Middletown transcript., 1917-11-03
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
The Latest GIeanings From Al
Over the State. .
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD

Two barrels of whiskey, both OF
| them nearly full, are stored in the OF.
fee of Sheriff John R. Sullivan at the
courthouse in Annapolis as evidence
against Elias Weldon, who was arrest.
ed few days ago by Deputy Sheriff
d. X. Lee and Patrolman James E.
Lowman for violating the liquor laws
of the county in local option territory.
Weldon is accused of engaging ia
illicit sales at place on Stoney Creek
in the Third district He had been
operating under Federal license and
it is understood he had been warned
on several occasions to desist.
Joseph Foster Sisk, 62 years old,
died at his home in Easton. Mr.. Sisk
was native of Preston, Caroline coun-
ty, being a brother of Col. A. w. Sisk
and T. J. Sisk, of that town, and of
Mrs Susie Patten, of Denton. When
young man he moved to CardOva,
Talbot county, where for years he con-
Quoted the mercantile business. He
sold his business there and removed
to Baltimore, where he resided until
about two years ago, when, owing to
ill health, he came to Easton to reside.
Harold Fountain, % years DID, son
of William R. Fountain, near Concord,
was fatally injured near Bethlehem.
He was accompanied by a young man
named Messer on motorcycle with
a side car, and ran into a wagon on
the state road between Dover Bridge
and Bethlehem. Fountains leg and
arm were broken, and he was injured
internally. He was hurried to Easton
Hospital where he died.
Giving way to his temper after his
mother reproved him for tantalizing
his younger brothers and sisters,
Ernest w. Miller, Jr., IL years old,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest W. Miller,
shot himself in the head with a pistol
at his home at West Annapolis. He
was sent to the Emergency Hospital,
where he died. The bullet was fred
into the skull just above the right eye.
The lid was clamped tight on Havre
de Grace Sunday, the smokers going
smokeless, the young folks sodaless
and sundaeless, and few automobile
tourists went eatless. The authorities
notified all merchants, on orders from
the Mayor and City Council, tina: every
business place must be closed Sunday.
The order was generally obeyed.
The construction work for the gov
ernment ordnance proving ground has
already begun, and the town Of Aber.
deem has marked increase in popu.
lation and activity. Its roadbed is be.
ing thoroughly repaired. The Penn.
sylvania Railroad is already surveying
for extending spurs to convenient
points of the territory.
The school board of Somerset coun.
ty has elected B. D. French, of Clint.
wood, Va, principal of the Washing.
ton High School, to succeed E. G.
Purvis, who has been called to mill.
tary service. Mr. French holds tho
degree of A. M. from the University
of Virginia. Since his graduation he
has taught several years in his home
county.
Windsor W. Hodges, of Comus, has
withdrawn as one of the Republican
nominees for the House of Delegates
in Montgomery county, and the Re.
publican State Central Committee for
the county has named Charles T. John.
son, Of Germantown, for the vacancy.
At st. Mary's Protestant Episcopal
Church, Edmonton, Rev. w. A. Craw.
ford-Frost preached on the Liberty
Loan pointing out that neither the
United States, England or France were
in danger of bankruptcy, but that all
could make good on many billions
more of war loans.
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