The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-12-30
Learn to write it 1917.


next, January 2.
Company E will meet the Glover
Academy five at the Armory this even
ing. Dancing after the game.
The young men of Elkton have is
sued invitations for New Years
dance in the Armory on Monday even-
ing next.
Rev. William Schouler, Rector of
Trinity P. E. hCurch has been suffer-
ing from a severe attack of grip. Mr..
Schouler was overcome on Sunday
morning III his pulpit and had to be
carried home to the Rectory.
The Newark Post of Newark, Del,
announces that after January "a the
subscription price of the paper will
be raised to $1.50 per year.
The ann ualmeeting of the Rising
Sun Detective Association will be held
at Rising Sun on Saturday, January
g. at 10 a. m. The annual turkey din
ner will be served in the hall by the
ladies of the Westminster Guild of
the West Nottingham Presbyterian
Church
George R. Ingram, a well known
real estate dealer of Mddletown, Del,
has been very i'll for some time with
pneumonia.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany employees at Perryville have or
ganized gun club with Trainmaster
H. NJ. Murdoch, president; Road Fore
man of Engines Alexander Sentman,
secretary and treasurer.
In recognition of his services as
pastor of the church during the past
four years, the Rev. Vaughan S. Col
Inns, pastor of st. Paul's NJ. E. Church,
Wilmington, at the services on Sunday
was presented with a purse Of $50. DR..
Collins thanked the members of the
congregation.
Lewis Martindale, a produce dealer
near North East, fell on the ic eat
his home recently and fractured his
leg.
Isaac NJ. Green and his daughter,
Kathryn, of near Elkton, were sur
prised on Christmas by receiving a
large box of raisins from California.
1t was a gift from Walter Peters, a
frequent visitor at the Green home
during tn esummer months.
Many of the older residents of Port
Deposit section will remember Mr..
and Mrs. Aaron Jones Fletcher. Mrs.
Fletcher was formerly Miss Mary E.
Purner, of Calvert, this county. Mr..
Fletcher was for some years engaged
in construction work on the Pennsyl-
vania and B. & R. Railroads, at Port
Deposit Leaving Port Deposit they
removed to South Acton, Mass, where
they recently celebrated their golden
wedding, surrounded by their four
children and four grandchildren.
While William Morrison, special
officer of Newark, was watching DR..
Walter H. Steel dress the wounds of
two men injured in an automobile ac-
cident, one day last week, he tainted
and fell. His fall was so heavy he
broke his collar bone.
Mrs. Van Overen, wife of the Rev.
A. Van Overen, pastor of Head of
Christiana Presbyterian Church, sew
eral days ago fell on the pavement in
Wilmington and broke two bones in
her wrist
A the meeting of the New Century
Club of Newark last week, announce
ment was made that $50 was cleared
on the recent bake. Professor Mary
f. Rich of the Women's College, re-
ported tina t6,500 pictures had been
mounted for the circulating picture
library in the rural schools.
The young men of Middletown gave
their annual Christmas dance in the
New Century Club House on Tuesday
evening. The patronesses We're Mrs.
George V. Peverly, Mrs. Frank R.
Pool, Mrs. Henry S. Brady, Mrs. Jul
ian NJ. Foard, Mrs. James f. Woodall,
Mrs. Dorsey W. Lewis, Mrs. John c.
Green, Mrs. John H. Brown, Mrs.
Lloyd Bragdon, Mrs. Warren S. p.
Combs. The committee was Henry s.
Brady. Julian H. Foard, Richard T.
Cam, Jr., George I. Lockwood Emory
W. Hukill, DR.. Warren S. P. Combs
Benjamin Gibbs, Eugene II. Shall
cross.
George Delaney, of near Townsend
had two Of his toes partly severed
when an axe he was using in Telling
trees slipped and struck his foot. He
is now confined 70 his bed, being un-
able TO walk.
Carrolrs Laundry, of Hnvre de
Grace, calls for Laundry on Mondays
and delivers on Fridays. Family wash
ing SOC dozen. Phone 69K or dron =
cord ....s.t