Middletown transcript., 1904-05-21

g season.
DIR. William L. Lewis has been ap
pointed health officer for Montgomery
County.
Owing to labor troubles, the owners oil
the shirt factory at Salisbury will close
the plant.
The School Commissioners of Cam
bridge have asked bids for remodeling
the high school.
An additional rural free delivery route
will be established shortly from the Sal
isbury post Office.
Farmers in the upper section of Har-
ford County complain that some vandal
is poisoning their cattle.
i Greenleaf .Hearn, of Wicomico County,
has been appointed State Harbor Exam
iner for the Eastern Shore.
William S. Bittle has resigned as as
sistant superintendent of the public
schools of Queen Anne's County.
The public schools at Denton, Green's
boro, Ridgely, Preston and fredericksburg
will close for the sumner on May 9th.
The Prohibition party of Maryland
will hold convention on June 7th at
Salisbury to name Presidential electors.
Frosts were reported by farmers in
Cecil County Monday morning, but it
did little or no damage to crops and
/ fruit.
Alter an operation for appendicitis DR..
William d. Straugh, of Snow Hill, is re-
covering rapidly at the hospital in Sails
bury.
The Sylmar Baseball Club cleared
about $l25 on the recent fair and festival,
which will be used to buy new suits for
the players.
Millington's Town Commissioners have
passed an ordinance prohibiting farm
wagons from going through town faster |
than walk.
William H. Knight, of Wann Post, G. |
A. R., of Hartford County, has been ap-
pointed an aide on the staff of the De-
partment of Maryland.
George Thornton, boy of 12 years,
has been committed to the Jail at Upper
Marlbaro, charged with committing an
assault on 9-year-old girl.
Claude Potter, of Oxford, while driving
to Easton had his arm broken by the
wheel OF his wagon coming off and throw
ing him out on the ground.
The Town Commissioners of Millington
have passed an ordinance authorizing the
balliff to kill every dog running at large
in the town without muzzle.
The Commissioners of Hartford County
have fixed the tax rate at 81 on the 500
Tor county purposes, an increase of five
cents over the rate of last year.
W. H. D. Warfeld has been elected
president of Sykesville City Council;
Richard NJ. McCrone, Clerk and Treas
urer, and Frank NJ Bond, Bailiff.
Owners of dogs on Kent Island will
test the validity of the present stringent
dog law passed by the recent Legislature,
which they claim is unconstitutional.
+. A. Clendenin, of Colora, has made
application for the position of State Aud
itor. The Office is now held by George
X. Ash, whose term expires next Tues
day.
Owing to the fact that the election at
Midland last week resulted in tie be-
tween P. ]. Creegan and John E. Steid-
ing. for the Office of Mayor, second u
election will have to be held.
The John Pierce Construction Company p
'f New York, has been awarded the con- D
,ract for the construction of the Academy =
at the Naval Academy, Anna
'olis, theprice being $1,37e,9 900.
Ascension day was observed by the
Knights Templar of .Easton and Cam
bridge by a joint service in Zion Church,
Rev. P. D. Thompson, of
Cast Newmarket, conducting the exer-
Uses.
Special efforts will be made to raise
unds for the proposed Union Hospital of
;ecll County, at Elkton, during the next
ew weeks, in order that an appropria-
ion of $1,000 from the State may be
eceived.
While walking in second-story room
4 an old colonial building on Bow street,
Ilkton, Sunday, the floor collapsed, and
Iyland Marcus, aged so years, fell to the
ret floor, distance of ten feet, and was
everely injured.
Captain John Spray Leonard, of Roy
Oak, and old Chesapeake Bay pilot,
as become totally blind. He was well
nown in Baltimore and Philadelphia, to
'hich ports he has been running grain
essels for over so years.
Members of the "Nazarites," colored
'aternal organization, have started up a
cooperative grocery store in Centreville,
hich will cater to colored trade exclu-
yely. The movement is said to be re-