Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-05-25
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
Condensed Late Dispatches Boiled Down
for Rapid Reading.


mantown towards Neelsville, Montgom-
cry county, one of the roads selected I'M
der the Shoemaker law, is about COM
pleted. The mile of road will cost
$4,000.
The remains of George Baker, who
committed suicide at Hyattstown, were
inferred in Mountain View Cemetery,
at Comus.
Sheriff Keyser, of Kent, arrested Har-
ry Latham at the circus in Wilmington.
He had escaped from Chestertown Jail,
where he was confined for selling liquor.
A deed of trust has been made by the
Citizens Water and Power Company
of Westminster to the Safe Deposit and
Trust Comany of Baltimore to guarantee
an issue of 4 per cent. gold-bearing bonds
to the amount of $4,000.
The marriage of Miss Ethel Burrows
Robinson, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George r. Robinson, of Easton, and MIR.
Thomas Albert Mowbray, Of Philadel-
phia, is announced to take place June 7.
James Dayton, Jr., was sworn in as
member Of the new fourth class mid
shipmen of the Naval Academy. He re-
ceived his appointment from the First
Congressional district of New York
Mrs. Mildred S. Bailey, aged 28, wife
of Henry Bailey, of Oxford Neck, Tai
bot county, died suddenly.
The barn Of Thomas ]. Vickers, at
Little Horns Point near Cambridge, was
destroyed by fire. Mr.. Vickcrs lost Is
barrels of corn, lot of phosphate and
many valuable farming implements.
Both barn and contents were insured.
This is the second time that Mr.. Vickers
has lost his barn by fire.
There will be II graduates this year
of Kee-Mar College, Hagerstown. The
graduates and the degrees to be conferred
June 4 are as follows: Mabel Claire
Fout, bachelor of arts, Elkins, w. Va;
Jeanette Falconcr Rathbone, bachelor
of philosophy, Parkersburg, w. Va;
Gypsy La Bell isNichard, bachelor OF phil
osophy, Warrington, W. Va. Nina Hell
Ell Burt, bachelor of philosophy, Man
nington, w. Va; Eula Hickman, bach
elor of arts, Mooreheld, w. Va; Grace
Janet Dodge, bachelor Of arts, Washing
ton, d. c. Viola Smith, bachelor of arts,
Snow Hill, Maryland; Annie Remsburg,
bachelor of arts, Sharpsburg, Md; Mary
Belle Barlow, bachelor of philosophy,
Beverly w. Va; Angela Pinkley, bache-
lor of philosophy, San Francisco, CAL;
Roberta H. +. Bishop, bachelor OF arts,
Smithsburg, Md; Miss Blanche Lou
derbaugh, Grantsvlle, Nd, previous
graduate in the normal course, who has
been in attendance the past year Will
receive the degree of bachelor OF philoS-
ophy. Miss Beulah May Kern, Sails
bury, n. c., who took the degree OF
bachelor of arts in 1904, will this year
have conferred upon her the masters
degree. Miss Catherine Ulcry, Greens
burg, Pa, a former graduate, who has
pursued advanced work in Boston and
elsewhere and is now teaching in Penn
Sylvania, will receive the degree OF bach
elor of arts.
James E. Slater and Miss Susie Hou-
SEN both Of Montgomery County, were
married in Rockville by Rev. Thomas II.
Campbell.
Spencer c. Jones has announced his
candidacy for reelection to the State
Senate He will be opposed for the
Democratic nomination by Blair Lee,
who announced his candidacy several
weeks ago
Governor Warfcld announced the fol-
lowing appointments: Joseph l., Nc
knepp, Judge of the Orphans Court for
Dorchester county; DR.. MaximuS White
hill, of Unionvillc, Frederick county, to
be president OF the State Bureau OF I'M
migration; Alfred d. Bailey, justice OF
the peace for the Second district OF
Prince Georges county; Matthew Sloan
to be a member OF the board of directors
Of the Home lnhrmary of Western Mary
land; Joshua Wilson Jones to be JUS
tce of the peace for the First district
Of Calvert county. The Governor post
poned action on the appointment of
notary public for Cambridge, Dorchester
county, made vacant by the resignation
Of Mr.. J. Fred. Barton,
The Hagcrstown Academy of Music,
owned by the heirs OF the late Gov.
William 7. Hamilton, will be remod-
cled.
Mrs. Johanna Fisher, aged O. years,
wife of Julius Fisher, died in llagcrS.
town of heart disease. Her husband
and seven children survive, including
Mrs. ]. O. Wrightson, of Baltimore;
William c. and J. H. Fisher, of West
Virginia.
Mr. Charles W. Ireland, OF Baltimore,
presented to Governor Warheld an APP
plication for the pardon OF Sadie Brown
(colored), sentenced to two years i'll the
penitentiary for larceny. The Governor
said he thought for the present, at least,
the prisoner was best off in the peni-
tertiary.
The Maryland Court of Appeals has
rendered its decision in the case OF Is
tele ParShcy and husband, of Takoma,
Montgomery county, against Frank l..
Hewitt, of Silver Springs, reversing the
decision of the Circuit Court. The de-
cison not only declares unconstitutional
the law under which the property at Ia
koma Park has for several years been
sold for taxes and renders titles to all
property thus sold of no value, but also
affects the titles of all property sold for
.axeS at Kensington, Garrett Park and
Glen Echo, the charters of which towns
are almost Identical with the charter of
Takoma Park The decision is of wide
spread llllcIeSt III Moi'SoiilSiy No'''y'
where numerous transfers of real estate
have occurred within the last few years
BY reason of tax sales at the places men
Toned.
Several new rural free-delivery mail
.outes have been established in Queen
Anne's county within the past few
months, among them an additional route
from Centreyjllc.
AT Hillsboro, Isaac Mitchell died OF
paralysis, aged &c years, He was
eadng member of the Holiness Asso'
:ia,on and was apparently in the best
IF health few moments before the fatal
attack.
Mrs. Caroline r. Buzzard, wife OF
Mr.. G. Louis Buzzard, of Olney, Mont