Middletown transcript., 1915-04-24

street superintendent of Hagerstown,
has rendered his resignation. Before
taking his position with the city Mr..
johnson was in the employ of the
Cumberland Valley Railroad. 1t is not
known whom the new Board of Street
Commissioners will appoint in his
place.
The Maryland Grand Lodge Knights
of Pythias closed its forty-seventh an
nual session at Crisfleld after one of
the most successful sessions in the
history of the order. 1t was the sec
ond time since the Grand Lodge was
instituted that 1t had met outside of
Baltimore, the previous occasion be-
ing in 1912, when the Cumberland
lodge was the host.
Clark Battenfeld, 80 years old, a
former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
freight conductor, committed suicide
by firing bullet into his brain at the
home of his brother, Charles Batten-
field, in Connellsville. He had been
ill for more than year, the result of
injuries to his head when struck by an
eXpress train on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad two years ago.
Temporarily deranged, due to a
nervous breakdown, Martin L. Hoover,
aged 72 years, a wealthy farmer and
fruit grower, committed suicide in the
attic of his house at Smithsburg by
hanging himself to a rafter. Mr..
Hoover, while his wife was preparing
breakfast went upstairs. When he
did not come to breakfast his wife
went to look for him and found him
hanging by a rope, his knees dangling
on the floor.
The memory of Bishop Pinkney, Of
Maryland, will be perpetuated by the
Episcopalians, among whom he lived
for more than 20 years, by the erec-
tion of a church and parish hall on the
property in Hyattsville recently pur-
chased by the vestry of St. Matthew's
parish. This parish includes old st.
Luke's Church in Bladensburg, of
which Bishop Pinkney was rector for
many years; Pinkney Memorial
Church, Hyattsville, and st. Johns
Church, Mount Rainier.
The Garrett county tax rate has
been fixed at $1,17. The increased
rate has been made necessary by ad-
ditional appropriations for public
schools and for building and main
tenance of new roads, besides provid-
ing $4,000 for a new assessment and
to meet the requirements of the state
tax laws. The elimination of $4,000
from the taxable basis of the county
by the recently enacted exemption law
is responsible to some degree for the
increased rate.
]. Darby Bowman, for II years a
deputy in the Office of the clerk of the
Circuit Court, at Rockville, and for
the last Ave years chief deputy has
rendered his resignation to Preston B.
Ray, clerk of the court, and the same
has been accepted. He will be sue
ceeded by Robert L. Warfield, of
Rockville. Mr.. Bowman is a candi-
date for the Democratic nomination for
clerk of the court, which will be made
at the primary election in September.
Mr.. Ray is also candidate, which ex-
plains why Mr.. Bowman resigned.
Boys Corn Club was organized at
Rising Sun by County Agricultural
Agent Marsh and l. w. Hill, of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture. The competitors are boys of
Cecil county between the ages of 10
and 18 years.
A meeting in the interest of State
and national prohibition will be held
in the Opera House at Havre de
Grace, Thursday, May 6, at P. M.
The chief speaker will be Hon. Nal
colin r. Paterson, former Governor Of
Tennessee.
DR.. S. C. Mitchell, president of Della.
wa1e College, mas accepted an invita-
tion to make the commencement ad'
dress this year at the George Biddle
High School at Cecilton.
The Union Manufacturing Company.
of Frederick, received notice that IL
has been awarded the contract to
furnish 100000 pairs of lightweight;
woolen stockings for the United States
Army. This is the second Govern
ment contract the local company has
received within a year, the other
which has just been completed. being
for 100000 pairs of stockings.