The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-09-11
Maryland
State NeWs


accepted an invitation to deliver an
address on September IS, at the exer-
cises at the opening of the new high
school building at Towson.
Annapolis Richie. who
is spending his vacation at York Har-
Dor, Maine, observed his forty-ninth
birthday Saturday. He was up bright
and early, and after brisk walk, took
his daily dip in the ocean.
Baltimore. - The largest annual
meeting ever held by the Maryland
State Dairymen's Association was adj
dressed at Carlin's Park Saturday by
DR.. A. T. Woods, president of the Uni
versity Of Maryland.
AMI 2polis. = Numerous complassts
have Leen received by the State Game
Depar ment against the practice OF
some hunters in killing squirrels in the
early weeks of September when they
still aze caring for their young.
Ann apolis.-Prisoners at the Mary
land Penitentiary no longer will be
used as chauffeurs or as TRUSTEES" on
work that takes them away from I'M
guarded positions in the institution,
according to Warden Patrick ]. Brady.
Bal.imore.-Five motorists were
sentenced to thirty days in jail after
conviction on charges of driving while
intoxicated during the week ending
Wednesday, according to the report
of the State Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles just made public.
Baltimore. - Reports of imported
cases of typhoid fever continue to
reach the Health Department. There
were eleven such cases last week.
Mayor Jackson was advised by Dr. J.
Frederick Hempel, Assistant Commits
sion Of Health.
Spurred by the determination to
avenge last weeks defeat at the
hands of the Maryland Polo Club, the
Sixteenth Field Artillery polo team
Sunday defeated the Maryland four
by score Of to in return match
aL bTOOklauuVlllc f1olQ.
Baltimore Commanders of every
post in Maryland will be urged by
Col. Claude B. Sweeney, newly-elected
commander of the American Legion
of the State, to stimulate new inter-
est in their communities and increase
their membership.
Baltimore.-Two out of every three
children examined during ninety-1ve
clinics held in ninety-one communities
of Maryland by the Child Hygiene
Bureau of the State Department Of
Health, needed dental attention, ac-
cording to report by DR.. ]. H. Mason
Knox, chief of the bureau.
Baltimore.-Income tax records for
the last year will be available to the
public at the Custom House Tuesday
and afterwards, according to Deputy
Collector Frank T. Benson. The tax
figures can be legally published by
newspapers under the recent Supreme
Court decision.
Baltimore.--An unassembled test
for applicants for the position of chief
of the Health Departments new
Division Of Chemical Technology will
be held September 10, it was an
nounced by Paul N. Darlington. sec
rotary of the City Service Commits
sion.
Hagerstown.-Col. Claude B. Swee-
Zey was elected commander of the
American Legion, Department of
Maryland, at the seventh annual con-
vention of the organization in this
city. He received seventy-nine votes
against fourteen for George H. Park
er, Jr.
Frederick.-A verdict of suicide was
returned in the death of Peter N. Ham
maker, sixty-seven, wealthy Frederick
county citizen, by Acting Coroner JUS
tice Sherman P. Boxers. Hammaker
was found dying in his garage from
carbon monoxide gas poisoning by DR..
Horace A. Birely.
Baltimore-Moret than 5000 persons
in this city, mostly business and pro-
fessional men, have signed petition
calling for modification of the Vol
stead act which is being circulated by
the National American League all over
the country. Three solicitors have
been here since last week promoting
the petition.
Elkton.-The past week was busy
one for Cupid at Marylands Gretna
Green. Seventy couples, most from
Pennsylvania New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland and District of Columbia, OBJ.
tanned marriage licenses and were
welded before leaving town. Four
couples were refused licenses because
either or both the parties were under
the legal age.
Ocean City-Reiterating the doc
trine of States rights and assailing