The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-07-10
Maryland
State NeJDs

ment here Of station for United
States Aerial Mail Service.
Frederick. X. Marshall, of Reist-
erstown, was elected president of the
Maryland State Letter Carriers Asso-
citation at the twenty-first annual con-
vention of the organization which ad-
journed here Saturday.
Baltimore. - Harold Friedman, IT.
year-old son of Sol Friedman, and
formerly of this city, was drowned
while bathing in shallow water off the
Ocean View cottage line, according to
q dispatch from Norfolk.
nnapolis-William N. woodward,
20 years old, Afor more than thirty
years clerk in the Circuit Court for
Anne Arundel county, died at his home
in Murray Hill, Annapolis He had
been in i'll health for the last two
years.
Baltimore.-Lawrence L. Childs, pro-
hibition agent, has been arrested on
charge of receiving money from the
proprietor of Nixon's Restaurant, 300
block West Fayette street, in return
for furnishing certain information
about prohibition activities here.
Observation-Disclosures and Virginia
have decided to unite in an effort to
solve seafood problems that are so
.rfo ,,f- ~, 0P
both States. With this end in view an
important joint meeting Of their sea
food commission will be held July IA.
Cumberland.-John Mowry, eighty
nine, Union veteran who served in the
Civil War in Company H, One Hun
bred and Seventy-first Pennsylvania
Infantry died at Hyndman, fourteen
miles northwest Of here. Mowry was
farmer and for many years justice
Of the peace. I.
Baltimore. Maryland and Virginia
were apathetic, and Pennsylvania re-
sponded fairly well to the War De-
partment's Defense Day muster, &C.
cording to a telegraphic report for
warded to the Adjutant-General of the
Army by commanding officers of the
Third Corps Area, with headquarters
in this city.
Annapolis THE mysterious "oyster
and crab Investigation contemplated
by the Federal Grand Jury into. condi-
tions in Maryland and Virginia as
heralded by reports from Norfolk does
not affect the general industry, accord.
ing to the belief Of Swepson Earle,
State Conservation Commissioner.
Hagerstown.-George H. Meter, 20,
Hagerstown, was drowned in the Po-
tomac river, near Shepherdstown,
when he was stricken with an attack
Of vertigo while polling boat in the
river. Meter was found lying face
down in the river in less than q foot
of water.
Hyattsville. - Odd Fellows Grand
Lodge Of Maryland has asked each
member Of the order to contribute
$1,000 to the home for aged and needy
members Of the order, which is to be
dedicated Sunday, July rs. The hope
is that the home will be free of debt
at that time.
Baltimore.-Business conditions here
are improving constantly. according to
A. S.. Goldsborough, executive secre.
tary of the Baltimore Association of
Commerce. The statement is embodied
In report Of business conditions
based on the fiugres for the first six
months Of 1925, recently completed
by Mr.. Goldsborough.
Hyattsville $4,000 Ku Klux
Klansmen and others from Maryland,
Virginia, District of Columbia, West
Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware
took part in jubilee on the grounds
adjoining the White House Tavern
here. The festivities closed at mid
night with fireworks and flights of an
airplane carrying khan cross.
Annapolis Public Service Com
mission has no jurisdiction over rail
road grade crossings. The commission
has no authority to compel railroad
companies in Maryland to furnish in.
formation regarding the number OF
crossings and danger signals used
This was the ruling given to the COM
mission by Acknowledgement Thomas
H, Robinson.
Annapolis. = Governor Richie re-
turned Sunday to the Executive Man.
sion at Annapolis after an absence OF
a week. Last Sunday the Governor
: left for Poland Springs, Maine, to at
tend the annual Gubernatorial confer
ence held there. Last Tuesday Cover.
nor Richie. addressed the conference
He attacked Federal aid to the States.
nnapolis.-After lying for almost
$50 years in neglected and almost for
gotten graves on the Greenberry Point