Middletown transcript., 1916-07-01
MARYLAND NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Latest Doings in Various Parts
of the State.

OF the STATE.
EPAREDFORQUlCKREADiNG
The directors of the Havre de Grace
Hospital have increased the member
ship of the board from II to IS.
Victor H. Bovey, aged so years, son
of David and Eliza Bovey, natives OF
Washington county, threw himself
from a high cliff at his home, Dixon,
ILL.,, a week ago, and died last Sunday.
The cornerstone Of the new Metho-
dist Episcopal Church at Mount Airy,
was laid Saturday afternoon. Old
coins, newspapers and other data
were placed in a hole in the stone,
which was secured with cement.
Alfred Weimer is in a hospital at
Cumberland recovering from a fall of
Y feet while painting steel stack OF
the Pennsylvania and Maryland Street
Railway Company, at Boynton, near
Meyersdale.
John B. Swartz, about so years old,
q farmer living about three miles from
Easton, was killed by Jersey bull
owned by Charles Wilson and Burton
Henry which Mr. SWartz was keeping
on his farm.
A thief who has been visiting the
wheat bin of Clarence Smith, farm
er near Fredericksburg, will in the
future give the place wide berth.
Mr.. Smith set an otter trap in the
wheat. When he went to examine the
trap he found three finger tips in it.
A fire started at the water heater in
the cellar of the Hotel Nome, Easton,
endangered the hostelry for time,
but was prevented from assuming seri-
GUS proportions by the volunteer fire
company. A guest on one of the upper
floors was awakened by the smell of
smoke and gave the alarm.
Alfred R. Knode, 65 years old, a re-
tired Washington county farmer, died
suddenly in a buggy near Shady
Bower He was taken i'll while help
ing his neighbor, Dallas Ward, to make
hay. He was placed in buggy, but
expired on the way to his home.
A movement has been started in
Hagerstown to organize a relief fund
for the benefit of the families of sol
diers who have enlisted for service in
Mexico Major Joseph c. Byron,
Thomas B. Smith, Mayberry l. Patter-
son and John w. Feldman are at the
head of the movement and have inter
ested the Hagerstown Board of Trade.
Pocomoke was thrown into a state
of great excitement by a $4,000 fire
which threatened to destroy all the
southeast portion of the town. The
blaze started in the former basket fac
tory warehouses of Hall & Co., but
now owned by Francis NJ. Wilson and
used as a storehouse for lumber. The
structure, which was of framework
filed with lumber, was wiped out.
At the regular meeting of the Mayor
and City Council of Crisfeld Charles
+. Richardson qualified aa Mayor n
B. Riggin and John w Bedsworth, the
recently elected Councilmen, also were
sworn in. Elmer R. Candy retired as
Mayor and Thomas ]. Wilmington and
Walter Muir as, Councilmen. Mayor
Richardson also was q Councilman,
but resigned before taking the oath of
Office
Mrs William Devault, of Lonacon-
Ing, jumped into Georges Creek at a
point where it had been damned and
was six feet deep and saved the life
of a little boy who had gone down
three times With several other
young women she was passing where
a little 8-year-old boy had been play
ing along the bank and had fallen in.
Hearing his cries, she jumped into the
stream and brought him to shore,
where he was revived.
Edward, 5-year-old son of Walter S.
Madore, superintendent of the Hynd-
man Water Company, is dying at the
Western Maryland Hospital, while his
parents and two other Madore chill
dren-John, years old, and Elizabeth,
years-are suffering from cuts and
bruises, the automobile in which they
were riding having been wrecked at
the Schellsburg street crossing of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Hynd-
man. The car was struck by freight
train.
An order was signed by Judge M. L.
Keedy, at Hagerstown, in the contest
ed election case of Worthington P.
Wachter, Democrat, against John B.
Fleming. Republican, returned elected
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