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Middletown transcript., 1915-06-05
HAS BROWN TRESSES AT 81
Kansas City Woman Is Growing New
crop-Her Eyesight ls Also
Renewed.

To reach one hundred years with
golden tresses is the achievement
which Mrs. Emily G. De Masters Of
Kansas City expects to accomplish
Mrs. De Masters, who is ninety -one
years old. has not discovered a new
tonic to preserve the natural color Of
her hair; she is growing new strands
of the golden brown color of the hair
of her youth, which turned gray years
ago
"By the time I am one hundred
years old" she says, 81 expect to have
as pretty hair as any girl"
Her grandfather. John Nelson, who
was one of the first settlers at Lex
ington, Mo-, 81 years ago, experienced
the same phenomenon of his hair re.
turning to its natural color in his old
age.
Twenty years ago Mrs. De Masters
received what she calls her second
eyesight Previous to that time she
had worn glasses for several years.
When the glasses began to hurt her
eyes she consulted an oculist, who ad.
vised her to discard them. Today she
sews and reads with the naked eye
New York Sun.
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of outstretched paws which line the
Pathways of Enjoyment.
was talking to Miff Patterson
about It, Milf invented a machine for
removing sunburn from pickles and
made a fortune.
He has 1t yet, all except two cents
he paid for postage stamp which
stuck to his pocketbook some nine
years ago. But he has the pocketbook
and he still can look at the stamp and
consider it an asset.
Milf is such a stingy loosener he
looks at you with one eye SO as not
to waste the other.
The boys call him Putty" because
he's the next thing to a pain.
II you ask him what time it is he
takes off four minutes as his commits
sion for telling you.
"Tipping!" said Miff; what do you
mean tipping?"
ITO give a bit of coin to a waiter
or those who do you a service"
explained.
Obi" said Milf; "Tve heard about
it, but l don't do 1t. l don't know
any waiter we'll enough to give him
money to take home to his wife. She
might meet me afterwards and thank
me for 1t and my wife might hear
about it-that's risky work"
But you can't get good service IN
the restaurants o. hotels unless you
DO bit of tipping. How do you man
age it?" I inquired.
Easy" Milf answered; 81 never &c
to the same hotel twice. begin al
the head of the list and go to then
all. BY the time get around to the
first one again all the old walters
have grown rich and have gone bacl
to Bulgaria, so I'm safe-that's my
system"
Maybe Hep is right. and maybe Mif
is right. For my part believe IL
moderation, betwixt and bechune.
What do you think?
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SEEING LIFE UiM
JOHN HENRY
SSh hWG GeO1qeV Hobart
E1N\@N9F9 John Henry On Tipping
John Henry On Tipping

However, as l was saying some time
ago, Peaches and dined with Hep and
he handed us a few lessons in the gen.
tie pastime of tipping, he surely did.
From the very moment we entered
the aristocratic beanery he began the
giving of aims.
The attendant at the revolving
doors imprisoned a nice old lady In
cell No. and kept her there, cut of
from communication with the world,
while he waited for Hep to dig in his
jeans for the customary quarter
A hall-boy, paging a missing hus-
band, stopped short as he saw our
party approaching, arranged his face
in imitation of a Spanish mackerel,
saluted Hep and received ten cents for
his trouble.
Battling Bill, the house detective,
loomed bulkily in our pathway and
without warning suddenly stopped
down to pick up a pin. Hep did a
hoodah over the tame Cops feet and
when they both came smilingly to the
surface Battling Bill clutched fifty
cent piece in his Westphalia and the
procession moved on.
Then from some dark recess or
niche in the wall something in brass
buttons and with whisk broom in
its hand darted out like a pickerel
and pointed the whisk broom at Hep
The latter pointed a quarter at the
something in brass buttons, where
upon the brass buttons and the whisk
broom and the quarter darted away
again, thereby bringing to conclu
sion the inc 'ent of the pickerel.
AS we approached the coat room
the girl in charge was seen to close
her eyes in prayer. She didn't open
them again until after Hep had ex
planned to her that II she spent the
money he gave her for new hat she
wouldn't have to give 1t to the in
come.tax gatherers. Whereupon she
was glad and showed her gum chew
ing instruments. Then she glanced
at the inside of my hat to see If II
was expensive and sighed deeply ai
we passed on.
At the door of the soup room We
we're met by Effendi Bey, the heat
waiter.
Hep whispered something to Ef
fendi but the Bey wasn't listening
He was looking at Hep's hand which
he knew must contain money 1t al
ways did. Hep gave Effendi a fasi
at Treasury note. With the swift
ness of thought the money changed
hands, whereupon Effendi Bey begal
to hum, In my harem-my dink!
little harem!" and turned US over II
Murad Pasha, one of his lieutenants.
Murad Pasha led us to a table ant
stood there-counting the spoons
until Hep could find another pocke
containing money.
Then Murad Pasha, clutching hi
share of the plunder. with many bow
and obeisances. faded out of our live
and Giovanni Handsandfetsi the ON
nibus, began to splash water into ou
glasses.
Hep got rid of Giovanni by stakin
him to enough money to enable hi
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-05
NET TIGHTENING
ABOUT PRZEMYSL
AustrO-German Forces Drawing
the Circle Closer.
CAPTURE SOME MORE FORTS
British Impression That the Move
ment Has Failed Now Believed
To Have Been Rather
Premature.

