Middletown transcript., 1915-10-16

fortune of $4,000.
A Naval Academy cadet is being
theft.
Republicans Of Wicomico county
met at Salisbury and nominated Col.
Marion A. Humphreys for state sena-
tor and a full county ticket.
Commander Mutton, commandant of
midshipmen at the Naval Academy. in
q lecture on hazing, told the midship-
men of the first class they can eradi-
cate the practice.
Judge Stanford, Of the Wicomico
County Circuit Court, ordered the Elec-
tion Supervisors to place the name of
J. Clayton Kelly on the official ballot
as the Democratic nominee for clerk
of the Circuit Court.
States Attorney Tull, of Somerset
county has decided to call upon Attor-
ney General Poe for assistance in
handling the or more cases of oyster
men that will come up for trial at
Princess Anne on October 25.
For some time the Western Mary
land Railway Company has been en-
gagged in widening the cuts at the
curves between Pen-Mar and Buena
Vista Springs. 1t is reported that this
is being done preliminary to straight
ening the curves.
The manufacture of fishing lines
from wild-cocoon silk is carried on in
Osaka, the lines made by one of the
leading firms being marketed under
the trade name of Tegusu. Tegusu
lines are said to be invisible in the
water and, for this reason, to be es-
pecially adapted for taking game fish.
]. F. Hudson, representative Of the
United States Agricultural Department
for Baltimore county, reports that the
growing Of alfalfa is, to a large ex-
tent, displacing clover in the county
Mr.. Hudson says he has found farmers
who have not raised any clover for
five years.
Taking hold of an electric wire
which he thought was dead, Charles
Saltz, 40 years old, formerly of Balti-
more, suffered shock that killed him
in his store in Annapolis. Saltz was
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suffered heart attack simultaneously,
as the voltage of the wire is said not
to have been more than ITO volts.
The suburban residence of the late
Sigmund H. Weihenmayer, of Hagers-
town, who committed suicide last
summer by shooting himself, has been
purchased by w. Murray Bachtell, who
will make his home there. The price
paid is said to be $4,000. Mr.. Weih-
enmayer's widow and daughter will
move to Philadelphia.
Harvey Jack, 38 years old, brother
Of DR.. William Jack, of Port Deposit,
was crushed to death in a gravel
quarry near Woodlawn, when a over
hanging ledge of gravel and stone fell
upon him Jack was foreman of a
number of men who were getting
gravel for the county road, and was
the only one caught in the fall. His
skull was fractured and both legs
broken. Death was instantaneous.
William NJ. Wheaton, a wealthy mer
chant of Ottumwa, Iowa, Union vet
eran of the Civil War, who stopped in
Hagerstown upon his return from
Washington, where he attended the
Grand Army of the Republic reunion
met Mrs. Sarah e. Bowser. 8S years
old, who, So years ago, saved him and
five other Union soldiers from capture
by the Confederates by hiding them II
the cellar at her home.
Considerable surprise mingled witt
sincere regret was caused over the an
nouncement that Prof. Charles T
Wright had rendered his resignation
as secretary, treasurer and superin
tendent of the public schools of Har
ford county. Prof. C. Milton Wright
principal of the Aberdeen High School
was appointed to I'LL the vacancy
Prof. Wright has filled the Office fol
the past 13 years and is one Of thu
best-known and most successful edu
Gators in the state. He succeeded
Thomas c. Galbreath to the Office.
Two men, George S. Martz and hi
son, Leonard Martz. narrowly escape'
injury when a four-horse wagon, will
q load of more than five tons of sand
crashed through a wooden bridge an
fell to a small creek bed eight fee
beneath.
Jacob M. Hutzell, Boonsboro, cut
branch from a raspberry stalk grow
on the farm OF Hubert E. Young tina
measured 81 inches in length and COZ
tanned 40 large res2berries that ha
ripened after frost had visited this se'
ton.
A celebration OF the centennial al
niversary of Columbia Lodge {
Masons will be held in the Masoni
, Temple, Frederick, on November
The Grand Lodge officers of Maryland
including Most Worshipful Grand Ma
, ter Thomas ]. Shryock, Of Baltimor