Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-27
HAGERsTowN NEWS GRIsT.
Wabash Pushing Work-Local Happen
ings of Interest.

ings of Interest.
snecial Correspondence of The Evening Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, November 26, 1903
The Wabash interests have purchased
from the Bowles heirs a large lot of
ground on the southwest corner Of Main
and Wason streets, Hancock, for $4,000
A railroad station may be erected on this
lot. Bridge work Is being pushed, the
workmen not stopping for Sundays. 1t is
said that the greater portion Of. the road
bed between Hancock and Cherry Run is
ready for the track.
ST. PauFs M. E. congregation, Hagers-
town. celebrated Sunday the seventeenth
anniversary of the dedication of their
church. Rev. DR.. w. L. Davidson, secre-
tary of the American University OF wash
ington preached morning and evening. TO
reduce the $13,SS0 Indebtedness, $1,1S6 was
raised by the congregation and SUNDAY
debt at the time Of the dedication was
| S2S,OOO.
Rev. Geo. A. Snyder. pastor of Christi
Reformed Church. has been appointed
financial agent to raise $4,000 pledged by
Potomac synod a number of years ago
toward Catawba College, at Newton, N. C.,
and the science building connected with
Franklin and Marshall College at Lancas-
ter, Pa.
Rev Forest l.. Fraser preached his first
sermon as pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Sunday. succeeding Rev. Thomas
A. Johnson.
About S11, 900 was paid out to the public
school teachers Saturday for the last half
of the fall term
The cost of the recent election in Wash
ington county was about $1,000, including
registration.
The Lands Tool Company, Waynesboro.
| laid off indefinitely twenty employees Of the
| foundry and twenty of the machine shops.
| The Geiser Company posted notice reducing
no Of In ha
| foundry, machine shop and blacksmith
shop.
Poultry is very high In this section this
season. Turkeys are scarce and are selling
| as high as II and Is cents pound alive,
and 20 to % cents a pound dressed
A meeting of special committee that
was to be held in Williamsport Tuesday
night looking to the construction of the
proposed bridge across the Potomac river
| at Williamsport, was postponed until a
later date.
NJ. E. snavely, sharpsburg had three
| mowers in a thirty-five acre field of clover
| Monday, making hay, an unusual thing for
! this season of the year.
Henry Rummell of Mason and Dixon met
| with a serious accident Tuesday afternoon
| Mr.. Rummell who is seventy-f1ve years old
was hauling fodder from the field into his
| barn, and while standing a loaded
wagon pitching the shocks into the barn.
, missed his footing and slipped off, falling
backward and landing on his head upon the
ground His condition is serious
| Charles Randoll of Grottoes, Rockingham
county, Va, while firing on a shifting en-
| CINE in the Cumberland Valley freight
| yards in this city, had his left leg so badly
crushed Wednesday evening that amputa-
ton was necessary. RandoH is thirty years
old and was married one week ago.
| Farmers in this section are nearly
| through husking and houseing their crop of
corn, having had an unusually good yield
DR.. and Mrs. James w. Letter and daugh-
ter have returned to their home at Hagers-
| town, from visit in Washington.
| Miss Katharine Yingling has returned to
| her home Prospect street, from a visit with
| Mrs. Kidd, in Washington.
Miss Kate Woodward of Washington Is
visiting Mrs. Isaac Emmert and family,
near FunkstoWn