The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-10-23

The Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington Railroad has constructed
a concrete bridge over North East
Creek, at North East, to take the place
of wooden bridge built about II
years ago
A bursted tire caused five-passen-
ger automobile, containing William
Dixon, Frank Whitman and Van Dean,
to skid into a ditch and turn turtle
near Brunswick, painfully injuring the
occupants.
Judge Keedy, in the Washington
County Court, granted an absolute di-
yorce to Mrs. Edna J. Brendel from F.
Z. Brendel, superintendent of the
Western Maryland Railway, with head
quarters in this city, on the ground of
infdelity.
Falling from d chestnut tree Harry
Blickenstaff, who was recently mar
ried, of Ringgold sustained severe in
juries, including four fractured ribs
and a compound fracture of his right
leg. He was unconscious seven hours
and was probably hurt internally.
Thomas w Harmon, of Baltimore,
who recently bought the O. T. Kelly
property, near Preston, containing -
acres and Improvements, for $1,000,
oil, 20 NTr NAi11iov, II
Gambrill her farm on Grove road, con
tanning 70 acres.
Charles Baker, of Breathedsville,
was awarded by the County Commits
sioners the contract to erect a rein
forced concrete bridge, so feet long,
across Antietam Creek, at Hartle's
fording, near Leitersburg. The bridge
will be the largest concrete bridge in
this county.
Mrs. Linda Davis, wife of former
County Commissioner, William B. Da-
Wis, near Cecilton, was seriously in
jured when an automobile collided with
team in which she was driving. The
automobile, coming from the rear, ran
into the team, upsetting the carriage
and throwing Mrs. Davis to the ground.
Girls of the Centreville High School
will not be lir1ited in expenditure for
their commencement dresses. Prof.
Byron J. Grimes, county superintend-
ent Of instruction, says the girls may
wear what they like and pay what
they please. Professor Grimes thinks
it would be fine plan for the girls
to make their own dresses in school
and to have them cost not more than
%, but he does not favor the idea of
making this an official order.
Rolled along the track for several
hundred feet in front of a locomotive
in the yards of the Western Maryland
Railway at Hagerstown, expecting
every second to be crushed beneath
the wheels, was the experience of
Christian Trumpower, Hagerstown, a
railway conductor, who is at the Wash
ington County Hospital in a critical
condition, his limbs and body mass
of decorations and Commissions.
The stockholders of the new Peo-
pies Bank of Oxford have elected the
following directors: T. +. Grier, J. NJ.
Showalter, F. f. Brown, A. E. Pitt,
H. NJ. Long, Joseph d. Crowl, D. A.
Caldwell, Thomas Gillingham, Levin
r. Dickey, Oxford; R. Frank Cochran,
Cochranyille; J. Haynes Turner, Lin
coin University; Harry Lungreen, Lew
isyille; John A. Kimble, Nottingham,
and J. j. Algard, East Nottingham.
The directors organized by electng J.
". Showalter president, T. F. Grier and
r. E. Brown vice-presidents and c.
Russell Arnold cashier. Application
for a charter will be made Deem
Der IS.
The statement Of the receipts and
expenditures of the County Commits
sloners of Cecil county for the fiscal
year ending June 80 shows that the
county received $297,345.54 and dis
bursed $27O,63216, leaving a balance
in the treasury of $26,713.38 During
the year S4J,l0l.JS was expended on
roads, $8,63789 on roads and bridges,
s60,S56.81 in building permanent stone
and gravel roads in the county, por-
ton of which was under State aid
and $60,500 for schools. The county
has no outstanding Indebtedness other
than bonds issued for the building Of
permanent roads.
Albert +. Shoemaker, of Friendship
Heights, has declined the nomination
for the State Senate recently rendered
him by the Prohibition county conven-
ton and has notified the Supervisors of
Elections not to allow his name to ap-
pear on the official ballot.
J. ]. Doyle, district manager of the
Central New York Gas and Electrical
Company, has been appointed manager
of the electrical department of the Ha-
gerstown and Frederick Electric Rail.
way Company. f. l.. CENTS, superin-
tendent of light and power, has re-
signed