The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-09-05
LOCAL JOTTINGS

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| Thursday. A festiva. will be held in
the evening for benefit of church pur-
poses. If stormy, next evening.
Everybody welcome.
A fair and festival will be held at
Octoraro Church this Saturday even
ing.
| Thirteen tickets were sold at Elk
ton for the last railroad excursion to
Atlantic City, last Sunday.
The September term of the Circuit
| Court for Cecil county will convene at
Elkton the third Monday In Scptem-
ber.
The annual picnic of the Cherry
Hill M. E. Sunday school was held in
McFadden's Grove, near Singerly, on
Thursday.
The regular meetings of the County
| Commissioners, School Commission
ers, and Orphans Court will be held
at Elkton next Tuesday.
Although regular class work will
begin at the new Women's College, on
September Is, by which time both Re-
sidence Hall and Recitation Hall will
be completed, the formal opening will
take place probably during the second
week in October. President Mitchell
and Dean Robinson are at work on
plans for this formal opening, and
| these plans will be Announced some
| time during the early part of Septem-
| ber. Although under the same man
| agement practically as Delawar Col
| lge and receiving instructions from
| the same professors to great degree,
the Women's College will be entirely
separate from the college for men in
every way; the two colleges will be
merely affiliated and not co-educa-
tional.-Newark Post.
Monday, September 7, Labor Day,
and Saturday, September II, Old De-
tenders Day, will be observed as bank
holidays.
Divine worship tomorrow, Sunday,
at Elkton Presbyterian Church, at
1890 a. m. The Sacrament of the
Lords Supper will be administered
and it is hoped that all members will
make an effort to be present. Sun
day school at noon. All are most cor
daily invited.
A number of the younger set IF
the Leeds section enjoyed a boat trip
to Betterton Friday of last week.
A lawn social will be held on Sat-
urday evening, September 5, on the
lawn at Port Herman for benefit of
M. E. Church. Cake, ice cream and
other refreshments for sale. Come
and help good cause
Campfire Supper and festival on
Woodiawn Camp Grounc on AFTERNOON
and evening of Saturday, Sept. 5.
Supper 25 cents. Ice cream, peaches
and confectionery will be for sale. The
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out.
Wilson Sharpless, of Pennington,
was thrown from a horse one day last
week, and sustained a fractured arm.
Chester Miller, of the Lewisville
section, is suffering with typhoid fe-
ver
Miss Blanche Logan, head of the
operating department of Elkton Tele-
phone exchange, is confined to her
home at Leslie, with typhoid fever.
PAP marriage licenses were issued
at the Clerks Office in Elkton, during
August.
The meeting of the Tri-County Fish
ermen's Association held at Elkton
last Saturday, was so poorly attended
that no business was transacted.
Trinity P. E. Church, Elkton. Ser
vices tomorrow, unday, at IL a. M,
with Holy Communion, and 7.3O p. M
All evening services now begin at
1870 o'clock.
Owing to the rainy weather last
Saturday evening, the festival at Elk
Mills, for benfie of the baseball team,
will be held this Saturday evening.
Maryland will be represented at the
Fourth American Road Congress, dur
ing the week of November 8, by
Henry e. Shirley, chief engineer of the
Maryland State Roads Commission,
who will present paper on "Heavy
Traffic on Roads,"
Norman Glees, colored, aged Is
years, of Ham Town" colored set
tlement near Middletown, is lying in
critical condition at Delaware Hospi-
tai, Wilmington, with bullet wound
through his neck and another in his
body. 1t was stated that Giees and
some others were wrestling for the
possession of a revolver, when it was
accidentally discharged, but the fact
that Glees had two bullet wounds is
taken as an indication that the shoot
ing was deliberate. The authorities
are Investigating the case.
Mrs. Alexander d. McConachie, of
Baltimore, formerly of Elkton, has
been appointed a mem.er of a COM
mittee of hostesses for the breakfast
in honor of the President General of
the National Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, Mrs. Will
liam c. Story, to be given at the Hotel
Belvedere, September 10, at IL
o'clock Mrs. McConachie is also
member of the Hospitality Committee
for the Star-Spangled Banner Cen
tennial Celebration Reception to be
held at Fort McHenry, September 10,
at $3.50 o'clock.
Alfred P. Scott, graduate of the
class of 1910 at the Cecil County Higa
School and 1914 at Delaware College,
has accepted a position as principal
of school at Lewistown, ILL.,, and left
last Monday for his new field of labor
Manuel Panaretos, who left this
country to help Greece fight the Bal
kans, returned to America some time
ago and has again assumed charge of
"Newark Handy Kitchen. Before re-
turning to this country Mr.. Panaretos
was married and will make his future
homo at Nawark