The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-24

iIO SolLR1Ae--
started on the Eastern Shore this
week. Beginning in Kent county,
there will be series of meetings.
Miss Clara Benson, of Royal Oak, and
Miss Maria F. Martin, daughter of the
late Judge Martin, of the Second Ju-
dicial Circuit, will appoint organizers
for Kent
Observation-Disclosures, three years
old, and Mary, aged four, children OF
Mr.. and Mrs. P. H. Spriggs, this city.
were both badly injured when they
were thrown from motor truck in
front of their home. Their father,
who was driving, did not know the
children had climbed on the truck, and
when he started the machine they
were thrown out. The boy is, In
critical condition and may die. The
girl will recover.
Cumberland.-C. A. Brown, vice
president OF the Springfield
Company, which concern is building
a S5,00O,O00 plant here, called score
of bankers, real estate men and others
of this city into a meeting and told
them that this city must prepare to
build from 1000 to 5000 new houses
to accommodate the 10000 employees
with their families which his COM
pany proposes to bring here to work
at the plant, when completed.
Easton-A new state bank has been
organized in Easton, to be known as
the Liberty Bank of Easton, Md, with
a capital stock Of $4,000. 1t has been
decided to sell the stock at $35 per
share, which will give them surplus
of 100000 The board of directors will
consist of II members, seven of whom
are James B. Bennett, Sd; U. F. Car
roll, Charles o. Colt, Howard Towers.
George L. Walker, Elisha C.. Hibbard
and N. E. Clark. The other four will
be elected from future subscribers OF
stock.
Elkton.-Frank Schneider, II years
old, was drowned and his three broth
ers and Miss Emily Lloyd were res
cued when the automobile in which
they were riding plunged rs feet
through an open drawbridge over the
Chesapeake and Delaware canal at
Chesapeake City. Basney Schneider,
who was driving the machine, failed
to notice the draw was open because
the windshield was blurred by the
heavy rain Miss Lloyd's arm was
broken and she was cut and bruised.
The body of the boy was recovered
about a half an hour after the accident
and none of the others were injured.
Belair.-Robert J. Trimble, pro-
prietor of the Maryland Garage here,
shot and killed Logan Webster.
negro employe of the garage, in the
street here. Trimble surrendered and
was placed in jail. Logan returned to
the garage after supper in quarrel
some and abusive mood He began
to curse his employer and when told
to leave the place turned ON Trimble
and chased him from the garage.
Trimble again told the negro to let
him alone but when the negro con-
tinued to advance on him Trimble
fred the bullet striking the negro just
above the heart Trimbles' home is In
Tampa, Fla.
T Hagerstown.-W. P. Brown, expert
fancier in an address before the
Washington County Poultry and
Pigeon Association here, described the
process of forcing hens to lay by ar
tificial lighting and told Of his success
full experiences along this line. he
quoted Prof. J. E. Rice, of Cornell Uni
versity, as being strong advocate OF
the theory. Mr.. Brown claimed that
the laying efficiency of hens Is In
creased 120 per cent. from November
to May, when hens lay the fewest eggs
and when eggs command the highest
prices, by the use Of artificial lighting.
The Association decided to hold its
annual show in Antietam Armory here
December 8. and 5.
Hagerstown.-Edga r. Hoover, re,
Gently returned from overseas, where
he served. with the American Expedi-
tionary Forces, is suffering from a seri-
Gus wound in the hip as the result OF
an accident, which occurred while being
Initiated into local secret order He
was blindfolded and one of the officers
welded a paddle on one side of which
was a blank cartridge and on the other
side a soft pad. The officer intended
to strike Hoover with the padded side
of the paddle and cause the cartridge
to explode. Instead he inadvertently
struck Hoover with the other side, and
when the cartridge exploded an ugly
wound was made in Hoover's nip.
Hoover was hurried home and physl-
clan summoned. Fearing Hoover might
develop tetanus, the physician vac
cinated him with an anttiock1aw
serum.
Cumberland.-The October grand
iury adjourned after a session OF i've
days, submitting a report which calls
on the court, in charging the grand
Jury for the January term, 1920, to
make inquiry as to whether the rec
concentrations that Sunday selling be
stopped had been complied with. The
report calls for the enforcement OF
the old blue laws.
There has been much complaint as
to the slot machine evil in Allegany
county, it being known that at least
Is have been in operation in Cumber-
land and the mining region. Regard
ing this evil the report says:
"The grand jury has numerous COM
plants of the prevalence throughout
the county of slot machines, punch
boards and like devices used for gam
bling purposes, but 1t seemed to be
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