Middletown transcript., 1916-11-18

!. BRIEFLY TOLL
Latest Happenings Cleaned
From All Over the State.
LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS
William Dows, one Of the best knowI
farmers in Charles county died at hi'
homo from the infrmities of age. HI
was born in 1889.
HagerstoWn officials issued more
than 5000 hunters licenses. one fol
every six adult males in washington
county.
]. Ward Kerrigan has been elected
assistant cashier Of the Emmitsburg
Savings Bank, resignirg his post as as
sistaht postmaster there.
William Schmeltz, the four-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. John Frederick
Schmeltz, was seriously burned while
playing with fire in the yard of his
hOun at TosSun Ctaffou
The Commissioners for Cecil County
have awarded to e. Ward Brown, OF
Port Deposit, the contract to macadam
the public road one mile north of Elk
ton to the Pennsylvania line.
J. A. Ewing, of the Fourth District,
has been awarded the first prize in
the Boys Corn Club contest, he having
raised ninety-four and One-half bushels
Of corn per acre during the past year.
Homer Turner, aged about 25 years,
was killed by fall from the Western
Maryland Railway bridge over the
Potomac river near Luke. He landed
on the rocks about 25 feet below and
broke his neck.
Earl e. Zimmerla, aged 21, Balti-
more and Ohio brakeman on the Pitts
burgh Division, was killed as he was
entering Cumberland to complete his
run. He feff between two taTs, Ii the e
train having parted, and was decapi-
tated.
Lewis H. Hartwetel, a farmer of near
Ja1'o burg, was killed in a runaway
accident near Ladiesburg. The horse
ran down a hill and Harwetel was
thrown from the wagon. He sustained
three broken ribs and was injured in
ternally. He was taken to his home,
where he died a few hours later.
Abraham Solomon filed suit at Ha-
gerstown against Frank A. Coss, Of
that city, for $1,000 damages for in
juries alleged to have been sustained
in an automobile accident in Cum
berland April 80 last, when the defend
ant, who was riding bicycle on the
street, was run down by Coss, who was
operating an automobile.
With a gunshOt wound in his jaw,
Thomas Barclay, well-known young
farmer of Pomonkey, was found dead
in the road within half mile Of his
horne. His gun was lying in the road
beside him and as it had been dis
charged it is thought he stumbled and
was killed by his own weapon. Coroner
F. E. Mattingly viewed the body and
gave a verdict of accidental death.
A meeting of the tri-county boys
corn and potato club was held at the
PocOmoke fire house, Pocomoke. State
Senator Oscar Collier, of Easton, was
selected Judge and after the marching
of boys, he awarded the prizes, being
assisted by the county agents of the
three counties-J. F. Monroe, of Wor-
cester county; H. Chiffon, of Accomac
county, Va, and H. S. Lippincott, of
Somerset county. Most of the boys
reside near Princess Anne
Havre de Grace entertained it's sol
dier bows who returned from the Mexi-
can border The soldiers, with the
Mayor and City Council and Admiral
John Rodgers Post, No. %, Grand
Army of the. Republic, headed by the
Bayside Band and followed by the Har-
monic Concert Band and 100 or more
citizens in automobiles, marched to the
city opera house, where Mayor Michael
H. Fahey delivered an address of wei
come end an interesting literary and
musical programs was carried out. A
banquet was rendered the soldiers and
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