Middletown transcript., 1916-08-19
MARYLAND NEWS
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Latest Happenings Cleaned
From All Over the State.
LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS

After being closed down for some
weeks undergoing repairs, the Cecil
Paper Mills, at Rowlandville, have re-
sumed operations.
Agricultural Agent Marsh and Prof.
Walcott, of the State Experimental
Station, are visiting farmers in Cecil
county with the view Of establishing
cow testing associations.
Owing to the failure of the shad
catch this spring at the fish hatchery
in the Susquehanna River, DR.. H. F.
Moore, Deputy Fis Commissioner, will
remove the hatchery to Choptank
River.
The Cecil County School Board
have appointed Misses Gladys Riggin,
Georgetown; Martha Henderson,
Pleasant Hill; Ruth G. Jackson, Aiken,
and Robert G. White, Port Deposit, to
free scholarships at the State Normal
School.
Mrs. Charles r. Hartshorne, OF
Brighton, was so severely injured
when the porch at the Brookyille High
School, upon which a number of per-
sons had taken refuge from a storm,
collapsed, that she died. Her leg was
broken and she sustained internal in
juries.
Mrs. Myrtle Summers filed suit at
for $4,000 damages
against Owen D. Sherley, whose FIVE
story hotel partly collapsed during a
violent rainstorm July 25, killing her
husband, Herbert Summers, and two
others. The plaintiff alleges the ma
terials used in constructing the hotel
were faulty and that Sherley was
negligent.
The Cumberland City Council pass
ed an ordinance which places the
police and fire departments under civil
service rules. The Board of Commits
aioners is composed of Arthur :.
Weber, George c. Frey and E. LII /
Shaw. Firemen and policemen are
by the Mayer Aard' Council
only from such lists as are submitted
by the Civil Service Board.
A statement Of expenses and dis
bursements of the Frederick county
school officials for the fiscal year end
ing July 81 has been compiled and
shows that it required $2OS,872.28 to
operate the schools during the last
year. The previous year $189, ,7164S
was spent, showing an increase of $19,-
$3.50. The largest single expense
tenn for the past year was $141, ,O70.72
'or teachers salaries.
The Mayor and City Council of An
lapolis and the committee of business
nen and citizens who are conducting
he campaign in behalf of having An
lapolis chosen as the site for the cree
ion Of the proposed naval experiment
Il laboratory and research plant are
highly encouraged over the fact that
he Gallinger amendment, which would
AVE directed the Secretary of the
Navy to select a site at or near Wash
ngton, has been stricken from the
Naval Appropriations bill.
Fire, supposed to have been caused
" spontaneous combustion, destroyed
he large barn on the farm, near Rock
lille, owned Jointly by Dr. William H.
rail and George G. Bradley, Jr. The
ontents of the building, which be-
onged to the tenant, Harry Hoskinson.
nd included 500 bushels of wheat, so
ons Of hay, a quantity of straw, corn.
arming machinery and other things
-ere also lost The building was
alued at about $2,50O Hoskinson's
,ss was about $4,000.
A. R. Rathmill, a retired druggist,
ssiding one mile north of Somerfeld.
as hawk trained to keep chickens
ut of his garden. The hawk was cap
lred in a trap in which squirrel
ad been caught. 1t soon became
me through good treatment. The
awk is prevented from flying away
7 a small chain attached to one of its
gs. The bird is staked out in the
lrden, and Mr. Rathmill is not both
ed by chickens destroying vege-
bles. The hawk polices the garden
oroughly. He will eat nothing but
esh meat and young snakes.
Taking issue with Chairman German
the State Tax Commission, Leo
einberg, attorney for Lowenstein &
whose suit to restrain the
mmission from proceeding with the
assessment in the counties of Mary
nd was sustained by the Circuit
urt at Frederick, gave out state
ent in which he declared that there
no occasion to fear that the decision
the court holding unconstitutional
3 Act of 1916 providing for the re-
would upset the general =
( system and create serious finan.
i crisis for the State
The phrase "entente cordiale" was
st used to express the friendly re-