The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-11-20

Judge Peter was appealed to- but could
not help them. They declared they
were not runaways, but came to Rock
vile just for the trip.
The Hagerstown Board of Trade has
decided to offer prizes for the best
dressed store windows in the city. The
stores will be divided into three classes.
first prize of $40 and a second prize
of So will be awarded in each class
Miss Edith Robinson has been APP
pointed assistant teacher at Slate
Ridge school, vice Miss Helen Stokes,
resigned.
Miss Nellie Casey, Washington Coun-
tvs public nurse, has received an offer
from Michigan to take charge of or
ganizing county work in that State at
double her present salary, but it is I'M
derstood she will continue her work
at Hagerstown. Miss Casey will make
an address at the ninth annual Con
ference on Charities and Corrections
in Baltimore, November 1921.
The Washington County Medical So
ciety elected the following officers:
President, DR.. d. A Watkins; vice
president, DR.. c. R. Scheller; secre-
tary, DR.. l. NJ. Wertz; treasurer, DR.
w. B. Morrison; delegates to the State
society, Dr. j. W. Humrichouse and
DR.. Mary Laughlin. Dr. Watkins was
also elected an advisory member of
the hospital board.
In his charge to the grand jury upon
the assembling of the November term
of the Circuit Court of HagerstoWn,
Judge Martin L. Keedy called atten-
ton to the law forbidding the sale of
cigarettes to children under - years
C. Edward Heard, former City Tax
Collector, was made foreman of the
grand jury.
D. H Whitmer, of Philadelphia, is
making preliminary surveys for the
new 100000, 000-gallOn reservoir, which
the Washington County Water Com
pany will construct on South Mountain
watershed, near Edgmont He will sub
NIT an estimate of the cost of the
reservoir, which will be located about
u miles east of here.
The Church of the Brethren of
Broadfording, formerly the German
Baptist Brethren Church. has been in
corporated in Hagerstown by Rev F.
j. Neibert Martin n Bear, William
Myers. Cad Hicks David Hollinger,
George W. Shinham and George A
Miller, who will be the trustees.
The Oxford Presbyterian congrega-
ton has voted to raise the salary of
its minister, Rev. George H Turner,
to $4,000 a year and grant him a vaca-
ton of two months each summer, dur
ing which he may engage in Chau-
tauqua work.
The engine and 10 cars of freight
train on the Norfolk and Western rail
road We're ditched at Litchfeld Siding
near Meadview, Washington county
No one was injured and the track was
cleared within a few hours.
An iron bridge, with a span of SO
feet was erected by the bridge and
track hands of the Hagerstown and
Frederick Electric Railway near Mid
dletown in eight hours on Wednesday.
Miss Madeline Hurlock and Miss
Ruth Wright have been chosen de-
bators for the fredericksburg High
School in series of debates with other
high schools of Caroline county.
A building at the Cumberland Val
ley railroad bridge camp, near Will
Transport, was burglarized, the robbers
carrying off a 500 gold watch owned
by j. II. Gather foreman.
William B. Thomas, of Westminster,
has sold his canning factory and two
acres of land at Williamsport to a
canning company. The price paid was
$1,000.
The Cecil County Commissioners
have advertised for the construction
of 2.5S miles of State aid highway
from near st. Augustine to the Della
ware line. Bids will be opened on
November 30.
The hay-baling establishment of
Thomas l.. Fulks, at Washington Grove
was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss
of $4,000, with $4,000 insurance The
fire is supposed to have been caused
by spark from a railroad engine.
Mrs. Jennie R. Hastings has sold
her 111-acre farm near Andrews Bridge
to J. Walter Kirk, of Aakryn, for
$4,000.
The Savings Bank of Williamsport
will erect modern building to cost
from $4,000 to $4,000 and work on
it will begin next April. The bank
has purchased the property Of c. d.
Downs for $4,000. The present build
ing will be razed.
Following a business meeting of the
Hagerstown Automobile Club ban
quet was held, attended by so men,
bers. 1t was arranged by Ray Dancer,
secretary of the club, and August F.
Rothstein, secretary of the Board Of
Trade