The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-16
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD


Baker, aged "A years, wife of H. Clay
Baker, of Smithsburg, died Wednesday
OF heart failure.
Elkton.- Of Northeast, and
Jesse Pierson, of near Singerly, both
Republicans, have announced them.
selves candidates for sheriff.
Northeast.-Thea annual town cleo.
ton will be held here on March 26.
Three members of the. Board are to
be chosen.
Frostburg. Mary A.. Eddy, SO
years old, of Hancock, died Wednes-
day at the home Of her daughter, Mrs.
A. G. Winebrenner
Iron Hill.-Charles Walton, 50 years
old, prominent farmer of this Sec
ton, is dead at his home here after
several weeks Illness.
Lanham.-At gathering of citizens
here ]. E. Brown was endorsed as a
candidate for one of the Democratic
nominations for County Commissioners.
Frederick.-The names of about 1900
men and women of Frederick who saw
service in the World War will be in
scribed Oh. the memorial to be erected
In Courthouse Park, this city.
Hagerstown. - Bruce Shaffer and
John Trumpower, Of Baskerville, Pa,
were badly injured when their auto
skidded on the State, road near Como
cocheague bridge.
Hagerstown.-Mrs. Katherine Met
calfe, wife of Justice ]. R. Metcalfe,
of Greencastle, is dead at her home
after brief illness. She was Is
years old.
Hagerstown.-The League of Women
Voters here has inaugurated cam
paign for better schools The first
move will be putting selected men on
the Board of Education.
Williamsport. - Nelson Bird and
Whitman, consulting engineers of Bal
tirnore, have been employed by the
Water Commission to locate a new
source of water supply for this section.
Frederick Elaborte plans are being
made for the annual convention Of the
Maryland State Firemen's Association,
which conyenes in this city June 6, Z
and &
ElRton.-The flour and grist mill
owned by Jethro Johnson at North.
east has been purchased by the North
ea9t Manufacturing Company. The
price paid was about $4,000.
Upper Marlboro. C. Magruder,
OF Glendale, has resigned as a mem
her of the board of managers of the
House of Reformation at Cheltenham,
Prince Georges county.
Denton.-The Denton Ice and Fuel
Company has sold its ice-cream plant
here to the Middletown Dairy Farms
of Middletown, Del The price paid
was about $4,000.
Elkton-Rev. J. T. Rawlinson, who
for the past five years has been pastor
of Grumpton Methodist \ Episcopal
Church, has accepted call to become
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Cecilton, this county.
Rockville. Agnes M. Waters, of
Edgemoor, has filed suit for divorce
from John E. Waters, of Berwyn, on
the ground of desertion. Waters is an
engineer, employed by the State Roads
Commission.
Hagerstown.-Plans for the erection
of summer hotel and amusement
park on Conococheague Creek, five
miles west of this city, are being made
by the Conococheague Amusement
Company, Inc, with capitalization
of $4,000.
Rockville.-A petition has been filed
in the Circuit Court here asking that
the Rockville Town Hall Company be
dissolved and that receivers be ap-
pointed to take charge and sell the
town hall building here, the only prop
erty owned by the company. The prop
osition is with consent.of stockholders.
Elkton.-The Odd Fellows rally held
in Elkton Armory under the auspices
of the Odd Fellow lodges in Cecil, Kent
and Queen Annes counties, was at
tended by smore than 1000 members
of the order. The third degree was
conferred upon a class of 100 candi-
dates by the degree staff of Eden
Lodge of Wilmington, Del. Refresh
ments were served.
Frostburg. - After having combed
Texas and Mexico and many sections
of the Southwest twice in the past
three years in an effort to locate their
son, Benjamin w. Robinson, Jr., who
disappeared from his
home here October IA, 1919, Mr.. and
Mrs. benjamin w. Robinson learned
that Jail the. time he had been on
farn near McKeesport, Pa, not more
then 1875 miles away. The boy had
baAn of adventuresome spirit and fire.
qnently had talked of Taxes and Mex