Evening star., 1909-08-28

| more county wafer ana EleCIr1c CON-
pany on the Hillen road. near TOwson.
Md. is nearly completed. A gatehouse of
reinforced concrete Is now being con-
structed.
| Mrs. E. V. Thompson OF Washington.
d. c., supervising deputy Of the Royal
Neighbors of America. has arrived at
Mitchellville Nd, to establish a branch
Of that order in connection with Forrest
Camp No. 11,5O6. Modern Woodmen Of
America.
The board of visitors of ST. Johns Col
lege. Annapolis. Nd. has recommended
| of Denton. Nd. for the detail as COM
mandant of cadets at st. Johns. to sue
ceed Lieut.. E. B. Iglehart, L. S. A, who
is incapacitated by illness.
! Mrs. Anna schmucker. wife OF Nor
gan Schmucker. OF near Toms Brook.
| Va, died at the home Of her son. DR..
N. F. Schmucker. at Mount Clifton.
Mrs Schmucker was on visit to her
son and was stricken with typhoid
| fever.
clothing merchant OF Shepherdstown.
w. Va, is dead after an illness Of a
few days from the result OF a stroke
of paralysis. He was eighty years old.
/; DR.. Walter s. Cockrell. near Harpers
Ferry. w. Va, died, aged about sixty
ticing physician. but gave up the prac-
tice Of medicine some years ago.
The will Of James L. Gemmill has
been filed for probate in the orphans
$1,000 to Mount Zion Methodist Prot
estant Church. the interest to be used
for the payment Of the pastors salary.
The residue OF the estate is beQueathed
to the testator's widow. The will was
executed in 1892.
Gill Smith. C. C. Saffel and Harley
Whettle. filed a suit yesterday in the
circuit court at Towson. Md. against
| the highway commission Of Baltimore
county. claiming $4,000 damages. Mrs.
Roth alleges that while driving during
last July on Crooks lane she was
thrown down an embankment on ac-
| count Of the bad condition Of the high
way and seriously injured.
Miss Amelia c.. Rappanier, the fif-
teen-year-old daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Christian Rappanier of Melrose avenue.
Catonsvilre. Md. surprised her parents
| Thursday by going to Baltimore, where
she was married to Eugene E. Hobson
| Of Della, an attendant at the Maryland
Hospital for the Insane, near Cations
vile.
The incomplete Winery building and
the lot on which it stands, on CRANKY
| street, Norfolk, Va, has been sold TO
Philip Levy & Co. for $4,000. The
sale was the biggest real estate deal
made in Norfolk for two years.
The Jefferson Company has awarded
a contract to ]. c. Nesbit & Co. for the
| erection Of q modern theater to cost
$4,000. which is to be built in the heart
| Of the business district of Roanoke, Va.
Ross d. Robinson, forty-eight years
old, grand master of the state lodge OF
colored Masons, died at the Mckendree
Hospital. Charleston, w. Va, from IN
/ iuries received in a mine three weeks
ago. He was the highest PAID coioreu
miner in the state.
! prop u,id
ton Bragunier, died at the home of her
daughter Mrs. John Kendall, Hagers-
| town, Md, aged eighty-six years.
Mrs Rebecca Wood, aged seventy-five
years. died of typhoid fever, at the home
| of her son, Louis r. Wood. IN Mitchell
vile, Md.
Joseph Harrison, Charles Bissel and
Harry Small. arrested at Gettysburg,
| Pa, by Western Maryland Railroad De-
tectives Wilson and Burnett, were
brought to Hagerstown, Md, TO answer
the charge Of participating in a robbery
| at Buena Vista.
/ Miss Louise Timms of Hagerstown,
Md, and Norman H. Downin OF Harris
burg. Pa, were married at the parson-
age Of Trinity Lutheran Church, Hagers-
town, by Rev. DIR. J. S. Simon.
The Kent, Queen Anne and Cecil coun-
| ties fair in Maryland will be held this
year at Colchester Beach from August
81 to September 81. inclusive.
/ John Kerr, seventy-eight years old, one
/ of the first members Of the police de-
partment OF Baltimore, died at his home.
222 South Bond street, Of the infirmities
! Of age.
Mrs. Moses F. MCGEE. forty years old.
died of appendicitis at her home. one
! mile from Metal, Md. She was Miss Sue
Hewitt. For many years she taught
school in Path valley.
Mrs. Sarah Virginia Morris, aged seven
| ty-four years, died at EastOn. Nd. of gen
eral debility. About two years ago she
received a stroke OF paralysis, from which
she never fully recovered. She was the
daughter of the late Capt. Robert
Leonard of Easton. :.
After an illness Of several weeks, during
which he had suffered a great deal from
diabetes. John Bernard Flood died at
| Annapolis. He was fifty-four years old
| and is survived by his second widow. who
prior to her marriage was Miss Fannie
Robeck, and young son by previous
| marriage. =
! Isaniel Berklite. retired farmer and
native of Gettysburg, died after an
illness Of three weeks at his home
| seventy-nine years old, for Il number or
years lived at Foxyille, Frederick
county.
John S. Gorgas died at his home at Blue
Ridge Summit, Md. He was eighty-six
years old and for the last twenty-five
| years had made his home with his sister
! Miss Laura E. Brengle, sixty-eight years
old. died at the home of her adopted
| brother John B. Aibaugh. near Groves
Lime Kilns. Md. One sister, Mrs. VIII
liam III. Kemp, survives.
Mrs I.avinia Wolfe. mother of Hum
phrey d. Wolfe, died at her home at Glen
wood, Howard county, Md. She WAS