Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
MARYLAND news
IN SHORT ORDER
Latest DOings in Various Parts
of the State.
Observation-Disclosures
John L. Snyder, contractor and
builder, died at Hagerstown.

builder, died at Hagerstown.
William H. Withgott, formerly presi-
dent of the board of town commission
ers of Easton, is dead.
A meeting of the Montgomery Coun-
ty Pomona Grange was held with
Eureka Grange Thursday evening at
Chillun, on Riggs road.
Arthur Crippen, an employe Of G.
A. Thompson & Sons mill at Hurlock,
had one of his fingers badly mangled
when it came in contact with a saw
he was operating.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Beall left Laurel
to attend the California exposition.
Mrs. Beall is the delegate from the
Baltimore district to the Convention
of the Women's Foreign Missionary
Societies Of the United States.
Hog cholera is prevalent around
Williamsburg and number of farm
ers have lost several valuable pork
ers within the past few days. A state
bacteriologist has been in the vicinity
trying to stamp out the disease.
The three-day cooperative fair held
by the farmers of Fallstown closed
Saturday. The exhibits were of an
unusually good order and were viewed
by hundreds of both Baltimore and
Hartford county people. 1t has been
decided to hold the fair again next
year.
The large quarries at Guilford are
again in operation under the manage
ment of James M. Miller and Andrew
Kirkpatrick. These quarries were
shut down for about three years, dur
ing which time Messrs. Miller and
Kirkpatrick were engaged in the stone
business at Woodstock.
II the weather permits, the large
crop Of sweet potatoes in Caroline
county will be stored within the next
few days. The yield is much better
than was expected and the prices re-
main high. Thirty cents a basket is
being paid for good stock delivered
at the storage houses.
A peculiar wreck occurred on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Viewer
ton, when, by the breaking of an axle
of car on long freight train, two
cars "bucked" and were thrown from
the track and rolled down an embank-
ment into the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal. They were loaded with tin.
plate and steel bars.
The twenty-fifth annual convention
Of the Maryland State Christian En-
deavor Union, at Easton, adjourned
to meet next year at Middletown
Frederick county. Banners were
awarded for efficiency and work done
during the year by the different
unions. Newly elected officers were
installed by Rev. Edward w. Leech
of Baltimore.
John Eckinrode, farmer living al
Park Mills, this county, was fount
dead of gunshot wounds at his home
Sheriff John Conard, Jr., was notified
and DR.. Bernard o. Thomas and {
local magistrate were sent to the Eek
inrode house, and they decided tha
an inquest was necessary to de
termine whether Eckinrode committed
suicide or was murdered
Twenty-Five members of the Farm
Management Bureau Of the Unitet
States Department of Agriculture ar,
making farm survey of Fredericl
county with especial attention to tn,
business end of farming. This is tn,
second survey that has been made o
Frederick county within the last year
The first survey showed that the aver
age yield upon the investment of farm
lands was 81 per cent, and that tn
average Tenant makes nearly $1,000
year from his farm.
A wire fence probably saved tn,
occupants of the automobile driver
by D. S. Rector, proprietor of the Pop
Hotel, Hagerstown, from serious in
jury when the machine plunged owe
an embankment on the State Roa,
east of Boonsboro. The car had stor
ped at spring and Mr.. Rector an
another occupant got out Mr.. Recto
then cranked the machine, but be
fore he could get in the car starte
down the hill, plunged over an en-
bankment and struck a wire fence
which prevented it from landing O
the rocks at the bottom. The occl
pants were badly shaken up.
Col. Charles A. Little, commander {
the First Regiment, Maryland Nations
Guard, has issued an order transfe,
ring Major D. John Markey, of Free
erick, from the Third to the Firs
Battalion, which will comprise Con
panies A, Frederick; B, Hagerstown
G, Cumberland, and H, Westminste
The following officers constitute Majc
Markey's staff; First Lieutenant Wa
ter T. Crawford, battalion adjutant
Second Lieutenant Arthur T. Krel
quartermaster and commissary, an
Major Robert F. Barrick, battalio
sergeant.
Following his wife's suggestion I
. rest for a short time Abner D. Dot
of Jefferson, assembled the stairs {
his home to do so, but fell dead acros