London.-In the fact of the Russian
claims that the Austro-German grip on
Przemysl had been broken, and that
the offensive in the great Galician
struggle had passed to the Russians.
came both German and Austrian Off
cial statements asserting that the Aus
tro-German troops have been success
full to the north and southeast of the
fortress, that the forts girdling it to
the north have fallen into their hands,
while to the southeast they have
wrested Stry from the Russians.
In fact, the Austro-Germans say that
the campaign is running in their favor
everywhere in the eastern zone, from
Libau in the north to the southern
most tip of the Galician battle line.
1t is apparent tnat the Russians,
since being forced back to the San,
have been rushing up heavy reinforce
ments in the hope of averting the fall
of Przemysl But the Austro-G Germans,
undeterred by stupendous losses, have
as yet shown little disposition to ac-
cept a purely defensive role, and the
British critics seem to have been a
bit premature in saying that the Ger
man thrust had definitely failed.
The Austrian report, after claiming
tnat all Russian attacks east of the
San and on the lower San were re-
pulsed, adds:
"On the north front of Przemysl
Bavarian troops stormed three de-
fenses of the girdle of forts, captur-
ing 1,400 prisoners and 28 heavy guns.
South of the Dniester the allied
troops penetrated the enemy's defen'
sive position, defeated the Russians
and conquered Stry, the enemy re-
treating toward the Dniester. We
captured SO officers and over 5000
prisoners, eight cannon and 15 ma
chine guns.
The Berlin official report says:
In front of Przemysl Bavarian
troops stormed Forts 10-A, liza and
12, west of Dunkowiczki, capturing the
remainder of a garrison of 1,400 men,
with IS heavy and FIVE light cannon.
| The Russians attempted to escape
their fate by an attack in masse
against our positions east of Jaroslau,
but failed, an enormous number of
dead covering the battlefield before
our front.
"The conquerors of Zwinin "a ridge
in the Carpathians)-the Prussian
! Guard, under command of the Ba-
var!an general, Count Bothmer -
stormed a strongly fortified place on
the Stry and broke through Russian
positions near and northwest of Stry.
Up to the present time we have cap
tured in this region SO officers. 9,182
men, eight cannon and Is machine
guns"
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course a climax, and Hep, believing
1t is all due to his knowledge of the
French language, swells up with pride
and begins to toss money into the air
Hep doesn't know it, bat while he's
spilling that Schenectady French all
over the tablecloth the waiter Is get
ting a stone bruise on his palate from
holding back his Partisan laughter.
Hep would wrinkle his map Win
anger il he heard me, but I've oeeh
present when he has blurted out some
Of his French idioms with the osslneu
accent, and it's a scream, notify you!
On one memorable occasion ne or
dered lamb chops and a baked potato
in French. The waiter bowed, SAID
"Oui, Msieu!" and brought him a
bowl Of vegetable soup and the morn
ing paper.
That's How good that lads French is
poor nut.
AS a matter of fact Hep knows ex-
actly nine ordinary French words, In
cluding incest pas and avec pialsir,
but he has memorized the name O'
every street in Paris.
So when Hep exhausts his nine or
dlnary words he begins to use up the
streets. He rushes, regardless OF speed
limits, all over the city of Paris ou'
to Vaugirard, over to the Batignolles
to Clichy, by rues and side streetf
to the eastern Boulevard Beaumar
chais and st. Denis, then across iots u
the western Boulevard des ltaliens
then into the high and off through tn'
Place de la Concorde, around corners
on one wheel into the Champs Elysee'
and on and on with the mutfier OH
It's Immense.
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A.p Would Pat His Head and Reward Him chesrtuIly.

