Middletown transcript., 1917-02-17
maryland NEWS
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Latest Happenings Cleaned
From All Over the State.
LIVE NOTES and COMMENTS

Two colored children were burned to
death in their home three miles east
of Princess Anne.
Members of the Needlework Guild,
at Colora, are holding meetings every
afternoon, spending their time sewing
for the Red Cross.
A $4,000 bungalow at Chesapeake
Haven has been purchased by J. w.
Penn, of Philadelphia, who will make
it his summer home.
Former Governor Edwin Warfield
was reelected president of the Mary
land Historical Society at the annual
meeting.
William G.. Favinger has bought OF
Alexis G. Pascault and A. l.. Nichols
their farm in Miles River Neck, known
as -Four Hundred" containing 292
acres of land, for $4,000.
Five automobiles were burned when
fire destroyed the brick garage of the
Broadway Motor-car Company, Hag-
erstown, while H. F. Mellinger, the
manager of the garage, was at supper.
Firemen saved some of the cars.
Samuel Lord shot and instantly
killed himself at the home of his
brother, Thomas Lord, near Fowling
Creek He had been crippled with
rheumatism for years and was de-
spondent. He was As years Of age.
Thomas H. Lord, of Denton, is the
father Of the deceased.
Judge Henderson appointed D. Lind
ley Sloan receiver for the Cumberland
Fair and Agricultural Association on
petition of George E. Deneen, secre-
tary, who is stockholder. The asso-
citation, through Carl c. Hetzel, presi-
dent, admitted the allegations of Mr..
Deneen and consented to receivership.
]. Fred Notnagle, wel[known
Frederick butcher, dropped dead at his
home there soon after transacting
some business over the telephone. He
had been in his usual health. He was
unmarried, and about 49 years old.
He leaves two sisters and one brother
| Misses Sophie and Mary Notnagle
and Jacob Notnagle, all of Frederick).
He bore striking resemblance to Will
liam Jennings Bryan and was looked
upon as the Commoners double here.
The Maryland High School Teach
ers' Association, in annual convention
at the Baltimore Business College,
elected C. D. Myers, of Rockville,
president; H. E. Mitchell, of Laurel,
vice-president, and ]. L. Sigmond, or
Frederick, secretary and treasurer.
Samuel M. North, new supervisor Of
State high schools in Maryland, point
ed out several ways in which the high
school system could be modernized
and improved.
AS a result of the visit Of Governor
Harrington and State Superintendent
of Education NJ Bates Stephens to
United States Commissioner of Educa-
tion Claxton, DR.. Harold Waldstein
Foght, an authority on rural educa-
ton, may be elected principal OF the
OF III
is said that the choice lies between
him and Dr. Henry S. West, formerly
of Baltimore, and now connected with
the University of Cincinnati
Mrs. Mary C. Ely, wife of Harvey P
Ely, and her daughter, Miss Sallie
Ely, were severely burned at their
home at Salisbury While preparing
dinner the mother came in contact with
the cook stove, setting fire to her dress
She was enveloped in flames, when her
daughter hurried to the rescue. Miss
Elzy's clothing also caught, but neigh
bors rushed into the house and sue
ceeded in putting out the flames be
fore Miss Sallie was much burned.
Alone with her two sisters-Mary
two years old, and Helen, three
Dorothy Poole, the four-y year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Poole
of Frederick, was so badly burned dur
ing the brief absence Of the mother
who was in neighbor's telephoning
that she died at the Frederick City
Hospital three hours later. The cloth
ing of the child caught fire when, imi
tating her parents, she opened the dool
of little egg stove in the parlor of the
Poole home, "to cool the stove Off"
! DR.. Walton H. Hopkins, health off
: Ger of Anne Arundel county, and /;
l widely known physician, has beer
; made the defendant to suit fo
; $4,000 damages filed in the Circui
: Court for Anne Arundel County b,
l Mrs. Nellie Parker. Unskillful treat
1 ment in reducing fracture of tn
/ arm which Mrs. Parker sustained Will
: employed as an attendant at the Stat
j Hospital for Colored Insane at Crowns
|, vile, this county, it is understood
S forms the basis Of the suit. The acci
dent occurred on February 6, 1915
and it is said that DR.. Hopkins wa
|. called to attend the injured woman.
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