Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-01-25
MARYLAND STATE NEWS.
Condensed Late Dispatches Boiled Down 10
Rapid Reading.

at the MarylanQ AGRICULTURAL Sollc6e'
The following business was transacted
Provision made to incorporate the asso-
citation; provision made TO bond the
treasurer of the association The fol-
lowing resolutions were adopted: That
the State tobacco warehouse properties
in Baltimore City have been paid for
from the outage charges on tobacco and
of right belong to the tobacco interests
of this State. Therefore the money re-
ceved from insurance on Warehouses
Nos. and ard to be received from
the sale of the ground on which they
were located should be held and used
solely for the benefit of the said tobac-
co interests. In furlherancc of this OBJ
ject, and in view of the alluson to said
money in the message of Governor War
field to the General Assembly of Mary
land, Hon. Louis Nick Griffith, Hon,
William B. Clagette and Hon. Richard
S. Hill, members of the General Assem-
bly, and of this association, are hereby
appointed a committee to have state
ment compiled which will show the
true account between said warehouse
properties and the State of Maryland
and to safeguard The interests of the
tobacco growers Of this State i'll said
properties and funds. That F. Snowdcn
Hill, Richard w. Sylvester and Franklin
Weems be, and are hereby, appointed a
committee to prepare a statement OF the
depressed conditions Of the Maryland
grown tobacco industry and the causes
thereof, with remedy therefor, and
that said committee transmit the same
to the Government Of France through
the proper channels of the United States
Government. That the committee on
sales shall invite the commission mcr-
chants of Baltimore engaged in the sale
of tobacco to conference with the view
of forming a union of said merchants,
and this union shall establish standard
grade of said tobacco and the prices
thereof for the year 1000 and said conf
mitee shall recommend to the planters to
sell their tobocco only through COM
mission house which is a member OF
said union. Said standard grades shall
be represented by type samples, under
seal, of which accurate descriptions shall
be formulated, recorded and published.
The committee appointed to carry out
the foregoing resolutions consists OF
Frank w. Hill, Henry {. Adams, James
c. CLANCY, Thomas L. Watkins, Robert
d. Hopkins and Adrian Po5ey.
The Peninsula Horticultural ASsocia-
ton, at Chestcrtown, elected officers for
the ensuing year as follows: President,
Samuel H. Derby, WoodSide, Del Vice
President, w. i. Allen, Salisbury; Sec
rotary and Treasurer, Wesley Webb,
Dover; Vice Presidents, J. +. ShalcroSS,
Middletown; +. c. Bancroft, Wyoming
{. II. Fricdcl, Scaford; George Biddlc,
Cecil; J. S. Harris, Kent; J. I. An
thony, Queen Annc's; J. w. Kerr, Caro-
line; A. J. Wilson, Talbot; w. G. Daw
son, Dorchester; Harvey Morris, Wicom-
leo; Orlando Harrison, Worcester; J. w.
Hall, Somerset. Executive Committee,
w. F. Allen, J. S. Harris, S. II. Derby,
Charles Wright and DR.. A. I. Ncalc. ii
was the sense of the meeting that toma-
toes cannot be raised at profit for
less than 81 a ton One grower stated
that lie had already been offered So a
ton for the coming crop. Al the concln-
sion or the session the association adj
journed finally.
Charles Y. WcScott, of Baltimore,
president of the Chcstcrtown Water
Company and owner Of a ma ority Of the
stock, has sold the property TO Thomas
w. Eliason, Frederick G. Usilton and
Jefferson D. Bacchus. The new presi-
dent of the company will be Thoma'
w. Elliason, with William B. USlton as
general manager The directors will be
McSsrS. EliaSon, Usilton, Bacchus, VIM
B. Usilton and Marion Dek. Smith. The
plant is valued at $35,ooo. The new com
pany will improve the plant at once.
Assistant Postmaster Louis +. McCo'
mas died of kidney disease and paralysis
at his home in Hagerstown after all Ill
ness of several weeks. He was in the
eightieth year of his age. II was born
in Hagcrstown and educated there, For
many years he was engaged i'll dry goods
business. He was treasurer Of the Poto-
mac Lodge of Odd Fellows FOR 80 years,
treasurer of First Hose Fire Company
for many years, member of Valley Lodge
of knights of Pythias and active mem.
Der of the Presbyterian Church.
The schooner Emma Wills, Capt J.
w. J. Blountz, which ran on sand bar
near the Flag Ponds, above Cove Point
lighthouse, in Chesapeake Bay, last week
Is still fast aground and will be total
loss. The vessel loaded in Baltimore
with 90 tons of guano for Cape Charles,
Va. An effort is being made to save
The guano by transferring it to vessel
chartered at Solomon's Island.
The directors of the Montgomery
County Agricultural Society reelected
he following officers President, Lee
Offutt; vice president, John II. CASA
way; secretary, James 7. Bogcy; treas
lrcr, John J. Higgins. This makes the
eleventh time that Mr.. Offutt has been
elected to the presidency of the society.
1t was decided to hold the next annual
fair on August 2S 20, 80 and 81, pro-
yided these dates are acceptable to the
Maryland and Virginia Association, of
which the society is member. The race
committee for the year was named as
follows: Lee Offutt, Charles Vcirs, Da-
vid II. Warfeld and Henry II. Griffith.
Among the improvements decided upon
for the fair grounds arc the erection OF
X additional stables and bandStand
and the placing of the race track in first
class condition Horse trainers who use
the fair ground stables will hereafter be
charged a rental of ST per month for eacl,
stable, the money thus raised to be used
in keeping the track in condition.
In trying to extinguish lighted lamp
at an early hour in the morning, Miss
Mamie Bodlcy, the I7-year-old daughter
of John w. Bodlcy, lumber manufac-
turer, was fatally burned at their home
near Shovel, Worcester County. The
lamp exploded, and the blazing oil set
fire to the young lady's clothing, nearly