Middletown transcript., 1914-01-24

| field, while skating near Colora, nao
narrow escape when they broke
through the ice.
Mr.. l. George Tawes, Of Crisheld,
and Mrs. Sadie Florence Sterling, Of
/ the same place, were quietly married
at the Baptist parsonage by Rev. VIII
liam H Stewart.
While hunting, William, the 15-year-
old son of Mrs. T. J. Brown, of Fur
mace, near Elkton, accidentally shot
himself in the arm, inficting painful
injury.
Howard Middleton, IL years old, Of
Fairlee, while cunning met with seri-
Gus accident when his gun exploded,
inficting injuries that 1t is feared will
necessitate the amputation Of his arm.
William s. Evans, of Elkton. has
been chosen president Of the Cecil
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, sue
ceeding the late Joseph H. Steele, OF
Chesapeake City.
While playing with an air rife at
the home of his parents, in Delmar,
Alton, 12-year-old son of George Isaacs,
was painfully hurt as the result Of be-
ing shot through the left hand by a
lath nail he had placed in the rife.
The board Of directors of the Lynch
burg Interstate Fair Association elect
ed ]. w. Mckinney president and
Frank A. Lovelock secretary-treasurer.
Mr.. Lovelock is also president of the
Virginia Fair Circuit.
A committee Of citizens Of Cam
bridge has requested Rev. George w.
Wray, pastor Of Grace Methodist Epis-
copal Church South, to repeat the
series of sermons on the Ten Com
mandments which he preached last
winter.
Mrs. Bessie Jones took a four-ounce
dose Of ether and was found in her
room in a semi-conscious condition by
one Of the boarders, who heard her
cries. She was taken to the Washing
ton County Hospital. Mrs. Jones is
the wife Of Edward Jones, who went
West several months ago. She was a
Miss Stillwen before marriage.
At the annual meeting Of the Tri-
town Fire Company at Wssternport,
the following officers were chosen:
President, W. W. Davis; vice-president,
James Footen; captain, Charles L.
Davis; first lieutenant, Thomas Dolan;
second lieutenant, Thomas Kelley; SEQ
retary, Clary R. Dawson, and chief,
Benjamin L. Kalbaugh.
The new board Of trustees for the
Poor and Insane for Cecil county or
ganized by electing Edward W. Taylor
president and Thomas H. Warburton
secretary and treasurer. James Hart
meet was elected superintendent at the
almshouse, DR.. P. B. Housekeeper chief
physician, A. F. Cameron superintend-
ent at the insane asylum and DR.. w. T.
Morrison chief physician.
Bishop st. George Tucker, Of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese Of Kyto,
Japan, has been discharged from st.
Andrews Hospital, Lynchburg, where
he underwent an operation six months
ago. With his wife and child he has
been on furlough since early last sum-
mer. He is now the guest of his father,
Bishop Beverly D. Tucker, and will re-
turn to Japan about February 1.
The stockholders of the Sharptown
Marine Railway Company elected the
following directors: Albert w. Rob-
inson, Harvey F. Marvil, Curtis. E.
Davis and William E. Valient, Of
Laurel, Del, and Samuel ]. Cooper,
BENJAMIN P. GraYenor and Purnen T.
White, Benjamin P. Gravenor was
made president; Samuel T. Cooper,
vice-president, and Purnell T. White,
secretary and treasurer.
Several hundred delegates attended
the annual meeting of the Maryland
Circuit of the Ladies' Auxiliary Of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
in the Masonic Temple, Hagerstown,
the convention ending with large
dance and banquet at the Eagles Hall
by Hagerstown Lodge, No. 227. Dele
gates were present from Baltimore,
Cumberland and Frostburg, Md,
Martinsburg, Keyser and Ridgely, w.
va, and Washington.
William Payne, 81 years old, once
wealthy, who built the Payne block
of stores in Elkton during the eighties,
died at the Cecil County Almshouse,
where he had been an inmate for many
years. While searching through
Payne's effects, Superintendent Har-
nett, Of the almshouse, was surprised
to find a bank certificate for $1,000 de-
posited in an Elkton bank During the
years Payne has been at the county
institution he failed to draw out even
his interest money, which has nearly
doubled his deposit.
The municipal election of Western
port resulted in the election of Oliver
H. Bruce, ST., father Of Oliver H.
Bruce, Jr., member Of the House Of
Delegates, as recorder without oppo-
sition, and Charles Tonry and Harry
F. Smith as commissioners.
Mr.. Emerson C. Harrington, comp
troller Of the State Treasury, has an
nounced the quarterly distribution of
funds for educational purposes in