Middletown transcript., 1916-09-30

A night school of agriculture is to
be opened at the Maryland State Col
lege Of Agriculture.
John L. Mullikin, 81 years old, a
farmer, near Easton, was killed by be-
ing thrown from his wagon.
BY the will of Miss Martha A. Hol
land $4,000 is left to the Social Serv-
ice League of Montgomery County.
Mrs. Annie Logue, of Westminster
died at York, Pa, as result of in
juries received in an automobile acci-
dent.
The new four-mile extension Of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Ha-
gerstown to Security was put into
operation Saturday for freight service
The twenty-sixth annual meeting OF
the First Regiment, Eastern Shore
Volunteers, was held in the Grand
Opera House, fredericksburg Thursday
Walter Mayhem, 5-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. T. Mayhem, Bladensburg
died from burns received while play
Ing with a lighted candle with two
other children in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Mastow, next door neigh
Dor.
Chas. Young, Berkeley Springs, w.
Va, was killed almost instantly when
he was struck by an automobile driven
by ]. E. Clemm, Hagerstown, on the
State road near Indian Springs. Among
the occupants of the car was Miss
Mary Gordon, Hagerstown, a motion
picture actress. She was uninjured.
A large double-decker barn on the
farm of Mrs. Hannah Kimble, near
Nottingham, and tenanted by her son,
Roy Kimble, was burned, together with
the contents, amounting to 500 bushels
of wheat, so tons of hay, farming i'm
plements and a thrashing machine.
The loss will reach $4,000.
Over half of the corn crop in Mont
gomery county has been harvested and
the farmers are well satisfied with the
yield. Ears have formed well and are
large. The crop will compare very
favorably with the larger crop of last
year. Wheat so far threshed shows an
average of % bushels to the acre. The
average price received so far is $1.35
per bushel.
Rejecting the general prosperity of
Frederick city and county, the bank
deposits of the seven local institutions
have made another big gain, according
to statements made in compliance with
the call of the Comptroller of the
United States Treasury. The amount
now exceeds ten and a half million
dollars.
G. B. Mullin & Co., contractors of
Washington, have received the con-
tract for the construction of two pieces
of important roads in Montgomery
county. The first contract was that
for a county road leading from Daw
sonville, a distance of four and a half
miles, for $4,000 The other is the
continuance of the State road from
Jacksonville to a point near Bealsville,
a distance of nearly two miles, for
S20,5OO.
While several important lectures are
given each year at Tome School, Port
Deposit, an innovation has been made
this season in arranging to have a
varied and comprehensive series Of
rather informal addresses to be given
at intervals. It is planned to make
this course of lectures embrace many
practical matters of general interest.
Prominent men, each a specialist in a
particular line of achievement, will
talk on some phase of this work.
That the annual Rockville Fair, held
last month, was financial success
was shown by statement of Treas
urer John ]. Higgins, submitted at a
meeting of the board of directors. The
receipts from all sources exceeded the
by nearly $1,000. OF this
amount $3.50 will be applied to paying
interest upon a mortgage on the So
ciety's property, taxes and insurance,
and the remainder will be used to
erect new fences.
Judges Hammond Urner, Glenn H.
Worthington and Edward-C. Peter dis
missed the petition for a writ Of man
damus filed by Prof. Anon Burgee,
former principal Of the Boys High
School, against the Board of Educa-
lion, asking that he be reinstated as
head of the institution. Judges Urner
and Peter held that the court had no
and that the controversy
was one of school administrative
policy and as such should be disposed
Of by the State Superintendent of Edu-
cation.
Walter Ray, 40 years old, a farmer
living near Shipleys Station, was al
most instantly killed when his auto
mobile skidded and turned turtle on
he Annapolis Baltimore Boulevard.
Mr.. Rays wife and four other occu-