The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-06-09
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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 2
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
rife 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 telegraph OPP
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.-Miss 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 a
prize in an auditorial contest at SYRIA.
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
aalistic Fraternity on What Syracuse
University Needs Most"
Hagerstowa-Run over by heavily
loaded wagon while lying along the
Sharpsburg pike, Walker Thomas sui
fered 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 a clump of bushes. The ap.
proach of 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.-J 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. waste died
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; ]. Edward
Richardson, grand representative; FL
wood Martax, grand prelate; j. Muir.
ray Dronenberg, Reno Harp, of Fred.
erick, and others. Plans were formu-
lated for 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 So cents,
makes 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.
Understandable deserted home of
George Alfred Townsend, famous as
war correspondent, newspaper man
and author, at Gapland, will be turned
into summer resort. Work of re-
modelling 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, a daughter e.
the author. The price was $780, Nj.
Townsend purchased the ground upon
which it is erected in Champions Gap,
and for 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 a clus.
ter, mainly stone houses. No other
house stood on the mountain for a
distance of II miles, The elevation at
Gapland is 1000 feet with Gapland
station a mile below, to the west. In
1894 Townsend built the War Core,
spondentsIRMemorial, the only one in