The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-09-22
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Easton.-The following have been
selected for the Democratic State
Central Committee. Gen. Joseph b.
Seth, Richard S. Dodson, Sydney j.
Cooper and w. ]. Hopkins; alternates,
H. Warfield Hambleton, Thomas M.
Cooper, Edward T. Dudley and Harry
Howeth.
Baltimore.--Federal income tax col
lections in the Baltimore district for
third quarterly payments totaled $S,-
04S,771.S1 at the close of business Sat
| urday. Collections have been coming
in since the first of the month, mostly
mailed. No great rush is expected,
the last payment day Aof the quarter,
since the bulk of the schedules have
been returned.
Oakland.-The Oakland grammar
school building was partially wrecked
by fire Saturday, and it will be a
month or six weeks before repairs can
be made. In the meantime, the chill
dren of this school win attend classes
in the high school building. The fire
destroyed the belfry, the ceilings in
several rooms and the heavy timbers
supporting the roof.
Baltimore.-Stock at the State
forest nursery, College Park, profited
from the abundant summer rains and
is in splendid shape for setting out
this fall, F. w. Besley, State Forester,
announced. Small pine, spruce and
larch seedlings will be sold, some for
| less than a cent apiece, Mr.. Besley
said. Welldeveloped elm, oak, ash.
plane and maple for roadside planting
| may be had for less than 81 apiece.
Baltimore.-Three contracts were
| let by the State Roads Commission
for construction to be undertaken this
year. They were: Hartford county
Dublin toward Whiteford, 1.OS miles,
concrete, Sutton Contracting Com
pany, Philadelphia, s3S,216. Calvert
| county-Prince Frederick toward Hol-
land Point, 400 miles, gravel, Thomas
Mullan, Baltimore. s29.276. Prince
Georges county-Fo restville toward
Richie, 2.01 miles, gravel, e. R. P.
Smith, $16,355.
Annapolis.-The presence of five
members of the Ku Klux Khan enrobed
in white, bearing aloft cross emblaz-
oned with three large candles, fea-
tured the Sunday evening services in
the Baptist Church at Eastport. An
address and sermon, in which the
ideals and principles Of the Khan were
discussed, was delivered by the Rev.
John G. Ford, pastor of the Baptist
Church, at Brooklyn, Anne Arundel
county, who has been an ardent ex-
ponent of the organization. Incident.
ally, it. was announced that the Rev.
John Howard Eager, of Baltimore, act
ing minister Of the Eastport Church, is
klansman. The church was filed by
congregation that established a nu-
merical record, for it had been an
nounced that sermon on the Khan
would be the topic of the evening.
Rockville.-At. community meet
ing held in the Meeting House of the,
Society of Friends at Sandy Spring,
this county, and attended by the con-
gregations of the Episcopal Church at
Olney, the Burtonsville Methodist
Episcopal Church, the Colesville Meth
odist Episcopal Church South, the
Goshen Methodist Episcopal Church
South and the Spencerville Free Meth
odist Church and many members of
the Society of Friends and others, a
resolution was unanimously passed
urging Judge Edward C. Peter, of the
Circuit Court for the county, and
Judge Samuel Riggs, of the county Po-
lice Court, to impose Imprisonment
bootlegging cases. The resolution de-
clares it to be a matter of common
knowledge that both the Volstead law
and the county local option laws are
being flagrantly violated and that the
profits of the bootlegger are so great
that fine is virtually no more than a
moderate license fee.
Baltimore.-In addition to balloting
for Senator and members of the House
Of Representatives at the general cleo
tion on November Z, voters of Mary
land will pass upon five constitutional
amendments. Two of these amend
ments are designed to obtain in
creased representation for Baltimore
City in the General Assembly by Great
ing two more legislative districts,
which will send to Annapolis two
more Senators and IL members of the
House of Delegates. Another amend
ment is to extend the political rights
of women. making them eligible for all
public Offices; another is the fewer,
elections amendment, and the fifth is
to extend the term and increase the
salary Of the State Comptroller. In
Baltimore City. the ballots also will
carry a referendum on the proposed
loan of $15.OOO,O0O for schools. If pc