The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-07-24

acres. Inc prlCe was 5000.
A call has been issued for a prohi-
bitiOn State convention to be held at
Wildwood Park, Mount Airy, August
II, when a State ticket will be nomi-
mated
Miss Rosamond Starr, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. William J. Starr, has re
turned to her home, Hope House, in
Miles river neck, near Easton. after
having completed a most interesting
tour of the worlds circle.
Governor Phillips Lee Goldsborough
and Adi.-Gen. Charles F. Macklin have
accepted an invitation to be present
at the laying of the cornerstone of
Company AS new armory on August
Is at Frederick
Farmers in Talbot county are nearly
all done thrashing out their wheat.
While a number of farmers received
from 20 to rs bushels per acre. yet the
average crop throughout the county
will be from IS to 16 bushels per acre.
There is quite heavy straw crop.
The Sudlersyille Bank of Maryland,
of Sudlersville, Queen Anne's county.
will have new bank building in the
near future. The directors are pre-
pairing to spend about $4,000 for the
purpose. A new postOfIice building
has just been erected in Sudlersville.
Roland T. Anderson, for the past 10
years station agent at fredericksburg,
has been transferred to Dover, Del,
and will take charge of that office Au-
gust l. He will be succeeded here by
w. A. Wheatley, now station agent at
Blacks, on the Chestertown branch.
The foundation of the Peoples Ma
tional Bank, Liberty, has been com
pleted and the building is expected to
be ready for business by September.
1t will cost $4,000 and will be of red
pressed brick, with Indian limestone
trimmings
1t is reported that the mansion house
and grounds of the late Admiral Dahl
gren, located on top of South Noun
tain, near BOonsboro, have been sold
to a syndicate of business men of Ha-
gestown, whose names have not been
disclosed. The estate contains about
200 acres.
John c. G. Creel, 10 years old. a
native Of Culpeper, died Thursday at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. H.
Steinman, Washington. Pa. He served
IN Company I, Fifteenth West Virginia
Infantry, in the Civil War. Interment
will be made at COnnellsville, Pa.
Kirkland Grove Baptist Camp, stu
ated about two miles from Heathsv:lle,
will begin its annual meeting August
Is, to continue ten days. Rev.
A. ]. Reamy will have charge of the
meeting and DIR. Furman H. Martin, of
Charlottesville, will be the principal
preacher.
Through the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' Association ARRANGEMENTS
are being made for the taking over of
abe Eastern glass works of F. Mertens
Sons by Cumberland company head
ed by s. Bremen, practical glassblow-
er, superintendent of a plant at Shin
glehouse, Pa. The plant has been
manufacturing prescription ware and
beer and whisky bottles, and glass
jars will be added
Robert Tzzet, As years old, owner of
the Black Diamond mine, was badly
hurt in the explosion of a keg of pow
der in the cellar at his home in Iona
coming. He had gone into the cellar
to look after water pipes. A 5Opound
can CT powder was ignited supposedly
by fire from his pipe. The explosion
badly damaged the house Izzet was
found with his hair burned off and
severe burns on his face and chest.
The jury in the suit of T. Jackson
Willis, Of Fair Hill, Cecil county.
against the County Commissioners of
Cecil county, rendered a verdict for
the plaintiff, assessing the damages at
$S,21S
Wholesale arrests have been made
along the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal Of non-residents for fishing in
the canal without State license.
About so fishermen have been fined.
the total fines aggregating nearly
$4,000 Most of the offenders were
from Philadelphia
John Loar, 14-year-old son of Mrs.
Catherine Loar, of Allegheny Mines,
accidentally shot himself through the
right breast Thursday while playing
with ,92-calibre rife under a window
where his older brother Frank was
lying critically i'll with typhoid fever
Little hope is entertained for the boys
recovery.
The receipts Of the Frederick post
office for the year just ended were
s36,47457, gain of $1,7S815 over last
year, when the receipts aggregated
$346S642.