The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-06
LOCAL NEWS.
Some Little lettings About
People and Things.

Moving is about over now, and
people are busy doing their spring
cleaning.
Ex-senator Charles II. Gibson,
OF Maryland died at his home in
Washington Saturday last.
Next week is Passion Week.
and Lent will end with Easter
Sunday, the 18th Of April.
The condition of Mr.. William
Anderson, who has been ill with
pneumonia for the past week is
still critical.
Prof. Anon Burgee has pur.
chased at private sale the old Ty-
son property on East Patrick
street for So,
The Board of County Commits
sioners will be in session until
the end of next week, making as
sessment on all new property and
nearing appeals.
The commission of Mr.. M. G.
Urner, of this city, as commits.
sloner to promote the uniform
lty of legislation in the United
States has been received by the
Clerk of the Circuit Court.
Mr.. Hall W. Eyster, of En-.
mitsburg, has received patent
on novel clock. 1t has, among
other improvements, device by
which a broken spring can be re-
placed without taking the clock
apart.
The Comptroller of the Cur.
rency says the name of the bank
organized at Brunswick, this
county, is "Farmers' and Mer-
chants National Bank" and not
"Farmers' and Mechanics Ma.
tional Bank" as originally given
out.
1t is said on good authority
that the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad will in the near future
double track the Metropolitan
Branch from Gaithersburg to
Washington. Part of the line is
already double and the ultimate
end will be that the entire line
will be double tracked.
Communion in Zion Reformed
Church, Gainesville, next Sum-
day, the SUh inst, at 10 a. M,
and at st. Paul's Church, Utica
GrGs, Easter Sunday, at 10 a. m .,
Preparatory service and confirm
nation on Saturday previous, aah(
Up. m. Services at Utica Mill,
on the evenings of the 10th, 11tlt
18th, and 18th, at 100 p. m. A
re
w. w. Frantz has closed coFat
tract with the Blue Mountai, -
Steel and Iron Company, owneea
of the Mont Alto and CatoctB
Iron Furnaces, to furnish fol Il
carloads of crushed limestone pc ID
day for one year to the Mont Allie
furnace. He also has a contratde
to supply the Catoctin Furnaces
with the lime needed in makinesa,,
iron. a
The Palmetto Fibre COmpan a
will have an interesting exhib he
at the Paris Exposition, and Mint
George Vanfossen, of this city,
will have charge of same. Sew
eral of the cOmpany's fine ma.
chimes, the invention of Mr.. Nc
Clintock Young, of this city, will
be in operation, making brushes.
A number of photographs of the
factory here have been sent over
to form part of the exhibit.
Mrs. Richard Mareen Duvall, of
Baltimore, formerly Miss Mamie
GoldsbOrough, of Frederick, has
presented to the Society of Colon
ial Danes some valuable relics of
colonial times, some of them being
at least one hundred and fifty
years old. This was done in COM
pliance with the wishes of her
aunt, Ma y G. Goldsborough, of
Frederick, who died recently. The
relics will be placed on exhibition
in the department of Society in
the Smithsonian Institute, Wash.
ingtOn, ID. @.
The following delegates were
appointed by President Lloyd T.
McGill, Jr., of the United Steam
Fire Engine Company, to attend
the annual convention, upon in
vitatiOn of the Veteran Firmen's
Association: Dr. l.. T. McGill, Jr.,
Glenn H. Worthington, Douglass
Il. Hargett, Ii. r. Heck and
Lewis Rice.
Alternates, Frederick j. Mel
son, Joseph w. Gaver. John Fl.
Bennett, Henry G. Dull, Angus
tus Obenderfer.
The healthy old man wears his gray