock. The public
is invited.
The Right Rev. William F. Adams,
DID,, Bishop of the Diocese of Easton,
will administer the Rite of Confrma.
ton in Trinity Church, Elkton, to-
morrow Sunday, hour of service II.
| Sunday services regularly at II a. m.
| and 1880 p. m. Sunday school at 10
a. m. Service on Friday evenings at
1880. The Bishop will visit st. An
drew's (Goldsborough Memoria!)
| Church, Andora, this Saturday after
noon at 3 o'clock. All cordially invited
to the services above named.
William Price, of Middle Neck, has
| purchased from Walter Morris, of Do
yer. the farm of 223 acres on the road
leading from Mt. Pleasant TO Chesa-
peake City. The price paid is said to
have been $4,000.
c. L. Ward, attorney for the peti.
tioning creditors, brought an involun-
sary petition in bankruptcy against
the d. A. Jedel Co., Inc, of Newark,
before Judge Bradford, in the United
States Court, in Wilmington, Monday
morning. The claims of the creditors
! amount to SS,719.13.
Forty years ago last Tuesday
! Elkton's veteran newsdea!er, Joseph
Hinchliffe, purchased the newspaper
business from Thomas Giles, grand
father of Postmaster Oliver C. Giles.
Monday, October II, Columbus
Day, is legal holiday and the banks
will be closed
The middle convocation of the Dio-
cese of Easton will be held at Trinity
Cathedral, Easton, Oct. Il and %.
Tomorrow, Sunday, at 3 p. M,
Crouch's Chapel will hold their Har-
vest Home. Preaching by the pastor,
Rev. Franklin Gray. Special music.
Everybody welcome.
Park B. Shank, one of the veteran
rivermen residing along the lower
! Susquehanna, declares that he never
before saw the river as low as it is
now. He has within some days looked
upon rocks in the river bed that are
new to him, they having been water
covered for years ana years. MIR.
| Shank says about 100 yards out from
the shore along his house at Peach
Bottom he can start and walk across
the river This shows it to be low and
very IoW.--OXford Press.
Shows Battery Association held its
annual reunion at PerryViiie last sat
| urday. The meeting was well attend
ed and proved happy gathering of
veterans and comrades. The officers
OF the past reunion year -'ere, re-
elected, Charles BENJAMIN, president.
Or. George w. Marshall, OF Milford,
has presented complete basketball
equipment to the new Women's Col
lege,
The Rev. w. Jaggard vii preach a
Temperance sermon at Union M. f;
Church tomorrow, sunday, Special
music. Everybody welcome.
Ihere Will be preaching at West End
chapel, Elkton, tomorrow, Sunday
evening, by Kew. ii. /. Qulgg, at 1870
o'clock. All are welcome.
The regular meetings of the County
commissioners, Orphans, Court and
School Commissioners will be held at
Elkton next Tuesday,
Miss +; May Bookwa!ter, of the
Central Entertainment Bureau, of
Harrisburg, Pa, VIII present The
House that Jack Built" in Elkton at an
early date, for benefit of Union Hos