The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-12-18
LOCAL JOTTINGS
Full moon next Tuesday.

| The members of the Junior class OF
Delaware College have decided to hold
the Junior prom" on February L.
James L. Dean, one of Elkton's
well known merchants, had the third
finger of his right hand so badly lac
Grated that it had to be amputated at
the second joint and the end of the lit
tie finger seriously cut, when his hand
came in contact with circular saw,
which he was operating at his farm
in Elk Neck, one day last week.
The Rosebank Sunday school of
Calvert. will hold their Xmas enter
tainment Thursday evening, Decem-
Der %. A cantata. THE Growing Of
Christmas" will be rendered. A silver
offering will be taken. If stormy, the
next evening.
Billy Sunday, who begins his evan
gelistic campaign in Baltimore early
in 1916. has rented the splendid man.
sion of Henry James on Mt. Vernon
Place as his residence for four months.
A statement just issued by the
taxable basis of this State is $l,274,-
S24,3ll.25. OF this amount SS39, ,2l2,-
SlS.l2 represents real and tangible
personal property.
The DUPONT Powder Company divd-
ed this week 80 per cent dividend on
the new common stock of the COM
pany. The total dividend distributed
to its stockholders was SlS.O00.00O.
Mr.. Wallace Williams will address
| the Farmers and Dairymein's Asso-
| citation at their regular meeting this
Saturday evening at s o'clock. at Elk
ton, on his trip West this summer and
compare the advantages Of farming in
the West with conditions in Maryland
From the Chester Times we learn
that Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen l.. Armour
will celebrate their golden wedding ON
December 26. at "Ward's Bluff" Ches-
ter Heights, Pa. Mr.. Armour was
married to Emma H. Neasey at her
fathers home, on the farm then known
as the Dir. Shippers farm, on Elk
River, by the Rev. Henry Simper5
Only two who were present at the
wedding are vet living Mr.. and Mrs
Armour decline presents on this
happy occasion, but invite little post
card remembrance from their friends
Hagerty. Sr..& Son, Port Deposit, are
headquarters for Automobiles and
Carriage Painting and Decorating .adtf
Bishop John G. Murray preached the
| December sermon to the students Of
Tome School last Sunday morning.
The public schools of Cecil county
! will close for the holidays next Thurs
day and reopen on Monday. Jan. 3.
Lewis Warrington, colorei, of Elk
ton, who was arrested with two white
men in Wilmington, last Saturday
night, on the charge of trying to sell
a stolen auto, was found innocent and
released.
Go to Hagerty, Sr., and Sons up-to-
date Automobile Supply House, in
Port Deposit, Nd, for OXy-Acetylene
welding. advt-tf
After serving for several years as
| superintendent Of the Bell Telephone
Company's lines in Cecil county, H.
p. McFrederick has resigned and will
engage in business in Philadelphia.
While making sausage. last week,
Mrs. Clarence Webb, of Earleville,
had the end of one finger nearly sew
cred, by getting it caught in the grin
| der.
Hagerty, Sr., & Son, Port Deposit, are
Headquarters for Automobiles and
Carriage Painting and Decorating .adtf
John Tyler, of New York, picked up
out of the gutter and presented to hu-
| manity. the marvellous and thrilling
| story of whose lie creates an impress
sion never to be effaced A college
man, dissinated fortune; forty-tw0
wears . drunkard; five times around
the world as o tramp; six years a
| hushman in Australia; lived in and
anon" the most depraved in the large
titles of the world; a derelict and out