Middletown transcript., 1917-09-29
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LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS
Chas. A. Benson, 64 years old. died
at his home, in Belair He was the
son of the late Amos Benson and was
born and reared near Benson Post
office
The fire in the tunnel of the Georges
Greek Branch of the Western Mary
land Railway, near Winchester Bridge,
was extinguished after causing loss
of more than $4,000.
Charles ]. Brewer, accused of biga+
my, was acquitted at Ellicott City by
Judge William H. Forsythe, Jr. Brew
er was accused by Mary Boblitz, who
said that she had been married to
him June 2, 1913, at Emory Methodist
Episcopal Church, Ellicott City.
Edward P. McKenna, 46 years old,
for several years general passenger
and freight agent of the Cumberland
and Pennsylvania Railroad, but for the
past eight years chief clerk in the
offices of the Southern Railway Com
pany. at Greensboro, N. c., died at
Greensboro, of heart trouble.
Harold G. Waters, for a number Of
years and until the declaration of war.
Vice Consul at Berlin, and since Vice
Consul at Constantinople and BARGE
Iona, arrived at the home of his father,
Perrie E. Waters, at Germantown. He
was ordered home for "consultation,"
and is in the dark as to what his diplo-
matte future will be.
After numbering fellow workman
William Hathaway, 80 years old
Gus Gundacker, 35 years old, went
about half mile from the scene at.
the shooting and there ended his own
life with a bullet. The tragedy oc-
CURED near Elkton, where the two
men were employed on road work
They had been living together in
small shanty near Porters Bridge.
John c. Murray, Western Maryland
Railway brakemen, Williamsport, waS.
badly injured when the engine upon
which he was riding was derailed ON
the Potomac river bridge, near Jerome.
A wheel came off the locomotive and
Murray, thinking it would tumble from
the bridge, jumped so feet to the water
below His thigh. back and head
were injured.
The recount of primary election bal
lots in the initial precinct to be taken
up in the contest filed by Progressive
Democrats of Anne Arundel, not only
failed to reveal evidences of fraud
having been practiced against the
progressives, but showed gain for
the organization forces. The organiza-
ton ticket gained one vote, which, with
two defective progressive tickets
thrown out by the supervisors, made
a net organization gain of three.
Couples visiting Rockville on matri-
monial missions will no longer find
Rev. Samuel R. White, known far
and wide as Rockville's marrying par
son, on the job. Age so enfeebled the
venerable divine that it was thought
wise for him and his aged wife, who
have for a number of years lived
alone, to be where they could be well
looked after, and they went to Pooles-
Vile where they will make their ho-ae.
with their son-in-law and daughter.
Mr. and Mrs Thomas r. Hail.
The supply of soft coal in EastOn
is very small, there not being probably
over 100 tons at the yards of R. B.
Dixon & Co., the only dealers in coal
in EaSton. If the canning season
keeps up two weeks longer and the
Easton Utilities Commission gets their
coal from them, as they have mainly
been doing, the supply on hand will
have been exhausted and they may
have to shut down for want of fuel
unless they can secure coal some
where else.
The Republicans of Cecil county
have completed their county ticket as
follows: Senate, William T. Warbur-
ton, Elkton; House of Delegates, Tul-
lard Buckworth, Chesapeake City:
Oliver P. Haggerty, Port Deposit and
George H. Thompson, Rising Sun;
Sheriff, Lewis E. Martindale, Colora;
Treasurer, Benjamin B. Craycroft, Jr.
Elkton; Assistant Treasurer, Philip NJ.
Groves, Elkton; County Commission
ers, John M. Clayton Qong terml:
Hiram w. Shallcross, North East
(short term) State Central Commit
tee Henry Mccullough, Lewis T.
Logan, J. E. Brumfield and FLOYD Fl
White; Delegates to State Convention.
Walter C. Miller, Morton E. Reeder
A. N. Vannort and Joseph r. Hamble-
ton.