The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19
LOCAL NEWS.
Some Little lettings About
People and Things.

and the high schools will close
June Goth.
The Pennsylvania Railroad
Company is improving their sta
ton in this city.
DR.. d. NJ. Devilbiss. of Wood
vile District, has been reappoint.
ed County Health Officer.
An increase of from $S to s12
per month has been granted to
Henry Lee, of this city.
A load of stone in the mud
hole in front of the gas house road
on Church street would remedy
very bad place in our streets.
John II. Kessler, Jr., son of
Mr.. John Fl. Kessler, ESQ.,, near
BuckeystOwn, was a graduate in
the class of '99, College of Phar-
macy, New York City.
Only five lots were sold on
Tuesday last, at the sale of the
Braddock Improvement Company
at BradGock Heights at prices
ranging from $50 to $75.
commencement exercises will
be held on June 10th, at the
Academy of the Visitation, this
city. On the same day the
Alumnae Reunion will take place.
Admiral Schley is now en- route
to the West on a trip for health
and recreation. He will 90 to
Nebraska, make a tour of Pixies
Peak and then stop in Chicago,
St. Louis and other large cities.
The seventy-fifth anniversary
o. the old Union School House at
Jefferson will be celebrated on
Whit-Monday, May %, at 2 p. m.
will be made by Judge
Lynch and others of the earlier.
pupils. All are cordially invited.
John Berry, cOlored, the Fred
erick negro, who murdered Miss
Clark, near Bowie,
Prince Georges County, on
March 18th last, has been found
guilty and will be hung shortly,
upon a day set by the Governor.
Miss Halle d. Jones, daughter
of Mr.. Albert Jones, banker of
Mt. Airy, Carroll County, WHO
nysteriously disappeared on No,
vember 2, of last year, while on a
visit to Baltimore, has been
'ound in New York and returned
nome.
The commencement exercises
IF Notre Dame Academy, Lib
will take place on Tues
lay and Wednesday evenings,
June 20 and 81. The graduating
class will consist of two-Misses
Clotilda Wright, of that place,
and Claire Sappington, of Union.
Vile.
On Monday evening last, after
a largely attended meeting of
the Mountain City Lodge,
Knights of Pythias, a banquet
was held at the restaurant of Mr..
A. P. Marsh, on Court street,
where an enjoyable time was spent
by all.
A new schedule went into effect
on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, last Sunday, the 18th inst.
1t only changes the time of the
arrival of the train that used to
get in at 1920 p. m. 1t now ar
rlves at 1928 p. IN. All other
trains are the same.
Mr.. Dixon Walker, of Urbana,
has a 4-year-old heifer that is a
butter producer of the first rank.
She has had her first calf, and re-
Gently in severe test, with only
grass feed, she made Is pounds
Of butter. A herd of such cows
would be worth their weight in
gold.
A frame house in course of
erection for Mr.. Charles Picking,
at Hansonville, this county, was
blown down Tuesday night dur.
ing a high wind, and the wreck.
age strewn far and wide. COnsid.
cradle damage was done in that
section by the wind to trees,
fencing, etc.
Linemen of the Frederick
County Telegraph and Telephone
Company have planted telephone
poles between New Midway and
Ladiesburg and wires will be
strung at once. Next week
poles will be planted between
Jefferson, Petersville and ON to
Brunswick.
The great reunion of the
Daughters of the Confederacy at
Glen Echo, near Washington,
will be one of the most enjoyable
trips of the season. An excursion
from Frederick and all points will
be, no doubt, announced in due
time. The Frederick chapter of