Middletown transcript., 1917-03-31
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS

Company H, First Maryland Infan
try, of Westminster, has been ordered
on bridge guard duty at Havre dt
Grace.
William R. Hopcraft, % years old
son of John Hopcraft, Cumberland
was drowned in Evitts creek, abou
three miles east of Cumberland while
with a hiking party after watercress.
James Hamilton, a farmer neal
Shucks Corner, four miles from Belalr
committed suicide by hanging himself
from an apple tree. He was found oJ
his wife when she returned from
church. No cause is given for his act
The Cumberland Chamber of Com
merce announced that the Baltimore
Bargain House will shortly erect
branch factory in Cumberland, to EN-
ploy 200 operatives, and to be usec
for the manufacture of mems ano
women's wearing apparel.
COngressman-elect Frederick N
Zihlman has been notified by Governor
Harrington that his resignation as
State Senator for Allegany county had
been accepted. The Governor in his
letter wished Mr.. Zihlman success dur
ing his tenure in the lower house OF
Congress.
Miss Jenna May McCauley, youngest
daughter of former Postmaster Daniel
H. McCauley, Of .Childs, died at the
home of her brother, DR.. Daniel Nc
Cauley, at Laurel, Mont, from injuries
sustained by falling down stairs. Miss
McCauley went West about nine
months ago, shortly after the death OF
her mother.
Efforts by packers to persuade farm
ers in Queen Anne's county to accept
% cents a basket for tomatoes have
come to naught Members Of the
citation have fatty refused to consider
any price less than 25 cents a basket,
or SIS a ton, which is being paid by
packers on the Delmaryia Peninsula.
An unidentified woman stepped In
front of Baltimore and Ohio train
at Riverdale, on the Washington
Branch, and was killed instantly.
There was nothing on her body to
identify her, and it is believed that
she had thus planned suicide. She
was about 80 years Of age and we'll
dressed.
William L. La Toilette, Republican
member of the House of Represen-
tatives from Washington and cousin
of United States Senator Robert La
Toilette, of Wisconsin, has purchased
three tracts of land in Somerset coun-
ty aggregating 1000 acres. The farms
are located about five miles from this
town.
The brief of the city of Cumberland,
which is making a campaign to secure
the location Ct the $11,000,000 naval
armor plant, has been filed with the
Naval Board. It embodies exhaustive
reasons why the plant should be To-
Gated there. The brief is based on an
exhaustive survey made by the indus
trial department of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad.
William L. Kerfoot, aged %, son of
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Kerfoot of Ha-
gerstown, died at the Washington
County Hospital from injuries received
when a Norfolk and Western Railway
engine was sideswiped by several box
cars in the south yards, Hagerstown.
Kerfoot, who was fireman on the
engine, was scalded by escaping
steam. He leaves his widow and par
ents.
Miss Addie S. Jones, Charlottesville,
Va, has been appointed home demon
stration worker for Washington coun-
ty and will assume the duties of the
Office April 1. She is a graduate of
the Domestic Science Department of
the University of Virginia and of the
School Of Household Science and Arts,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. She
has had six years. experience teaching
In graded schools in Virginia.
Chief Judge Patterson and Asso-
ciate Judges Stanford and Jones met
at Salisbury and organized a Juvenile
Court. Judge Stanford was designated
Juvenile Court Judge, and Clarence D.
Perry, one of the present deputy Cir
cult Court clerks, Juvenile Court
clerk. Juvenile Court will begin
April 1. 1t will look after all cases
involving criminal acts committed by
minors and delinquent and dependent
children.
1t was announced by President Pat
terson, of the Maryland State College,
that Farmers Day this year would be
held May 80 Decoration Day.. That
date has proved so popular with the
farmers Of the State in the last three
years that it was decided to make it
permanent. OF particular interest to
farmers will be the announcement by
President Patterson of special rates OBJ
tanned by him with the Baltimore and