The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-08-14

forged check for s..
Thomas S. Keenan, has assumed edi-
torial and business management of the
Dorchester Standard-Journal, the Re
publican organ of Dorchester,
An extensive celebration is planned
in connection with the laying of the
cornerstone of the $4,000 Moose home
at Cumberland Saturday, August Is.
Hog cholera has again struck Tai
bot county, and the farmers near Witt
man and Mcdaniel, in Bay Hundred
district, are losing their hogs by the
score.
Noah Kirson has purchased the
dwelling of ex-Postmaster benjamin
Mitchell at Hancock for $4,000. The
dwelling will be RACED and a moving
picture theatre erected
Arrangements have been completed
for the second annual tournament of
Orion Lodge, Independent Order Odd
ford county, August IS.
Mrs. Lawrence Steele Costello own
er of WOrton Manor, Chestertown, and
a former resident of Baltimore. was
thrown from her buggy and a bone in
her shoulder broken when her horse
ran away. She was taken to Balti-
more for an X-ray examination.
Getting too close to the mule while
working on the State road between
Fairview and Indian Springs, James
Edwin Gibson, % years old, nmar-
ried of Ellicott City, was kicked in
the head and sustained a fractured
skull.
A suit for $4,000 damages against
the Western Maryland Railway was
brought under the Employers Liza
bility act in the United States Court
at Cumberland by Louis lie Neve, ad-
ministrator of Giuseppe Averza, for
the death of the latter.
j. D. Austin, a brakeman on the Nor
folk and Western Railway, was killed
at Shenandoah while crawling under
a freight train which was standing on
a side track The train started and
both legs and one hand were cut off 4.
He was removed to the Shenandoah
Young Mems Christian Association, /.
where he died five hours later.
The City Council has accepted the
offer of Troop 2, Boy Scouts of Amer
lea, to aid the Cumberland Health .
Department in its crusade against ty-
phoid fever The Scouts propose to +
make thorough inspection of streets. .
alleys and yards, reporting all unsani- /
tary conditions found. Samples of we'll
water will also be collected for
analysis. The scouts will report to Dr. .
Francis E. Harrington, City Health
officer.
At a meeting of the Hagerstown
Automobile Club the chairman, DR.. J.
Roger Laughlin. appointed commit .
tee to arrange for run to BoonsbOro
in September, when a banquet will be .
held. DR. H. NJ. Rowe, of Baltimore .
president of the Maryland Automobile
Club, will attend the banquet and
speak on the cooperation of the local
club with the Baltimore club to secure
road legislation and TO assist the
State Roads Commission in its work
during the coming year
Representative David J. Lewis talk .
ed before large audience at the
Mountain Chautauqua at Cumberland
Friday on the parcel post. Many
farmers were present. Other ad .
dresses were as follows: Fruit Grow.
ers in Maryland" Prof. T. B. Symons.
Maryland Agricultural College; I'm
prOvements in Our Grain and Hav
Crops Professor Schmitz; Rural
Credit Banks" Prof T B. Bomberger
The speakers claimed that within the .
next 10 years Maryland would need
$4,000 farmers, 10000 live stock breed
ers, 10000 fruit growers, 100 foresters
and many expert dairymen.
John H. Kimble, secretary of the
Farmers National Congress- has com
pleted arrangements for the annual SEES
sion which will be held in Plano. ILL.,.
on September 1926 The program this
year will be exceptionally strong. the
speakers including Secretary of Agri-
culture Houston p P ClaXton, Com
missioner Of Education: Governor
Dunno, of Illinois; Governor Cox. of
Ohio; Professor Mumford, president
of the Missouri Agricultural College:
Professor Holden, the Iowa corn and
alfalfa expert; Oliver Wilson. master
of the national grange; Joseph f.
Wing, of Ohio and others.
At the annual convention of the
Cecil County Sunday-School Associa-
ton, held on Leslie camp grounds, II
schools answered to roll call, show
ing 304 delegates present from the
various schools. West Nottingham
Presbyterian was awarded the silk
banner having of the 10 points set
up by the State association for gen
eral average and efficiency.
The Farmers Association will in.
vestigate a plan by which it can sell
its wheat as body to Southern mar
kets and obtain better prices. The
question was brought up by Lewis F.
Kefauver, OF Middletown Valley. who
claims that Washington county farmers.
who ship their wheat south, get more