The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-07-25

1.-The meeting Of the Allegany-G Garrett
| Medical Society, held at the Frostburg
Country Club, on the Casselman River
In all, $50 persons were present The
principal speakers were DR.. Gordon
| Wilson, Baltimore, and David r.
Lyman, Wallingford, Conn. Round
table discussions were held. Lunch
was served at noon and chicken
dinner in the evening. Dancing fol-
| lowed.
Upper Misunderstanding May and
June the office of Prince Georges
county treasurer, George w. Waters,
| established a record for collections.
The amount of county taxes collected
was $12S,565.44; State taxes, $751;
3547S, and sanitary tax, S2,O36.S4, or a
total of S14s,957.03. In addition to
Treasurer Waters, the Offices staff
comprises r. Ernest Smith, deputy
treasurer, and Miss Lucille Duvall and
Earl Wyvill, clerks.
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Frostburg. officers of the Junior
Order United American Mechanics,
No. IL, for the ensuing year have been
elected. They follow: Past councillor,
Richard Hawkins; councillor, Daniel
Davis; vice-councilor, Charles Brim-
low; corresponding secretary, J. w.
Timmons; treasurer, D. w. Griffith;
| conductor, ]. B. Lewis; financial sec,
rotary, Thomas D. Jeffries; warden
Albert Capel; chaplain, George w
Timmons; trustees, Thomas Reed, j,
B. Lewis and Richard Hawkins.
| Frostburg.-An alleged boy bandit.
George vanucci, aged IL. was caught
on the street here after an exciting
chase. He is alleged to have met
Harold Wilson, aged is, son of Charles
Wilson, grocer, as he was proceeding
to bank to deposit 800 for his
father. Vanucci jumped on Wilson,
1t is claimed, throwing him to the
ground and pulling the money-two
| $50 bills-from his pocket. Vanucci
fed through an alley and hid the money
between rocks in the foundation of
| Hitchins Bros. Company store, where
later it was recovered. The boy was
held for Juvenile Court and 1t is
thought he will be sent to a re-
formatory.
Elkton-The Board Of County Com
missioners for Kent county, at the
urgent request Of large number OF
women of the county, has decided to
appropriate 5000 toward the mainte-
nance of the Home Demonstration
Agent for the county. The Commits
sioners, when they made the annual
levy and fixed the tax rate for the
fiscal year commencing July l, failed
to appropriate any money for Dem
onstration Agent. notwithstanding the
county had been doing SO for some
years past. The women of the county
were disappointed and made request
for the continuance of the work in
the county.
Annapolis.-Charles Werntz, H.
year-old son of Prof. Charles e.
Werntz, is being acclaimed hero for
his daring in saving woman from
| drowning near Horn Point Beach. The
| woman, whose name was given as
Mrs. Mccarthy, had been in bathing
at the beach. The Werntz boy, it is
said, was standing on the shore when
he heard cries for help. The lad, fully
| clad, went splashing through the wa
ter until he reached the spot where
Mrs. Mccarthy had disappeared. Div
ing, the lad managed to grasp the
woman's bathing suit and, bringing
| her to the surface, held her head
above the water and swan with her
| into shallow water.
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Hagerstown.-"It was an accident.
I am sorry" declared Mrs. Cora
Ricketts, Wilkinson, thirty-year-old
brunette. in her cell in the Washing
ton County Jail when questioned
about the fatal shooting of John H.
Sigafooz, thirty, Brunswick (Md.)
| railroad employe, and the wounding
of Frank Burger, eighteen, at the
| home of Henry circuit, three miles
south of Hagerstown. Mrs. Wilkin-
son is being held on the charge Of
| first degree murder, and, according
to States Attorney Ellsworth R. Rou-
lette, the State will produce witnesses
to prove the woman was insanely
| jealous of Sigafooz and that she had
made several threats to end his life.
Sigafooz leaves widow, from whom
he was separated Mrs. Wilkinson
also was separated from her husband.
"He didn't dare come back to me.
Cora Ricketts, would have killed him
If he had" declared the widow of the
dead man. When policemen arrived
at the scene of the shooting, Mrs.
Wilkinson was found lying across the
body of Sigafooz. Stories of the actual
shooting still are disconnected. 1t
appears Burger, who is brother-in-
law of circuit and lived at the circuit