The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-26
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I, Centeryille. Members Of the Ku
Klux Khan paraded the streets Of Gen.
terville before 5000 spectators and
then went to Waterworks Hill, on the
edge of town for an initiation cere-
money. J. H. Hawkins, Baltimore
Khan organizer, spoke. A huge fam
| ing cross drew persons from miles
around.
Baltimore Arthur c. Heffenger,
q native of Cumberland, died in Ports
mouth, NJ H., it was learned. DIT.
Heffenger was son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob Alexander Heffenger, of Annap-
oils and Hagerstown, respectively.
His mother was Miss Catherine Lame,
of Hagerstown.
Baltimore. -The State Board OF
Agriculture, meeting in the Fidelity
Building, began consideration Of the
S7,137 900 budget for the next three
years. which was laid before 1t by Dr.
A. F. Woods, president Of the Univers-
ity Of Maryland. The tentative budget
calls for 100000 for construction
work to be provided by bond ISSUE
and approximately s4,137,OO0 for main
tenance and general items covering
all department activities.
Hagerstowr--With the mystery or
their deaths still unsolved, funeraiI
services were held Thursday for John
Cline, aged 20, Mennonite truck farm
err. and his 63-year-old wife, Rebecca,
whose mutilated bodies were found In
the cellar of their home near here
The bodies were laid side by side IN
a double grave in the cemetery OF
Reiffs Mennonite Church, near Fid-
dlersburg, where the couple for many
years had worshipped.
Oakland.-John w. Sellers. aged 81,
of Oakland, was instantly killed when
a gasoline tank truck overturned and
threw him to the roadway. Sellers
was ascending a hill when the truck
suddenly stopped and started back
ward at rapid rate, running upon
the side of an embankment, which
caused it to upset Sellers is sur
vived by his widow, Mrs. Grace A.
Sellers, and two daughters, Beatrice
and Mercedes, all of whom reside IN
Baltimore.
Annapolis.-Love found way to-
the marriage of blind couple in An
napolis when Oscar d. England, IN
dianapolis, and Miss Lelah Ballard,
Muncie, were welded at the parson-I
age of Calvary Methodist Church by
the pastor, the Rev. H. Wilson Bur-
gan. Each is Il years old. Obtain
ing a license from the County Court
Clerks office, Police Justice John WI
Anderson assisted them in the plans
for the matrimonial journey by escort
ing them to the church parsonage.
The couple had travelled from thel
Hoosier State by automobile and were
accompanied only by their chauffeur.
Baltimore.-Robert Grain was elect
ed president of the Southern Maryland
Society at it's meeting in the South
ern Hotel. John N. Mackall, Director
of Public Works, was elected first
vice-president and Edward M Thomas
was elected second vice-pres1dent.l
William Fl. Wooten was chosen Sec
rotary and treasurer. The election OF
officers was made before the general
meeting Of the members, which began
at 8 O'clock with the showing of mo-
ton pictures of the trip the society
took into it's "home country few
months ago. After the pictures were
shown there was dancing and later a.
buffet supper was served. Mr.. Grain
and A. S. Goldsborough, secretary Of
the Merchants and Manufacturer AS
ISOLATION, made addresses.
Baltimore.-Business interests and
small-home owners are the chief suf-
ferers under the existing tax system
in Maryland. This conclusion of the
Maryland Tax Reform Association has
been forwarded, with a number of
other suggestions, to the Maryland
Tax Revision Commission. The sug-
gestions are based on the assumption
that the system now employed work
large measure of inequality and in
Justice The cause for the situation,
the association contends, lies in the
failure of the systems to recognize
that land is the only form of prop
erty that owes it's value to the expend-
iture of taxes. Mercantile stocks,
practically exempt in number of
other States, are taxed more heavily
here, in theory at least. than real
estate. the association contends.
Small-home owners. it is added, prob
ably pay larger proportion of taxes
In Maryland than elsewhere.
Baltimore.-October 81 was pro-
claimed Navy Day by Governor
Richie. The Navy-Princeton game at
the Stadium will be Baltimores chief