The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-01-23
MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER

The Latest Gleanings From ALI
Over the State.
Edward S. Strube, of Urbana, was
killed when a tree which he was feL
ling tumbled upon him.
Governor Goldsborough will address
the Farmers Institute to be held in
Hagerstown this week.
For heroism displayed during a fire
on his property, E. A Bailey, of Cal
vert, presented Willet Ewing with $26.
Her hair catching in the pulley OF
an engine, Miss Dorothy Cutler, OF
Fairfield, lost several patches of her
scalp.
Health Officer Campbelrs report for
the past year showed $40 more births
than deaths in Washington county, the
DlrJHS numbering 1885.
The Maryland Dredging and Con-
struction Company has been awarded
the contract for dredging Big and Lit
tie Elk Creeks at Elkton.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Hazletine Basshor,
of Baltimore, will install a new sys-
TEN of water works at Algonquin
Manor, Cambridge, recently purchased
by them from the Rayner family.
Major John A. Dupray, L. S. A, ire
tired, reported for duty at command.
ant of the battalion of cadets at the
Maryland Agricultural College Thurs
day, relieving Lieut.. John 8. Upham.
While watching workmen cut tim
Der Tuesday, the five-year-old grand,
son of Solomon Fogle, of Thurmont,
was caught by falling tree and so
badly injured that he died at the City
Hospital Wednesday.
The Susquehanna Hose Company
gave a banquet to its honorary mem
bers Monday night. Covers were laid
for 100 persons, and the guests in
cluded most of the prominent men Of
the town.
At meeting of the directors of tho
Hagerstown Fair Association the first
held since the recent annual election,
it was decided to hold the next an
nual fair October IA, 10, Is and II.
Aaron X. McGraw was appointed field
manager.
ture at the Highland High School, has
organized a society to be known as the
Hartford County Association of Boys
Corn Clubs. Each member is required
to grow 10 hills of corn and to exhibit
10 ears at the annual corn show.
The store of James S. Moore, rear
Greenfield, was destroyed with it's
contents by fire causing a loss OF
about $4,000. Mr. Moore made fire in
stove in the store and then went to
his home about $50 yards away Soon
afterward his wife discovered the
building ablaze
The cornerstone of the new Miners
Hospital to be erected at Frostburg
the last Legislature having appro-
priated $4,000, will be laid Sunday,
February 2. The affair will be in
charge Of the hospital directors, and
all the fraternal organizations of the
town have been invited
The body Of a man was found in the
woods in the vicinity of Garrett by
Guy Fisher and Averill Snow, youths,
who were looking after their traps.
The head was detached and lay some
distance from the body. 1t was wrap
ped in paper and taken TO Garrett.
1t is believed that the body is that of E
a tramp.
A price of $40 q ton for tomatoes to
be grown in 1913 was fixed in the first
contract signed in Kent county. The
contract was made by Samuel MasEn,
a farmer near Edesville. Other farm
ers are demanding 5000 a ton. Kent
county farmers last year grew over
100000 bushels OF tomatoes, for
which they received $3.50 and SO
ton.
Acting upon the recommendations
OF the State Board of Health, in view
Of the outbreak of number Of cases
OF smallpox in different parts of the
State, Anne Arundel County Commits
sioners have directed Health Officer
Hopkins to take the necessary steps
TO have all persons not already vacci
mated submit TO the operation at once
Offioer Stemple arrested and placed
In Jail at Denton Nathan Chance, who
had been taken at Lansdale, Pa, and
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