Middletown transcript., 1915-11-20

MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
Latest Doings in Various Parts
of the State.
PREPAREDFORQUICKREADING
A Boosters Club has been organized
at Smithsburg with so members, men
and women.
The farm of the late John H. Rohrer.
Smithsburg, was sold for $500, or
$40 per acre.
The Archdeaconry of Cumberland
will meet in st. Johns Protestant
Episcopal Churcrh, Hagerstown, No
vember %, % and "a.
]. Forrest Gott has resigned as a
deputy in the Office of the Clerk of
the Circuit Court, Rockville, a posi-
ton held by him for IL years.
Mrs. Sarah Pierce, of Massey, has q
pumpkin which is probably the largest
grown on the Eastern Shore this year.
1t measures six feet, one inch in cir
cumference and weighs Ill pounds.
Found guilty of setting fire to the
barn of James Smith, near Pearl, sew
eral months ago, Sherman Orem, Is
years old, was sentenced to serve a
term of four years in the Maryland
Penitentiary.
Miss Florence Trail, president of the
Just Government League of Frederick
County, has been appointed delegate
to the National American Woman Suf'
frage Convention to be held in Wash
ington from December IA to 10.
Suit was filed at Hagerstown Satur-
day by the New York and Hagerstown
Metal Stamping Company against the
Pacific Coast Stamping Company for
$10,110 for materials furnished and
work done for the defendant, which is
a California corporation.
The fourth annual corn contest Of
Mount Airy High School, in which ALI
high school and public school boys and
girls of Frederick county are eligible,
will be held at Mount Airy on Novem-
Der "a. J. E. Meter, of the Maryland
Agricultural College, viii be the judge
The Court of Appeals, in an opinion
written by Chief Judge Boyd, upholds.
the sentence imposed upon Edward j.
Simond, who was convicted of con
spiracv to defraud by padding the
registration list of voters in the First
precinct of the Third district of Anne
Arundel county. Simond was SEN
fenced to one year in jail by the lower
court.
Lawrence, 6-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Laupert, Green's Addf-
ton, near Westernport, while playing
with a can that contains 10 pounds of
powder in the kitchen at his home
caused an explosion which did $1,000.
damage to the house and injured the
boy so badly that he may die. The,
lower floors Of the house were com
pletely wrecked.
The new Calvary Methodist Episco-
pal Church South, Ridgeley, was re-
opened for worship Sunday. The ser
mon was delivered by the Rev. G. D.
White, presiding elder of Roanoke dis
trict. The Rev. J. M. York, pastor of
Central Church, and the Rev. Harry
V. Wheeler, pastor of Trinity Church..
Cumberland, with their congregations,
attended the services, as did members
of Chosen Friends Lodge of Odd Eel,
lows.
The suit of the Merrill-Ruckgaber-
Company, of New York. contractors,
who built the Evitts Creek water sys--
tenn for Cumberland, for $4,000 alleged
20 have been due on contract, was de-
cided by Judge Henderson Saturday
in favor of the city. The Court ruled
that the contractors could not obtain
the balance until James H. Fuertes,
hesengineer in charge of the work for
the city, had examined and certified
The work.
A Home Directory has been started
by the Young Women's Christian As.
7ociation of Baltimore, 1O3 West
Franklin Street, which enables girls
and women to find through it suit
able boarding house, room or private
home in which to live, within the city
ar suburbs. The Directory is con-
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