Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-13
CHESTERTOWN AND VICINITY.

Special Correspondence OF Every Evening
Chcstcrtown, Md, Sept. 13.-The
public school teachers of the county
held two-days' institute in the high
school building, under the direction of
DR. Edward J. Clarke, county superin-
tendent Of school last week. The schools
opened this morning.
Norman p. Massey's big touring car
was badly wrecked IN an accident of the
road ono day last week. IL was being
driven by Morris Cooper, tenant on MIR.
Masseys farm.
T. Polk Bramble has Barred Rock
pullet five months and ten days old
which has been laying for several days.
This Is regarded as a remarkable feat
for the heavy breeds.
Queen Anne poultry farms have FIN
ished a successful baby chick season and
are now shipping large quantities of
stock and eggs TO market. The farms
shipped lO0, 900 day old chicks by par
GELS post during the season, and Will
enlarge their capacity so as to ship
200, 900 next season. The seasons hatch
amounted TO 10000 chicks.
Notwithstanding there is a fine crop of
Keiffer pears in this and Queen Anne
counties, there has not been a price
offered to the growers, and IT looks very
much as if this crop Will meet the same
fate as the tomato. Last year many grow
ers sold the orchards for so cents a
basket
Ensign Derringtr Of the United States
Navy is spending a short furlough with
his mother, Mrs. Alice II. Berrlnger, In
Chestertown.
Nelson Lambert Bedwell and Miss
Mary Margaret Story were married,
Friday evening. at the home Of Rev.
Sewcll s. Hepburn, near Lynch.
Mr. and Mrs. Percy G. Skirven,
formerly of this county, announce that
the marriage of their daughter, Margaret
Rasin. TO William Belcher Colley will
take place in st. Peters Protestant Epis
copal Church, Baltimore on Saturday,
September Is.
-Four white men, three held on the charge
Of burglary, and one for larceny, made an
unsuccessful attempt TO break jail the
other night, but were foiled by Sheriff
Townsend and his deputy Mark Perkins,
who were aroused by one of the colored
prisoners who had been maltreated by
the men. They had cut a hole in the jail
wall with a spoon, knife and were about
to get away when apprehended.
Mrs Eva Armstrong, wife OF J. Ed
Cannon street, Chestertown, Saturday
morning after weeks illness of COM
plication o.. lscases, aged about As years.
Seventy-fve or more of the Alumni
of Washington College held a banquet
and reunion in William Smith Hall Wash
ington College, Saturday evening for
the purpose of devising plans for the
betterment of the institution. 1t was the
general opinion of those present that there
must be a change in the management Of
the institution, and that the college must
become part of a State system of edu-
cation with one great university as the
center. The Alumni adopted resolution
calling for the resignation of the present
Board of Visitors and governors, and
providing for the appointment of their
successors by the Alumni Association and
by the governor Of the State. But as the
college charter provides for the present
system, there can be no change in the
management Of the institution except
by the action Of the Legislature, by which
the charter was granted.
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