24 Aug 1927
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1927
Page
1
Beginning at Summer street, rebuilding work begins with large contractor crews excavating from Summer to Elizabeth street. Gas and water lines will be laid before concrete pours. City plans to limit disruption, bids for materials advertised, lighting plan debated by residents who may contest signers.
While Washington street is rebuilt a section of Ridge avenue and the Middleburg pike between the main line of the Western Maryland and a cut-off will be rebuilt. All three contracts have been awarded to Bester and Long. City street forces are at work in several city sections, with big jobs repairing the Cavetown and Paper Mill road near Hagerstown.
Walter Stickney, aged 66, beat all competitors in the mowing contest during Farmers' Week at Durham Massachusetts.
Late Monday an attempted assault on Mrs. Guila Fink near Point of Rocks was thwarted by her cries and nearby residents including Ira Stunkle. The assailant, described as a white man in khaki trousers, fled. a search continued with no capture by noon Tuesday. Fink, a 25 year old nurse at Garfield Hospital, was visiting her father J. S. Wenner.
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