The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-05-15
LOCAL JOTTINGS

WAS
withdrawn and held for private sale.
A meeting of the Ladies' Aid of
Leslie Camp is called at the home of
Mrs. A. M. Strickland, E!kton, on
Thursday, May 20, at 2 O'Clock p. m.
All members urged to be present. I'm
portant business.
The First District Ladies' Auxiliary
of the Union Hospital assembled and
organized on Friday afternoon. April
30, in the George Biddle High School.
The following officers were elected
President, Miss Mary Emily Clark;
lst vice-president, Mrs. George w.
Padley; I'd vice-persident. Miss Mollie
McCoy; secretary and treasurer, Mrs.
R. NJ. Black; press reporter, Mrs. ].
H. Black.
The Radnor Relief Association of
Elkton will celebrate Decoration Day,
on May %. Meet at lodge room at
$3.50 p. m. After the services at the
cemetery the lodge will march to the
NJ. E. Church. Rev. G. P. Jones will
preach at both services.
In its account of the home garden
demonstrations being conducted by
County Agent Marsh, on the farm of
Mr.. E. w. Jackson, the WHIG gave
Mr.. Jackson's residence as near Elk
ton. Mr.. Jackson lives near Akin. in
the Seventh district. and is Court
Commissioners from the Third Com
missioners' District.
Governor Goldsborough appointed
Senator Frank E. Williams, Miss
Mazda G. Campbell, Henry M. McCul-
Tough, DR.. Howard Bratton, OF Elkton;
Mrs. R. c. Hopkins and Mrs. A. Hop
kins, of Port Deposit. delegates from
this county to the National Conference
on Charities and Corrections, which
met at Baltimore Wednesday. for
nine day session. and Mrs. |. D. Davis
of Elkton, and l. Henry Ford. of North
East, members of the Statewide Tu-
berculosis Committee.
Jesse Slicer, of Greenhurst. who
has been running a creamery at Per-
ymans, fer the Middletown Farm, of
Del, was operated on at the Phsslc-
ians and Surgean's Hospital. Wilm
ton, Wedne' ay morning
By advertisement in another column
former County Treasurer E. Kurtz
Taylor, of the Seventh district, an.
nounces his candidacy for the Demo-
cratic nomiration for Register of
Wills.
Hugh Montgomery, a Fourth dis
trict farmer, had a valuable COW killed
during the electrical storm last Satur-
day night
Calvert Agricultural High School
baseball team defeated the West Not
tingham Academy team at Calvert, on
Friday of last week by the score of
4 to 8.
. A. S. Perkins, of the State Board of
Education, visited the Cecil County
schools this week.
At the golden wedding anniversary
of Mr.. and Mrs. Allen S. Elliott. at
Richardsmere, last Saturday. Mrs. Ell
lott was attired in her wedding outfit
of fifty years ago.
Mr.. Harry Harvey, of North East.
very kindly presented the Editor of
the WHIG this week with a rock fish
which weighed l6 1-2 lbs. Some fish.
that-and it naturally made sensa-
tion when being brought down North
street to the WHIG office.
A festival will be held at Franklin
School, near Port Deposit, Thursday
evening, May 20. If stormy next eve
niEg. All come.
The teachers and pupils of Appleton
school will hold festival on the
school grounds Wednesday evening,
May .!6. If stormy, next evening.
The Union NJ. f. Sunday School will
hold a strawberry and ice cream fes-
tival in the grove adjoining the church
on Wednesday evening, June ,. If
stormy next fair evening.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Elkton
NJ. f. Church will hold bake at the
store of Vinsinger & Pippin this Sat
urday afternoon, beginning at p. m.
DR.. f. l.. Hotfecker, District Sup
erintendent, will be in Elkton next
Monday evening, May II. All those
who are interested in regular SER
vices at West End are requested to be
present at o'clock sharp.
Preaching at Crouch Chapel tomor-
row, Sunday, at 2:30 p. m. Sunday
school at 2 p. m
The bake which was to have been
held by the Ladies' Aid Society of
Elkton M. f. Church, this Saturday
at the store of Vinsinger &
Pippin, has been postponed until Sat-
urday. May %, at p. m.
Harry c. Walton, who for some time
past has been conducting a fruit and
grocery business in Oxford, has left
for parts unknown. He is wanted on
the charge of embezzling $500 from
Mrs. Hugh Armour, who had assisted
him financially in starting his bust
ness. An attachment was put upon
the store goods, and also upon Wal
tons bank account, amounting to
about 500.
James Shea, of near Rising Sun,
suffered a stroke of paralysis. last
Sunday morning, one side being af-
fected.
Friday night, of last week, at Cen
the Queen Anne's Court heard
argument on a motion for new trial
in the case of Mrs. Josephine Pryor
against the Commissioners of Chesa-
peake City and the Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal Company. in which
case Mrs. Pryor had gotten a verdict
for S35O0 for personal injuries. The
Court ordered all testimony in the case
to be submitted in writing before pass
ing, on the motion for a new trial.
Joshua Clayton represented the Com
onl IL.