little brother Angelo to get through
college, and thereafter for period of
ten or fifteen minutes Hep was per
mitted to breathe quietly through his
nose, and his pocketbook enjoyed a
much needed rest
Soon, however, another coughing
fit came on and his struggles for
breath we're pitiful.
One of Effendi Bey's lieutenants
made up to look like Ivan the Terri
BILE, rode up to our table to inquire II
a walter had taken our order Hen
told him no, but Ivan couldn't believe
it. Ivan was firm in his disbelief un'
til Hep gave him money, then he saw
the light and went joyously away from
there.
Presently a waiter arrived who in
some other incarnation must have
been a pirate on the Spanish Main.
He had a chin which was divided
against itself, and a forehead which
was retreating hurriedly ON the fourth
speed.
One LOOK at captain KIDD ana
knew that Hep's desire to die pooI
but popular would be realized.
All the time the Captain was taking
our order he was sizing us up ant
hoping in Portuguese that Hep's eye
sight wasn't good SO he could short
change him.
Finally the deadly Rover of the Sea,
decided to give us our food first anC
make us walk the plank afterwards
Then he bore away, SOU by sou'east
for the kitchen where he dropped an
chor and sharpened his boarding
irons.
In the meantime, while we awaiter
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GAY! did you ever make up your
- mind not to do any more tip
ping? And have you noticed how
quickly you're forced to take the make
up ONT
In a Big Town nowadays tipping
IL as necessary as a traffic cop. Only
BY the aid of one or both can you
make any progress or get anywhere.
And the battle cry in each case is
Hands up!"
It's 80 In this country today that be-
fore thoughtful man cushion-caroms
through the merry-go-round doors of a
swell hotel he has to leave his pocket
book on the sidewalk If he doesn't
want to lose it.
On the other side, across the Big
Pond, If a hotel employee does you a
little favor and you slip him tuppence
ha'penny or pfennig he will smile
back at you and be much obliged for
i've minutes.
But IN this country if you tip any
body with a couple of pennies the
chances are you'll wake up in the
nearest hospital and find a kind-heart-
ed but not very pictorial nurse lean
ing over you and whispering Keep
caltum, now, keep cool and callum!
The doctor says you will recover
everything except your watch if he
can find a small piece of the medulla
oblongata which was removed from the
northeastern part of your bean when
the bell-boy soaked you with the ice
pitcher!"
1t takes a brave man to save his
money these days.
Hep Hardy is one of those reckless
tip-tossers. He thinks that all silver
money should have a smooth surface
thereby making it easier to slip a coin
To a waiter.
He is what the laurajeans would
call pepper box of prodigality.
Hep hands out backsheesh like an
absent-minded farmer sowing grain.
Hep's trail through a Big Town
looks as though the cashier of a five
and ten cent store was walking to the
bank and had a hole in the canvas
bag.
When Hep starts out to pound 9
public road with his rowdy-cart all the
walters in every hash-foundry within
sound Of his siren fell fiat on theil
faces and yell, "HalleluJah! payday
Ii here again!"
Peaches and l dined with Hep al
the Saint Astorvilt Hotel night before
last. Hep likes to dine there because
the walters are French and when ht
tries to say Good EVENING"" in theil
native tongue he insults them so bit
terly he has to sprinkle the room will
tip-money in order to square himself
Hep loves to squeeze into Frencl
cafe, grab French menu card, and IL
confidential tone give an order hk'
this to the French waiter: "Avec Il
beaucoup pomme de terre. Donne
moi de reau chaude; ie vais me raser
Avec get move en- you!"
In a French hour and half tn
French waiter hurries, back with
culinary melodrama wherein eacl
swallow is a thrill and every neV
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-05

