The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-07-31

School to succeed Prof. Roger |. Man
ming.
The Havre de Grace City Council
has passed an ordinance making the
speed limit for automobiles IL instead
Of miles an hour, as heretofore
The laying of the cornerstone for
the Moose Home here has been post
poned until August 16, when there Will
be a field day.
A girls dormitory to cost $4,000
and Improvements to buildings to cost
$4,000 are being made at Blue Ridge
College, New Windsor.
Fire destroyed the large frame store
building in Bedford owned by Mrs.
Sarah Porter, of Cumberland, and oc-
cupied by the Farmers Exchange.
A meteorite, weighing seven pounds,
fell on a building in Hagerstown.
bored a hole through the slate roof
and shattered several metal display
+ cases in the room below.
A large bank barn on the farm of
William Zimmerman, near Feagayille.
together with this years wheat and
hay crop ana quantity of farming i'm
plements, was destroyed by fire Fri
day
Because the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company is unable to fur
nish cars to haul away the manufac-
tured product, the Caspari Stone
Company has closed down its quar-
ries near Hayre de Grace for a time.
In order to carry heavier loco
motives the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company is replacing nearly all
the old bridges and culverts with sub
stantial steel structures on the Ha-
gerstown- Weverton branch.
Thrashing has been in full blast in
Cecil county the past two weeks and
the reports of the wheat crop show a
sad failure. Many of the best farm
ers are getting only 10 to u bushels
an acre; one or two small acreages
report % bushels, but in general not a
half crop is being garnered
The Clearspring Tournament Asso-
citation decided to hold its annual
tournament on Saturday, August 80.
Governor Goldsborough and other
States officials and a number of pO-
litical candidates will be invited to at
tend. Knights from Maryland and ad-
joining States will enter the lists,
Representatives Of the Western
Maryland Railway are at Williams
port, purchasing right of way through
farms in Berkeley county, West Vir-
ginia, where, it is stated, the Western
Maryland will build road to the lime
stone quarries of a Pittsburgh syndi-
cate along the Potomac river.
The AlSgany County School Com
missiOners have announced awards of
scholarships to the following: West
ern Maryland College, Miss Meta F.
Eppler, Cumberland, and Lester
Twigg, TwiggtOwn; Blue Ridge Col
lege, Jean Ross, Cumberland; Wash
ington College, Clarence White, Cum
berland; st. Mary's College, Jessie
Walker, Cumberland.
The Hagerstown dairymen have
organized The purpose of the organ
ization is for mutual protection and
possibly to raise the price of milk
from cents to or cents a quart
The sentiment in favor of increasing
the price to 8 cents was general in
case the Mayor and Council pass the
new milk ordinance.
In the absence of a public park in
Hagerstown, it is proposed to make
small parks out of the grass-covered
tree-shaded grounds about the city's
school houses and throw them open to
the public The Mayor and Council
have secured the consent of the
School Board to place benches about
the school grounds and make other
Improvements. The city will police
the grounds.
Lord" Stanley, who appeared in
upper Cecil county several years ago
and announced that he possessed great
wealth and was in search of a bride
and secured the latter when Miss Irene
Clayton fell a victim to his tales, but
lost her Immediately after the mar
rage ceremony had been performed,
when his tales failed to become reali-
ties, died last week in a Western town.
On his death bed he revealed the
name of his father. who, he said, was
Sir Henry NJ. Stanley.
A temporary injunction was issued
by Judge Robert R. Henderson, on
petition of the Road Directors of Allie
gany county, against Harry w. Yonk-
err forbidding him to use a traction
engine on the Nave-Cross and the re-
constructed Bedford road Yorker
hauls lumber from Flintstone to Cum
berland with a 15-ton traction engine
over the roads. It is claimed this