The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-28
State Items
Briefly Told

Annapolis.--In the event of a coal
| strike Maryland probably will adopt
| cooperative control and rationing of
fuel to both domestic and industrial
| consumers under system worked
out in Washington.
Rockville.-Mrs. Josephine Bailey,
wife of Thomas N. Bailey, was
drowned in well at the rear of her
which covered it, gave way as she
stepped on it, precipitating her into
eight feet of water.
| Shore birds" of Mary
land Sunday enjoyed their last day Of
legal immunity from slaughter. Be-
ginning Monday persons with per-
| mits may kill and eat them wherever
found. The open season continues
until November 80.
| Elkton.-Seventy-one couples, prin-
cipally from Pennsylvania, New Jer
sey, Delaware, Maryland and District
Of Columbia, obtained marriage IL
censes here this week, practically all
of whom had the nuptial knot tied
before leaving town.
nnapolis.-Baltimor must provide
landing field for airplanes quickly
| or be left behind in aviation competi-
ton with other cities, in the opinion
| of Robert J. Wilde, Reserve air Off
| Ger and secretary in the legal depart
ment of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road.
Baltimore Thirteen cases of
| typhoid fever and two cases of para
typhoid were reported to the Health
Department last week, DIR. C.. Hamp-
| son Jones, Commissioner of Health,
said in a letter to Mayor Jackson Sat,
urday. There was one death from the
disease.
Hancock.-The Hancock Boosters
Club has been organized with the fol-
lowing officers: President, Charles
H. Corbett; vice-president, James H.
Montgomery; secretary, Austin c.
Peck; treasurer, Roy M. Daniels. The
club will get, behind the homecoming
week activities.
napolis.-Residents of Somerset,
Montgomery county, added their pro-
test to the avalanche of objections be-
fore the Public Service Commission
to the proposed belt line railroad
which the Washington and Tough.
borough Belt Line and Terminal Com,
pany wants to build.
Towson- Baltimore county farmers
had "a real old.fashioned get-together"
Wednesday at Timonium Fair Grounds
| under auspices of the Farm Bureau OF
Maryland, Besides wheelbarrow, po-
tato and bag races, speeches were
made by members of the Farm
Bureau.
Baltimore.-Gov. Albert C. Ritchie's
home at 1924 st. Paul street has been
placed on the market. The mansion
has been suggested by Col. Claude B.
Sweeney as the future home OF Mont.
faucon Post, American Legion, which
has completed negotiations for the
sale of the Montfaucon Hall property
on Madison avenue.
Cumberland.-Convinced that they
have the right man in William H. Pof-
fenberger, 26, alias William r.
Roberts, in connection with the hold
up of the Baltimore and Ohio ticket
Office here when over $4,000 was Sc.
cured, officers are now bending their
energies in trying to find the stolen
money, believed hidden in this sec.
ton.
Baltimore. = Bronzed and rugged
from two weeks Of vigorous training
at Camp Trinkle, Virginia Beach, men,
bers of Baltimore's own Dandy Fifth
returned to the city Sunday with
more honors and a better training
In modern warfare than they have
ever brought back from any previous
encampment.
Annapolis States $4,000 ap
propria, Ion for the condemnation of
tubercular cattle will fall far short of
meeting the demands as a result of
the discovery by officials of the State
Board of Agriculture in their intense
county-by-county drive that they had
under estimated the disease rate by
about 10 per cent
Annapolis. = Twenty four operators
and chauffeurs' licenses, nine of them
held by Baltimoreans, were revoked
in the State during the past week, &C.
cording to the weekly report of the
Automobile Commissioners office. OF
the operators who lost their cards,
eleven were charged with driving
intoxicated.
Hagerstown.-Captain George L.
Fischer, veteran of the Civil and
SnauiSh-A marican Wars opd fo- ,,,ar,,