Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-03-16
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
The Latest GIeanings From All
Over the State
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD

Hagerstown. - Mrs Edith Jacenta
Baker. aged "a years. wife Of H. Clay
Baker, Of smithsburg, died Wednesday
of heart failure.
Elkton.--Joel, of Northeast, and
Jesse Pierson. Of near Singerly. both
Republicans, have announced them
selves candidates for sheriff.
Northeast.-.The annual town cleo
tion will be held here on March 26.
Three members Of the Board are to
be chosen.
Frostburg.-Mrs. Mary A. Eddy. SO
years old, Of Hancock, died Wednes-
day at the home OF her daughter. Mrs.
A. c. Winebrenner.
Iron Hill.-Charles Walton, So years
old, prominent farmer OF this sec
tion. is dead at his home here after
several weeks illness.
Lanham.-At a gathering Of citizens
here J. E. Brown was endorsed as u
candidate fOr one of the Democratic
nominations for County Commissioner
Frederlck-The names Of about 2300
men and women of Frederick who saw
service in the World War will he in.
scribed on the memorial to be erected
in Courthouse Park. this city.
Hagerstown. - Bruce Shaffer and
III - II Do
were badly injured when their auto
skidded on the State road near Como
cocheague bridge.
Hagerstown.-Mrs. Katherine. Met
calfe, wife Of Justice j. r. Metcalfe,
Of Greencastle, is dead at her home
after a brief illness. She was IS
years old.
Hagerstown-Th League Of Women
Voters here has inaugurated a 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
timore, have been employed by the
Water Commission to locate 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 eonvenes in this city June 8. Z
and 8.
Elkton.lfrhe -four and grist mill
owned by Jethro johnson at North
east has been purchased by the North
east Manufacturing Company. The
price paid was about s25,0O0
Upper Marlboro.-C. c. Magruder
of Glendale, has resigned as a mem
Der of the board of managers Of the
House OF Reformation at Cheltenham
Prince Georges county.
Denton.-The Denton fee 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.
Elkton2Rev. ]. T. Rawlinson, who
for the past five years has been pastor
OF Crumpton methodist Episcopal
Church, has accepted call to become
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at cecilton. this county.
R6ckviiie.-Mrs. Agnes NJ. 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. Ave
miles west OF this city, are being made
by the Conococheague Amusement
Company, Inc, with capitalization
of $4,000.
Rockviile.-A petition has been hled
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
Elkt0n.-fhe Odd Fellows rally held
In Elkton Armory under the auspices
OF the Odd Fellow lodges in Cecil, Kent
and Queen Afues counties, was at
tended by more than 1000 members
of the order. The third degree was
conferred upon class of 100 candi
dates by the degree stan of Eden
Lodge of Wilmington, Del. Refresh
meuts were served.
F'rostburg. l. After having combed
Texas and Mexico and many sections
of the Southwest twice in the pasl
three years in an effort to locate theii
son, Benjamin W. Robinson, Jr., who
mysterieusly disappeared from his
home here October Ia, 1918, Mr, and
Mrs Benjamin W. Robinson learned
that all the time he had been on 3
farm near McKeespert, Pa, not more
then 175 miles away, The boy had
been Of adYenturesome spirit and FIRE
Quently had talked Of Taxes and Mex
leo, so that when he disappeared hi.
relatives sought him in distant part,
instead Of the East.
Hagerstown. = Probably dead fol
some hours. the body of Miss Annie
B. Donaldson, aged so. was found ii
her bed at the home of her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. William o. Donaldson
in Smithsburg. Death was due L
heart trouble. Both of her parent
are conined- to their beds, her fathei
having been paralyzed in January ant
her mother suffering from influenza.
Hagerstown.-It is reported tina
plans are maturing for the erection
Of a million-dollar hotel on the south
cas-. fcrner Of the public square here