Middletown transcript., 1916-12-16

cipal at the Elkton Academy, died in
Philadelphia, after a short illness. He
was sixty-fve years old.
Calvin H. Mountain shot and killed
himself Monday while hunting neal
Grantsville, Garrett county. He was
climbing a steep bank when he slipped
and fell, discharging his gun.
Samuel T. Arbuckle, a well-to-do
farmer of the Fourth Cecil county dis
trict. dropped dead at his home al
Andora of heart disease, aged 70 years
A widow survives him.
Walter Truitt, eighteen years old, OF
ChestertOwn, while riding his motor
cycle near Galena, was run down by
an automobile, sustaining broken leg
and other injuries.
Charles W. Shippers, former County
Commissioner for Cecil county, and a
wealthy citizen of North East, died
after several weeks illness of paralysis
He was rs years old.
The State Tax Commission has an
nounced the appointment of Perrie E.
Waters, of Germantown, as supervisor
of assessments for Montgomery coun-
ty to succeed E. Lloyd Fawcett, who
resigned. Mr.. Waters has announced
that he will retain George P. Fields,
of Rockville, as assistant.
John Black, president of the Mary
land State Grange, said that the
Grange did not go on record in favor
of single taxation, as reported in a
dispatch from Easton. Mr.. Black said
the Grange merely discussed the ques-
ton of single taxation, and referred
the matter to the local oranges for in
dividual approval or disapproval.
Philip Sidney Ricards died at his
home in Cambridge. Mr. Ricards
formerly lived in Baltimore. He leaves
his widow, who was Miss Virginia
Staplefort; a sister (Mrs. Irving Buck,
of Front Royal, Va.) and brother,
who is serving in the English Army.
He will be inferred in Loudon Park
Cemetery, Baltimore.
A number of articles stolen from
homes in Hagerstown in the so rob-
berries that were committed in several
weeks were recovered by States At
torney Omer Kaylor, Sheriff Isaac S.
Long, Chief of Police George w. Fri
dinger and Deputy Sheriff Long from
the house in Harrisburg, Pa, occupied
by Lewis Faust, who is under arrest
there.
o. L. Byrd, general manager Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
Salisbury, while riding a motorcycle
had a head-on collision with Joseph
Chatam, who was driving an auto. Mr..
Byrd was thrown from his motorcycle
and received bad decorations Of the
head and bruises of the body. He was
rushed to the Peninsula General Hos
pital where his condition is serious.
It is a long time before May 1, 1918,
when the "dry" law goes into effect
at Havre de Grace, but the "wets" of
that town are already considering an
appeal to the courts to test the valid
ity of the election by which the town
was voted "dry," and also to determine
whether as a result of the election
there is an impairment of contract
between the towns authorities and the
holders of local Improvement bonds
amounting to about $4,000.
The Hagerstown Board of Trade, at
a meeting, considered a proposition
looking to the erection of large audi
torium in Hagerstown for the use o.
conventions, concerts and functions Of
a similar nature. The plans include
the formation of a stock company, the
funds for the erection of the hall to be
raised by popular subscription. 1t Is
thought a suitable building could be
erected for $4,000.
The Maryland Coal Company will be
the first operator in the Georges
Creek region to erect clubhouse for
the use of employees. Plans have been
completed and are on exhibition at
Homecoming, where the establishment
will be located. It will be known as
the Engineers Club, and will be two
stories in height, with large porches.
II will include gymnasium and dance
floor, also smoking and reading rooms
and showers and lockers. There will
be retiring rooms for men and women
and quarters for the steward. The
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Com
many maintains a club for its employees
at Luke.
The large bank barn and hOg-pen on
the farm of N. J. Roger, near New
Windsor, were burned. Eleven head OF
registered cows, two horses, hay straw,
fodder and wheat also were destroyed.
The house and wagonshed were saved
by the high wind, which blew the
sharks in an opposite direction. The
fire was caused, the owner says, by
negro boy, who dropped lighted
match into some hay in the entrance
to the barn. He afterward tried to ex-
tinguish the blaze with his feet, but it
got beyond his control The loss Will
amount to $4,000.