Middletown transcript., 1916-06-24

way. One large tree Iodged against
another. When the two came down
they struck a third which pinned down
Crawford.
In three months the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad has taken on nearly 400
men in the motive power department
at the South Cumberland shops. Busi-
ness has expanded to such an extent
that the need of the new erecting shop
is imperative and it is expected it will
be in full service with the new ma
chine shop by September 1.
Clarence Hines, % years old and
married, was injured, perhaps fatally,
when a shotgun he had loaded to shoot
sparrows was accidentally discharged
at the home of his fatherin-law, Albert
Shilling, FuukstowTf. Hines placed the
gun on a chair and had walked away
a few feet when it fell and exploded.
Commencement exercises of the
Caroline High School were held at
Masonic Hall in Denton. The gradu-
ates were Elizabeth Cade, Elva De-
ford. Hattie Dunham, Lester Kaufman,
Verlin Krabill and Irene Wallace. The
Rev. DR.. L. f. Barrett delivered the ad-
dress to the graduates.
Misses Adaline Bradley, Helen
Davidson, Anna E. Mahoney, Bessie
Wiley, Annie G. Arrants. Mazda G..
Bryson, Grace Rawlings, Augusta Egee
and Isabel Scott and Prof. Hugh w.
Caldwell, teachers in the Cecil County
Schools, have filed their resignation
papers with the School Board.
Rev. Dr. Thomas NJ. Hare, superin-
tendent of the Maryland Anti-Saloon
League. addressed the twenty-fifth an
nual convention of the Washington
County Christian Endeavor Union, in
Lutheran Church, FunkstOwn, in the
interest of making Washington county
dry" at the November election.
Hewitt Reynolds. son of DeWarren
H. Reynolds, attorney, Cumberland,
has been appointed assistant headmas-
ter of the Marionfeld School for Boys
at Samarcand. n c. Mr. Reynolds has
been an instructor at the school for
two years.
Charles Penner, of Hagerstown, a
Western Maryland Railway brakeman,
was seriously injured about the head
and body when he was knocked off a
train near Harrisburg. Penner thinks
train rider, fearing he would be seen,
struck him on the head with a club.
Claiming about so ballots were
illegally thrown out, Clifford H. Doll,
returned defeated as City Register on
the Democratic ticket at the municipal
election at Frederick, filed a petition
in court asking that a recount be or
dered.
Governor Harrington and Oliver Will
son, master of the National Grange
have accepted invitations to address
the Farmers Dav meeting to be held
at Tome Institute, Port Deposit
August 5.
AS the result Of being drawn into d
circular saw on the Martin l.. Smith
property, Hagerstown, James Dayton
50 years old of Bakersville, died at the
Washington County Hospital
Walter Schilling. aged q, son Of
Joseph H. Schilling, Cumberland, was
killed in an automobile accident neal
Youngstown, Ohio.
Frank H. Greenwood, Deputy Clerl
of the Circuit Court for Kent County
died in a Baltimore hospital of com
plication of diseases.
While cranking his automobile
Frank Watson, of Lewisville, broke al
arm.
INTERESTING NOTES FOR ALI
The manufacture of street paving
bricks from blast furnace Stag is be
ing developed in England.
A form of parachute has been in
vented to enable persons to escape
from high buildings in case Of fire.
Mrs. Russell Sage continues her in