The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-09-19
LOCAL JOTTINGS


The young ladies of Cherry Hill
Sunday school will hold shadow Soc
ial at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. c. S.
Grant, Cherry Hill, Friday evening,
September 25. Proceeds for the ben
eft of the Missionary Fund. Ice
cream and candy for sale. Everybody
welcome.
The September term of the Circuit
Court will convene on Monday next.
The docket records 118 civil trials, 10
appeal cases, and a number of crimi-
nal trials. The jury list was publish
ed in the WHIG several weeks ago.
Twenty-six candidates, only four of
whom were Elktonians, took the ex-
animation for the Elkton-L -Lewisville
rural mail route held at the Cecil
County High School last Saturday
morning.
The September meeting of the Cecil
Farmers Club was held last Wednes-
day at the home of Thomas B. Miller
at Cherry Hill.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Leeds M.
P. Church will meet at the home of
Mrs. j. Frank Blake next Thursday
evening. All are cordially invited.
The Farmers National Congress
will be held at Fort Worth, Texas, the
14th to 18th of October.
w. d. Ewing of the Zion section,
lost valuable mule one day recently
from meningitis.
The Maryland Sand Company is
shipping large quantities of sand from
its sand pits at Charlestown.
The fall and winter schedule of
H. 80 of
the Pennsylvania Railroad went into
effect on the 18th, but there was no
change affecting trains at Elkton
station.
Racing, which is to continue for nine
days, will begin at Havre de Grace on
Monday.
The third annual registered tourna-
ment of the Elkton Gun Club will be
held on Thursday, October 8.
The forty-fourth reunion of Co. E,
Purnell's Legion, and Shows Battery,
Maryland Volunteers, will be held at
Perryville on Saturday, October 3.
All soldiers and sons of veerans espec-
tally invited to attend
Oxford Fall Fair will be IN session
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of
next week.
R. C. Anderson is building a new
dwelling house on his farm near Lom-
bard.
This term of Court is billed for an
other Ninth district dog case, that of
George T. Demond VS.. Constable
Harry A. Brown, for the killing of
Demond's dog by Brown for refusal
to pay the 1913 dog tax. Magistrate
Cameron before whom the case was
brought, decided that Brown was jus
titled, in his official capacity, in killing
the dog, whereupon the plaintiffs
counsel took an appeal to court. De-
mond claims S75 damages for the dog
on the ground that it was valuable
one
The power house of the Peoples
Railway Company, skating rink and a
large chicken house at Brandywine
Springs Park, were totally destroyed
by fire believed to have been of incen-
diary origin, early Sunday morning.
The loss will reach $4,000, but is
fully covered by insurance. For a
time the fire threatened the "Cedars"
as sparks fell on several houses, but
the residents managed to smother the
flames before they did much damage.
Theory as to the incendiarism is based
on the fact that man was seen run
ming from the park just after the dis
covery of the fire at the skating rink
by John Connell, night watchman.
Connell called to the stranger to halt
but he then increased his rate of speed
and soon became lost in the darkness.
AS the result of injuries sustained
when he fell from load of hay sew
eral days ago, Thomas B. Alexander,
of the Newark section, died at Della
ware Hospital, Wilmington, Wednes-
day morning. Mr.. Alexander was go
years of age and was taken to the
hospital on September /, and for a
time it was thought he would survive
Out change for the worse came suc-
denly and all efforGs to save nfm prov
ed useless.
AT sundown tomorrow, Sunday eve
ming the Hebrews will celebrate the
advent of the Jewish New Year. The
new year will be the 5675th.
Mrs. c. M. Follett, Representative
of the National Florence Crittenton
Mission, is spending several days In
Elkton in interest of the Mission. Mrs.
Follett spoke at the Presbyterian
Church last Sunday morning and at
the Methodist Church in the evening.
Former State Senator of Delaware
Remsen c. Barnard, of Camden, Del,
was instantly killed Monday after
noon at Wyoming, when his auto was
struck by a Norfolk express. The un-
fortunate man was 49 years of age
and is survived by widow and three
children.
Berchel L., the three months old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Goodnow, of
North East, died Wednesday of last
week, of cholera infantum.
At a meeting of the creditors of Nj.
G. Scarborough held Tuesday before
Willis E. Myers. Referee in Bank
ruptcy, w. Booth Settle, ESQ.,, was
elected Trustee.
Rev. Adrian VanOveren will preach
at Jackson Hall, near Cowensown to-
morrow Sunday evening. The pub
lie is cordially invited,
Peter Burns, the young man VINO IS
suspected of causing the fire at elk
ton Farm last week was arrested
last Sunday near Elkton, where he had
been in hiding. Sheriff Morgan was
informed of Burns hiding place, and