Middletown transcript., 1915-05-01
MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
Latest DOings in Various Parts
of the State.
PREPAREDFORQUICKREADiNG

Following the efforts of the Cumber-
land Chamber of Commerce to finance
the Wellington Glass Works, which
closed some time ago, the plant re-
sumed Monday. The plant turns out
lighting shades of all kinds, and 1t is
said orders are on hand for 1000 bar
rels and prospects are good for In
definite work. The company has an
abundance of glassmaking sand on
hand. About so men are employed
regularly at the factory and the pay
roll is approximately $1,000 week.
Believed to have been, driven from
the mountains of Frederick county by
the fires that have ragged there recent
ly, a large bear, supposedly of the Gin
namon variety, was seen on the tarm
of M. Donaldson Knight, county road
superintendent, near Rockville. Mrs
Knight telephoned the information to
Rockville, and hunting party was
soon securing the country. The bears
tracks were found on the banks OF
Watts Branch.
The annual meeting of the Cecil
County Medical Society was held at
Elkton. The following officers were
elected: President, Dr. William d.
Cawley, Elkton; vice-president, DR..
Charles F. Miller, Zion; secretary and
treasurer, DR.. Howard Bratton, Elk
ton; delegate to the State convention
to be held in Baltimore, DR.. H. A. Cant
well, Charlestown; censors, DR.. Geo.
S. Dare and DR.. C. P. Carrico, Cherry
HILL,
The health officials of the Federal
and State governments who will con-
duct the sanitary survey in Anne
Arundel county have arranged to hold
public meeting in the House Of Dele
gates chamber at the State House on
the night of April 80. Several of the
health inspectors will address the
meeting and give the citizens COM
prehensive idea of what the sanitary
survey means to a community.
A plan is on foot among fishermen
of Frederick to form game and fish
protective association and to place
$4,000 young black bass in the
Monocacy river. A large pond con-
tiguous to the river will be made and
bass will be spawned and placed an
nually in the stream. The expense of
the undertaking is to be born by the
association, which will have a large
membership.
The residence and mercantile estab-
lishment of E. ]. Wilhoite at the
Branchville crossing of the City and
Suburban Railway, about three miles
from Hyattsville, were burned. The
occupants were aroused by a neighbor,
Mr.. Gayor, who saw smoke and flames
bursting from the house and store
The occupants barely had time to get
out of the house when it collapsed.
Two children of Angelo Morrelli, a
miner, were cremated at Listie, near
Meyersdale, in fire caused by an ex-
ploding lamp in one of the houses of
the Stauffer-Quemahoning Coal Com
pany. The flames communicated to
! powder and dynamite and an explo-
/ sion followed. The children were aged
years and months.
A forest fire burned for two days
over 400 acres of the lands of Fora
Brinsfeld, Alfred Brinsfeld, Luke
Hackett, Tilghman Hackett and Chas.
Hackett, near fredericksburg, and did
damage to the extent of $4,000. Fora
Brinsfield was the heaviest loser, his
loss reaching $4,000.
An effort will be made by the citi
zens of Capitol Heights, Prince
Georges county, to secure for 15-year
old Victor Osin an honor medal for
bravery in rescuing two little children
from a burning building at Capitol
Heights.
A tornado visited the vicinity of OaI
Grove and left much wreckage in itf
wake. Raymond Jones' farm, carriage
house and poultry house were wrecked
So terrific was the gale that it lifted
the building and foundation entire.
Mrs. Hester T. Pratt was seriously
injured by fall at her home on Eas
Main street, Elkton. Miss Florenct
Tinte received a broken wrist by fall
ing down a flight of steps at her home
Carroll c. Hopkins has purchased
the 1OO-acre Bechtel farm at Principle
: Cecil county. for $4,000.
Port Deposit had scare when tn
Tome mansion-house was discovere'
on fire. The local fire company eX
tinguished the flames. The loss i
= estimated at $4,000.
. Miss Mathilde Rees, daughter of tn
late Anthony Rees, has been appoints
assistant deputy collector of interna
: revenue at Cumberland.
Z ]. Madison Scott. aged 70, wa
stricken with paralysis at his hom
7 at Appleton and died several hour
later.