Middletown transcript., 1915-10-23

De Mott, Fred L. Williams and Ernest
E. Wright.
Surveyor-Joseph E. Payne.
Mary, the 4-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Schauber, of Chester
town, was burned to death while play
ing with matches. Her mother was
sick in an upstairs room, the father
was at the barn and the 9-year-old sis
ter, with whom the child was playing,
had gone to wait on her mother when
the accident occurred Mary got hold
of a few matches and, going outside
the kitchen, accidentally set fire to
her clothing. She was unconscious
when found.
Frederick Butler and Misses Ruth
Butler, Roselle Fisher, Pauline John
son and Mabel Wilson were shocked
and bruised three miles east of Cum
berland when their automobile struck
COW, turned over and pinned Mr..
Butler and his sister beneath it. The
machine was badly damaged and the
members of the party were brought to
their homes in another automobile.
They were returning from the Hagers-
town Fair
e. S, Clifton deposited $25000 in a
Cumberland bank about Is years ago,
and shortly afterwards left for parts
unknown. Although t he bank has
made inquiry, Clifton has not since
been heard from. The money has ac-
cumulated interest and now amounts
to $4,000. A relative of the depositor
said that an investigation would be
made as to the rightful owner of the
money, in the event the depositor can
not be located.
Twelve thousand people attended
the last day of the Hagerstown Inter
state Fair, The fair association ex-
poets to make a handsome profit out
Of the exhibition, which will offset the
loss of last years fair. The receipts
at the gates and grandstand the day
before were $12,328.15, compared with
$4,700 on the corresponding day of the
fair last year.
The total number OF registered
voters in Carroll county is 1894, ac-
cording to the figures given out by the
Board of Supervisors of Elections The
affiliated vote is as follows: Dem
ocrats, 4,462; Republicans, 1885; Pro
hibition, 81; Progressive, Independents
and declined" $50. There are 1926
white and 458 colored voters.
Robert Hill, of Midland, en- route to
the Hagerstown Fair, was killed on
the Funkstown Pike in an automobile
accident. DR.. ]. C. Holdsworth was
driving the car. In turning out of the
road to allow another car to pass the
automobile skidded on wet grass,
turned turtle and went over a small
embankment.
]. Earl Cromer, Hagerstown, is dead,
and his wife and two-year-old son,
Donald, are in the Hagerstown Hos
pital in a critical condition, as the re
suit of the motorcycle they were riding
colliding head-on with the automobile
of Jonathan Jenkins, of Frostburg, on
the State Road near Huyetts Cross
roads.
The body of John Creswell. of
Perryville, who has been missing for
five days, was found in Chesapeake
Bay, near Spesutia Island. Creswell
was last seen on the Havre de Grace
Perryville Bridge and it is thought he
jumped overheard. He leaves a widow
and five children.
The Rev. Philip H. r. Mullen, Free
port, ILL.,, native of Washington coun-
ty, has accepted call to the pastorate
of the Lutheran Church at Swissdale.
a suburb of Pittsburgh He is a
brother of the Rev. Albert o. Mullen,
Spring Grove, Pa, formerly chaplain
of the Maryland Penitentiary.
Professor Show, of the Maryland
Agricultural College, Saturday gave a
demonstration of grading and packing
apples before large number of fruit
growers at Hoffman Bros Lake Villa
Farm, Pondsville.
Walter Morningstar, 80 years old
Washington, was struck by an extra
Baltimore and Ohio eastbound. engine
at Doe Gully and had both hands
mashed besides sustaining ugly cuts
about the head.
The Circuit Court of Montgomery
county dismissed the mandamus petf
ton of ]. Furr White, who sought to
replace Philip D. Laird on the Demo-
cratic ticket as candidate for the
House of Delegates.
Farmers throughout the Salisbury
section state that the corn crop will
be very short this season on account
of the heavy storms during August,
which cut the fodder into shreds and
stunted the corn growths.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Vanderbilt Hotel in New York
, has hired a girl as taxi starter. The