The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-12-18
Maryland
State Neu,s


Baltimore-Gen Felix Agnus, SOL
dier and publisher, died at his home
here. He was 81. He had been i'll for
months and for the last few days
unconscious.
Baltimore. -E. Austin Baughman,
State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles,
has taken steps to prevent the con-
gestion attendant upon the annual is
suing of automobile and motorcycle
license number plates.
re.-Announcement of the
results of examinations held by the
State Board of Pharmacy for phar-
macists and assistant pharmacists
will be made Thursday by DR.. Robert
L. Swain, secretary of the board.
Baltimore. Bronze door decorations
at the main entrance of the Fifth Reg
iment Armory, memorial to the living
and the dead of the Dandy Fifth who
served in the regiment during the
World War, are to be unveiled on
Armistice Day.
Annapolis.-Plans for approving the
Conowingo giant-power enterprise
simultaneously will be laid by mem
bers of the Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania public service commissions, and
the federal power commission at Har-
risburg, November 8.
Baltimore-4Inspection of the entire
personnel of the Fifth Regiment,
Maryland National Guard, began Mon
day by Brig. Gen. Milton A. Reckord,
commanding officer, and Major
Thomas G.. McNicholas, executive Of
ficer \.
Baltimore.-This city had five more
deaths last week than in the CORE
spending week last year, Health Com
missioner Jones reported. He warned
tracing measles. Twenty-eight new
cases of the disease have been re-
ported.
ore.-Consistent in his plans
TO Jack up" the Baltimore public
school system, DIR. David e. Weglein,
acting superintendent, has issued a
bulletin to principals asking them to
turn in efficiency ratings for every
person on the payroll sheet" of the
various schools.
Belair.-Four bandits Sunday night
entered the store and lunchroom Of
Robert Lane, at Lynch's Corners, on
the Belair road, three miles south of
Belair, robbed it of $75 and escaped,
pursued by State Police and posses
composed of neighbors toward Balti-
more.
NJ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the Quota
will hold business-night dinner
he Southern Hotel on November
according to an announcement
re by the committee in charge,
is heatied by Miss K. z. DON
ederi& Mrs Ellie Sullivan was
mot TO death in her home at Bruins
wick. Jesse Campbell. FL, is under
arrest on charges of numbering her.
He says he was in the house when
he heard shot in the kitchen. Run
ming in he found that Mrs. Sullivan
had shot herself, Campbell told police.
Mountain View Inn, on
top of the peak at the intersection of
Elk Highway and the Northwestern
pike, was destroyed by fire. Leonard
Paugh, the proprietor, was absent at
the time and his wife and nine chill
dren had barely time to escape in
their nightclothes. Everything was
lost.
Baltimore. John Philip Hills
entry as senatorial candidate against
Senator Weller is likely to lose him
many friends among Maryland's wet
leaders. The leaders have already
held one meeting to discuess the situa-
ton. They are Withholding definite ac-
ton and all comment until Hill re-
turns from California.
odttAAuOi e. Will Inc CIdU StdSOu
closed there is every indication that
next year will be banner one for
crabs in the waters of Maryland. This
was the announcement of Swepson
Earle, Conservation Commissioner, fol
lowing an interview with Capt. Elmer
o. Townsend, chief inspector of the
Conservation Commission.
altimore.-Arrests in Baltimore for
the first nine months of the year,
made public by Police Commissioner
Charles D. Gather, show a jump of
approximately 5000 more this year
than in 1924 and, according to present
indications. the record for 1925 will
be the largest in the history of the
Police Department.
Annapolis Institution of imme.
date legal proceedings against the