Middletown transcript., 1916-10-28
maryland NEWS
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LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS

LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS
G. Edgar Williamson. postmaster o
Preston, is dead.
G. Edgar Williamson, cashier Of thu
Provident Savings Bank, of Preston
as dead.
Peggy Stewart Day was celebrated
with patriotic exercises in the old Sen
ate Chamber, Annapolis.
The annual exhibit of the Home
Economics Club of Kent County, viii
be held Saturday, October 2S, a
Galena.
The Commissioners for Cecil Coun
ty have asked for bids to complete
the road from Bell Hill Corner to the
Pennsylvania line in the Elkton dis
trict.
The new registration in Kent coun
ty put 4,240 voters on the poll books
2,7s3 whites and 1,457 negroes, a de
crease Of 155 whites and 1S cOlOred
from the last registration.
Mrs. Conrad Lapp, aged 76 years.
of Frostburg, who had been Ill with
lOckjaw for several weeks, has fully
recovered and is able. to be about. In
view Of her advanced age her recovery
is considered remarkable.
Mrs. Elizabeth Key Armstrong, Of
Hagerstown, widow Of Alexander Arm
strong, died of acute dilation of the
heart at Atlantic City, where she had
been staying for the last six weeks
for her health.
The registration figures of Ale
gany county for 1916 have been tabu-
lated by James A. Young, clerk of the
Election Supervisors, showing total
Of 14,12S voters, gain of 776 over
1915.
Cumberland Valley Railroad tele-
graph operators have just been noti-
fed Of an increase in salaries Of about
IL per cent. The new minimum
monthly salary will be $65, maximum,
s11O.
George A. Davis, 63 years old, of Ha-
gerstown, for many years active in
politics, died at the State SanatO-
rum, Frederick county, where he had
been taking treatment for several
weeks. For nearly three years he was
assistant secretary Of the United
States Senate.
The automobile Of Percy Satchell,
who had stopped at Howard Towers
store in Easton and filed his gasoline
tank before starting for home, caught
fire and the tank exploded, blowing
the automobile to pieces. Those near
by ran from the burning machine in
time to escape injury.
Adolphus H. Harrington, former
postmaster of Frederick and census
supervisor of the Sixth Congressional
district, aged 81 years, died as the re-
suit Of paralytic stroke. He had
been i'll for nearly year. Fer more
than a quarter of a century Mr.. Har-
rington was one Of the leading whole
sale merchants Of Frederick.
Daniel Raley, 81 years old, of
Bloomington, died at the hospital in
Cumberland as a result of hiccoughs,
which began last Friday and rendered
him unconscious Monday evening. He
was brought to the hospital Wednes-
day and remained unconscious until
he died. He was a well-known base
ball player,
Miss Nell Richardson, daughter Of
Hugh S. Richardson, returned to her
home in Hagerstown after a $4,000
mile tour with Mrs. Burke, a woman
suffrage leader of New York, through
the United States in an automobile.
They visited many cities and towns
and made speeches in the interest Of
woman's suffrage.
Fire in Cambridge destroyed the
Cambridge Auditorium, Strauss, Else
man & Co.'s shirt factory, w. L.
Deans livery stable and Mrs. Daniel
Harvel's boarding house. The blaze
began in the auditorium, which was
formerly a skating rank, supposedly
starting from the furnace. The fire
came up between the double floors so
quickly that member of the Co
lumbia Stock Company, which was
preparing to fill a weeks engagement,
had a narrow escape with his life.
Kent county farmers are awakening
to the Importance of the milk busi-
ness under the leadership Of L. L.
Burrell, farm demOnstrator. They
are organizing and putting the busi-
ness on a paying basis. A local
branch of the Milk Producers Asso-
citation was formed at Chestertown
with about 40 farmers present, Will
liam G. Smyth was elected president;
C. L. FARRELL, secretary; Harry
Nichols, treasurer, and Earle Nichol-
son, representative on the executive |
board of the county.
Slams rosewood forests have been
heavily over-exploited. The govern