The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-03-06


Confederacy, for a marker to the
memory Of the Confederate dead who
fell at Monocacy has reached $500.
The Troy Laundry Company was
| incorporated at Hagerstown with
capitalization of $4,000 by Archibald
F. Hyson, Louis l. Blackman and Viii
liam A. Householder.
Jumping from a second-story window
| at her home, near Fair Hill, while tenn
porarily insane, Mrs Ann Janney. aged
50 years, received injuries which re-
suited in her death.
Robert L. Warfeld has resigned as
principal of the commercial depart
ment of the Rockville High School.
His successor has not yet been
selected
While at work on a locomotive.
which had just come in from a run at
the Perryyille yards the cap of the
boiler blew out and Bert Sphinx, of
about the face and body.
II. Spencer Matthews, of Oxford. re-
ceived injury to his head Thursday, re-
sulting in hemorrhage of the brain.
Physicians pronounced his condition
critical and he was taken to Cam
bridge Hospital for operation.
Norman Leroy Albright, IS years
old, son Of Joseph Albright a farmer,
near Wellersburg, north of Mount
Savage committed suicide by hanging
himself to a rafter in his fathers
barn.
Through the efforts of Mrs. L. Vic
tor }aughman, the Paint and Powder
Clut of Baltimore. will render Flora
dora at the opera house April l for
the benefit Of the Frederick City Hos
pital.
The Progressive party of Allegany
county will hold convention March
to elect delegates to the State con
vention to be held in Baltimore. We'd
nesday, March IS. Ex-senator George
L. Wellington is chairman of the party
for Allegany county.
Citizens Of Myersyille and Volts
vile, Walkersville and Mount Pleas
AIT, Brunswick New Midway, Woods
boro, Mount Airy and Lime Kiln APP
peared before the Frederick County
Commissioners Monday and urged the
building of about 16 miles of new
roads in different sections Of the
county.
The big orchards around Hancock
are being oyerrun with rabbits which
( are eating and destroying thousands
of dollars worth Of fruit trees. One
/ large orchard company sent a bill for
$500 damages to State Game Warden
/ F f. Cox, of Baltimore, claiming that
as rabbits are protected by the State
game laws the State should pay the
/ damages caused by rabbits.
/ Regulations for the conduct of pool
and billiard rooms in Annapolis are
/ provided in an ordinance adopted at
special meeting of the City Council
The ordinance provides that such
/ places shall not be kept open after
/ the hour Of midnight and puts a ban
on stained-glass windows or other
means to obstruct the view from the
street.
An organization having for its pur-
pose the relief of suffering in ElktOn
has been formed by the election of
Mrs. r. b. Frazier president; Miss
Ida Davis, vice-president; Mrs, Frank
r. Scott, treasurer, and Mrs. James
F. Evans, secretary.
Charles D. Powell, formerly boiler
maker foreman at the Grafton ter
minal, has been appointed general
boiler inspector for the Baltimore and
Ohio system, with headquarters in
Baltimore. Mr.. Powell entered the
service in 1881.
The Highland Grange has appoint
ed DE-. c. w. Famous. James w. Davis,
d. G. Harry and l. Wallace Heaps to
appear before the county and State
road authorities with a view to hav-
ing roads in this vicinity improved.
The farm of Henry A. Nicholas,
about two miles from Easton, known
as Galloway, containing 337 acres has
been sold for $4,000 to Joseph de f.
Junkin, of Philadelphia, whose son,
George Junkin, will occupy it about
April l. He will make a speciality of
raising hogs.
At a meeting of tomato growers of
Kent county it was unanimously
agreed not to grow any tomatoes for
less price than that of last year
They also agreed not to pay more
than 2 cents a basket for picking
tomatoes.
Residents along the Maryland and
Pennsylvania Railroad in Hartford
county are circulating petitions ask
ing the Postoffice Department for a
mail clerk on the early morning train
from Delta, so that mail may be de-
livered in Baltimore and other nearby
cities the same day