Middletown transcript., 1916-10-07

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into her house on Wednesday night.
She fred through a window at the
burglar, who escaped.
The reassessment Of Washington
county property will begin Monday, Oc-
tober 9. The assessors recently ap-
pointed by the County Commissioners
have been ordered to appear on the
date and receive instructions.
John Anti has instituted suit at Ha-
gerstoWn against the Cumberland Val
ley Railroad Company for $4,000 dam
ages for personal injuries received one
year ago while working at the COM
panys ice house in Hagerstown. He
fell into a cavity in the layers Of ice
and was seriously hurt.
The Circuit Court has given the Ale
gany County Commissioners permis.
sion to borrow $4,000 for the use Of
the Road Directors Of the county, to
meet requirements on roads and
bridges, the fund at their command
having run low. The amount is to be
provided for in the next levy.
Henry Seward, who, it is alleged,
shot and killed Maud Dorsey, wife Of
Alexander Dorsey, at Liverpool, in the
southern part of Charles county, is be-
lieved to be hiding in the swamps along
the Mattawoman creek, near POmun~
key. The sheriff deputized large
posse to scour the woods and swamps.
but no trace Of Seward was found.
The Anne Arundel County Commis
sioners have appointed the tax as
SCISSORS for the several districts, in ac-
cordance with the edict Of the State
Tax Commission and the provisions Of
the general reassessment law passed
at the last session of the Legislature.
which was upheld by the Court OF
Appeals.
The Montgomery County Commls-
sioners have appointed ]. Hampton
Jones and William J. Umstead to re-
assess all real estate in the towns Of
Garrett Park and Kensington, respect
lively, as part Of the plan for a general
reassessment Of all real estate in the
State ordered by the State Tax Com
mission.
Sparks from a traction engine de-
stroyeA the barn Of Washington King
and the straw shed on the farm OF
John Dell, near Silver Run. All the
hay, straw, wagons and number OF
farming implements were burned. The
barn on the Dell farm was afire sew
eral times, but was saved by a bucket
brigade.
Arrangements are being made by
which st. Michaels, its business houses
and residences will be lighted by cleo
tricity furnished from the municipal
electric plant at Easton. The town OF
ROYAL Oak too probably will be lighted
with electricity furnished in Easton,
as we'll as private farmhouses on the
line which is to be built between Eas'
ton and st. Michaels.
An electric fire alarm system is to
be installed in Easton. There will be
boxes located in different sections OF
the town. The key to unlock the box
is already in the lock, but is inclosed
within a small housing with a glass
front. To open the box to send In the
alarm the glass must be broken and
switch thrown, which sends the alarm
to the engine house.
Mrs. George Keith, As. and her son,
Thomas Keith, II, near Point of Rocks.
were drowned in the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal at Point Of Rocks when the
mother plunged into the canal to save
the life Of the boy, who tumbled into
II fest Of water while intoxicated.
Two sisters Of the youth, Sadie Keith.
Il, and Ethel Keith, 10, stood on the
bank of the canal and saw their mother
and brother go to their deaths.
1t is reported that Indian Head soon
willhave two banks, branches OF the
Eastern Shore Trust Company and OF
the Southern Maryland Bank of La
Plata, Directors of the latter instltu-
tion met number Of citizens OF the
town recently and plans for establish
ing the branch were considered. The
payrolls Of the Naval Proving Ground
and the Naval Powder Factory are
nearly $1,000 week and there is no
banking facility within 15 miles.
Although no official record has been
kept, Mitchell Lingo, Of Trinity, claims
to have the champion egg-layer Of the
werld IA a 2-year-old hen. The hen
has laid in the same spot in the barn
all year, and Lingo declares, backed
by the rest of his family, that she laid
365 eggs last year. The hen Is a
Rhode Island Red and her eggs are so
different from those laid by the rest
Of the fowls that Lingo says he has no
trouble IN knowing that she did the
laying.
George FitteFy, Of Big Cove Tannery.
while hunting raccOOns with Wiltey
Mellott fell 80 feet from tree and
sustained. besides two fractured ribs.