Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-03-30
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Willlamsport.-Ezra w. Nalley, a
well-known retired farmer, is dead at
his home near townsville. He was s5
years old.
Hagerstown. - Miss Lulu Hershey,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. Scott
Hershey Of this city, was seriously in
jured when run down by an automo-
bile.
Cumberland.-Th police department
has been asked to locate Frederick L.
I.osey, 46 years old. railroad tele-
grapher, who is missing from his
home in Grafton. W. Va.
Csmbridge.-A Boys Brigade has
been organized here under the super
vision OF Rev. William D. Gould, pas.
tor Of Christ Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Salisbury.-All indications seem to
point to an unprecedented crop Of
Strawberries in this section OF the
Eastern Shore. Weather conditions
are said to be favorable this year and
the farmers are jubiIant.
Rockille.-The annual meeting of
the Montgomery County Federation
of Women's Clubs, comprising 20 clubs
with a membership of 14OO, will be
held on April 81 at Washington Grove
with the Gaithersburg club as host.
Cambridge c. H. Christopher
of this city and her daughter. Mrs.
Howard Stevens, Of Howard Park, Bal
timore, were painfully injured, when
a coal stove in the formers home ex.
ploded.
Elkton.-Rsv. J. Marshall Wilson,
who for the last two years has been
rector Of St Mary's Protestant Epis-
copal Church at North East, has ac-
cepted call to church In Newark,
N. J.
Frederick-One man was killed and
two others injured, one seriously,
when they were hurled about 80 feet
from a trestle at the plant of the
Greensboro Products Company, Inc, at
Deerheld, is miles from this city.
Easton. = Chief Judge William H.
Adkins Of the Fifth judicial circuit Of
Maryland is Ill at his residence at
Easton. Judge Adkins was taken with
the flu month or more ago and is
suffering relapse.
Crisield. Two fishing vessels from
Tangier were capsized and three men
Of the crews are unaccounted for as
result Of the northwest gale that
swept across the Bay the other night
and dropped the thermometer to the
freezing point.
Hagerstown.- wn.-Stricken with acute
indigestion while walking along the
State road, near Weverton, John H.
Eyerhart. A, Of Sandy Hook, this
county, fell to the ground, breaking
his neck and suffering fractured
skull. He died instantly. Eyerhart
was found dead by residents of Viewer
ton, who started in search Of him
when he did not arrive. Local off,
cials who viewed the body deemed an
Inquest unnecessary.
Cumberland.-Julius Jordan, Slav,
employed by the Manor Coal Com
pany at Vindex. Garrett county,
charged with having inflicted knife
wounds upon Paul Muckosch, Rus
sian. employed by the same Company,
who died as a result Of his wounds
at the Western Maryland Hospital
here on Thursday. March Is, was COM
mitted to the Garrett county Jail with
out bail to await the action of the
Grand Jury at the June term Of Cir
cult court at Oakland at preliminary
hearing before Justice of the Peace
Edward /. West at Oakland. The
assault is alleged to- have occurred
early Monday morning, March 12, in
the kitchen Of clearinghouse in
Vindex, where both the men boarded
and was the outcome Of quarrel the
night before between Muckosch and
Jordan.
Princess Anne.-The biggest dry"
raid ever made in Somerset county
took place the other afternoon, when
Federal Enforcement oficer w. f.
Branton and Sheriff Dryden and his
deputy arrested three men and a
woman for bootlegging. all of whom
have been under suspicion for many
months. On the farm of William
Quidly, on the Manokin river, two
miles from Princess Anne. a still was
found in operation and a quantity Of
mash and liquor The woman arrested
is Mrs. Irene Reugers, who lives on
a farm in the East Princess Anne dis
trict Two stills were found there in
operation. T. Seheonworth, who lives
about half mile north of Princess
Anne, was arrested and charged with
the possession, sale and transportation
Of whisky Fred Adams of the East
Princess Anne district was arrested and
charged with manufacturing and sell
ing whisky. He admitted making and
having liquor, but denied selling it.
Magistrate J. Frank Miles held all the
parties for the action Of the Federal
Court at Baltimore.
Salisbury fireproof hotel to cost
about $250,000 is to be built here, If
plans now being formulated by a com
pany headed by T. P. Adkins are car
ried out. The proposed hotel will be
four stories high and will be located at
Main and Division streets.
Observation-Disclosures countys farm
budget for the year soon will be COM
'pleted. Fostered by the Farm bureau
OF this county, the budget is an inuo-
yation in Frederick county, in that it
Includes cooperative buying and sell.
ing on a scale little dreamed Of by
farmers q kaH xaRrs AEo.