The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-08-18
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
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Dr.. I. N. King, the Calvert county
health officer, ma, Z thorough investi-
CATION last week oi ike reported small
pox outbreak on i7:sh.i.g Creek, near
Pushaw Station, on the Chesapeake
Beach Railroad He found three per-
sons confined in one house suffering with
the disease and all receiving medical at
tention from DR.. Baryshaw, of Friend
ship. The persons afflicted are James
Hunt and wife and Gertrude Marques,
6-year-old niece of Hunt The child
is from Washington and showed symp-
toms OF the disease soon after reaching
the house of James Hunt, where she
was taken by her uncle, John Hunt, also
from Washington The other occupants
of the house contracted the disease from
the child. Prohibition of intercourse
with persons outside of the house has
been enforced by the health officer and
there is no likelihood of the disease
spreading.
Mrs. James B. Parrott, of Trappe,
Talbot county, while dressing in her
room, discovered large black runner
snake coiled around the post of the bed,
from which she and her husband had
arisen short while before. Mr.. Par
rott had already gone to the stable to-
feed his stock, but was recalled by the
cries of his wife. He soon dispatched
the snake with club. The reptile meas
ured between three and four feet There
was but one possible way by which the
snake could have gotten into the house,
and that was by crawling down the
oh, nod :.,to k1,a hoI oh
Der through a stovepipe hole, as all the
windows had screens, which have not
been removed since they were put in
early III the summer.
Montgomery county public school
teachers have been appointed as follows:
Principals-Miss Edith Byrne, at Beane;
J. H. Waters, Blairs; Miss Fife G.
Barnsley, Avery; Miss Kathleen Rhodes,
Grifton; Miss Eleanor Cissell, Dawson
vile; Miss Sallie P. Brooke, Sandy
Spring. Miss Attic Bartgis, Poole's
Track; Miss Virginia Ritenour, Friend
ship, Miss Helen Story, assistant at
GAINESVILLE Colored school principals
M. Lee Brown, Scotland; M. E. Greg
DRY, Ounce Orchard.
The School Commissioners of Caro-
line county have decided to establish an
Industrial school in Denton for colored
pupils and will employ two teachers, one
to to give instruction in bench and tool
work.. the other III sewing and laundry
work Both teachers will be normal
graduates
The directors of the Peninsula General
Hospital, at Salisbury, are considering
the question of building an annex for
nurses at a cost of $1,000 1t is stated
that a building to accommodate IS
nurses is necessary. In connection with
the institution is a training school for
nurses. The hospital is one of the best
in the State
Scholarships in Frederick county have
been awarded as follows: State Nor
NAL School, Edna c. Devilbiss, Flora
Sensenbaugh and Harry F. Warrenfeltz;
School of Arts and Design, Maryland
Institute, Edith N. Marriott.
The annual election of the community
of Mountain Lake Park resulted as fol-
lows; President, Major ]. NJ. Burns,
United States Army, retired, Washing
ton; secretary, Rev. L. A. Rudisill,
Mountain Lake; treasurer, E. E. Friend;
Street Commissioner, Hanson B. Lew
is; members of the annual committee,
Upton Cuppett and Geo. M. Jacobs, the
latter of Fairmont, w. Va. The cleo
ton elected much interest.
Mr.. Al. Al. Christian, of Greensboro,
and lately of Philadelphia, is now max
ing a. tour of Europe, where he expects
to remain for month. He has retired
from business and returned to Caroline
county, where he will make his future
home He is; large landowner in Caro-
linz o.d at 90, h,,,1d,rn
one of the most magnificent residences
in the county. The building site over
looks, the picturesque Choptank River
He expects to occupy the house on his
return from Europe III the early fall. He
is a newspaper man of much note. In
1880 he started the Greensboro Free
Press, which he published for number
Of years, and which has become one OF
the leading papers of Caroline county
A few evenings ago Mrs. G. Frank
Hardesty while going up stairs at her
house in Calvert county with lighted
lamp, in her hand was attracted by 4
noise at her feet, and glancing down
was astonished to see an immense black
snake stretched full length on its way
up the steps. Mrs Hardesty retreated
with a nerve so steady as not to jar the
amp. and called her husband. The
snake was dispatched, and when dead
measured between five and six feet in
length. The reptile, it is thought, crawl
ID into the hallway through the front
door during the day.
Thomas Chaplain Stevens, the little
SON of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Stevens,
IF Baltimore, aged 4 years, was drown
ID in the Choptank River at Lloyds
landing, near Trappe, Talbot county.
The little fellow was visiting the family
Of his uncle, Mr.. George Stevens, and
went with his cousin to the steamboat
wharf at Lroyds Landing after load
IF peach boxes and other freight. The
,hild was left standing on the wharf
while the cousin went to see the steam
BOAT agent, Mr.. Craft On his way back
o his team, in company with Russell
5ommers, they heard splash. and upon
ooking over the side of the wharf saw
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