The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-07-04
Local Jottings of the Week


for this year will be S1.41-31 cents
State tax and $1.10 County; $14.1O on
the $1,000.
State Comptroller Emerson C. Har-
rington, made distribution this week
of an extra S50,457 for free school
purposes in the various counties of
the State. Cecil received S14S7.24.
The Cecil National Bank of Port
Deposit has declared a semi-annual
dividend of per cent. payable July /.
This is the 99th dividend paid by this
Bank.
There will be preaching in Asbury
M. E. Church, Blythedale, on Sunday
evening, July 5, 1914, at 7:45 o'clock,
by the pastor, Rev. C. N. Jones.
Baseball boys of Lewisville will give
a festival in the school yard Wednes-
day evening, July 8. If stormy, next
clear evening
The work of repairing and oiling the
macadam road between Elkton and
Chesapeake City, is now in progress.
William j. Bratton. son Of DR.. How
ard Bratton, of Elkton, who recently
graduated at the Maryland University
has successfully passed the State
Board examinations and will be ad-
mitted to the Bar.
The Holiness Camp at Copson Park,
near Leslie Station, will open Satur-
day, August Is, and close August 30.
being in session three Sundays.
Friends Meeting was held at Octo-
raro last Sunday afternoon and will
be held at West Nottingham tomor-
row, Sunday, at II o'clock a. m.
Alan d. Johnson, for many years
foreman of the Cecil County News.
but recently associated with Charles
G. Wells at the Elkton Opera House,
has accepted position with the New
ark Post.
At a meeting of the State Roads
Commission held June %, a contract
was awarded to the H. B. Sproul Con-
tracing Co., of Peekskill, N. Y. for
the Improvement of a section of State
road in Cecil county, from the end of
contract No. 049-A, to the town limits
of North East, known as the Post road
a distance of 500 miles. construction
to be of macadam. Work on same will
be started as soon as conditions per-
NIT. This contract was let subject to
securing the necessary rights of-way
The Head of Christiana Sewing
Circle will meet with Mr.. and Mrs.
Cecil Creswell at their home at Cowen-
town, next Saturday evening. Every
body welcome.
There will be preaching at West
End Chapel, Elkton, tomorrow, Sun
day evening, at 7:45.
Children's Day services will be OBJ
served at Bethel Church, Pivot Bridge
tomorrow, Sunday.
Today, Saturday, is July 4th, a Ma
tional holiday, and all banks, offices
and places of business are closed.
Thomas Kane, of Perryville, an en-
ployee of the Maryland Division of
the P, B. & w. Railroad, was placed
on the retired list Wednesday. Mr.,
Kane, who was born in Ireland. March
10, 1849, entered the Company's SER
vice on October IS, 1866. He began
as fireman and retired as an engi-
neer.
Dog-days begin next Saturday and
end August %.
Misses Ethel Hopkins, of Elkton;
Annie Arrants, Margaret Holt, Viola
Finn and Florence Wilson, Elk Neck;
Ruth Crothers, Calvert; Emily Scott.
lsab belle Scott and Mary Hinchman. of
Barksdale; Victoria Janney, of An
dora; Mary Taylor, of Cecilton; Min
ME Gillespie, of Port Deposit and Raw
mond Cameron, of North East, are at
tending the Summer School for Teach
ers, which opened at Newark Monday
All together, there are about two hun
dred pupils enrolled.
Mrs. Mary B. Love. of Conowingo.
has filed bill in the Cecil Court for a
divorce from Cecil Love, alleging de-
sertion.
DR.. Vernon H. Mcknight, of Elkton.
has purchased the drug store of the
late DR.. 7. B. Housekeeper, at North
East, and has located at that town
His many friends wish him the best of
success in his undertaking.
About twenty candidates took the
June examinations at Delaware Col
lege. The present prospects for a
large freshman class is excellent.
There will be preaching at Crouch's
chapel tomorrow, Sunday, at p. m.
Magistrate Levi o. Cameron, of
Elkton, will erect an office on the va
cant lot in the rear of Elkton Opera
House.
Inc young people of Providence
will hold a festival for the benefit of
Union Hospital, Elkton, this Saturday
afternoon and evening. A dance plat
form will be erected at Providence
Park, and there will be dancing in the
afternoon and evening. There will
also be display of fireworks in the
evening. No disorder of any kind will
be permitted on the grounds. Admis-
sion to dancing platform, 80 cents;
ladies free. Everybody welcome.
The Third District Auxiliary of Un-
ion Hospital will hold lawn fete on
Friday and Saturday evenings July
10 and II, at the Hospital, if the wea-
ther is favorable; if stormy, it will be
held the next fair evenings. Contrih1-