The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-03-28
LOCAL JOTTINGS

The regular meeting of Elkton
Grange will be held this Saturday eve
ming at 80 o'clock
Contractor Elmore Deibert has bro
ken ground for the new textile mill
which the Elkton Development Co. will
erect for the Deibert Manufacturing
Company.
Mrs. Dr. Ellis, noted gospel singer
of Philadelphia, will speak and sing at
Bethel this Saturday evening and to-
morrow, Sunday morning. At Sum-
NIT at p. m. and at Bethel 1870 p. m.
The meetings will be held rain or
shine.
The Liberty Club of Town Point was
formed last Saturday. The members
are Misses Dorothy AFFORD, Ethel
Blansield, Jennie Arrants, Sarah
Whitlock, Mary Powell, Edna Purner;
Messrs. Walter Coleman, Joseph Pur-
dy, William Purner and Lewis Powell.
A Twentieth Century Entertain
ment, presented by Mr.. Robert Down
ing, the great ctor-evangelist, assist
ed by Mrs. Downing and local talent,
including "Not Wanted" a one-act
comedy, TO conclude with a play "The
Country Parson," written from life by
Mr.. Downing, was given in the Me-
chanics' Hall, Elkton, for benefit of
Singerly Fire Company, Thursday and
Friday evenings of this week. The
entertainment was presented to a
crowded house at Chesapeake City on
Wednesday evening.
A Grafonola Recital will be held at
Crouch's Chapel on Friday evening
next, April 3. An admission of Is
cents will be charged which will in
clude refreshments. Public cordially
invited.
DR.. Thomas S. Baker, Director of
the Tome Institute, has invited the
Cecil county public school teachers to
visit the Institute next Saturday, and
hear Miss Ethel Gowans, OF New York
discuss Mature Study for Primary
and Grammar Grades and How to
Teach it."
ed to Earleville Friday of last week by
ton. Dr. L. n. Crawford found that
death had occurred from heart failure,
and the Coroner gave a certificate to
that effect.
The Postolfice Department has Sc
lected ten cities, Boston, Atlanta, st.
Louis, San Francisco, Baltimore, De-
troit Lacrosse, Wis, Lynn, Mass,
Rock Island, ILL.,, and Washington, in
which to establish direct connections
between the producers and consumers
OF farm products, such as eggs, butter,
poultry, fruit and vegetables. The
postmasters of the above named cities
have been instructed to receive the
names of producers wishing to supply
such connections in retail quantities
by parcels post, and printed lists of
these names will be distributed in the
cities.
The Susuuehanna River is free of
ice and danger of porges is past.
Herbert Mellor. of Town Point has
accepted a position on the sEricsson."
Lewis T. +. Ward, who recentlv en-
gagged in the general merchandising
| business at Cherry Hill. is using cleo
| trio lights for the first time in the his
| tory of that town. Mr.. Ward installed
| his own plant, engine. generator and
storage battery and has had his resi-
| dence, store and stable all wired.
The members of the congregation of
Cherry Hill Church rendered their pas
tor. the Rev George Z. Wood. a dona-
| llOn w GunGSQaN evening OF last week,
| A thoroughbred Guernsey bull own
! ed bv Register of Wills Thomas b.
Miller was so badly injured one dav
last weel. that it had to be killed,
Trinity Church, Elkton. Services to-
morrow, Sunday at II a. m. with Holv
| Communion, and 7;3O D, m. Sunday
School, with Rector's Bible Glass at 10
a. m.
Rev. John E. Parks. Rector of
| Churches at Newport and Stanton,
! Del, will preach at the Tuesday even.
ing Lenten service in Trinity Church
next week. Services on Tuesday and
Friday evenings at 7.3O; on Wcdnes-
days and THURSDAYS at 4:l5 n. m The
public is cordially invited
Congressman j. Harry Covington of
this district, has announced that he
will be a candidate for denomination,
The building being erected bv the
Elkton Realty Co.. TO be used as q
hosiery mill, is now under roof and
| enclosed. and will be pushed ranid,v to
completion bv Contractor NJ
Strickland. It will he occunied hv f
| Sutro e. Sons Company.
Crouch's Chapel Sunday School
near Elkton, viii reopen tomorrow