The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-07-18
Maryland Affairs.

VIM. Wright, of Baltimore county, has
secured 40 ions oftimothy hay from his farm.
! Many fields of wheat in Baltimore county
have yielded only Is bushels of wheat, and
! only 20 bushels has been reported from one.
! Henry Nicholas Bankard. the well known
Baltimore real estate agent, died last Monday
in his Goth year.
Hagerstown and vicinity was visited by
another disastrous storm on the afternoon OF
the 10Th. A break also occurred in the Canal
near Hancock, causing a suspension of traffic
for nearly week.
Joseph West retired engineer of the B.
Il O. X. r., died at Marunsburg, ". Va,
July II, aged - years. He was native OF
Frederick county. He is survived by a wild.
ow and II children
On July 10, lightning struck a clothesline
at the home of Andrew Hogue. in Garrett
county, near the West Virginia line. and
followed it to an clubhouse where two children
were playing, knocking them down. The
lightning then followed the line to the house
stunning two of Mr.. Hogue's daughters at
work in the kitchen. The cIothesline was
entirely destroyed, not even a trace of it being
left.
barn at the House of Correction. loo feet
by 90 feet, was burned last Sunday night. All
the stock, l6 head of cattle aud l25 pigs,
were saved All implements, many new aud
eNpesive, were lost. The barn was built Ii
years ago by money paid by the United States
government for board ofNava,sa prisone~s
The property was insured.
The wheat crop in Talbot county has proved
complete failure. The majority OF the
farmers are through thrashng and they say
hat after the fertilizer bills and other InCIden.
tai expenses relative to the wheat crop are
paid they Will have aothing left to compensate
them for their years work. In Chapel DIS
trici fields where 500 or 600 bushels were
usually harvested only produce 800 or 900
bushels. There was plenty % straw, but
hrle gram
Wheat Yields in Kent county are remarkably
low and inferior in grade. One farmer Sowed
lao bushels Of wheat, bought - tons 70 fer.
tllzeT and harvested li2 bushels. Another
sowed $50 bushels aud fhreshel Oat las
bushels. Yields Of from 90 - bushels are
reported from some of the best land in the
STATE. Similar reports are gwen from the
tao lower counties Of Delaware. Many farmers
putting their ground ~ potatoes, hoping
TO ga5u what they lost from their whea, crop.
Dr. Eugene Hodson died At Vienna. Dor.
chester county, Jniy 10. of paralysis, aged -
years. tie was descended from John Hod-
son. who came from England to Dorchester
county 10 1904 and settled AZ the village OF
HodSou, or Hudson, on the Little Chopiank
River, The original name OF which WAS Hold
son River. and = designated on the old maps
A. Hodson OF Hudson River. The original
family homestead was erected on 3 tract called
Johns, Point, patented BY John Hodssu la
loss. and Is the oldest house in the county.
II has been for over 40 years occupicd by The
Waoiiari family. DR. Hodsou graduated ia
medicine from The University Of Maryland
sbau; ls5s and pEsctICrd for several yvars.
IT, hs4 b-va member Of the Legislature los
$50 terms. schools commissioner. &c. and
go active member Of the Episcopal
Church. tie leaves wtdo~ and ave children.
Samuel Jones, Republican. sas elected
mayor Ut Annapolis, on Monday hy u MAJ y.
It's. ani Hagh K Riley, Democrat. ~A> elect
ed clfy counselor by msjorl'y Of =. The
Democrats elected I've oct u the SIX sl3srusu
ard tins essatrui the CITY Caaucil -hirh has
hr~u Zoo The hands Of the Republicans for tau
yya-s Cot Iush~r II Gala The psmecgafir
uHsu4ae~ tos mayor. Wlss heavily c4t ihroEEh
aat Be CtgY, chiefly t-saass be is aot = native
Il Aauayasss Clgy Counselor rIeyi Riley ran
iay ah.aI 81 be ticket iu the FIRST and Second
sAr4s Rni fh,s enabled hun co overcome tAe
EspalH-aH msl1rjty va the 1hsFf sArd. lu
=h5yh The colorei vote IS three times as great
A. the whsls Frank A Nlufur Republican.
suada a good run 20 the secrn4 ward aud uas
defeated ~ DR. Frank N Thompson By one