The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-06-16
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r0u0TdiSDuTS.-1u6 ulT6CCOTS VI Tie
First National Bank of this town will
erect a new and modern banking in
stitution, costing from $4,000 to $780,
900, on site purchased from DR.. Geo.
F. Galloway.
Hagerstown.-One hundred and thir-
teen students of the Washington Coun-
ty High School received diplomas at
the forty-fourth annual commencement
exercises which were held in the Mary
land Theatre here.
Bloomington. - Michael, aged
years, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick
Dugan, while seated in his little cart
watching his mother working in the
garden, was shot in the cheek. Three
boys were shooting at mark with
rifle opposite the home, and one bullet
struck the child. making an ugly cash.
Grantsville. = The burial of Miss
Florence Cummings, sc years old, took
place at Addison, IL miles above here.
Miss Cummings was q telegraph op-
orator and was in the employ of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for 40
years. She was retired year ago on
a pension. She had been employed
at several points along the system
and was known by large number OF
railroad men.
Havre de Grace.IMiss Mabel G..
Parker, of Catskill, N Y. and grand.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles j.
Parker, of this city, for the second
time this year has been awarded
prize in an auditorial contest at Syra-
cuse University, where Miss Parker is
a junior in the department of journal
ism. The contest was conducted by
the Phi Delta Epsilon National Jour
nalistic Fraternity on What Syracuse
University Needs Most
Hagerstown.-Run over by heavily
loaded wagon while lying along the
Sharpsburg pike, Walker Thomas suf
fered a compound fracture of the leg
and was unconscious for more than
an hour The man had been sleeping
and his body was partly concealed
behind clump of bushes. The ap.
proach of a two-horse wagon driven
by Lewis Lee, colored failed to awaken
him and he was run over before he
could cry out. He was removed to
the hospital by Sheriff Kline.
Lonaconing.-James waste, 81 years
old, of this place, conductor of the
Cumberland and Western Electric
Railway, was killed when his head
struck telephone pole while he was
leaning out his car in front of Kelly's
store at Franklin, near Westernport.
He was on the road between Frostburg
and Westernport, and the car was pro
ceeding to the latter point. Yaste died
a few minutes after he was carried to
the Office of DR.. A. M. Kalbaugh, West
ernport.
Westminster-A rally of the lodges
of knights of Pythias of Carroll coun
ty held at the Maryland National
Guard Armory,. was attended by the
Grand Lodge officers of the order.
Harry Starr, of Charity Lodge this
city, presided. Addresses were made
by Dr. Herbert C. Blake, grand chan
cellor; James M. Hendricks, grand
keeper of records and seal; J. Edward
Richardson, grand representative; Ell
wood Martax, grand prelate; J. Muir
ray Dronenberg, Reno Harp, of Fred
erick, and others. Plans were forInu-
lated for a drive to double the mem
bership of the order in the county by
December 81 next.
Prince Frederick. = The County
Commissioners of Calvert county have
fixed the tax rate on each $500 of as
sessable property of the county as fol-
lows: For general purposes, $1.9S,
and for school purposes, 81 cents. Add
ing to this the State tax of 35 cents,
makes a total of So. The method of
road building requiring the county to
furnish one-fourth of the funds where
roads are to be built in connection
with State and Federal Government
aid have materially increased the tax
rate of the county and caused it now
to reach the highest figure ever i'm
posed upon the taxpayers.
Hagerstown.-The deserted home of
George Alfred Townsend, famous as
war correspondent, newspaper man
and author, at Gaplsnd, will be turned
into a summer resort. Work of re-
the building will shortly be
started. The building was acquired
by James Reed, of Gapland. 1t was
purchased from Mrs. Genevieve Bone
venture, of New York, daughter oi
the author. The price was $4,000. MI,
Townsend purchased the ground upon
which 1t is erected in Crampton's Gap,
and for a mile south of it, in 1884,
having gone there for local color for
his novel katy, of the Catoctin." In
1885 he built six residences in clus-
ter, mainly stone houses. No other
house stood on the mountain for
distance of IL miles. The elevation at
is 1000 feet, with Gapland
station mile below, to the west. In
1894 Townsend built the War Core,
spondents' Memorial, the only one in
the world, at the forks of the cross.
roads on the top of the mountain, one
of the largest monuments upon the
battlefields of the Civil War, SO feet
high and 40 feet broad.
College Park.-Dr. Merrill E. Gates.
of Washington, gave the baccalaureate
sermon for the schools of the Univers,
ity of Maryland Sunday morning,
which marked the beginning of the
annual commencement exercises for
all the schools located in College
Park The Baltimore city depart
ments had their closing exercises last
week. The service Sunday morning
was attended by the faculty and ali
the student body, attracted, in parI
by Dr. Gates fame as an educator, he
having been formerly president Of
Rutgers and later of Amherst.