The citizen., 1914-11-13
STATE NEWS.

bridge Tuesday on THE Life and
Work of Tennyson."
Frostburg-The Frostburg Civic
Club met last night at 1880 o'clock in
the town council chamber. Business
pertaining to the sale of Red Cross
stamps was discussed.
Mount Savage.-Big Savage and the
Allegheny Mountains west of Poca-
hontas are covered with snow several
inches deep. THE first heavy frost of
the season and ice formed here Tues
day morning.
Hagerstown-County Commission
ers Henry A Bester, Isaac Ankeney,
Jr., and John NJ. Middlekauff and
County Road Superintendent Ernest
R. Darby left Monday for Atlanta, Ca,
where they will attend the fourth an
nual American road congress.
Annapolis-The autumn meeting OF
the Archdeaconry of Annapolis was
held Tuesday at st. AIMS Protestant
Episcopal Church here. 1t began with
celebration of the holy communion
at A. NJ. at the parish church. The
business meeting followed at st.
AIMS Chapel, with a large attend
ance of delegates, clerical and lay.
Curtis Bay.-While Louis Kriel, So
years old, of Brooklyn, Anne Arundel
county, was boring hole in one of
the large acid tanks at the plant of
the Davision Chemical Company, Tues
day afternoon, the tank exploded, frag-
ments of the iron striking Kriel in
the face, knocking out several teeth
and breaking his jaw.
Hagerstown.-At a meeting of the
| Washington County United Brethren
Ministerial Association Monday after
noon at st. Paul's United Brethren
Church, Hagerstown, the following
officers were elected: The Rev. DR..
]. Young, president; the Rev. Gordon
l. Rider, vice-president, and the Rev.
Paul R. Koontz, secretary and treas
urer.
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Vanderbilt, Pa; James Lauhrey, coal
operator, Dawson, Pa, and H. c.
Barthlow, veteran hunters guide,
near Flintstone, this county, are in
the Allegany Hospital here, suffering
| from injuries received Monday night
when their automobile ran down an
embankment on the Baltimore turn
pike near this city and turned over
on them. DR.. Hazlett's collarbone
and four ribs were broken, and the
others were severely bruised.
Port Deposit-So far as is known
the Susquehanna River has never had
so much river bottom exposed as at
present Directly opposite the town
rocks unknown and uncharted had
their first known visit to sunshine.
North of town practically the whole
rugged bottom is bare of water, and is
a sight worth long journey. The
extremely small river flow, aided by
remarkably low tide, was respon-
sible for the unique spectacle.
The whole Susquehanna Valley has
gone dry. About the only visible
water is the impounded body at Nc
Calls Ferry. At Conowingo, the site
of the proposed second dam, with the
exception of a narrow stream, the
entire river bottom is dry.
Baltimore-A judging contest for
students of agricultural colleges
around Maryland, as a try-out for
the annual Morgantown contest, has
been arranged by Prof. Thomas B
Symons, secretary of the Maryland
State Horticultural Society," as a fea-
ture of Maryland week, beginning
mex Tuesday at the Fifth Regiment
Armory.
Princess Anne-Lewis N. White
craft, roads engineer for Somerset
county, rendered his resignation to
the Board of County Commissioners
to take effect December 81, 1914. Mr.
Whitecraft was appointed roads en-
gineer in July, 1907, and has held Of
flee ever since. Under his supervision
the roads throughout the county have
been very materially improved.
Havre de Grace-On writ of ha-
beas corpus Chief Judge Constable, OF
Elkton, has ordered the release from
the Maryland House of Correction OF
Arthur McGaw, this place, who was
sentenced to serve one year for car
rying a concealed weapon.
Williamsport-The United Breth-
rem church, which has undergone ex-
tensive improvements, was rededicat
ed Sunday morning by the Rev, DR..
W. H. Washinger. of Chambersburg,
] superintendent of the Pennsylvania
United Brethren Conference, assisted
by the pastor, the Rev. W. l.. Murray.
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