The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1922-10-06
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 76S,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.
mbridge-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 a member of the
Orphans Court for the past three
| years, having been elected in 1919.
| Judge Thompson had been engaged
| in agricultural pursuits practically all
| his life.
Centreville-Officers for the Edgar
| Allan Poe and the Bellies Lettres Lit
erary Societies of Centreville 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-PTesident, Mary Connolly;
vice:president, John Goldsborough;
| secretary, Ruth Willis; treasurer, Lii
lian Smith; ergeant-at-arms, George
Earle Davidson.
Chestertown. - Capt. Edward E.
Emory shipped a 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 a hamper, and
| the trees have been very productive
| James w. Chapman made an earlier
| shipment and received 81 a 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
chain of clinics and stations through
| which war on social diseases will be
| waged. Six new clinics are to be es-
| tablished soon. Arrangements almost
have been completed for their estab-
lishment at Salisbury, Rockville,
Easton, Frederick, Westminster and
| Elkton. Ultimately it is planned to
have a clinic in every large city of
Maryland.
Baltimore-Of 2S applications for
naturalization before Judge James M.
| Amber in the Court of Common
Pleas Saturday, II were granted, S
dismissed and continued. Of those
admitted to citizenship were from
Russia, 4 from Austria, 2 each from
Italy and Germany and 1 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-
quired time.
Salisbury-The source of susie
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 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 1 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 a 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, a step-brother of Starllper,
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 a monument without the names
of the living war heroes for the
amount already contributed. The COM
| mittee, however, rejected this plan
and will stand by the original design
| to bear the names of the living serv-
ice men and women as well as those
| who died.
Cumberland.-The shops Of the
Cumberland and Pennsylvania Rail-
road at Mt Savage, which have been
closed since March "a, were opened
| Monday. All former employees, num-
being IT'S men, have been recalled
to report for work at their former
| positions under the Willard-Warfield-
| Jewell agreement. Work at the Mt.
Savage shop was practically aban-
| doned March "a, on account of the
| decline in coal production, preceded
by the co2!l 11t.iiners' strike of April l.
ss7ut s7utW was made complete July !, when
shs railway strike began.