Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-05-18
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
Condensed Late Dispatches Boiled Down
for Rapid Reading.

owned by the heirs of the late Gov
William 7. Hamilton, will be remod-
cled
Several new rural free-delivery mail
routes have been established in Queen
Annc's county within the past few
months, among them an additional route
from Ccntrevllc.
The Colonial Hotel at Ocean City has
been sold to A. P. Warrington, brother
of the former owner for $1,000
Rev. Ida Judy, pastor of the United
Brethren Church at WeStcrnport. Ale
gany county, delivered sermon i'll the
Piedmont Opera House to the Piedmont,
Westcrnport and Bloomington Councils
Of the Junior Order OF United American
Mechanics. The Opera House was
crowded 10 hear her preach.
All Ilillsboro, Isaac Mitchell died OF
paralysis. aged Go years. He was a
leading member of the Holiness AsSc-
citation and was apparently i'll the best
of health a few moments before the fatal
attack.
Mrs. Caroline r. Buzzard, wife of
Mr.. G.. Louis Buzzard, of Olney, Mont
gomcry county, died suddenly Of heart
disease, aged % years, She leaves one
child, ! weeks old.
At the annual meeting of the Mary
land State Council, Daughters of Lib
crty, i'll llagerstown, the following offl-
GERS wcia elected: State councillor, Mrs.
NJ. w. West. Baltimore; associate State
councillor, Mrs. Mary Miller, Mount
Washington; State cc-councilor, John
II. Owens, IIavrc dc Grace; State asso-
ciltc vicc-cuuncilor secretary, Mrs Leila
j.. Gwnn, Batimorc; associate State
council secretary, Mrs. Celeste Reed,
Dickcyvllc; State council treasurer, Miss
Augusta Dorner. Baltimore; State as
sociatc treasurer, Mrs. Florence Bos-
well, Della; State guide, Miss Daisy
McDonald Frederick; State inside
guard, Mrs. Jennie Smith, Hagerstown;
! State outside guard, {. {. Chandler,
Cumberland; national representative, w.
Harry Abrams, Northeast. National
! Councillor J. Bailey Harvey and Nation
al Secretary w. V. Edkins. of Phila-
| dclphia, installed the new officers. I.
| II. Stein, cX-national councillor, Bati-
more, responded to addresses of nation
al officers. The delegates, numbering
100, were welcomed to Hagerstown by
Mayor A. c. Strife. llavrc de Grace
was selected as the place for the next
meeting. The report of the appeal COM
mittcc was taken up, and the case of
Int gritty Council No. H. Baltimore, on
benefits was decided in favor Of the
defendant.
Russell Rdcnour, aged 6 years, son
| Of William Ridcnour, of llagcrStown,
! fell into Cistcrn containing seven feet
Of water, and was drowned He was i'll
the water Is minutes before his body
was recovered. He was playing with
Robert Snyder and lay down upon a
board Oh top of the ci,tcrn The board
tilted and the child was precipitated into
ihc ci,tcrn, which was on the premises
OF John b. SaylcS Mrs. Clarence llur-
ley, who lives next door, noticed the
two children playing When she missed
the kidcnour boy She inquired where
he was. The Snyder boy pointed to the
cistcrn. Mrs. Hurley looked in and
saw the body floating in the water, face
upward The body was drawn out with
rope, but could not be rcsuscitated.
President Fait and he faculty of ST.
Johns College are making an nvestlga-
ton into the cases of several of the ull-
dcrcasSmcn who participated i'll lively
scrap in Pinkncy Hall the other night
Besides a fight the students are alleged
TO have figured in other episodes, such
as the breaking OF furniture One stu
dent is said to have spoiled a new
suit of clothes of one Of the professors
by pouring iodine upon it.
The stockholders of the Union Turn
pike Company, at Olncy, Montgomery
county, elected the following officers;
Charles i. Kirk, president; John A. Ba-
ker George Boniant, John {. Bentley.
DR.. George W, Brcady, Donald Bowie,
| II. G.. CaShcll, Josiah W, Jones and
Thomas W. Waters, directors; Wash
ington Bowie, secretary and treasurer.
The usual dividend of 3 per cent. was
! declared.
Mrs. Sarah L. Fowler, cxecutrix, ob-
tanned judgment in the Circuit Court
of Calvert County for $lI6 against the
trustees OF the Chesapeake International
Holiness Union Church OF Calvert
county.
The Calvert county tax rate has been
fixed at o. cents on the $Ioo.
| sell more than 800 acres of the real cS-
tate Of the Chesapeake Beach Railway
| Company to satisfy judgments obtained
in the Circuit Court of Calvert County
by David II. Motfatt and the First Ma
!ional Bank of Denver, COL, against the
railway company, amounting in the ag-
grcgatc to $SS,146,5S.
The superintendent Of the dock de-
partmcnt of the Maryland Steel Com
panv has located at Solomons Island,
Calvert county, Nd, the anchorage for
the great steel drydock the company is
building for the United States Govern
mcnt, to be conveyed to Cayltc, Philip
pine Islands, after testing at the mouth
of the PatauXcnt River.
Six large poplar logs, which are 3 feet
squarc at the ends, and 20 walnut logs,
which are Is inches square at the ends,
have lust been sent by rail from Easton
to Baltimore for shipment to Germany
The sons of Ex-Governor and Mrs. T.,
T. Tackson-Hugh and Everett Jack
son--with their families, will occupy
The Oaks. the Salisbury residence, dur
ing the summer, while their parents are
in Europe.
Frederick Hclb, the deceased million.
airc. OF Shrewsbury Station, Va, owned
considerable real estate in Calvert coun-
ty, Md.
Miss Emma Gimplc, organist OF the
Lutheran Church in Funkstown, Wash,
ington county, died of appendicitis, aged
- years.
The Citizens Association of Bethcs-
la district Montgomery county mas de-
posted $500, the percentage required oy
law on the cost OF building one mile e, OF
pike under the State Road law, INC
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