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LOCAL JOTTINGS OF THE WEEK After July 10th the postoffice will be his baking machinery to Oxford, Pa., parties. open for money order business from 7 a. m to.6 p. m Elkton postoffice was made a secondThe banks will be closed this week on class office on Tuesday and the employes of the office have been placed on an 8 both Friday and Saturday, July 4 and 5. hour day. Dr. H. Arthur Mitchell has been designated a personal aid to General Gaither The Flower farm, containing 165 acres, in the Second district, has been bought of the M. N. G., and will leave for Bel Air on Monday morning next. Company by Francis S. Brown, of Philadelphia, for $8000. E will leave for the encampment on July 13th A feldspar-quarry has been opened as Rock Springs, by William Weaver, of The handsome country home of Jos. Oakwood, in the interest of Wilmington B. McCall, of Philadelphia, near Carpencapitalists. ter's Point, on the North East river, Seventeen members of the Y. M. A. took fire on Monday night and did the of Wilmington, went into camp on Elk place several hundred dollars' damage. river near Town Point on Tuesday, and The fire started in the flooring and was will be in camp about ten days. probably caused by the electric wiring. Governor Phillips Lee Goldsborough Messrs John Krumrine, of North East, has accepted an invitation to deliver an and J. W. Ball, of Cincinnati, are lookaddress at Woodlawn Camp Meeting. ing up timber tracts through Georgia District Superintendent E. L. Hoffeckand other Southern points. er has announced that the Rev. Howard Col. Ainscow, of Wilmington, the fathT. Ennis, of Dover, has been appointed er of Mrs. Cadmus Price, of Elkton, and pastor of Eastlake M. E. Church, Wilwell known in this community, suffered mington, to succeed the Rev. J. R. Bicka serious loss on Sunday, when his handing, who was transferred to Centreville. some yacht, Georgiana, was totally burnRev. I. G. Fosnocht, of Millington, a ed at the wharf of the West End Boat former pastor of Chesapeake City M. E. Club, at Chester, Pa. Col. Ainscow had Church, is critically ill, having been a large party of ladiez and gentlemen stricken with paralysis a few days ago. on board as guests, all of whom succeedRobert Montgomery, a player on the ed in escaping to the wharf. Newark Tri-County League team, saved The Maryland State Teachers' Associaa small boy and girl fro mdrowning last tion in session last week at Annapolis, Saturday. The two children had gotten elected the following officers before adinto deep water in White Clay creek, near Curtis & Bro. paper mill, and Mr. journing: President, Woodland C. PhilMontgomery seeing their peril rescued lips, Superintendent of Schools for Howthem. ard county; First Vice-President, James The trustees of Newark Academy have B. Noble, of Cambridge; Second Vicerefused to give ground to Co. E, on President, Charles F. Raddatz, of Balwhich to erect an armory. They feel timore; Secretary, Hugh W. Caldwell, that in doing so they would deprive the of Chesapeake City: Treasurer, Dr. R. Berryman, of Baltimore. students of necessary play grounds. Bennett's Market House, Elkton, has Mrs. Elsie McNeal, who advertised the been freshened by a new coat of paint. loss of a breastpin in "last week's WHIG A grand carnival will be held at Farmhad the same returned to her shortly af ington July 12. Ice cream, cake, pies, ter the WHIG was published with the amusements and music. All are invited advertisement of the loss. Moral It If stormy, Monday evening. For benefit pays to advertise in the WHIG. of Woodlawn Camp. The Childs' Sunday School will hold A branch of the Just Government Leaits annual festival in the Hall at Childs, gue of Maryland has been organized at on Thursday evening, July 10th. If it is Rising Sun. stormy, the next evening The directors of the National Bank of Lightning recently struck a tree on Chesapeake City have declared a semithe farm of George L. Smith, ,near Bel annual dividend of 1-2 per cent. on the Air, and killed five valuable Holstein capital stock payable in July, also carcattle standing under it. ried $9500 to the surplus fund, increasWhile driving along the public road in ing that fund from $11,000 to $12,500, the Fourth district, Sunday night Chas which is 50 per cent of the capital. Lamborn, of near New London, Pa., was The trustees of Woodlawn Camp are held up by a highwayman, who attemptconsidering a proposition to Illuminate ed to rob him, when his horse took fright the grounds with electricity. and started down the road. The robber During the recent storm lightning fired two shots after the team, both balls flashed from the spigots of a sink in the taking effect in the seat of the buggy. James Tosh residence, near Rising Sun, Clarence Hereford, a young farmer of blistering an arm of Melvin Tosh, who Calvert. was taken to a Philadelphia was sitting nearby hospital