the return Of the Pirate King, our
friend Hep was busy tipping.
Every time he took a cigarette from
his case four eager walters would
dash forward with lighted matches
and Hep, desiring to show no partial
ity, would slip coin to each Of the
Mexican guerrillas.
One shark Of a waiter swan
around in the offing and every time
Hep's serviette dropped from his knees
to the floor the shark would retrieve
1t and as he came to the surface with
the serviette in his teeth Hep would
pat his head and reward him cheer
fully.
It was one continuous orgie of tip
ping until finally we left the Prunes
Palace with Captain Kidd gloating
over the pieces Of eight which Hep
had given him and singing to himself,
ooh, ho-a bottle of rum on a dead
mans chest!"
Hep insisted upon taking US homo
in taxi so that he could tip the
starter and the chauffeur.
We stopped in the drug store at
our home corner to mail some letters
and even there Hep found a weighing
machine and tipped the scales.
There are ginks like Hep in every
Big Town, going through the night
like cyclone through the sub-treas
ury, scattering pocket money right
and left like so much chaff simply be
cause they want to be looked upon
as High Class Sports.
And it's hard to follow their act
It's rough shedding for the Sensible
Lads who are willing to pay for serv
ices rendered but balk at the myriad
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NO HALT ON MAKING MUNITIONS.
AIlis-chaImers Warrant As Well As
Court Order Refused.

Observation-Disclosures Attorney w.
c. label refused to issue a warrant
sought by an attorney for General
Samuel Pearson, accusing officials of
the Allis-Chalmers Company of a
criminal conspiracy in connection with
the alleged manufacture of war muni-
tions for the Allies. In refusing the
application the District Attorney said
lie must obey the opinion of the court,
which rejected Pearson's plea for a
court order to prevent the company
from manufacturing and selling muni-
tions to the Allies.
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Suspected Of Cheating, Middles
Re-Examined.

Annapolis.-The entire membership
of the first and second classes at the
Naval Academy underwent a re-exam
ination in Spanish because of the
suspicious of the academy authorities
that the questions prepared for ties,
had been surreptitiously obtained and
made use of by some Of the midshipmen.
The suspicious of the officials were
aroused through indications that the
office of the head of the department
of languages, where the questions were
kept, had been robbed. This idea was
strengthened after the examination pa
pers were gone over by the professors
and showed that many backward Span
ish students had developed an unex
plainable familiarity with a subject
which in past months had been o
stumbling block to them.
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Electric installations In Roumanla.

rha petroleum World reminds com.
panies having interests in Roumania
that important new regulations gov
erning electric installations for power
and lighting in oil fields have been en-
acted in Roumania, and that all oil
properties in Roumania must comply
with them before May 2S. Oil engine
are RAPIDLY coming to the front for the
generation of electric current in the
oil fields.
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FOUL BALL FRACTURES SKULL.
seorekeeper Stays In Game, But Dies
After Getting Home.

Wilkes-Barre. PA glancing foul
ball struck Victor E, Craig, SO years
old. of West Pittston. in the head
while he was keeping score at game
of baseball between two Sunday-school
teams. He was knocked unconscious,
but was revived and continued mark.
ing the score of the game until it's
close, Soon after reaching home he
died from a fractured skull.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-05
MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS

The annual convention of the Mont
gomery County Federation of Womens
Clubs was held in the Presbyterian
Church at Takoma Park. Addresses
were delivered by Arthur w. Dunn, Of
the Bureau of Education, United
States Department of the Interior;
Miss Katherine Watkins, of Washing
ton, and others. The federation was
the guest of the Home Interest Club
of Takoma Park. Among the club
women present were: Mrs. Sanderson,
president of the Maryland Federation;
Mrs. Caldwell, president of the Vir-
ginia federation; Mrs. Ellis Logan,
president of the District of Columbia
Federation; Mrs. Court F. Wood,
president-elect of the District of Co
lumbia Federation; Mrs. E. ]. Harts-
horne, secretary of the Maryland Fed
eration Mrs. William E. Andrews, di-
reotor-general of the federation, and
others.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-05
CAN STOP WET PRESCRIPTIONS
Right To Revoke Physicians License
Upheld.

Jefferson City. Mo.-The right OF
the State Board of Health to revoke
the licenses of physicians who write
an undue number of liquor prescrip-
ions in dry" counties was sustained
BY the State Supreme Court
The case came from Columbia, Mo-,
where the State Board of Health re-
'oked the license of a physician for
years for alleged unprofessiond
onduct in writing numerous prescrip-
ions for whiskey.
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NEWSPAPER OFFICE DvNAmITED.
sapuIpa (okla.) Herald Had Fought
Lawless Element.

Sapulpa, Okla,-The building in
which the Sapulpa Herald is located
was wrecked by an explosion of dyna-
mite. Fire which spread rapidly was
coon checked. The Herald has been
waging a fight against lawless ele-
ments.
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EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA.
Sack Made Buildings TrembIe, But
No Damage Was Done.

