The citizen., 1914-10-16
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Latest Doings in Various Parts
of the State.
Observation-Disclosures

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The Elkton armory commission met
and awarded the contract for the new
$4,000 armory, which will be erected
on the old Elkton fair grounds.
The water of the SusquehannR
River II lower than at any time within
the recollection of the Oldest citizens
residing along the waterway.
James Lohr. aged rs. q prominent
retired building contractor, despond-
ent from Ill health, committed suicide
IN the attic Of his house at Clear
Springs by slashing arteries in his left
wrist and hanging himself.
Samuel H. Grimes, IS years old,
died Thursday in Wnliamsport. Sur
Viving are his widow and six children.
William Z. and J. B. H. Grimes and,
Misses Dorothea, Margaret R., Annie!
l.. and Ida X. Grimes. of Williamsport.,
william H. Miller, Of Waynesboro,
q conductor on the Chambersburg,,
Greencastle and Waynesboro Electric
Railway, who was crushed between
two cars at Chambersburg died Of his
injuries.
The Rev. DR.. Thomas E. Terry,
former pastor of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church at Elkton, and the old
est active member of this conference,
has amounted that he will retire at
the close of the present year.
De Witt Weitzel, who Is wanted IN
Belair on the charge of housebreaking,
and John J. Feldner, alias Otis Taylor,
who is also wanted by the authorities,
have both been arrested in Highland
town.
James Wells, one Of the oldest citi-
Eens Of Annapolis, died at the age of
"a years. He was the engineer Of the
locomotive of the first passenger train
that ever ran in and out Of Annapolis
on the old Annapolis and Elk Ridge
Railroad.
Mrs. Fredericka Sunderland, who for
many years conducted the Chesa-
peake House in Annapolis, died in a
Baltimore hospital, where she had
been taken for an operation. Mrs.
Sunderland was one of the wealthiest
persons in Anne Arundel county.
Frederick L. Letter, of the firm Of
Letter Bros, merchants, of Hagers-
town. and Miss Pauline Epley, of
Union Bridge, were married in Balti-
more at the First Lutheran Church
parsonage by the Rev. DR.. Ezra X.
Bell
Elmer Hahn. aged At, of Union
Bridge. was accidentally shot and kill
ed by his 11-year-old son, Elmer Hahn.
at the home of George Powell, at jim
town. The Hahn family were visiting
the Powell family The boy was hand
ling .32-ciliber repeating rife, when
1t was accidentally discharged.
For the first three months that the
Frederick County Commissioners have
been in charge of Montevue Hospital
a saving Of about SIT per capita has
been effected. For this quarter the
expenses were $5,422.31. The yearly
expenses are estimated at $22, 200,
against $4,000 the previous year.
The plant of the United States Rail
Company, Cumberland, after having
been closed for some time, has re-
sumed with full working force. more
than 100 men being employed. Pros
poets are good for steady work all
winter. This Is the second plant to
20 on full time In a week, the other
being the tin mill, which employs more
than 500 men.
The social season at the Naval
Academy was ushered In Friday after
noon when Mrs. William F. Fullam,
wife of the superintendent of the acad-
emy, gave the first of her series of
public receptions at her quarters, No.
/ Blake Row. Mrs. Fullam was "at
home" after o'clock and the recep-
tion was Of an informal character. She
was assisted by her daughters. Mrs.
Austin L. Sands and Miss Rhoda
Fullam
At the general registration of voters,
for which purpose the officers of regis