The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-07
State Items
Briefly Told

Maryland will hold a reunion here
Thursday, with games, athletic con-
tests, music, dancing and addresses by
prominent leaders of the order.
Standardization of officers was
the closing event of the sixth annual
convention of the United States Army
Ambulance Service Association at the
Hotel Emerson Saturday.
Baltimore.-More than 100000 per-
sons are carried into the downtown
section Of Baltimore every day by
street cars. At $4,000 a head. they
are worth billion dollars.
napolis.-Governor Richie, re-
luctantly consented to recommend to
the next Legislature and Governor an
appropriation of $4,000 as the States
share of the proposed traffic survey of
Baltimore.
Baltimore.-Tests for the purpose of
establishing an employment list from
which vacancies in the class of animal
keeper may be filled will be held by
the City Service Commission August
6.
MISUNDERSTANDING of the increas-
ing work in the Postofice at Balti-
more, Postmaster-General New author
lied the employment of fifteen addi-
tional clerks and mail handlers by the
Baltimore Postoffice.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and other
measures affecting the oyster indus
try will be discussed by Governor
Richie at meetings to be held the
first week of August in various COM
munities on the lower bay.
Stricken while he
was extracting teeth from suffering
patient at his Office, DR.. George E.
Baughman, sixty-nine, for years
prominent dentist there, died few
minutes later of dilation of the heart.
nnapolis.-Speakers for the ninth
annual reunion of the Knights of Co
lumbus, which will be held August 20
at Pen Mar, include Governor Richie
and David l. Walsh, former United
States Senator from Massachusetts.
Baltimore. Boy Scouts donated
272S hours of free service in connec-
ton with patriotic and civic events
from April to June, inclusive, it was
stated in the second quarterly report
Of the organization, issued Friday
Annapolis-All physicians and sur
geons in the State were enlisted by
Dr. John S. Fulton, director of the
State Department of Health, to stamp
out the worst epidemic of rabies in
the history of Maryland.
Baltimore.-v Bernard Stems. Wa
ter Engineer, has been appointed Q
member of the editorial advisory board
Of Fire and Water Engineering,
weekly publication in New York de-
voted to waterworks engineering
projects.
Baltimore.-E. Austin Baughman,,
State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles,
and D. Marshall Schroeder, Deputy
Commissioner, left Baltimore for
Providence, r. l., where they will at
tend meeting of the Eastern Confer
ence of Motor Vehicle Commissioners.
.Frederick.-The Maryland Odd Eel
lows Home for Orphans and Aged
Persons, comprising group of hand
Gonna h,iildin0c ono milo yOrfh of flic
city, costing between 100000 and
100000 was dedicated Sunday with
imposing ceremonies.
Annapolis-Savet the babies and you
save the race. On that basis the
Bureau of Child Hygiene is making a
special effort to tell every mother in
Maryland just what should be done to
bring infants safely through the most
perilous season of the year.
acknowledgements by Adjt.-
Gen. Milton A. Reckord, Governor
Richie reviewed the First Separate
Company, the negro unit of the Mary
land National Guard encamped at
Saunders Range. The company
strength is one hundred men.
polis.-Four thousand men of
the Citizens Military Training Camp
will participate in mock battle" at
Camp Meade this week. The battle
will cover an area of twenty square
miles, the whole southern half of the
camp.
Rockville.-A threatened legal bat
tie over possession of the body of G
Herbert Collins, twenty-nine, World
War veteran, was averted when his
widow, Mrs. Gertrude Powell Collins,
agreed to burial plans made by his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Col
Inns.
Annapolis.-With the full approval
and cooperation of leaders in the
oyster industry, the State Department
of Health has established rules which