The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-10-02

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ray, of Uniontown, Md, will preach
the dedicatory sermon. Rev w. S.
shrimp is the pastor.
The School Commissioners are ar
ranging to establish a public school
at Somerset to accommodate the chill
dren of Somerset, DrummOnd and
Friendship Heights, who were exclud-
ed from the public schools of the Dis
trict of Columbia
With a preacher as one of the prin-
cipal witnesses against him, Ernest
Stevens, of Kaisiersville, was arrested
on the charge Of carrying concealed
weapons. Arraigned before Justice
Miller, at Clearspring. he was found
guilty and fined SIS and costs.
The Washington County Realty
Company has been incorporated with
capital stock OF $4,000, divided into
1920 shares. The incorporators are
ex-State Senator Norman B. Scott,
Jr, ex-State's Attorney Alexander
Armstrong, Jr., and Ralph l.. Boyer.
Attorney General Poe in the contest
ed election case in Kent county, has
decide that tickets voted in one
precinct and marked for another can
not be counted This condition arose
through marked tickets labeled for
wrong districts or precincts being sent
to voters.
Two of the most valuable pieces of
property in Ellicott City were sold
One, known as the Angelo Cottage
property, was purchased by Samuel
Watkins. 1t is more than 100 years
old and derived its name from a
Frenchman, who erected it. The other,
the bank property, erected by the Eli
colts, who first settled here, was pur-
chased by Daniel Hewett
Capt Whitfield Stansbury is critic
ally i'll at his home, near Hampstead.
Driving some stock from his lower
farm to the home place, the horse he
was riding slipped and fell on bridge,
throwing Mr.. Stansbury. He was
found unconscious. His face was bad
ly cut and bruised. A clot on the
brain caused by the fall produced
paralysis
Frederick county will be represented
this year for the first time at the
Maryland Week celebration Of the
State Horticultural Society to be held
in Baltimore November II to 26. A
committee from the Farmers AssOcia-
ton, with Lewis F. Kefauver, Middle
town, chairman, will arrange for the
display. Apples and other fruits will
be made a special feature.
J. Vincent Jamison, Jr., an official
OF the Jones Cold Storage Door Com
pany, of Hagerstown, was seriously in
jured by an explosion in the galvaniz-
ing department at the factory. Damp
coke thrown into a tank exploded,
the fragments being hurled all direc-
tons. He was struck on the arms,
shoulders and face and was badly
burned.
The coroners Jury, empaneled by
Justice w A. BrittCn to inquire into
the death of Fred Cullen, finished its
investigation and placed the RESPONSE
bility for Mr.. Cullens death on the
New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk
division of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and characterizes the affair as criminal
negligence of fearful nature His
wife has just passed through a serious
operation in the hospital and is pros
trated by her husbands death.
The report of the Elkton grand jury
for the September term of the Circuit
Court calls attention to the condition
Of the Courthouse. 1t is declared to
be odd and dilapidated, unsafe and
unsanitary, and that the east wall is
liable to fall out at any time" The
jury requests that the court appoint
committee of nine citizens, one from
each district, to visit the courthouse,
make a thorough examination of the
building and report to the court not
later than the December term next.
Because he cannot be postmaster
and hold State position at the same
time, Harry Ward, of Jarrettsville, has
resigned as a candidate for the Leg
islature on the Republican ticket, and
will be succeeded by Nelson o. Merry
man, near Cooptown.
Mrs. George H. Jefferson has a prize
pet hen which probably holds the rec
ord for fredericksburg. She says that
on two successive days the hen laid
three eggs each day. Though Mrs.
Jefferson is from a lifelong Republi-
can family, she has chr Stoned the hen
Wilson.