Middletown transcript., 1916-08-12


The annual farmers institute end
county fair will be held at Black Bar
rem Springs on September and 8.
Daniel Edward OfFutt, 81 years old.
merchant and banker, of Oakland, Is
dead.
A teachers institute for AlIeganE
county will be held in Cumberland tho
week of August %.
The Hartford County School Board
announced the award Of number OF
scholarships.
The health officer of Somerset cOun-
ty is waging a determined fight
against typhoid fever.
Jacob Maust, 81, who died at Elk
Lick, leaves 13 children and 81 grand
children.
Champ Clark, David J. Lewis and
Jackson H. Ralston addressed Demo-
cratic mass-meeting at LeonardstoWnA
Lee Statler committed suicide by
hanging himself from a walnut trea
in the yard at his home at Alpine, near
Hancock.
William H. Armstrong, who has
served as president for nearly 90
years, has been renominatod for the
presidency of the Pioneer Hook and
Ladder Company, Hagerstown.
Fire destroyed $6O,0CO worth Of ma
clinery and buildings of the Port De-
posit Quarry Company in the north
end of Port Deposit. The main power
house, c-usher buildings and screen
houses of the plant were burned.
Last February George Mentzer, OE
Doonsboro, placed Is white Legkorn
eggs under hen. On February 20
he took Is peeps from the ne t. Exact-
ly five months later, on July 20, six OF
these peeps, now nearly full-groWR.
began laying.
TIE Caroline County Commission
ers have appointed tax assessors faE
the following Incorporated -
Water Sapp, Goldsboro; ifrzoWard
Pastorfeld, DesAaa; Lloyd Fooks.
Pre7ton; Bavard Nichols, F'ederals-
bury; Loag Thompson, Hillsboro, and
J. Nelson Richards, Ridgely.
Indorsilg Statewide prohibition for
Maryland, the members p!edging them
selves to do all within their power to
make "dry" in November the "wet'e
units in the State, the twenty-frst an
nual convention of Maryland Camp
Patriotic Order Sons of America, ad-
journed at Hagerstown.
C. e. Fields, of Michigan, is estab~
li7hing a preserving plant ct Belle
Grove, on the line between Washing
ton and Allegany counties. Fruits
will be hauled to Belle Grove from the
Hancock orchards in automobile d
trucks. Mr.. Fields expects to preserve
$4,000 jars Of fruit this season.
Just few days after the summers
wheat and hay crops had been housed,
fire of an unknown origin destroyed
the barn and contents on the farm Of
loss is estimated at $4,000. The fire
started in the lower part of the barn.
Word was sent to neighbors, who
saved the machinery and live stock.
State Senator William J. Ogden took
UP his duties as secretary of the Board
of State Aid and Charities, position
to which he recently was elected. He
says that for some time he has been
familiarizing himself with his work
and already has visited several of the
institutions receiving State aid.
After years Of litigation, the Legore
bridge and roads became the property
of Frederick County. The deeds con
veying the property to the county
were recorded at the Offices of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court, and have
been approved by D. Princeton Buck
ley, attorney for the commissioners.
George Myers, coIored, was exe-
cuted at EllicOtt City for the murder
Of Corrie Dorsey, also colored. Tha
murder occurred on the afternoon of
Easter Sunday last at Simpson
Chapel, near Poplar Springs He was
tried and convicted OF
murder in the first degree.
Leaving a note addressed to her
mother declaring that she had MOTH
ing to live for and giving directions
for the disposition of her personal
belongings, Miss Susie Crearner.
daughter of the late Charles H. Cream.
er, swallowed a quantity of carbolts
acid in her home near Potomac, from
the effects of which she died the fol-
lowing day.
Although the strawberry seas6m
ended several weeks ago, lucsious ber1
ries have arnearad in thn Priucora