The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-12-04
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SENATOR o. =. Weller
bat in the ring" as can
succeed himself in the
Ates Senate.
bre. George w.. Rife, newly
BID City Collector and manager
Bureau of Receipts, received a
of congratulation from Governor
Lnnapolis.- attempt to impose
municipal license tax on Maryland
: lotorists, in addition to the State fees,
will be fought by Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles E. Austin Baughman.
Baltimore.-The sixty-third ami
versary of Lincoln's Gettysburg speech
was celebrated in Baltimore by a pa
triotic meeting at the War Memorial
under auspices Of the Grand Army Of
the Republic.
Baltimore.-Francis De Sales San
try, real estate dealer, charged with
conspiring to obstruct justice, was re-
leased for court in $4,000 bail by ].
Frank Supplee, United States Commits
sioner.
Baltimore.-Abolitio of the present
contract system for auditing the city's
books and creation of a modern, bust
ness-like Bureau of ADULTS as part of
q central accounting system, was rec
commended to Mayor Jackson by the
Efficiency and Economy Commission.
Elkton. - The West Nottingham
Literary Club has been organized for
the ensuing winter with the following
officers: President, Prof. Paul Stay
baugh; vice-president, James J. Han
ma; treasurer, Charles S. Pyle, and
secretary, Miss Bertha NJ Tyson.
Convicted Of attempt.
ing to bride city health official,
George Exathos, proprietor Of lunch
room in the 500 block West Baltimore
street, was sentenced to 10 days in
Jail by Judge Henry Duffy in the
Criminal Court
Baltimore..--The League Of Ameri-
can Penwomen, Baltimore branch, has
offered to women of Maryland SIS for
the best short story; $40 for the best
lyric poem and $25 for the best pic
ture in the Baltimore Water-Color Elk
hibition of 1926 to be held in February.
Baltimore.-Efforts to force Gov
ernor Richie to call a special session
of the Legislature to consider the
Conowingo power project will be made
by organized labor in Baltimore, it
was decided at the meeting of the
Baltimore Federation Of Labor.
Baltimore.-Charles Scott, colored,
was held for court by J. Frank Sup
pies, United States Commissioner, on
charges of robbing the mails. The
boy is said to have confessed to the
commissioner that he took several let
tiers from mail boxes in downtown Of
fee buildings and extracted money.
Annapolis of thought in
America is threatened by a wave of
Standardization, which, if unchecked,
means for this country an approxima-
ton of the fate of China, DR.. Arthur
T. Hadley, president emeritus of
Yale, told an audience at the Naval
Academy.
Baltimore. - Because an adjusted
compensation certificate once issued
cannot be issued in duplicate in theS
event that it is lost, members of Bal
timore Post, No. 6, of the American
Legion. have rented safe deposit
vault in downtown bank to serve as
repository for the certificates.
Baltimore. Features of the Mary.
land system of public instruction
which are unique, in the opinion of
T. H. Harris, Louisiana Superintend-
emit of Education, will be studied in
conference of Southern State superin.
tendents of education to be held here
December 8, 10 and IL
Baltimore.-A hearing was held by
the Public Service Commission on the
application of Southern Gas and Pow
er Corporation, Maryland corpora
ton to issue stock to the amount Of
approximately $2,OO0,0OO. The COM
mission took the application under
advisement. 81
Baltimore.-Yearly reassessment of
the city under recommendations set
forth by the efficiency and economy
commission was approved by Mayor
Jackson and the appeals tax court.
The new plan will be put into effect
gradually until it. is fully in force by
1929.
Baltimore.-Removal of the Battle
Monument to the center of City Hall
Plaza as the chief feature of plan
for improvement of the square was
approved by Mayor Jackson and other
city officials and probably will be car.
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