The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-06-22
LOCAL NEWS
Some Little lettings About
People and Things.

gin.
The season for country boarders
is at hand.
Our corn packing establish
ments promise to have very
busy season.
Miss Maria Doyle, of Norfolk,
is visiting in town.
Miss Adelyn Wilson is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Edward Nelson.
The increase in the net earn
ings OF the b. & o. Railroad for
May, 1900, was s593,3S2.
Copper ore has been found on
the property of DR.. Lewis Lamar,
of Wolfsville, this county.
Lots of cherries have been
shipped from this city to the can
ming factories in Baltimore.
Mr.. H. Dorsey Etchison has
been appointed clerk to the
Board of Election Supervisors.
Miss Madeline English, of
Richmond, is visiting her aunt,
Sister M. Bernard, at the Con,
vent.
A reissue of pension at Sc per
month has been granted to John
G. Keyser, of Buckeystown, this
county.
Work on the public school
building on Church street is be-
ing pushed along by the con
tractors.
Mr.. M. Roosevelt Schuyler, of
New York City, was the guest re.
Gently Of Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin r.
Mutt.
An original pension of IS per
month has been granted to Sam
uel E. TritapOe, of Jefferson, this
county.
st. Johns College, Annapolis,
conferred an honorary degree OF
Doctor of Divinity upon Rev.
Osborne lngle, of this city.
Fair weather again after four
days of rain. The ground is now
thoroughly soaked and the bene.
fit to the crops was imestimable.
tits estimated that the census
will show a population in Greater
New York of 3,7O8, 541, The
population in 1890 was 2,526,512.
Mr.. Meredith Smith, son of DR..
F. +. Smith, of this city, gradu
ated from Georgetown University,
Washington, ID. c., on Wednes'
day.
Quite a mum Der of visitors were
in town this week owing to the
commencement exercises at the
Academy of the Visitation and
the AlumnR reunion.
Prof. w. II. Harry and Mr..
Harry f. Chaplain, of this city,
attended the Republican National
Convention this week in Phila
delphia. Mr.. George Schroeder,
also of this city, was one of the
usherS.
Friends of Hon. William j.
Bryan controlled the Delaware
State Convention, in session at
Dover. The silver issue was ig-
nored, although many ardent
white metal advocates were
present.
at a meeting Of the newly
elected members of the State
Board of Homeopathic Medical
Examiners held in baltimore on
Wednesday of last week, DR..
Charles F. Goodell, of this city,
was elected president.
The salary of the postmaster
at Frederick, Nd, has been in
creased from $4,000 to 50, 500.
That of Hagerstown from $4,000,
to 50, 700, Cumberland from
50, 700 to $500, and EmmitS-
burg from 81, 100 to l,200.
Commencement exercises at Mt.
st. Mary's College, Emmitsburg,
took place Oh Wednesday last.
Among the distinguished visitors
present was the Right Reverend
Bishop Allen, of Mobile, formerly
president of the institution.
The price of what has been
steadily advancing. In Balti-
more on Tuesday, it was S0a
cents, an increase of 81 cents
since Saturday AS usual, the
farmer has little left to sell and
the spectators make the profit.
There has been a marked i'm.
provement in our city gas under
the new management and lots OF
subscribers have been added tC
the list Of consumers. The gas
cooking stove has became very
popular and numbers of then
are in use all over the city.
Quite a number of applicants
are already in the field for the