Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-01
HAGERSTOWAN NEWS GRlST
PROSPECT OF LIVELY MEETING OF
METHODIST CONFERENCE.
Time Limit Di.t"ssion Asitates the
Pastors Peach Growers
Fighting Scale.
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Special Correspondence OF Inc Evening Star.
HAGERsTowN. ND, February %, 1901
The prospect is that the sessions of the
Baltimore conference, which meets in Ha
gerstown the latter part of March, will be
unusually lively. made SO by the strong OPP
pcsition to the time limit" as manifested
by the recent meeting of ministers held in
Wesley Hall, Baltimore where over two
hours were stormily occupied in discussing
the Use and Abuse of the Transfer Sys-
tenn" paper read by Rev. w. A. koontz.
The open discussion that followed showed
that the abrogation of the time limit is
far from meeting with favor among the
minister's and promises to get warmer
conference time in Hagerstown approaches.
Ministers of prominence and those in po-
sitiou to know say THAI the result of the
dlspleasure will be "a set of pointed resolu-
tons submitted to the conference, object
ing to the whole measure of the time
limit which they Ohe opponentS) look upon
as no time limit at all.
The peach growers of this section of
Maryland and the adjoining counties of
PENNSYLVANIA are making determined fight
against the dreaded San Jose scale The
Cumberland Valley Fruit Growers Associa-
ton at Shippensburg have asked for the
appointment of commissioners required
by law to prosecute all persons having
trees affected by San Jose scale which
they refuse to cut down and burn spray
with the proper Insecticides.
The latest rumOr in circulation here and
one apparently with some authenticity is
that a new railroad is to be built by the
Baltimore and Ohio, to reach the coal fields
of Somerset county, where the Shamrock
Company of Hagerstown is operating
mines The road will be extended to con-
meet with the Huntingdon and Broad Top
road near Everett, and eventually lead up
to the construction of a line the par
TALLY completed South Penn road through
the valley to Harrisburg. Engineers have
been engaged in surveying line as pro-
posed above.
A trolley line between Chambersburg and
Gettysburg is now fixed fact The COM
pany has decided to accept the franchise
granted by the Chambersburg council and
the bond of $4,000 required will be filed by
March l. AS soon thereafter practicable
the work of building the line and power
house will be commenced.
Wilson College at Chambersburg is being
greatly improved and enlarged by new
music hall 100 by 80 feet Miss Anna Nc
Kaig of Washington has been made dean
Of the faculty and Miss Belle Snyder of
Waynesboro, Pa, has accepted the chair
OF local music, made vacant by the resig-
nation of Miss Marcela F'lantt.
The spring exodus westward from this
locality, which commenced unusually early
this season, continues by large parties
leaving weekly. On Tuesday last thirty
persons from this county left for points in
northwestern Illinois, going from Hagers-
town over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
an order for 100 new monster locomotives
of different kinds. Last March they Or
dered 100 engines. and IN January they Or
dered twenty-fve.s making total of 210
engines ordered in less than a year.
A glass factory is to be started at Han
cock station. this, county, on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, where there now
exists a sand works In successful opera
ton. Pttsburg capitalists are at the head
of the new enterprise
The neghboring town of Waynesboro' is
to have a new bank Samuel c. Rinehart
of the Frick Manufacturing Company of
that place is at the head. 1t will have Il
capital of 100000, which may be increased
to s15. 900. -,- ~
Wild ducks are plentiful on the Potomac
Large focks feeding along the stream
at Williamsport and gdnners are out bag
ging numbers of them.
The Pennsylvania conference of the Unit
ed Brethren in Christ convened at Waynes-
bore on Wednesday, in its 18TH annual
session. Bishop E. B. kephart, Annville,
Pa, presides.
A large number of men have been employ
ed by the Baltimore and Ohio to complete
the third track being laid between Mar
tnsburg and Sir Johns Run. The work
will necesstate the removal of number
Of houses at Hancock station, this county.
George Brandon, proprietor of the Wei |
lington, one of the leading hotels of Car
Isle, has been sued by James H. Summers.
d colOred man of Harrisburg. the ground
that Brandon refused to accommodate him
at his hotel on account of his race.
If the weather proves favorable water
will be turned into the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal on March II. Navigation will
be opened few days later.
The Postal Telegraph Company is extend |
ing Its line from Hagerstown to Waynes
boro', and later on will run a line into
Chambersburg. ~
Hagerstown now boasts of thirty-eight |
factories. which gives employment to over |
1000 men, boys and girls.