Middletown transcript., 1917-01-06

Princess Anne; lecturer, H. r. Chat
fey, Lawson; steward, Benjamin Ster
ling; chaplain, T. D. Nichols; treas
urer, F. M. Henninger; secretary, Mrs.
E. F. Wilson; gatekeeper. Guy Wild
dowson; ceres, Mrs. Emma Laird;
pomona, Mrs. Maggie Moore: flora.
Mrs. S. H. Devilbliss; lady assistant
steward, Miss Gladys Froelich.
Mrs. Mary ]. Working, Boonsboro,
instituted habeas corpus proceedings
at Hagerstown, to recover the custody
of her 14-year-old daughter, Mary Ruth
Working, from the School of the Blind
in Baltimore. The child was taken
from the Orphans Home at Hagers-
town by Grant Harbaugh, near Sabil-
lasville, and later placed in the School
for the Blind. Mrs. Working is anxi-
Gus for Harbaugh to adopt the child,
She alleges neither she nor Harbaugh
are allowed to communicate with the
child.
At meeting of the stockholders Of
the Hagerstown Baseball Club the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Col. ]. c. Roulette; first vice
president, H. ]. CrossOn; second vice
president, S. E. Minium; secretary, C.
c.. Easton; treasurer, Charles S. Lane.
Seventy-five directors were chosen.
Finance and players committee were
also appointed. 1t was decided to have
the association incorporated with a
capital stock of $4,000, divided into
ESQ shares of $40 each.
Four were hurt and one escaped en-
tirely when the automobile of Samuel
D. Wilson, Middleburg, occupied by
guests of a masquerade ball at Woods
boro crashed into a Pennsylvania
freight train at the New Midway cross
ing. The train was travelling at about
Is miles an hour and was on the cross
ing when the automobile crashed into
the side Of the engine. Although the
usual warning signals were sounded, a
dense fog prevented the driver of the
automobile from seeing the train.
Maurici DOmenici, who conducts
garage in Hagerstown is in the Wash
ington County Hospital with a broken
jaw and other injuries received when
his automobile, in which he was riding
to Baltimore, turned over twice at the
edge of BoonsbOro. He had stopped to
talk to Homer Frick, Waynesboro, who
preceded him up South Mountain, and
the wheels of the car began to slide
backward over the ice.
one mile and half west of Rising
Sun, was run over and killed by
Media division passenger train short
distance from Colora Station. Mr.
Way was deaf and it is supposed he
was walking on the tracks and did
not hear the train.
w. D. Byron & Sons, Inc, who oper-
ate extensive tanneries at Williams
port, and Mercersburg, Pa, presented
each of their several hundred en-
ployes with Christmas Savings card
starting with 81 and paid for four
weeks at bank.
A charter has been filed for the
Consolidated Mineral Company, of
IN 70 M,
in clay and other minerals G.. X.
Hack, James Russell, Frank Russell
and Edwin Russell are the incorpora-
tors The capital Is $2,OOO,O0O.
Frederick Brown and Eric Jones.
two fifteen-year-old colored boys, of
Philadelphia, convicted in the Cecil
County Court on the charge of lar
ceny, have been committed to the
House of Reformation until they reach
the age Of twenty-one years.
DR.. John Aikenhead, IS years old,
veterinary surgeon, died at his home,
near Easton. DR.. Aikenhead was born
in Ontario, Can, and removed from
that country to Talbot county about
Is years ago.
The home Of Charles Stevenson, In
Caroline county. was badly damaged
when kitchen boiler exploded during
the night.
Margaret, three-year-old daughter of
Lewis Meats, Sharpsburg, was badly
burned when her clothes caught fire
at a hot stove.
Sfxteen-year-old H. Victor Ankeney
shot 1Ok-pound wild turkey near
Charlton
William Hemler, Hebbville, was in
jured when his market wagon, which
was demolished, was struck by an
automobile
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany employees at Perryvile have or
ganized Gun Club with Trainmaster
Il. M. Murdock, president, and Road
FOREMAN OF Engines Alexander Sent
man, secretary and treasurer.
William w. Seibert sold a 262-acre
'arm, near Clearspring, to ex-Sheriff
NJ. Finley Seibert, Hagerstown, for
B11,046.
Miss Julia Jones, of Chestertown.
While out sleighing was thrown to the
ground breaking an arm in two places.
Thieves carried off 35 fine Plymouth
Rock chickens from Frazier Miller's