The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1922-06-09
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
The Latest Gleanings From ALL
Over the State
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD


Rockville long illness,
Jerry M. Lowell, 85, died at his home
near Kensington.
Midland.-A hundred and fifty fur
loughed repair men at the Baltimore
and Ohio shops have been recalled to
their benches.
Cumberland.-The Cumberland Den
of Lions had a banquet and ball ut
the Boulevard Hotel that was the big.
gest event yet attempted by the or
ganization. Former Judge Ferdinand
Williams was POSTMASTER
Cumberland The annual city
budget for the fiscal year beginning
April and ending March 81, 1923, was
passed at special meeting of the city
council The municipal tax rate will
be $11O. The money appropriated is
$338, ,600.43.
Salisbury.-When the two-ton truck
which he was driving overturned, pin
ming him beneath it, Wallace Lockey,
aged 80, of this city was badly scalded
and seriously cut about the limbs. He
almost miraculously escaped instant
death.
Frederick-Impressive ceremonies
marked the celebration of the two
hundredth anniversary of the found.
ing of the oldest town in Frederick
county, the village of Monocacy. In
connection with this celebration was
observed the seventeenth anniversary
of the origin of the Monocacy Re-
formed Church.
Hurlock.-The Woman's Club OF
Hurlock has elected the following OF.
ficers: Mrs. Charles M. Thompson,
president; Mrs. James E. Andrews.
vice-president; Mrs. Otho w. McWil-
liams, recording secretary; Mrs.
Daniel c. Corkran, corresponding sec
retary; Mrs. Carrie Casson, treasurer.
and Mrs. w. Carl Bradley, chairman
and treasurer of hospital fund.
Sophomores of the Barton
High School after having studied and
dramatized the story of Silas Mariner
in class put the play on the stage last
week. After the play each student
wrote an account of it for class work
in English. The sophomore class is
under the direction of Miss Eleanor A.
Drury, who was for six years super
visor of schools in Anne Arundel
county.
Chestertown.-Articl of incorpora-
tion of the Citizens Bank of Chester
town were filed with the Clerk OF the
Circuit Court of Chestertown and ap-
proved. The capital is $35, 1000. divided
into $50 shares at 500 each and $40
surplus per share The sum of SIS, 900
has been subscribed by the incorpora-
tion.
Baltimore. Commenting upon the
bill providing for a Bureau OF Child
Hygiene, DR.. John S. Fulton. State
Health Officer, spoke before the Kf
wants Club at its luncheon at TIE
Southern Hotel. DR.. Fulton described
infant mortality as physicians have
found it during the last 20 years and
declared that conditions are such at
present that the statesmen were Justl-
fed in making some such provision as
the bureau in protecting child life.
Baltimore. Enoch B. Carey.
professor of military science and tao
tics in Johns Hopkins University ana
commandant of the Hopkins unit OF
the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
has been appointed senior instructor
in charge of the summer camp at
Edgewood Arsenal. He will be IN
charge of the infantry units of the
Reserve Officers Training Camp OF
the Third Army Area. The camp will
be conducted from June Is to August
/.
Princess Annette exhibition OF
the domestic science and manual train
ing departments of the Washington
High School, held here was the largest
ever held at that institution. There
were over 200 pieces shown in the
girls department alone. Prize win
ners are: Senior class, Leona White;
Junior class, Hazel Malcolm; sopho-
more class, Margaret Bozman; fresh
man class, Amanda Taylor.
Cumberland.-Albert Davis, 81, and
Roy Dignan, 80, were arrested by
Capt. H. D. Schmidt, head of Balti-
more and Ohio police here, charged
with the murder of Edward McCor-
mick, %, who lived at Hancock, with
his mother. The accused are also
from Hancock. ALI three men worked
for the railroad as tracmen. They
had come to Green Spring, w. Va, IA
miles east of here, Monday, and were
living in a camp car. Tuesday after
noon they visited Oldtown, this coun.
ty. on the Potomac River, opposite
Green Spring, and are said to have OBJ
tanned liquor and to have become IN
toxicated.
Baltimore Beginning next fall, un-
students of high scholas.
tic standing in the College of Arts and
Sciences of the Johns Hopkins UNI
yersity will be afforded the opportun.
lty OF LdklHS SIdUudtC Wolh uuAtn6
the last year of their collegiate course,
The provision has just been passed
by the faculty board of collegiate
studies, and announcement was made
yesterday by Dean John H. Latane.
College Park-Farmer's Day at the
Maryland University was celebrated
Saturday. There was more than 1000
persons present. The principal speech
of the day was made by Congressman
Anderson, of Minnesota, chair
man of the Joint Commission of Agri.
cultural Inquiry, who spoke upon the
economics of farming, in relation to
the other economies. Mi. Anderson
said that today business men feel their
dependence more than ever upon the
farmer; that the problem Of the farm
er nowadays is vastly more of distri-
button than production.