The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-10-09
MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.

The Latest GIeanings From All
Over the State.
Henry Wilson has sold his 60-acre
farm near Bells Mills to S. w. Haines
for $4,000.
The Cecil County Commissioners re-
jected all bids received for building a
bridge over Stony Run, and readver-
tised fcs lids.
Playing scrub football on the High
School campus at Centreville, An
thony Durney, II years old, stepped on
p rope, fell and broke his left thigh.
The Hagerstown Civic League held
meeting at the Washington County
Free Library and mapped out a cam
paign of work for the winter.
Miss Helen Tatman, Milford, Del,
has been appointed vice-principal Of
the Aberdeen High School. Miss Tat
man is a Swarthmore College gradu-
ate.
The Mayor and Council of Hagers-
town voted to purchase for the Pioneer
Hook and Ladder Company an aerial
electric truck. The outfit will cost
about $4,000
The building committee of the
Maternity Hospital, to be erected in
Cambridge through the liberality of
Mrs. Alfred l. du Pont, has awarded
the contract to G. D. Springer & Co.
The price is approximately $4,000.
William NJ. Slower, proprietor of the
Savoy, Hagerstown, formerly proprie-
tor of Hotel Central, has purchased
from the executor of the NJ. Homer
Shirley estate the Indian Queen Hotel,
Chambersburg, for $4,000.
The Democratic campaign committee
of Hartford county has selected Walter
McComas secretary. The members of
the committee are: Col Ohio S. Lee,
j. Thomas c. Hopkins and Robert II.
Archer
The Raphael E. fancy property at
Hancock, which was taken over by
syndicate composed of George A.
Anthony, c. l.. McAfee, Roy NJ. Dan
iels and John T. Mason, Of Hancock,
has been sold for $500.
Rev Thomas E. Martindale, of Sails
bury, former pastor of the ElktOn
Methodist Episcopal Church, who re-
Gently celebrated his SEVENTEEN birth
day, will complete in March a continu-
GUS service in the ministry Of 80 years.
Lightning played some queer FRANKS
at Clay Hill in the storm that passed
over that locality. A bolt struck the
house of Mack Lesher and ran into
a bedroom where a child was sleeping
The crib was upset and the youngster
was rolled on the floor unframed.
The senior class of the Tome School
for Boys has elected the following of
ficers: President, Winder Laird Henry,
IT., Cambridge; e-president, Horace
BurrOugh Sd, Roland Park. and sec
rotary and treasurer Joseph Lees East
wick, Norristown, Pa.
The Montgomery County Camp Club
met at Rockville and reelected officers
as follows: President, Edwin w.
Broome; vice-president, Robert l..
Warfield; secretary. Claude w Owen.
and treasurer, Kelly Rice The club
owns a club house at Seneca on the
Potomac river.
A Democratic club with large men,
bership was organized at Cambridge,
with Benjamin S. Insley as permanent
chairman. Addresses were made by
lanes S. Shepperd. candidate for State
Senator, Comptroller Harrington. P
Watson Webb, Editor F. Daley Ban
mock and others.
The Prohibitionists Of Caroline coun-
ty held their convention at Denton
and nominated the following ticket:
State Senate, Robert P Taylor, Pres
ton; House of Delegates, Thomas l..
Trice, Denton: LinwOod Clark Fed
eralsburg; Willard Mitchell, Green's
boro: Sheriff, Hayward s. Horsey, Den
ton; County Treasurer, Charles w
Elwanger, Greensboro; Register of
~.
County Commissioner, Henry w. Hyn-
son, Ridgely
After their autumn work is done,
farmers of Queen Anne's, Caroline
and Talbot counties will meet to dis
cuss the formation of produce ex-
change for the sale and purchase of all
products and necessaries of the farm
Sheriff Eugene WEIGH, William c.
LANG end other prominent farmers
assert that wheat shipments are grad
ing enthusiastically in Baltimore and
Complaints have been made against
tte system of the Baltimore Chamber
Of Commerce.
J. II. Hallberg, an attorney of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, and his wife were in
jured in a runaway at Kingston. Mr.
Hallbeyg has been on a visit to his
parents and was driving out with his
wife, when the horse became frighten-