Middletown transcript., 1914-01-17

| MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest GIeanings From Ml
Over the State.
BurkittsyilIe is to have a new school
building
J. C. Biehl, secretary of the Freder-
lex Y. n. G. A., has resigned.
The Maryland School for the Deaf
viii ask the legislature for an appro-
priation of $4,000.
Annapolis is to make an effort to
secure the proposed government
armor plate plant
The Law and Order League, to up
root vice at Salisbury, was organized in
the courthouse in that town.
Delegate Addison will introduce in
the legislature local option bin for
Prince Georges county.
Andrew Jackson Cummings, mem
ber of the House of Delegates from
Montgomery county, was married at
Rockville to Miss Zelph L. Confer, of
Washington.
James A. Franklin and his young
wife, circus girl, are in Elkton jail
on charge of arson. They were walk
ing from Savannah, Ca, to New York
when arrested.
At a meeting Of the Chesapeake
City Fire Department, William Queck
was elected chief; William Vaughan,
secretary, and H. w. Caldwell, treas
urer. for the ensuing year.
The Methodist Episcopal Church at
Summit Ridge, the Rev. Asbury Burke,
pastor, which replaces the one destroy
ed by fire some months ago, will be
dedicated on January 49,
The will of Charles Harvey Stanley,
former State Comptroller, who died
some weeks ago at Laural, was pro-
bated In the Orphans Court at Upper
Marlboro;
Samuel Gray, a merchant at Bay
view, while driving to Zion, was held
up by lone highwayman, and, at the
point of a revolver, handed over to the
robber his pocketbook containing 81.
Miss Sarah p Flowers, aged 20
years, died suddenly of heart trouble
at the home of her sister, Mrs. Samuel
Plummer, in Easton. She was sister
Of Matthew p and Willis Flowers,
prominent business men of Easton.
James F. Powers, founder Of Powers
Foundry Company, Elkton, and its
president since it was founded Is years
ago, has severed his connection with
the company, and will engage in other
business in Philadelphia.
The Legislative Committee of the
Maryland High School Association has !
drawn bill to be presented to the
General Assembly, which provides for
better pay for high school teachers |
throughou- this State.
DR.. ]. Duncan Spaeth, of Princeton
University, and a graduate Of Uni |
versity Of Pennsylvania, will deliver a
course of lectures in Frederick. His
subject will be Living Problems in
Shakespeare"
State Senator Samuel Emmert has
sold the buildings, land and machinery
Of the Roxbury Distilling Company on
private terms to Samuel Bratton &
Co., of Boston. Senator Emmert
bought the property last year at a
bankruptcy sale.
A movement has been started by
citizens of the eastern section of Mont
gomery county for the construction of
a State road from Olney to Laurel by
way Of Sandy Spring, Spencerville and
1t is understood that the
Legislature will be asked to provide
funds for the project.
Fire, which started in the fat Of
Fred McGee, over William H. Leonard
& Co.'s grocery, at Cambridge. destroy
ed the building. Besides the store and
McGee's fiat there was an apartment
occupied by Mrs. Nora Creighton. The
building was owned by Harvey Con-
way and was valued at $2,500, partly !
Insured. Leonard & Co.'s loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Miss Nellie M. Casey, the Washing
ton county health nurse, who is work
ing with the Kings Daughters to
alleviate the distress Of the poor,
stated that the number Of the unem-
ployed there continues to increase and
/ good many families are destitute.