The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-04-01
LOCAL JOTTINGS
OF THE WEEK
Five Hack Drivers Fined For Molesting
C,uples Coming From Trains Row
land Manufacturing Co. Closes Plant.
Freight Cars Derailed AT Leslie

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Freight Cars Derailed AT Leslie
The Head of Christiana Sunday
school will be reorganized tomorrow
Sunday afternoon. A full attend
ance of members and friends is de-
sired.
Robert johnson and Sam Anderson.
two colored residents of Elkton, had a
quarrel last Saturday night and the
morning, but missed his aim. The two
negroes were afterward rounded up
by Deputy Sheriff McAllister and
Bailiff Potts and held at Elkton Jail
for hearing. at which Anderson was
senterced to one year in the House of
Correction and johnson was fined $50,
or {. year at the same institution.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel R. Miller, of
Union, have moved to the H. c. Hess
and Brother property at Fair Hill,
Wnere they will open up store.
Austin McCaslin, Colora youth,
almost severed finger last Saturday,
while splitting wood.
On complaint of the railroad author
tiles, five Elkton hack drivers were
fined So and costs by Magistrate J NJ.
Ash, on Monday, on the charge of
interfering with passengers at Elkton
station.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Martindale. who
recently sold their farm, near Zion,
to Senator Frank E. Williams, moved
to their new home at Zion, Thursday
Of last week.
The 2Sth annual session of the
Maryland Annual Conference of the
NJ. 2. Church will be held from April
) to II, with the President, Rev. John
S. Bowers, d. d., of Baltimore, pre-
siding. The conference will be held at
the West Baltimore Church, Gilmore
street and Lafayette avenues.
The Rowland Manufacturing Co. re-
Gently served notice on its employees
that on April l they will close down
their plant at Port Deposit, throwing
a large force of workmen out of en-
ployment.
H. H. Hillegass, instructor in Elec-
trical Engineering at Delaware Col
lege, has resigned to accept a posi-
ton with the General Electric Co., at
Pittsburgh, Pa. his resignation taking
elect To-Day, Apfll
The 100 acre farm of the late Cliff
ford Cook, near Calvert. has been
bought by John Worth, for $4,000. and
Edward Crothers has bought the 40
acre farm near the same place for
$4500.
A call has been issued by the Re-
publicans of Cecil county to meet in
Elkton to organize France Cam
baign Club.
Rev. J. Gibson CAN'T, of Denton,
formerly of North East, has accepted
a call to the rectorate of the Church
OF the Ascension at Claymont, Del,
and will conduct his first service to-
morrow, Sunday.
Mrs. George w. Cannan, of near
Co!oYa, is receiving treatment at I'm
ion Hospital Elkton, for nervous
trouble.
Mrs. Timothy Preston, of North
East, underwent a successful opera
ton last week at Union Hospital.
Crossing Watchmen of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad will soon hold aloft a
red disk with the word stop" in white
letters instead of the white flag they
have heretofore waved. the road hay
ing adopted this change of its system.
George A. McAllister, who has car
ried on blacksmithing at Blake for a
number of years, moved to Calvert last
Saturday, where he vii! erect garage
Mrs. Maggie Anderson, of Elkton,
has rented her house, at Blake, to
Samuel Devonshire, of Calvert, for
the coming year.
Miss Ella Bothell of North East,
has resigned as teacher of Leslie
school. to take effect April 10.
April will be observed as Arbor
and Bird Day.
Theodore Grouse, of Port Deposit,
had the sight of one eye destroyed and
his face seriously injured by the ex-
plosion of a gun one day last week,
and is receiving treatment at Union
Hospital, Elkton.
Hagerty, Sr., .,& Son, Port Deposit, are
headquarters for Automobiles and
Carriage Painting and Decorating .adtf
The election of officers which took
place last Sunday afternoon at Crouch
Chapel. resulted as follows: Superin-
tendent. A. NJ. Strickland; Asst. Sup
erintendent, Mrs. Charles Urban; Sec
rotary, Grover Lodge; Asst. Secretary,
Howard Lewis; Treasurer, Mrs. Gin
ton Denny; Organist. Miss Mollie
Keithley; Librarian, Birtchel Keith
ley The school will reopen tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock Everybody
is invited to come and join the school.
Harry DeValinger has opened up
store in the storehouse recently vacat-
ed by Taylor & Reynolds, on East
High street, they having moved into
their new up-to-date store building on
the opposite side of East High street.
Rev. w. H Rector. pastor of the A.
U. NJ. P. Church. Elkton, is having
erected a store room and eating house
on High street.
Go to Hagerty, Sr., and Sons up-to-
date Automobile Supply House. in
Port Deposit, Md. for Oxy-Acetvlene
welding. advt-tf
The Rutter farm in Elk Neck has
been sold at private sale to Whining
ton parties, for $11 800.
Two cars attached to a freight
train on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road We're derailed at Leslie, last Sun
day afternoon, and caused tieup of