The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-01-02
MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest GIeanings From All
Over the State.
Lauraville residents have organized
a Lutheran mission.

a Lutheran mission.
J. Dukes Downs was appointed re-
ceiver of the Liberty Savings Bank.
Work Was discontinued last week
for the wiAter Oh the state road being
built betr cen Elkton and North East.
In fom nights George Sprout, Ros-
ton Steele and Dallas Racine, Provi-
dence lads, captured "a skunks.
While operating a corn-husker Will
liam H. Harrington, of near Elkton,
severed the ends of three fingers.
A Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train
killed a number of cows belonging to
Charles Wurtzer, of Orange Grove.
Thirty-eight professed conversions
are the result of the revival meetings
at Rosebank Methodist Episcopal
Church.
The owner of $1,0C0 automobile in
Maryland is compelled to pay $4,000
annually in taxes and licenses to the
State.
While resting his gun on the left
foot during cunning trip on Bush
River, John Seaver lost a toe, the
weapon accidentally discharging.
While walking through a wood,
Terry Krauss. of Harrisville, kicked
up from beneath the leaves his gold
watch, intact, lost two years ago,
Falling from loau of hay and the
wheels of the wagon passing over his
body, George L. Brown, farmer near
Ingleside, sustained a broken arm.
The annual Washington County
Teachers Institute will be held in the
Courthouse at Hagerstown January
to 4.
The 2S5-acre Tusculum farm, near
Princess Anne, has been bought by
Henry Oswald YarrOw, of California,
for $S,777.
The Cecil County Commissioners will
receive Sl,365S9 as their share of the
automobile license, as against 81 ,629,52
last year.
The Caroline County Commissioners
were notified by Road Engineer II. A.
Paine that he would leave the service
on March l.
Playing with matches, James Eagle,
tvo-year-Old son of Ernest Eagle, of
Mount Winans, set his clothing on
fire and was severely burned
Fire destroyed the new hotel on the
property of the National Slavonic So
ciety. near St Mary's City, in St
Mary's county.
Work on the construction of the
Washington and Great Falls Railway
in Montgomery county is to be
pushed.
Dr. William D. Campbell, health
officer for Washington county, has
been appointed local surveyor for the
Western Maryland Railway Company
The Elkton Improvement Associa-
ton has closed arrangements with a
large shirt and wrapper factory to 10.
cate in the town, provided sufficient
help can be secured.
Charged with stabbing Frank Izer,
of townsville, in the back at Will
Transport, Max Kreps was arrested and
| committed TO the Hagerstown Jail with.
out bail.
A chicken alighting upon its back, a
| horse belonging to Lewis Sprout, OF
| Providence, kicked small stable to
pieces and two 10-year-old boys mar.
rowly escaped being trampled.
Rev Irving s Owens, of Sharptown,
has been appointed pastor of Bivalve
charge of the Methodist Protestant
Church in Wicomico county to sue
| coed Rev. K. S. F ooks.
| Philip Lloyd, of Frederickstown, has
been appointed by the County Com.
missioners of Cecil County bridge tend
er at the Sassafras river bridge for
the year 1918. .
! A horse owned by the late State Sen
ator B. Abner Belts broke out of the
stable at Chewsville, wandered on the
Western Maryland railroad and was
killed by train.
After a passionate of seven and one
half years, Rev. o. c. Mees has re
signed from the Hamilton and Laura
vile Evangelical Lutheran congrega
tion to accept pastorate in New
York.
A movement is on foot to have the
Maryland Agricultural College, mos
of whose buildings at College Park
| near Washington were burned recent