on Tuesday morning fc. treatThe annual meeting of stockholders of ment. having had his chin crushed when the Elkton and Middletown Railroad, a kicked by a horse. branch of the Philadelphia, Baltimore ""Get" is a good servant, out he and Washington Railroad, was held in works more profitably when yoked with Elkton Tuesday morning and the followa SAVINGS ACCOUNT at The Elkton ing directors were elected for the enBanking and Trust Co., of Maryland, Elkton, Md. suing year: Samuel Rea, S. C. Long, H. ad W. Tatnall and George V. Massey, of Holding on to a fire cracker after she Philadelphia Samuel C. Rowland, Balhad lighted the fuse, Henrietta Smith, timore: Murray Vandiver, Havre de youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Grace: George S Woolley, Chesapeake Smith, of Elkton, had a finger blown off City: Fred T. Haines, Charles B. Finand her hand badly injured on Monday ley and William H. Mackall, of Elkton. She was taken to Union Hospital for treatment. The Mite Society of Wesley Chapel, Elk Neck, will meet at Mrs. I. L. Holt's After ten years of service, Prof. A. R Friday evening, July 11. All are welSpaid has resigned as superintendent of come. public schools of New Castle county, With blood oozing from an ugly scalp Del., the resignation to take effect at wound, an unknown white man apparentthe beginning of the next school year, ly about 35 years of age, was found lySeptember 1. The reason given is that ing unconscious between the tracks of the salary of the office, $1200 a year, is inadequate. the Pennsylvania railroad at Bark Mill. pumping station, near Newark, about 8.30 A festival recently held by the Willo'clock Tuesday night. Shortly aftering Workers of Rock Church Presbyterward he regained consciousness for a few ian Church, near Fair Hill, netted $90. minutes during which time he pleaded A divorce has been granted Mrs. Helen with a watchman emproyed there to E Phillips, of the Farmington section, shoot him and put him out of his agony. from Ezra Phillips, on the grounds of non support. He said he had fallen from train No. 65. The injured man's speech failed before Everything is being gotten in readihe could tell where he lived Word of ness by the officers and men of the the accident was sent to the railroad ofMaryland National Guard, for the annual ficials. Train No. 28 was stopped and encampment at Bel Aair, Harford counthe injured man was placed aboard to ty, this month. There will we three be sent to a hospital camps, the first starting July 7 and conDonald McCay, of Toughkenamon, Pa., tinuing a week for all line officers bebrother of William McCay, of Colora, low the rank of captain. The camp will was killed early last Sunday morning by be commanded by Brigadier General C. a train at Toughkenamon. The body D. Gaither, and will be known as Camp was found about 500 yards from the railPhillips Lee Goldsborough, in honor of road station, with the head severed from the Governor and commander-in-chief of the State troops. the body He was about 43 years of age and unmarried E. H. Beck, real estate broker of MidCrosby's merry-go-round of Oxford, dletown, Del and well known in Cecil Md, arrived in Elkton Monday and has county, has sold the "Spotwood farm," been put up on the Gilpin lot, East High of 309 acres, near Hare's Corner, belongstreet. ing to the estate of Judge Spruance and Elkton merchants will close their others, to Walter Morris, cashier of the stores at 6 o'clock p. m. during July and Farmers' Bank, Dover, for $15,000. Also August, except Saturdays. the George G. Kerr farm, near Newark. The Junior Christian Endeavor of Elkcontaining 172 acres, to Samuel Murray for $15,000. ton Presbyterian Church held a picnic Friday of last week in Bratton's meadow The Newark, Del, Methodist Church The Elkton Gun Club will hold a shoot has contracted for a new pipe organ to be installed this fall. the afternoon of July 4 (Friday) opening at 1.30 o'clock. All who are fond of The ladies of St. John's Catholic sport are invited. Church, Newark, cleared about $700 at Rev. Cyrus P Keen, of Salisbury, will their recent bazar held on the church lawn. occupy the pulpit at West Nottingham The National Bank of Newark, Del. Presbyterian Church to-morrow (Sunday) morning. has gone out of existence, its stock and The annual excursions will run to Tolassets having been purchased by the Farmers' Trust Company of Newark. chester this year on July 16, 30, and August 13; the excursions to Atlantic Rev. J. Richard Bicking, pastor of the City, July 30. Eastlake Methodist Episcopal Church. The Cecilton branch of the Elkton Wilmington, has been transferred to Banking and Trust Company was openCentreville, Md. to succeed Rev. C. W. ed at Cecilton on Saturday, with Enoch Prettyman, who has been sent to SmyrS. Short as Treasurer na, Del., to fill a vacancy. "Jimmy" Huston, the star catcher of Delaware College varsity baseball team Fatal Shooting