The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-08-10
MARYLAND NEWS
IN 'sHORT ORDER
Latest Doings IN Various Parts
of the State
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS


citation have gone over the grounds
where the Timonium Fair will be held
and found everything "all set" for the
show. Judge Frank l. Duncan, presi-
dent of the organization, reported that
the work Of boys and girls clubs in
this State would be furthered at the
Fair, which opens September and
closes FIVE days later.
! dustrial situation here will materially
improve the American Coal Mining
Company starting a huge developing
| project, which will give employment
| to several hundred men when COM
| pleted. Work has started on the West
Charlestown, suburb, over which the
coal will be conveyed. Four cars of
| lumber arrived at one time and were
unloaded.
Baltimore-President Harding was
great friend of the dry forces be-
cause he was a true Christian and
American citizen, declared George W.,
! Crabbe, superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League of Maryland, in an adj
dress at the Salem United Brethren
Church. Mr.. Crabbe said he was con-
fident President Coolidge would prove
friendly to the league, inasmuch as he
had vetoed bill providing for light
wines and beer while Governor Of
Massachusetts. M
Baltimore. = Child labor increased
2 per cent in Baltimore during the
first six months Of this year, accord
ing to Grace Abbott, chief of the
United States Children's Bureau, ad-
dressing meeting in Chicago. Miss
Abbott appealed for support for con-
| stitutional amendment giving Con-
| gress power to prohibit child labor.
| She said the increase in child labor
| generally throughout the country was
| equal to or greater than that of Balti-
more.
Cumberland.-Miss Donnell Dunbar
Avirett, daughter of Mrs. James w.
Thomas and the late Col. John w.
Avirett editor of the Cumberland
Evening Times, returned from visit
of year and a half in foreign coun-
tries. She visited Honolulu, the Orient
and Europe. She returned to Europe
from the Orient by way of the Suez
and after over month in France,
Switzerland and England, arrived
home on the Majestic. During the
World War Miss .Avirett was in Eu-
rope and assisted in entertainment
programs for the soldiers.
Princess Anne.-The sudden death
Of Warren Hayman, Of MISSIONER dis
trict, comes as a great shock to this
community. While visiting one of his
neighbors Mr.. Hayman complained of
an intense pain and before medical
aid could reach him he died. His
body was carried to the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Eugene Matthews, of
Pocomoke City. Mr.. Hayman, who
was born in Somerset county in 1858
and was for many years a, rural mail
carrier, is survived by one son, Russell
Hayman, of Baltimore, and three
daughters, Mrs Eugene Matthews, of
Pocomoke City; Mrs. FELTON, Dangler,
of Texas; Mrs. Elmer Johnson, of Bal
timore, and brother, Barney Hay
man, of Salisbury, Md.
Brinklow = Becoming .incensed be-
cause Richard Cuff, merchant at
Brinklow, Montgomery county, would
not sell him goods on credit, William
Bacon, young negro resident of the
Brinklow nsighborhood, made a vic
ious assault on the merchant, and as
result the negro was before Judge
Samuel Riggs in the Police Court here.
He asked for jury trial, and, in de-
fault of bail in the amount of $500,
was committed to Jail to await the
action of the November grand jury.
Bacon, it is said, visited Cuffs store
few days ago and ordered number
of articles, which the merchant wrap
ped up. When Cuff refused to charge
Them" as requested, the negro, it Is
said, struck him, knocking him down
and in striking at him a second time
accidentally hit Mrs. Cuff and knocked
her down also. Bacon was arrested
the same day.
Frederick-After dragging his little
son from death in a deep hole in a
creek under Tuscarora bridge, four
miles from here, Sunday afternoon,
William Schell, rs. was drowned when
he went into the death trap the Sec
ond time after his wife, who had
plunged into the water with him to
rescue the boy. The woman was saved
by William Federhoff, passerby, who
heard the screams of the child After
he had revived the mother he first
learned Schell was in the water and
dived in again, but the delay was too
great and the man was drowned. His
body was recovered later. The tragedy
was the result of the Schell boy and a
companion wading under the bridge
during stop on an auto drive through
the eountrvside He slinnad into TX