Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
MARYLAND NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Latest Happenings Cleaned
From All Over the State.


LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS
Walter Patton, of the Sixth district
has been appointed rural mail carrier
from the Rising Sun Post Office.
While threshing on the Shrewsbury
Farm a spark from an engine set fir,
20 the wheat rick and the entire croI
Of wheat was destroyed.
Members Of the Masonic Order al
Chesapeake City celebrated the fiftietf
anniversary Of the institution of theil
ledge.
The large bank barn on the farm Oi
J. o. De Vries, near Sykesville, was
destroyed by fire, together with its con
tents.
Cecil county grand jury has indicted
Charles Larue, James WaFfield, Ernest
Rhodes and Vincent Viccario, all
charged with larceny, and Viola Ivory
with assault with intent to kill hel
husband.
Prince Raphael Emanuel, of Meso
POtamia, spent twe days days visiting the
family of Mrs. William B. Tilghman
Salisbury. He is 26 years Of age. His
father is king of one of the largest
tribes in MesOpotamia, and the fathers
household has 500 servants.
The Staunton Clay Products Com
pany will erect large plant at North
Mountain, w. Va, on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad east of Cumberland
The daily capacity will be 100000 face
brick, $4,000 PAYERS, 12O tons of fire
proofng material and 5000 pieces OF
pipe.
Geo. T. Musselman, "a years old, OF
Cambridge, mail clerk on the Cam
bridge and Seaford Railroad for the
past 18 years, died Of paralysis. Mr.
Musselman was native Of Sunbury,
Pa. He leaves his widow, formerly
Miss Viola Powell, of Caroline county,
and four children.
John Frye, a former employe Of the
Hagerstown Postofice, who was con
Victed of rifling letters containing
money and sentenced to two and a half
years in the Federal Prison at Atlanta,
Ga, has been paroled, after serving
about one year. and has returned to
Hagerstown.
The frame barn, $50 by 40 feet, for
anerly part of the Blue Mountain House
property, lately owned by the new
Blue Mountain Land Company, was
burned near Pen-Mar, entailing loss
OF $4,000. 1t is thought the building
was fred by tramps who sought shelter
in the barn.
The business firms and shippers OF
Eharptown have petitioned the Balti-
more. Chesapeake and Atlantic Rail
way Company to continue three trips
zach week on the Nanticoke river
route during the winter, instead Of one,
as heretofore. If the company cannot
run three trips, the petitioners request
that not less than two trips be made.
Similar requests are being made at
other points on the river.
Manly Miller, 16-year-old son of Cliff
FORD Miller, of Woodlawn. a student
at the Perryville High School, hanged
himself at Perryvilie. During the noon
hour young Miller went to livery
stable where he kept his horse, and
after eating his dinner fed the horse.
He then procured piece of rope from
the stable, went into the stall, put the
rope around rafter and hanged him
self. Young Miller appeared in the
best Of spirits at the school and his
sister, who is a teacher at the school,
would suggest no reason for his act.
With. representative cattlemen from
Maryland and the Eastern States at
tending, the fifth annual meeting and
banquet Of the Maryland HolsteilA
Friesian Breeders Association was
held at the New City Hotel, Frederick,
when e. M. Hastings, of Oswego, N. Y.
was the chief speaker. Others deliver
ing addresses were Joseph D. Baker, of
Frederick, and G. H. Hibbard, Of Luth-
srVille, Md. All officers were reelected
as follows: President, J. B. Diamond,
Gaithersburg, Md; vice-president, L. E.
Dayton, Luthervflle, Md, and secretary
and treasurer, J. B. Hfbbard, Luther
vile, Md. Executive committee, Messrs.
Diamond, Dayton, Hibbard and VIII.
liam p. Morsell. Frederick; A. B. Twin
Ing, Forest Hill, and Prof. r. H. Ruff
nsr, Maryland Agriculture College, It
was suggested that Easton, Nd, be the
next meeting place. This matter was
left to the members Of the executive
committee.
A fire patrol has been organized at
Bethesda, with 80 members and the
following officers: President, George
G. Bradley, Jr; chief fire marshal,
Robert Wilson; deputy marshal, Mil.
lard E. Peake. Drills are held weekly
and practice runs to various localities
are made. Cyrus Keiser has presented
the patrol with large bell for signal
purposes and President Bradley has
donated bell to be used on the engine.
1t IS the purpose of the patrol to Oper.
ate in the Bethesda, Bradley Hills,