Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-09-30
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD

Baltimore.-The population OF Bal.
timore has increased approximately
$4,000 since the Federal census OF
1920, and now stands at 200 This
is the figure given the Health Depart.
ment by the Government for the pur.
pose of computing the annual death
rate and represents the official nor.
NAL growth OF the city.
Cambridge .-Associate Judge Trav.
ers Thompson. OF the Orphans Court
OF Dorchester county. died al his
home at Taylors Island of acute
Bright's disease. He was 81 years of
age and had been member of the
Orphans Court for the past three
years, having been elected in 1913.
Judge Thompson had been engaged
in agricultural pursuits practically all
his life.
Centreville--O Officers for the Edgar
Allan Poe and the Bellies Lettres Lit.
erary Societies OF Centrevile High
School have been elected as follows:
Poe Society - President. Catherine
Gibson; vice-president. Laura Coving-
ton. secretary. Ella Walters; SER
geant.at-arms. France Mason. Bellies
Lettres-President. Mary Connolly;
vice-president. John Goldsborough;
secretary, Ruth Willis; treasurer, Lii
liam Smith: sergeant.at.arms, George
Earle Davidson.
Chestertown. Capt Edward T.
Emory shipped lot of cultivated
chestnuts from the Chestertown Post
Office. Chestnuts have almost become
extinct in this section because OF the
chestnut blight. which is killing all
natural as well as cultivated trees.
The nuts bring $3.50 hamper and
the trees have been very productive.
James W. Chapman made an earlier
shipment and received 81 basket
The nuts are used for dressing in
poultry.
misunderstanding TO bring treat
ment within reach OF every person in
Maryland. State Health Department;
officials have developed plans for a
chain of clinics and stations through
which war on social diseases will be
waged Six new clinics are to he es-
tablished soon. Arrangements almost
have been completed for their estab-
lishment at Salisbury. Rockville.
Easton. Frederick, Westminster and
Elkton. Ultimately 1t is planned TO
have clinic in every large city OF
Maryland.
Baltimore-Of Is applications for
naturalization before Judge James NJ.
Amber in the Court of Common
Pleas Saturday. Il were granted. s
dismissed and continued. or those
admitted TO citizenship 6 were from
Russia. from Austria, . each from
Italy and Germany and ! each from
Sweden. Greece and Denmark. Those
whose applications were refused had
claimed exemption as aliens during
the World War. removed from the
State or failed to appear at the re-
CURED time.
Salisbury The source of susie
nance OF some 1000 persons living in
and south of that section OF Crisiield,
known as Asbury was curtailed by
the findings OF q jury in the Circuit
Court for Wicomico county. The ease
was suit instituted by the Cedar
Island Gun Club. Inc. agains; Lloyd
Tyler for alleged trespassing on the
formers property during the month
OF November. 1921. The findings OF
the jury were for the plaintiff. Dam
ages were fixed al cent and court
costs were put on the defendant. thus
establishing The gun club as the legal
owner of approximately 10000 acres
OF marsh land lying about three miles
below Crisiield. In PocomOko Sound
Hagerstown-John Starliper, aged
l6 years. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
David Stariiper of Hancock was
accidentally killed by his own
gun while hunting squirrels in a wood
near Hancock Young Starliper fell
while stepping over a log and the gun
was discharged, the load OF sho, en-.
tering his abdomen below the heart,
making an ugly wound from which he
bled TO death in few minutes. Chas.
T. Sensel. . step-hrother Of Stariper,
heard the report o; the gun and call
ing 10 Starliper and not getting an
answer. went to the spot and found