Middletown transcript., 1915-02-13
MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest GIeanings From All
Over the State.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS

TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
The second step in the division of
the estate of Gen. William McKenney,
consisting of 1877 acres of farming
land, Is pieces of town property and
165 shares OF national bank stock, has
been taken. The Circuit Court has
named, in accordance with the provi-
sions Of the will, William McKenney as
truste for himself and his sisters, Miss
Marie McKenney, Mrs. Mamie Nc
Kenney Jacobs and Mrs. Robert f.
Gibson, and VIM. L. Holton as trustee
for Mrs. Holton, his wife, and the chill.
dren of Mrs. Ella McKenney Mitchell.
The administrators of the estate,
Messrs. McKenney and Holton and
Clayton Wright, will give the court the
names of 10 or dozen landed pro
prietors of Queen Anne's county, from
whom the judges will select the FIVE
commissioners to apportion the estate.
Every one of the so farms will be sur
veyed and plated for the guidance of
the commissioners. The wheat crop
on the McKenney farms last year ag-
gregated $4,000 bushels, which has
been sold at an average of $1.1O
bushel. Six thousand bushels were
sold this week for $1.50 a bushel.
All of the debates between the high
schools of Caroline county will be held
this year on March 5. A new plan has
been adopted this year, and each
school, instead of having two debaters'
as formerly, is to have four-two on
each side of the question: Resolved
That the United States government
should own and control the railroads.
The affirmative debaters Of the Fed
eralsburg High School, who will meet
the negative debaters of the Denton
High School, are: Madeline Hurlock
and Emma Motz The negative de-
baters, Lloyd Turner and George Horn
will meet the affirmative debaters OF
Preston High School. The senior class
of the fredericksburg High School has
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, Madeline Hurlock; vice presi-
dent, Susan Quindort; secretary, Ivah
| Covey; treasurer, Iva Griffith.
William Brown. of Hyndman,
cousin of Prof. John ]. Upton, Of Cum
berland, and watchman for the Baltl-
more and Ohio Railroad at Bracins
| Curve, four miles above Hyndman,
was struck by passenger train No. g.
and instantly killed. A freight crew
was instructed by the telegraphers tc
look out for a man that had been
struck at that point, and when the
brakeman of the crew picked up the
body he found It was that OF his
brOther-in-law.
The First Presbyterian Church al
Midland, the cornerstone Of which was
laid on October Is last, was opened
Sunday with the pastor, Rev. Stanley
Fl. Jewell, Of Barton, in charge. The
men Of the congregation did all the
excavating for the basement and foun
dations. Rev H. L. Ernest and th'
choir of the Homecoming Presbyterian
Church assisted.
Alta meeting of the Ellicott City Vol
.. unteer Fire Association, held Frida!
y night. the following were elected
Fire chief, William F. Kirkwood; flrs
assistant, Richard Talbot; second as
sistant. c. Henry Shifferer; hose fore
| ladder fore
man, Charles H. Beutefisch.
The Havre de Grace improvement
Association has organized by electin
7 w. O'Neill president. P. L. Hoppe
secretary and treasurer and Murra
vandiver, E. A. Zeitler, A. P. McComat
p. L. Hopper, S. ]. Senica and J. "
Foster members Of the executive con
mittee.
After a great deal OF contention tn
Hagerstown City Council has autho
ized Mayor ]. Mcpherson Scott to sig
a contract for the purchase OF Sci
graves motor tractor, costing 1881
for the Independent Junior Fire Con
pany.
The Trumpet a paper published b
monthly by the Washington Count
Male and Female High Schools, ha
made its appearance. The motto
the. paper is: Throw away your har
mer: buy trumpet"
The large barn of Milton Mende
hall. near Mendenhall, was destroye
by fire. Forty tons of hay, 700 bushe
Of corn and all the farming implemen
were burned. 1t was partly insured
Johnathan ,Wrlghtson Butler, mel
ber of an old family of Queen Anne
county, died in Jersey City, on Il
SSth anniversary of his birth.
: The engineers of the Hickman-B'
! lock Oil Company, in Knatz's meado'
. lust opposite the offices of the George
r Creek Coal Mining Company, Lon
g coming, Saturday began to drill for
!. or gas in the presence of the ofiicia
t of the company and many spectators
. The Fallston Farmers Club met
Q the 5home of Leonard Foard and orga