The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-06-01
LOCAL NEWS
Some Little lettings About
People and Things.

A short hay crop is already the
song of the farmer.
Carroll County will hold pri.
maries on Saturday, the End
inst. TT.
Miss Veagey, of Washington
y visiting Mrs. Calvin Mutt.
near this CITY,. >%
Confederate Decoration Day
will be on Wednesday, the 9th
day of June, in this city.
Brigadier, General Elwell s.
Otis, has been made a Major.
General, vice General Merritt.
who is to be retired on June 10th,
1900.
In politics, like anything else,
good men are often led astray by
bad advisers. 1t is well to stick
to your organization even if
mistakes are sometimes made.
Professor Johnson, of the
Maryland Agricultural College,
has been in Frederick District
looking after that dreadful insect
which destroys our pea crop.
The Senate this week divided
its time principally between dis
cussing the. Philippine question
and the consideration of appro-
priation bills. The Clark case
came up as diversion on Wed.
nesday.
The Democratic primaries in
Maryland, Saturday, generally ex-
pressed themselves for Bryan for
President. Frederick and sew.
eral other counties voted against
instructed delegations.
The Methodist Episcopal Gen.
eral Conference in session at St.
Louis on Monday last, declined to
pass a resolution censuring Presi
dent Mckinley for failure to sup.
press the army canteen.
Mrs. Margaret L. Myers, of
Doub's, this county, has sent out
invitations to the merriage of her
daughter, Maggie Estelle, to Mr..
@. Edward Smith. The ceremony
will be sOlemnized on Tuesday
morning, June 5, at nine O'Clock,
at st. Marks Lutheran Church.
at Doub'S.
The Frederick Hospital Associ
alton gave a delightful trolley
party to Braddock Heights on
Friday afternoon last. A run
was made to Myersville and on
return stop was made at Brad
dock, where lunch was partaken
of. The party returned about
7.30 p. m.
Among the young ladies grad
uating this year at the Western
Maryland College, Westminster,
Md, is the name of Miss Katha-
rine Finger Thomas, Of Buckeyes
town, this county, who will de
liver the salutatory. Messrs.
Roy Zachariah Thomas, Frede.
rick, g. Clarence Baker. Lewis
town, and James Harry Snouffer,
will also graduate from the same
institution.
Miss Dyer, who spent last sea
son with Mrs. Carroll Mercer at
her beautiful home near this city,
was quietly married to Mr.. TheO-
dore Price in New York, on Sat
urday last. The wedding was to
have been quite a large affair,
but owing to serious reverses on
the stock exchange of the we'll
known firm of Price & Mccormick,
the wedding was quiet one.
Rev. S. NJ. Hench, of this city,
with party of friends, will sail
for Europe on July Z. They will
make the grand tour through
Italy, Switzerland, Germany
and other countries, attending
the great Christian Endeavor
Convention in London and the
exposition in Paris. They will
return to America abaut the first
of September.
The census enumeratorS will be-
gin their work in this county
tomorrow, June LIST, 1900. They
will be required to complete their
work in two weeks and it will
then take months of calculating
and computing to finish the Ell.
tire work. A large force of
clerks will be employed in the
Census Office in Washington to
compile the returns and make
calculations.
State's-Attorney Worthington,
in letter to the NecS of this
city. has given an opinion as to
the legality of the nickel and
penny slot machines. (which have
been in operation in hotels and
restaurants in this city. He con-
siders the ownership and opera
tion of these machines a viola
tion of the law against gambling
and advises all Interested in these