The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-15
Maryland
State NeuUs

his motorcycle skidded into a tele-
phone pole.
Towson. IS Baltimore county will
have S54,133 available July l for road
building, the money being part OF
the Federal aid fund to Maryland for
1926. Total for the State is $634,624
and for the nation $73,125,000.
Hagerstown.-C. L. Fultz and John
West, of this city, were sentenced to
three months on the State road force
and fined $3.50, at Harrisonburg, Va,
by Acting Mayor Stickley for viola
ton of the prohibition law.
Baltimore.-A public hearing before
the Supreme Bench of Baltimore on
the petition of Harry B. Wolf for rein
statement to the bar was decided upon
tentatively for January Is at meet
ing of the Supreme Bench.
Centreville.-When their home was
consumed by fire shortly after 2
o'clock A. NJ, Mr.. and Mrs. William
c. Lane, and sons, Charles and Frank
Lane, of near Kent Point, were COM
PEELED to flee in their night clothes.
Easton.-Frank G. Wrightson, Mayor
of Easton and one Of the most widely
known men in the State, died sudden
ly at his home here. Mr.. 'Wrightson
was 75 years old, having been born
October 1, 1850.
Baltimore.-Terms of thirteen Of
the thirty-four judges of Maryland will
expire next fall, including six of the
eleven members of the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore city and five of the eight
members of the Court of Appeals.
Baltimore. - Although automobile
thievery here showed an increase in
1925 compared with 1924, police made
a better average for recoveries. Police
records for 1925 show total of 2,12O
machines reported stolen and 1908
recovered.
napolis.-Increasing demand has
brought the highest prices of the year
in Chesapeake Bay oysters, according
to Swepson Earle, State Conservation
Commissioner. Mr.. Earle was notified
that oysters are bringing So bushel
on the oyster boats at Crisield.
Baltimore. - Community Fund Off
cials are to meet this week to decide
on the future conduct of the campaign
for more than million dollars to sup
port twenty-nine charitable and social
institutions of Baltimore during 1925,
it was announced.
Ocean City.-Architects are drawing
plans for a building to replace the
Atlantic Hotel, which was destroyed
by fire. The new hostelry will be mod
ern in every respect and will be about
the same size as the old one. 1t will
have about 200 rooms.
Annapolis.-A reduction of at least
80 per cent. in all forms of crab fish,
ing will be recommended to the next
Virginia and Maryland Legislatures by
the United States Bureau of Fisheries,
Swepson Earle, State Conservation
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Baltimore.-Six drivers were SEN
fenced to Jail in the Traffic Court and
the county courts during the last week
on charges of having violated the
traffic laws, according to the report Of
State Automobile Commissioner E.
Austin Baughman.
Baltimore.-Abel Wolman, Chief En-
gineer of the State Department Of
Health, is en- route to Europe on the
Steamship Veendam to study sewerage
and water supply conditions in Eu-
rope. He will return to Baltimore in
March.
Baltimore.-The estimated popula-
ton of Baltimore will advance to S02,-
AS on January Is, according to re-
port sent Mayor jackson by DIR. c.
Hampson Jones, Commissioner of
Health. This represents an increase
of approximately 947 compared with
the estimate for December.
Annapolis - A decrease of 1904
gases VI ulSGdScS III
the counties of Maryland during 1925,
as compared with the preceding year,
was announced by DR.. Robert H. Riley,
chief of the Bureau of Communicable
Diseases of the State Department of
Health.
Latonsville. = Walter Griffith, 3S
years old, well-known resident of this
district, died in Washington hospital
His death was due to pneumonia and
followed an illness of only few days.
Mr.. Griffith was a son of the late viii
liam H. Griffith, prominent farmer
and was lifelong resident of the
county.
Elkton.-The past week was the
most active one for Cupid due prob
ably to the holiday season than for
several months, eighty-six couples.