Middletown transcript., 1914-12-26

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Shortly before noon Thursday the
public school situated between Cecil
ton and Earleville caught FIRE and was
destroyed. The pupils marched out in
good order and no one was injured.
At the Niandal meeting of the stock
, holders The Scott Fertilizer Com
: pany, )of ton, Frank R. Scott was
reelected. sident; William H. Mack
all, viee-p dent; De Laneey Scott,
secretary treasurer.
After 22YJ ars' service as assistant
and chief Oft the Good win Fire Com.
pany, OF Centreville, Frank H. Phillips
las resigned, his resignation to take
effect upon the election Of his success
sor. Edward B. Emory of B.. Prof.
John T. BruehI and Daniel G. Con
molly, present first assistant chief are
candidates to succeed him.
Mrs. Caroline Robinson has fled
SUIT at Hager own for $4,000 against
the Hagersto and Frederick Elec-
trio Railway d mpany for injuries sus-
tanned by fall < from a street Gar in
that city on Cd pber II. While board
ing the car W her young daughter
she was throw and sustained a frac-
tured fimb and other injuries.
At q meeting Of the stockholders Of
the Washington and Berkeley Bridge
Company at Williamsport it was de-
cided I'd take an appeal from the de-
clsion o(gJu6Ge Dayton, Of the United
states strict Court, in the matter of
The suit lof the Pennsylvania Steel
Gomrqnyt or $SO,0bO against the bridge
company. 10 the United States Circuit
Court Of appeals, at Richmond.
David Travers, a farmer, who lived
between E,EeralsbGrg and seaford,
met horritI lie death when his home
was burned. he beir n caught in the
fiaTnes and burned to death. His
chayred body was talSi from the ruins
by les Dos. no arrived too late to
save or his home, which was de-
stroy' together with all household
effects rravers lived alone.
JohI lamberlain, Civil War vet
eran, lived alone between Fed
eralsbuI nd Seaford, was burned to
death. flames were discovered by
neighhoi ho arrived too late to save
Chamber The neighbors extin-
guisheId aze before the house war
destroy yed. but " |ev- thSy took the vet
eran frona his b he had been burned
so badly that de lath resulted. He had
a wife living in Boston, from whom he
had been separated.
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Fire destroyed the handsome resi-
dence OF DR.. p. E. Stigers, at Hancock,
together with its furnishings and all
OF DR.. Stigers' medical instruments
and books. entailing 8. loss, of about
$4,000. The Monterey. Hottl, which
was separated from tha Stig@rs' home
by an alley, was damaAed to the ex-
tent Of about $4,000. q NStigers and
Frank Dodson were ling the
house, and Mr.. Dodson tened DR.. |
Stige1n,-aI;i1 - ought ascertain !
the Il re, en- o rapidly I
did Il d tha pey were
unabl their ooms to |
dress from le build |
ing in Clothes,
The nth disc e was
found OF 21 cat on the |
farm of alter, nea Middle !
burg. " unity, not from /
the Pen e. Show Ter re-
ported ID aUth0fities thSt Vome Of
his cattle we're ailing DEAR. V.
Smith. a government inspector, ind DR..
c. E. Poe. local inspector, after ex-
amining the cattle annoSGed that
nearly all OF the herd wereN hfected.
The authorities thought the disease
had been stamped out in Washington
county and arrangements were being
made to lift the quarantine. The au-
thorities row say that the quarantine
will have to be enforced indefinitely.
Joshua Clayton, Oprdsenting James
Alfred Pearce, the k5rmer chief judge
Of Elkton circuit, presented the court
with a handsome oil portrait Of Judge
Pearce, which was accepted and hung
TN the courtroom wall.
Under the direction of the Western