The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-10-23
State Items
Briefly Told

Baltimore.-A parade with 10000
marchers ushered in Baltimore's
Columbus Day celebration.
Observation-Disclosures search has be-
gun for Jacob A. Dozen, sixty-four,
lawyer and church worker, who fed
while under indictment on charges of
mulcting $4,000 from clients.
Cumberland. = Parental discipline
will be enlisted by Allegany authori-
ties to assist them in their campaign
against "petting parties" in parked au-
tomobiles in the county.
Hagerstown.-Samuel Long, a., was
shot and killed at the home of Archie
S. Bean, here. Bean and H. C. Miller,
who lives with him, have been arrest.
ed, charged with murder.
napolis.-Governor Richie was in
New York Saturday to attend the cere.
monies connected with the planting of
tree in his honor in "The Honor
Grove for the Living" Central Park.
Salisbury.-Calvin Donaway, Pitts
vile merchant was seriously injured
when B. c. & A. locomotive struck
his auto near st. Martins station. He
pital here.
nnapolis.-Forest fires in Maryland
since January 1 have burned timber
area equivalent in size to a half-mile
strip along the National pike between
Baltimore and Cumberland, Assistant
State Forester Karl e. Pfeiffer an
nounced.
Annapolis. - Governor Richie ex-
pressed surprise that Walter H. Buck,
speaking at the Eleventh Ward Demo-
cratic Club, Baltimore, had criticized
him for lack of clearness as to his
stand on States rights and against
prohibition enforcement laws.
Riverdale.-By selling strip tickets
at 10 cents per foot, pupils of the
fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh grades
of the Riverdale school have raised
about $50 toward the fund to buy
f1agpole for the school, and hope to
raise at least double this amount
Salisbury-Three persons were in
jured, one seriously, when an east
bound passenger train on the Balti-
more, Chesapeake and Atlantic Rail-
way demolished an automobile at a
grade crossing east of st. Martins
station.
La Plata.-While posse headed by
the woods about Crosstown, Charles
county, for Joseph Gross and his son
Sidney (colored) for shooting Prohibit
ton Agents Robert D. Ford and Robert
E. Beall, the negroes slipped into La
Plata and surrendered.
Baltimore.-The force of dry agents
operating in Maryland under Prohibi-
ton Administrator Edmund Budnitz
will be decreased when the reorgan-
ization plan becomes effective, it was
declared by Gen. Lincoln c. Andrews,
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury,
in charge of prohibition enforcement.
Pimlico. = Prohibition will never
have fair chance to show it can be
made success until it is entirely re-
moved from the sphere Of politics..
George w. Crabbe, superintendent of
the Maryland Anti-Saloon League de-
clared in an address at Ellerslie Meth
odist Episcopal Church, near Pimlico.
Baltimore.-The Young Mems Chris
tian Association opened a drive Mon
day to raise $4,000 to carry on it's
educational and spiritual activities
among young men and boys during
1926. The campaign is Independent of
the Community Fund Campaign, &C.
cording to James NJ. Motley, "Y" vice.
president.
altimore.-Business men here will
soon be able to span the distance be-
tween this city and Miami, Fla, via
air. A daily aerial passenger, freight
and mail service, sponsored and sup
ported by a number of prominent Bal
timore business men, is to be estab-
lished in the near future between this
city and Miami.
Baltimore.-In an effort to avert a
strike of the engineers, iremen and
hostlers of the Western Maryland
Railway Company, the committee of
brotherhood chief and local represent
atives of the employees in the next few
days will submit new proposal to
Maxwell C. Byers, president of the
railroad.
Rockville.-At the annual meeting
of the Montgomery County Sunday
School Association, held in Grace
Methodist Church, Gaithersburg, Of
ficers were chosen as follows: Presi-
dent, the Rev. A. E. Owens, Gathers