Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-08-17
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
Condensed Late Dispatches Boiled Down
for Rapid Reading.

health otflcer, made thorough lnVcstl-
cation last week of the reported small
pox outbreak on Fishing 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 DIR. Baryshaw, of Friend
ship. The persons afflicted are James
Hunt and wife and Gertrude Marques,
a o-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. Parrot, of Trappc,
Talbot county, while dressing in her
room, discovered a large black runner
snake coiled around the post of the bed,
from which she and her husband had
arisen a short while before. MIR. Par
rot 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
chimney and coming into the bed cham
Der through a stovcppc hole, as all the
windows had screens, which have not
been removed since they were put i'll
early in the summer.
Montgomery county public schoo,
teachers have been appointed as follows:
Princpals--Aliss Edith Byrne, at Beane;
J. H. Waters, Blairs; Miss Ethe 6,
Barnsley, Avery; Miss Kathleen Rhodes,
Griiton; Miss Eleanor Cissell, Dawson
vile; Miss Sallie p. Brooke, Sandy
Spring; Miss Attic RartgS, Poole's
Track; Miss Virginia Ritcnour, Friend
ship; Miss Helen Story, assistant at
Barnesvilc. Colored school principals
NJ Lee Brown, Scotland; NJ. L. Greg
DRY, Ounce Orchard.
The School Commits Sioncrs of Caro-
line county have decided to establish All
| industrial school III Denton for colorcd
pupils and will employ two teachers, one
10 to give instruction i'll bench and tool
work, the other in 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 cost OF 5000. II is stated
that building to accommodate l.;
nurses is necessary. In connection with
| the institution is a training school tot
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. Dcvilbiss, Flora
ScnSenbaugh and Harry + Warrcnfelu;
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. RudSlI,
Mountain Lake; treasurer, l.. l.. Friend;
| Street Commissioner, Hanson b. Lew
| Upton Cuppett and Geo. NJ. Jacobs, the
latter of Fairmont, w. Va. The cleo
ton elected much interest
Mr.. \. A. Christian. Of Greensboro,
and lately Of Philadelphia is now max
, ing a tour OF Europe, where he expects
10 remain Tor month ne mas ;, 'r'i ..','
from business ana rrtnr'lca ~ >"lo'''''
county, where he will make his future
| home. He is large landowner in Caro-
| line county and at present is building
one OIL the most haeh'nteht residences
IN the county Inc onl!alfS sue oyer
| LOOKS the picturesque Nhop'ahk N,Nel'
lie expects TO occupy inc mouse on ms
return from Europe III ,he carry 'ah' nc
Is newspaper man OF much note III
lSSo he started me 'rccn>boro fr''
! ircN>, Wnlch he punished '"r h"''o''
OF years. and winch mas become one o'
the leading papers OF NaroIin' county,
| y few evenings aS" MIS- w. rfa"h
! liardcSty while g-ng up stars at hcl
house in Calvert county with a lighted
lamp III her hand was attracted by
noise at her feet and Iancng Down
va, aNtoniNhed to see an immense pIa'N
snake stretched tull length on it' wa,
up the steps, Mrs. liardc>ty rctrrattd
with nerve so steady as not To- Jar ile
lamp, and called her husband. he
snake was dispatched, and when dead
measured between FIVE and SIX ieet IN
length. he reP,''e II Is thought 'IlW ,,.
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