The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-09-29
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
The Latest GIeanings 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 7eS,206. 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 at 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
1 his life.
Centresille.- Oficers for the Edgar
Allan Poe and the Bellies Lettres Lit
erary Societies of Centrevil1e High
School have been elected as follows:
Poe Society President, Catherine
Gibson; vice-president. Laura Coving-
TOM secretary, Ella Walters; SER
1 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 g.
| Emory shipped a lot of cultivated
chestnuts from the Chestertown Post
ONCE. 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
| waged. Six new clinics are to be es-
| tabIished soon. Arrangements almost
have been completed for their estab.
lishment at Salisbury, Rockville,
| Easton, Frederick, Westminster and
Elkton. Ultimately it is planned to
have clinic in every large city of
Maryland.
Baltimore.-Of % applications for
naturalization before Judge James M.
Amber in the Court Of Common
Pleas Saturday, II were granted,
dismissed and continued. OF those
admitted to citizenship 6 were from
| Russia, from AUSTRIA each from
| Italy and Germany and / each from
I 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.
nance Of some 1000 persons living in
| and south of that section of Crisfield,
known as Asbury was curtailed by
the findings of jury, in the Circuit
! Court for Wicomico county. The case
was a suit instituted by the Cedar
Island Gun Club. Inc, against 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 at 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 Crisfield, in Pocomoke Sound.
| Hagerstown-John Starliper, aged
| 16 years, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
David Starliper, Of Hancock was
accidentally killed by his own
gun while hunting squirrels in wood
near Hancock. Young Starliper fell
while stepping over log and the gun
was discharged, the load Of shot en-
tering his abdomen below the heart,
making an ugly wound from which he
bled to death in few minutes. Chas.
E. Sensel, step-brother Of Starliper,
heard the report of the gun and call
ing to Starliper and not getting an
| answer, went to the spot and found
the latter lying on the ground. Star
liper was still conscious and told how
the accident happened.
Frederick.-At a meeting Of the de.
sign committee of the Soldiers Mem
orial Association, Judge Glenn H.
Worthington, chairman, plans were
made to complete fund of $4,000
for the establishment, in Court Park,
of a handsome monument memorial to
the service men and women of the
county. Approximately $1,000 is in
hand A proposal was submitted by
the sculptor, G. Moretti, Pittsburgh. to
erect monument without the names