The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13
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HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK

ponds Will be redeemed with money
raised by assessing AUDITING prop
erty owners.
Baltimore.-Annual encampment of
the Maryland Department, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, will be held at An
napolis Sunday and Monday. Me-
mortal services will be held by the
veterans on the first day of their en-
campment and business will be trans
acted ON the second. During their
stay at Annapolis the Naval Academy
grounds will be thrown open to them.
Baltimore.-Auto thefts are increas-
ing in Baltimore, figures just issued
by the police department showed. For
the first five months of this year 219
more cars were stolen than during a
like period in 1928. The figures are:
1924, 1888 stolen, 692 recovered; 1928,
514 stolen, 484 recovered. Most of the
cars were borrowed" by joy riders
and bootleggers and abandoned short
ly afterward, the report said.
Cumberland. - Cumberland Local
No. 244, International Typographical
Union, held its annual meeting and
elected officers. They are: Presi-
dent, T. Raymond Peterman; Vice
President, George D. Kline; Secre-
tary-Treasurer, Charles A. Barringer;
Corresponding Secretary. w. H.
Frazier; Sergeant-at-arms, Benjamin
F. Walters; Journal Correspondent,
w. H. Frazier; Auditors, James Orr,
Mary Luteman and j. w. Taylor.
Baltimore. = Automobile Commits
sioner e. Austin Baughman sent let
tiers to the automobile commissioners
Of Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia
asking their cooperation in Mary
lands drive to do away with obscure
markers on automobiles. In his letter
Commissioner Baughman explained to
the other automobile commissioners
that he is DESTROYS Of protecting the
automobile drivers of other States
from arrest for carrying obscure
markers when they reach Maryland.
Baltimore. Maryland's newest
bridge will be opened with elaborate
ceremonies June IA. Leading
pageant which will depict the history
of Maryland, Governor Richie and
his mother will be in the first auto
to cross the new structure which
spans the Severn River, just outside
of Annapolis. Residents of Anne
Arundel county will how "The Spirit
of Transportation" in a pageant. Row.
Ing, padding and swimming contests
have been arranged.
Hagerstown.-Atw o-year-old child
was rescued from drowning by
Hagerstown police after the mother,
Mrs. William Baker, had thrown it
into a stream east of the city. Chief
of Police Barber and Patrolman
Brown, who rescued the child, found
the mother on the bank of the
stream, wringing her hands and
weeping. She is believed to be men
tally deranged and is under observa-
ton at Bellevue. The child, suffer-
Ing from exposure, was taken to a
local hospital. Physicians believe it
will recover. Authorities are unable
to assign any motive for the
mothers act. 1t is believed that she
meant to drown both the child and
herself.
Dol tee Of Motor
Vehicles E. Austin Baughman received
a letter from Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover asking him to serve
on a committee to study automobile
accidents. The committee will meet
in Secretary Hoover's Office at Wash
ington in the fall, it was said. Secre-
tary Hoover, it was learned, regards
the automobile laws of Maryland high
ly. He was especially impressed with
the examination given automobile op-
orators. In many states, the Commits
sioner said, no license is required to
operate an automobile. He is of the
opinion that uniform automobile laws
and regulations for every state afford
the only solution OF the motor Venlcie
accident problem.
Rockville. - The annual banquet
In honor of the senior class of the
Sandy Spring High School was held
In the auditorium at the school Sat
urday evening. 1t was given by the
Junior class of the institution and
was attended by about 100 guests,
including members of the two
classes, the faculty, county school
officials, representatives of various
organizations of Sandy Spring neigh
borhood and others. Prof. j. M.
Bishop, principal of the school, was
toastmaster and toasts were re-
sponded to by Thomas Bowie, Jr., OF
the junior class; Miss Lucille Bond,
of the senior class: Miss Katherine
Hodson, of the faculty; DR.. George
e. Lewis, supervisor Of school prop
erty; Joseph E. Janney, of the county
board of education; Mrs. Fred.
Thomas, trustee, and DR.. Jacob w.