The citizen., 1914-05-01
MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.

Uver the state.
The State Roads Commission has
awarded contracts for building 1348
miles of concrete road in Cecil county
at cost of $158,S39.25. The contracts
were awarded as follows: For build
Ing 5.21 miles of road from Chesa-
peake City to Bohemia Bridge, to the
Carpenter Company, for $56.155.77;
6.05 miles of road from Bohemia
Bridge to Fredericktown, the Carpen-
ter Company, $62,S66.6S; 1927 miles of
road from North East to Charlestown,
McNerney Construction Company,
$39,S16.S0.
When the Kent County Circuit
| Court convened at Chestertown Philip
G. Wilmer was chosen foreman of the
Grand Jury. John, alias General"
Hamilton, a negro, was sentenced to
six months in the House of Correction
for stealing two chickens. George
months in the House of Correction for
stealing meat. and Jim Davis, negro,
was sentenced to 18 months in the
same institution for stealing furni-
ture.
The citizens of Charlestown have
engaged counsel to prevent the State
Road Commission from skipping their
town in building the macadam road
between Northeast and Perryville.
The route now laid out by the COM
mission is through a wood near the
town, which would make the route a
half-mile shorter.
It is estimated that the recent de-
cision of the Interstate Commerce
Commission refusing an increase of Is
cents per ton on stone hauled by the
Pennsylvania Railroad will save the
State of Maryland $15O,OOO on work it
has planned on the Eastern Shore.
The A. E. Tull Oyster Company, of
Delmar. has offered a reward of $500
for evidence leading to the conviction
of the party or parties guilty of set
ting fire to the concerns property on
Big Annamessex River on November
8, 1913.
The Rev. DR.. Charles Payson NAL
lery, who shortly after the close of
the Civil War accepted call to the
pastorate of the First Presbyterian
Church, Chesapeake City, has rounded
out so years of service in the min,
istry.
Fire, supposed to have originated
from defective flue, broke out in the
home Of Mrs. Rachael Ellis at Del.
mar, but was extinguished by the fire
department before much damage was
done.
Indications now point to one of the
largest crops of wheat and scarlet
clover ever harvested in vicinity of
Delmar. The heavy SHOWS during the
winter are said to have been the di-
rect cause of the good crop.
The teachers Of Caroline county
have presented Col. A. w. Sisk. the
retiring member of the county school
board, with a handsome mahogany
clock in recognition of the valuable
services he has rendered.
DR.. Eldridge E. Wolff, who recently
retired from the Office of exalted ruler
of Cambridge Lodge, B. P. o. Elks,
after having served two terms, was
presented with a handsome past ex-
| alted rulers emblem.
S. w. Zimmerman, Baltimore and
Ohio brakeman, of Somerset, was kill
ed Sunday night at Morgantown, w.
Va. He fell in front of a car that was
being switched.
Because Governor Goldsborough
signed the new municipal election law
it will be possible, for the first time
in three years, to hold a municipal
election at Elkton next month.
After an absence of four years,
Keeley Long, son of Deputy Sheriff
Isaac Long, returned to Hagerstown
His parents had almost given up hope
of ever seeing him again.
The horse of Charles Wilson was
shot and killed as Wilson was driving
through Piney Neck Sunday night
The wielder of the gun has not been
apprehended.