The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-01-30

MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
A civic betterment club was organ
lied by the ladies of Chestertown.
Application was made for charter
for new bank at Libertytown. r
Thieves stole a large number o.
chickens from Miss Mary Springer
and Philip West, near Rowlandville.
A compulsory vaccination order
was issued by the health officer Of
Cumberland
Prompt action on the part of pupils
saved White Oak public school from
destruction by fire when the stove
overturned.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Wright, of
Cockeysville, have gone on a tour to
Panama, Venezuela, Porto Rico, ia
maica and Cuba.
fredericksburg housewives are gath
ering from their gardens several
varieties of wild flowers with which
to decorate their homes.
Albert Burner, aged IS, fell from
Norfolk and Western freight near
Limeton and sustained injuries from
which he died soon afterward.
Charged With shooting Thomas
Phillips, near Gaiena, last week, Abra-
ham Pratt, colored, has been lodgd in
the Kent County Jail.
Chesapeake Council, Daughters of
Liberty, OF Havre de Grace, celebrated
the fifteenth anniversary of its organ
ization Thursday evening
Charles Beal, 45 years old, was killed
at Berlin, mining town, he being
caught in an overhead shaft. Nearly
every bone ir his body was broken as
he was whirled around.
In his suit against the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad for the death of
his ive-year-old daughter, who was
killed near Aberdeen in September,
1910, William Abent has been awarded
$500 damages.
Charles w L. McDermott, former
resident Of Cumberland, has resigned
as city editor of the Evening Times,
McKeesport, Pa, to accept the position
of managing editor of the Evening
Times, Cumberland,
A new chapel in Mount Olivet Gene
terry Frederick costing $4,000, has
been completed 1t is built of blue
stone, with terra Gotta trimmings and
an interior finish of oak. The window
are stained glass of artistic design
Not in many years has pike fishing
been so good during January at the
mouth of the Susquehanna. U. G.
Way caught 200 pounds of this variety
of fish during three days last week
and others have made correspondingly
large catches.
A handsome new pipe organ, pre-
scented to the Walkeville Methodist
Episcopal Church by Mrs. Margaret
Bale and Misses Elizabeth and Lydia
Cassell, of Westminster, as a me-
mortal to the late John and Nancy
Nicodemus, was dedicated Sunday.
c. F. Tresher, a farmer near Gre
asptown, has brought suit against the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company for $500 for the loss of a
horse. His telephone was out of or
der when his horse was sick, and he
could not summon a veterinarian
Mrs. Carrie Warren, Frederick, was
given verdict of $500 against George
II. Davis in a damage suit before a
jury for $4,000. The plaintiff and her
husband were tenants on the farm of
the defendant and during dispute the
latter struck Mrs. Warren across the
head with a stick
John Reed, foreman OF construction
work at the new first National Bank
Building, and Daniel Haggerty CHIEF
track foreman of the Georges Creel
and Cumberland Railroad, were fnet
SO each at Cumberland on q chargt
by Health Officer Harrington that they
had unvaccinated men in their EMPLOY
The Rambling Sam, a household
owned by Postmaster Thomas O. JEFF
ferson, of fredericksburg. and for wears