The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-17
LOCAL NEWS
Some Little lettings About
People and Things.

Mr. Richard Potts is spending
his vacation at Atlantic CITY.
Mr.. Allen Williamson. of tbi.
city, spent a week recently al
Atlantic City.
Mr.. VIM. s. Levy, of Baltimore.
who has been spending a few
weeks in this city, has returned.
Miss Bessie Mclean, of New
York City, is visiting her aunts,
the Misses Ritchie, West Church
street.
Mrs. James McSherry and Miss
Caroline McSherry are at Atlantic
City, where they will spend a few
weeks.
Mrs. Lloyd T. McGill and Mrs.
Charles Helfenstein, East Church
street, are spending a few days at
Atlantic City.
States Attorney Glenn H.
Worthington has been elected
counsel to the Board of Super.
visors of Election.
Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Luther Kuhl
man, East Church street, are
spending some time with friends
at Eglon, w. Va.
A portion of Troop A, Mary.
land National Guards, will mass
through this city early next week
on their way to Capon Springs.
Fitzsimmons and Sharkey will
fight on August oath, at the Sea-
side Athletic Club, Coney Island.
a % round bout, for a purse of
$4,000.
The Board of Aldermen ex-
tended the limit Of the franchise
of the Washington and Gettys.
burg Electric Railroad, at a
meeting on Wednesday night.
Noah E. Cramer, real estate,
loan and insurance agent, sold
to Colonel Layman and Jacob
A. Layman, a farm of 1876 acres
in Lewistown District, this
county, for 81, 500.
The hot sun has seriously af-
fected the fruit crop. Peaches
are ripening out of season, apples
and pears have dropped badly
and are only a medium crop.
Plums are plentiful and grapes
are ripening fast.
n The wedding of Prof. Clyde B..
Slower, assistant professor in
chemistry at Gettysburg College,
and Miss Adelaide L. Brown, of
Brownsville, Nd, will take place
in st. Luke's Episcopal church,
Brownsville, on Wednesday,
August %.
The police justices for the city
have made their first quarterly
report to the Mayor and Board of
Aldermen of Frederick. Justice
Wood reported and turned over
$40.25; Justice Smith, Sal, and
Justice Eckstein, $31.5O, collected
in fines and costs.
Miss Jamison, of Hagerstown.
and Miss Hamilton, of Balti-
more, are the guests of the Misses
Jones, of Mt. Airy. In their
honor Tuesday evening last,
several friends were invited to
spend the evening, and a most
pleasant time enjoyed by all.
The Standard Lime and Stone
Company contemplates increasing
its crushing capacities at the new
quarry at Dickerson, Montgomery
county, very soon to about 20
cars per day. The company will
employ a force of considerable
over 100 men. Seventy-five men
are now employed there.
Frederick will get a souvenir
of the Spanish war in the shape
of six-pOunder gun, taken from
one of the Spanish vessels that
were destroyed at Santiago by
Admiral Schley. 1t will be placed
at the base of the Key Monu-
ment in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
James G. Clarke, alias James
w. Baird, has been sentenced in
Patterson, N. j., for passing
bogus checks, to three years in
the State prison. This is the
man who cheated several of our
storekeepers sometime ago by
representing himself a Pullman
car official and passing worthless
checks.
st. Johns Catholic church now
possesses two very handsome and
valuable sacred vessels-a cibOr-
ium and a chalice-made out OF
old gold and silver trinkets,
watch cases and rings, cOntribut'
ed by the members of the cOngre'
cation. The workmanship is
beautiful and the value is said to
be about 81, 200.