Evening star., 1902-04-12
HAGERsTowN NEWS GRIsT.
Items of Interest From Western Mary
land and Vicinity.


Special coIIespordeuce Of The Evening Star.
HAGERSTOwN. Md. April 10. 1902.
Many of the wheat fields of Washington
county are improving under the favorable
conditions of weather. II drouth does not
ensue the prospects are very good for a
fair crop. yet there are fields which will
not yield a half crop. Owing to the back
wardness of spring very little spring plant
ing has been done as yet.
Thursday. July II, Is the date selected
for the Reformed reunion. consisting of the
churches of Maryland, Pennsylvania. Vir-
ginia and West Virginia. and the District
of Columbia, to be held this year at Pen
Mar. President Roosevelt, who is men,
Der of the Reformed Church, was invited
to attend the rernion and deliver an ad-
dress. He replied that II was too early to
say whether he could be present or not, but
hoped to be.
Mrs. Annie McClanahan Spangler Of
Washington has filed a bill before Judge
Edward Stake for divorce from her hus-
band George III. Spangler of Williamsport,
this county. Mrs. Spaugler now holds a po-
sition in the United States census Office
and asks for the custody of their two chill
dren- The bill states that the couple were
married. January. 1891. and charges that
in 1899 the defendant abandoned the plain
tiff and treated her with great harshness.
The Chesapeake and Ohio canal will be
opened on April % for navigation. Gen.
eral Manager Nicholson has been along the
line this week pushing repairs, to have
them ready by the above date. Boatmen are
getting ready for the seasons work. and
many men are coming back to the scene OF
activity.
An oil company is being organized to
bore wells on the Bowles farm, near Han
cock, this county. The De Waugh Com
pany has 5000 acres of land leased within
three miles of Hancock and the Hagers-
town and Hancock people have several
thousand acres leased, some of the leased
land being adjacent to the corporate limits
of town.
Rev. f. H. DeIk. for eighteen years the
pastor OF Trinity Lutheran Church of Ha-
gerstown. has received a fiattering call to
the pastorate of ST. Mathews Lutheran
Church at Philadelphia. and will accept
greatly to the regret of his old parishioners.
Rev j. l. Hall has taken the pastorate
OF the Brethren Church at st. James this
county, preaching his first sermon on Sun
day last.
Rev. Joseph Roger. Dunkard minister,
| died near Greencastle, aged sixty-two Years,
after brief illness
Hancock. this county. held its municipal
election yesterday. with the following re-
| suit: Bugess, w. d. Meyers; assistant p
| T. Dawson; commissioners James w Ditto.
John w. B. Bridges and E p. Cohin
The Blue Ridge mountain, in the vicinity
| or zen Mar and Edgemout, is covered with
| snow, something unusual so late In the sea-
son.
Mrs. Frederick McComas of Potomac ave-
| nue., this city. a Sister-in-law of Senator
| l.. E. McComas, is now in Washington.
where she will remain some time visiting
| relatives
Miss Emma Line of Washington is on a
ten days visit to friends In Keedysville
| this county.
| Attorney d. r. Doub of the Washington
county bar. is in Washington. called there
| by the death of Calvin Wilmer. a prominent
merchant OF that city, relative, and former
resident of Hagerstown.
Miss Lilly Bansh of Prospect street Ha-
| gerstown. is visiting friends in Washing
| ton.
Miss Mary Tftcomb. librarian OF the Ha-
gerstown Free Library. has been visiting
her brother. John Titcomb of the United
states fish commission at Washington