The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-24
LOCAL NEWS.
Some Little lettings About
People and Things.


wick.
A Bryan and Kern Club wa
organized in Ha gerstown witt
215 members.
The Fahrney Family will hole
their first family reunion at Ma
pleville, August LIST.
Rev. Father A. j. Conlon i.
absent from this city for tire,
weeks upon his vacation.
The excursion from Baltimore
and Washington on Sunday last
numbered 260 for this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin S. Houek,
OF this city, have returned from a
business trip to Snow Hill, Md.
There were seventeen tickets
sold at the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad ticket Office for Atlantic
City.
The Pope Bicycle and Automo-
bile Industry will be removed
from Hagerstown to Westfeld,
Mass.
The School Commissioners of
this county are planning to test
the rural school consolidation
scheme.
The cost of the New York city
government for the next fiscal
year has been fixed at $143,
572. 266.
Judge Kesdy has issued an in
Junction ordering the Hagers-
town officials to discontinue
arresting Jacob Jackson and Fan
rose Fox.
By an action of the Board OF
Aldermen the time for using steam
on Fourth street by the W., f. &
q. r. r., was extended until April
l, 1909.
Miss Halle Cramer entertained
number of her little friends at
her home, on July 18th, her tenth
birthday. They were sumptu-
ously entertained.
In an attempt to commit suicide,
Mrs. Josephine Poffen berger, aged
%, wife of Calvin Poffen berger of
Williamspolt. drank nearly an
ounce of laudanum.
While engaged in stringing
wires William Haines, an en-
ployee of the Patapsco Electric
Light Company, fell from a pole
in Ellicott City, breaking several
ribs.
Chairman Murray Vandiver
will call together the Democratic
State Central Committee next
month to lay plans for the Pres
idential' and Congressional cam
paigns.
Bishop Henry Goldman Potter,
of the Episcopal Diocese, of New
York, died at Cooperstown, in
that State, recently, following a
sickness of several weeks, aged
20 years. He was the seventh
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of
New York.
The directors of the Frederick
and Jefferson Turnpike Company
have raised the rates for automO
biles to double the former price.
The road starts a: Frederick and
goes to jefferson, a distance Of
about eight miles. Formerly the
toll rate for two seated auto.
mobile was Is cents, but here.
after 80 cents will be charged.
A number of conditions forced
the wheat market prices upward.
reaching on the Dist of July 9S3
cents aud 80 cents. The Dakota
wheat has suffered much on ac-
count of the drought. The Ar
gentine crop is not first-class.
The amount of available wheat
at this period of the year, is only
about fve-elghths of the amount
Tor the same time last year.
The United Brethren Reunion
Will be held on Saturday, July
10th. at Mountaindale Grove.
All of the Sunday Schools in the
Immediate surrounding districts
nave been invited and will partic-
lpate. The different pastors of
the United Brethren Churches
Will make addresses. Messrs. G..
Y. Amsterdam and Reno s. Harp
nave also been requested to
speak. The committee, with Mr..
Y. Q. Ausherman as chairman,
are hard at work and will spare
no effort to make the reunion .
grand Suocacc