The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-09-11

ldTSe canning factory near PectOn-
vile.
William Kimble, of Williamsport
was injured by an ice wagon upsetting
and falling upon him. Caught beneath
the top, his sides were injured and one
of the wheels passed over his foot.
Hagerstown.-The receipts of the
Hagerstown Postoffice continue to In
crease. In August they were $5,24947.
a gain of $531.78 over August last
year.
The Kings Daughters Of Hagers-
town have started a campaign to
raise $1,000 by getting 100 persons to
give $40 each toward a fund to be eX-
pended for fuel, medicine food and
clothes for the poor next winter.
Prof. c. Edwin Carl, who resigned
as principal of the Washington Coun-
ty Male High School last winter, will
open a private school for boys and
girls in Hagerstown, September 15
with Miss Myra McDade as assistant
w. Hamilton Spedden, of Cam
bridge, County Treasurer, who had
filed his papers as a candidate for
denomination by the Democrats, has
announced his retirement to accept
the cashiership of the Peoples Loan
and Savings Bank.
Agner w Barnhart has purchased
the interests of his partners. William
A. Beachley and j. Wesley Sampsell
in the Barnhart & Beachley Overall
Factory at Williamsport, and will
continue the business as the Barn
hart Overall Company.
Hagerstown.-Mrs. RebeCca Murray
who recently purchased the Monterey
Hotel, at Hancock, for about $4,000
at mortgages sale, has sold the prop
erty to her mother, Mrs. Priscilla Viii
liams Bridges, widow of Robert
Bridges, of Hancock.
Margie Slant, II years old, who
makes her home with her uncle, Viii
liam H. Johnson, fredericksburg, was
struck in the eye with a pair of scis-
sors The scissors were hanging on
a nail above the little girls head and
in reaching for them she knocked
them down.
Capt. Lewis White, who was arrest
ed on August 4 and placed in Denton
Jail, charged with an attempted as
sault upon Mary Truitt, 13-year-old
daughter of Isaac Truitt, of Federals-
burg, has been released on $1,000 bail
bond. The case will come up at Den
ton at the October term Of court.
Prof. Charles B. Stoudt has resign
ed as supervisor of penmanshiD in
the schools of Queen Anne's county,
to accept the supervisorship of pen
manship in the schools of Bingham
ton, n. Y. Prof. ]. o. Neighbors, of
the commercial department of the
Cambridge High School, will take the
place vacated by Professor Stoudt
Struck by an automobile, Charles
Stack, of Hurlock, had his carriage
cut from under him on the Federals-
burg Hurlock State road. Mr. Stack
was thrown out, landing in a deep
ditch and received several bad
bruises. Two wheels were cut from
under the carriage. The occupants of
the machine did not stop after the
accident. Mr.. Stack claimed that the
automobile belonged to DR. Edward
Jones, of East New Market, and was
driven by the Doctor himself.
fredericksburg. over the
scarcity of tomatoes 10 days ago Caro-
line packers are now overwhelmed
and are shipping many of their con.
tract crop to other points Hot. dry
weather conditions have ripened the
early crop and no longer is the buyer
hunting the producer. He is now en-
deavoring to save those heretofore
contracted for. Practically every
available tomato cannery in Caroline
county is working overtime, and the
pack this year will exceed by far the
estimate given out a month ago.
The T. A. Gillespie Company. of
Pittsburgh, contractors for the hydro
electric power dam and power house
being built in the Cheat river by the
Hydro-Electric Company, of West Vir-
ginia, a subsidiary of the American
Water Works and Guarantee Com
pany controlled by the Kuhns inter
ests, has filed a mechanics lien for
s244,70302 against the State line hold
ings of the company at Morgantown.
The Pittsburgh company claims that
work had to be suspended when the
receivers were appointed for the
Water Works Company, and that the
amount named is due on contracts
In August 122 marriage licenses
were issued by the court clerk to Ha-
gerstown, against IS issued in August.
1912 The increase is almost entirely
due to the great number of Pennsyl-
vania couples who object to the new
eugenics marriage law that recently
went into force in Pennsylvania.
Elkton. Arrangements are being
made to organize an Odd Fellows
lodge at Betterton. The various
lodges in Cecil and Kent counties
have selected that place to hold their
annual reunions during the month OF
July