Bakersfield, Cal-An earthquake of
brief duration shook buildings here.
So far as known no damage was done.
Reports from Fresno and other towns
said the shock was felt slightly, tut
that no damage had been caused.
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Inclusive of all ranks, $4,000 men
are serving in the Navy of the United
States of America.
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George A. Gilbert, retired shoe mer-
chant, was found dead in his bedroom
at his home in Frederick. He was in
the eighty-third year. For half cen
tury he was In business in Frederick.
Besides his widow he leaves two sons
and FIVE daughters.
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Fire destroyed William Selby't
clearinghouse, two miles north o.
Mount Airy.
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In Korea in 1912 the annual output
of precious metals was about $2,50O.
900. 1t is now valued at about $4
100000.
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Idaho established new high records
last year for it's production of silver
lead and zinc.
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Checks signed with an electric per
are said to be proof against forgery.
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Jerusalem has neither postmen, po-
licemen nor newspapers.
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Robbers blew open the safe in the
postofice at Forest Hill. Hartford coun
ty, and got away with $4,000.
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American pianos especially adapted
for tropical climates have been intro
duced into Ceylon. Ordinary pianos
cannot Withstand the damp and heat.
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1t is easier to criticize the bes
thing superbly than to do the smallesl
thing indifferently.
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Aspen wood is used almost exclu.
sively in making matches in Sweden
as it is easily cut and porous enough
to be readily impregnated with sulphur
or parafine.
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Energy emitted by radium has beer
utilized by a German scientist to drive
a tiny clock.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

California In 1914 produced $4,000,
900 gallons Of wine.
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Geranium oil is largely used in per
fumery. and is known as rose geran
ium, owing to the common practice Of
adding rose petals to the plants before
distillation.
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Over 10000 pounds of Turkish to
bacco, grown in Fresno county, Cal.
have been marketed. With a market
now guaranteed a muA larger acre
age is now planned there.
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A specially strengthened wheel,
carrying a four-inch pneumatic tire,
has been invented for aeroplanes, as
many ordinary wheels are destroyed
on landing.
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Coal ashes, soda and copal varnist
have been combined by German in
ventor into an artificial stone resem
bling marble.
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While fishing in the Chesapeake &
Ohio Canal, at Mountain Lock, Wash
ington county, James Leroy Summers,
twenty-four years old, and married,
was seized with an epileptic it, fell in
and drowned in two feet of water. His
body was seen in the canal Ave hours
afterward by his mother.
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An enterprising laundryman in Paris
uses a captive balloon to lift the
clothing which he washes highinto the
air to dry and bleach, uncontaminated
by dust of the city.
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The steamship Dorchester, bound to
Baltimore from Cambridge, Md, was
rammed by the fishing steamer J. A.
Palmer off Annapolis and was beached
near the mouth of the Magothy River
to prevent sinking. Her passengers,
forty-three in number, were taken off
by the Palmer and the steamer Vfr-
ginia. There were no casualties. The
Palmer was not seriously damaged.
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An increase in parasitical diseases
,mong poultry and game birds in Eng
and is attributed to the distribution
If dust through the air by automobiles.
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Showing every indication that he had
been struck and hurled to the hard
surface of the road by speeding auto,
which broke his back and neck, kill
ing him instantly, the body of John
Mckay, 20 years old, a brick and
stonemason, was found lying on the
concrete speedway on the National
Pike in front of the home Of William
Buckholtz, at LavaIe, by Horace G.
Evans, of Frostburg. Evans saw the
crumpled form of the man, stopped his
car and brought the body to the West
ern Maryland Hospital.
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The Uloyds of London have recently
issued form of insurance against ap-
pendicitis. The claims have become
50 numerous that they have found it
necessary to double their premiums.
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One hundred and nine months were
consumed in transporting letter a
distance of three and half miles in
the lower section of Cecil county. On
April 10, 1906, young lady in the first
county district left letter in the
Georgetown, Md, postofice addressed
to Jack Freeman, Cecilton, Md. Where
the missive has been resting these
last nine years is a mystery to the
postmasters of the two towns.
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Bishop John Gardner Murray, who
attended the convocation of the arch
deaconry of Cumberland at st.
Georges Church, Mount Savage, was
escorted to Homecoming by party of
Homecoming citizens, occupying 20
automobiles. In his early days Bish-
op Murray worked in the mines of this
region, and he is very popular through
out Georges Creek, hence the honor.
Bishop Murray conducted services in
st. Peters Church, Homecoming.