The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-01-12
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HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK

Princess Anne-Miss Annabel Car
row was married ON Saturday to Otis
c. Meyers, of Puerto Castillo, Central
America. ~
Pocomoke City.-Mrs. Ellen A..
Blades, SO years old, died here Satur-
day at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Harry B. Matthews.
Hagerstown. = Launcelot Jacques,
prominent fruit grower, of Smithsburg,
has been elected president of the
Hagerstown Fair Association, succeed
Ing Daniel H. Staley.
Belair.-The County Commissioners
have fixed the county tax rate at S1.4O
on the 500 with town exemption Of
l56 cents, which is the lowest rate the
taxpayers have enjoyed for years.
Princess Anne.-Work has been
started on the installations Of the new
water system here. The wells have
been drilled, the new pump has ar
rived and workmen have started on
the foundation for the water tank.
Frederick Confessing he had been
Rctuated by fancied wrong, Frank
Slifer, 10 years old, of near Middle
town, is held here on the charge of
firing the barn of Charles G. Crone,
west of Middletown, on December 26,
entailing loss of $4,000.
Hagerstown.-A contest conducted
here by local newspapers to learn the
sentiment regarding the return to the
screen of Roscoe Arbuckle shows the
majority of people here favor Will
Hays decision to permit him to work
again. The voting showed 1,676 IA
vored his return and 17S were against
it.
Hagerstown.-Cha D. McCarren,
aged 70 years, died at his home in this
city Of paralysis after an illness of a
few days. He was member of St.
Mary's Catholic Church. Besides his
widow, he leaves five daughters, Sister
Alice of Baltimore, Sister Elleanor Of
Detroit, Mich; Mrs. T. M. Johanns, of
Chicago, and the Misses Pauline and
Zita, of this city.
Annapolis. Navy Department
set aside the verdict of the naval court
martial which convicted George NJ.
Lord, first-class midshipman, from
Hawaii, of charges of hazing and rec
commended his Dismissal Lord was
released from confinement aboard the
prison ship Reina Mercedes and re-
stored to duty with his class. The
academy authorities have not been APP
prised of the reason why the depart
ment overrode the verdict.
Chestertown-The State Conserva-
ton Commission, through Deputy
State Game Warden G. Joseph Wat
son, has been purchasing from Kent
county trappers all rabbits caught be-
fore, January at 81 each for release
in this county. Seyenty-five rabbits
were delivered and released Efforts
to restock various sections of the
State by importing rabbits from the
South failed, because most of the ami
mails died in transit or soon after be.
ing turned loose.
College Park. - Some handsome
specimens of the feathery tribe were
exhibited at the first annual poultry
show held here under auspices of the
Veterans Bureau students taking the
vocational training course at the
University of Maryland. The exhibits
ors are Restricted to those students
of the Veterans Bureau who are
studying in the poultry department,
and the birds shown must have beer
raised by the exhibitor. Roy H
Waite, professor of poultry husbandry
at the university, judged the entrants.
Frederick.-Three were injured at
the Point of Rocks crossing of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad when a pas
senger train ran down the automobile
Of E. Brown Titus, Point of Rocks.
The injured are 3. Brown Titus. Miss
Agnes Titus, 16 years old, and Charles
d. Kendall, Washington, seriously
bruised and cut, and at the city hos
pital for treatment. They will recover.
The machine was carried for a dis
lance of 100 yards, according to. Titus,
and overt Masd. The occupants were
tossed in nipg field.
Hager, -. -