Middletown transcript., 1916-10-21
MARYLAND NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Latest Happenings Cleaned
From All Over the State.

latest Happenings CLEANED
From All Over the State.
1--we NOTES AND COMMENTS
Fire damaged the gun shed at the
Naval Academy at Annapolis.
6C0BtbUFg Is preparing t4 enlarge 4es
water supply to guard against threat
~nsd drOuth.
George F. Marsh, for three years
county agricultural agent, OF Cecil
ROunty, has rendered his resignation
taking effect at once.
Jehn Ashley, eighteen, of Rock Hall
While watching a companion clean a
ESVOlVer was shot and painfully
wounded by the accidental discharge
~ the weapon.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is
@a0ving from 80 to 80 carloads Of
apples daily to points east and west
from the Cumberland division fruit
Aeat.
The Western Maryland Railway
Company has asked for bids on 70
Aeavy locomotives Of the Mallett type,
90 be used on it's system, and par
AlcuIarly in the coal regions.
isaac H. Martin, of HagerStOwn, Is
I'm a dying condition as a result OF
injuries received by colliding with a
hrldge near Hancock while riding a
motorcycle.
An increase in wages amounting to
a. per cent. has been granted the hot
mIH employees at the tin plate plant
or the N. & G. Taylor Company, Cum
berland. More than 100 men are ef-
3ected.
Two men were killed and 16 injured
On the Western Maryland Railway
when an excursion train from West
ernport to Hagerstown, taking hun
dreds to the Hagerstown Fair, ran
Aead-oR into a work train in the Knob
mount yard, three miles from Cam
Aerland.
The school board for Cecil county
announce the following appointments
In their teaching staff: Misses Lottie
SGcAlister, assistant at Fair Hill
school: Grace Ferguson, BIythedale;
Lena Miller, Perryville; Katherine
Leveless, st. Augustine; Gertrude
Manlove, Elk Neck.
Florence, the six-year-Old daughter
OF Ruhlie Boyles, of Starr, was struck
By an automobile driven by DR.. Roe
and instantly killed. The child was
returning home from school when she
6aTted across the road in front OF the
machine. The car passed over the
UDuy OL LHS ulLIS girl.
Harry T. Alexander, a hardware
merchant Of Elkton, while taking his
daughter, Miss Miriam Alexander to
school, met with an accident when his
aRtomobile turned turtle on the Barks-
dale road. Miss Alexander was cut
ab0ut the face and bruised about the
body while her father sustained the
aislOcation of an arm.
Joe Hamilton, & resident Of Laurel,
was killed bv train on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, near Contee, few
miles south of Laurel 1t is thought
that Hamilton was walking the tracks
10 Laurel and was hit by train about
midnight The top OF his head was
cut Of A coroner's inquest was held
and rendered a verdict Of accidental
Aeath.
George Febrey, Of St James, who
has created" a number of new fruits
and nuts, has succeeded in growing
Chestnuts from a graft on a pawpaw
tree, and pawpaws from a graft ON a
chestnut tree. Both the chestnuts and
pawpaws grew larger on the CRAFTS
than the natural fruit. The chestnuts
are sweeter and more juicy than when
grown naturally.
Col. Buchanan Schley,. for many
years the leader Of the Democratic or
EanizatIon ia Washington county, one
OF the most prominent members Of the
Washington county bar, and frequent
q spoken of as q possible gHber-
aatOrial nominee by his party, died
auddenly in New York. at the home Of
Als only child, buchanan Schley, JF.
Death was due to heart trouble. Col.
Echley was SO years old.
INTERESTING NOTES FOR ALL
One hundred species Of oysters have
been classified by scientists.
). c. Nickerson, of PittsReld, Mass,
still wears an oveEeoat he bought 55
years ago.
Nearly half Of the population Of
France was engaged IA farming be-
fere the war.