The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-06-23

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Annapolis.-The detail of the Ex-
aiming Board of the Maryland Ma
tional Guard was announced by Ad-
| jutantGeneral Henry NJ. Warfeld.
The officers designated are: Col.
Louis NJ. Rawlings, Fifth Infantry;
Lieut-Col. Charles w. Adams, First
Infantry; Major Samuel w. Filbert,
| Fourth Infantry; Major S. Griffith
/ Davis, Medical Corps. The Board
! will serve for one year and meetings
! for the examinations of officers of
the guard will be held quarterly, in
July, October, January and April,
| dates of the meetings to be determin-
| ed by the president of the board.
| Arrangements will be made for the
coming July meeting to be held prior
to the encampment of the State
| guardsmen, which takes place July
10 to 90. The meeting place will be
| the rooms of brigade headquarters in
the Howard street armory, Baltimore.
| The commanding officer of the bril-
gade is charged with the duty of pre-
| pairing list of names of officers elig-
ible for examinations, which he shall
submit to the president on the first
of each month named.
Annapolis. County Commits
sioners have granted formal permits
sion to the promoters of the Balti-
more and Southern Railroad, who
are behind the scheme to build the
railway from Baltimore to Drum
| Point, to begin construction work
| This permission was asked through
Attorney James w. Owens. The
Public Service Commission of the
State recently adopted a ruling in ac-
cordance with the legal construction
placed upon Chapter $50, Acts of
1910, to the effect that railroad cor
porations planning the building of a
railroad must first procure from
city or a body polite governing the
section through which the road is
to pass authority to go ahead with
the construction work.
Annapolis.-The assessors of prop
eTty in Annapolis, in accordance with
the provisions of the act passed at
the last session of the Legislature,
will receive the full amount of their
bills for services, though the county
had taken preliminary action look
n n fitn nf bA oIo
on the ground that they were excess
sive for the actual service rendered.
This matter has been hanging fire for
several months, a dispute having
arisen as to what should be consider
ed days labor on the part of the
assessors. The County Commission
ers were inclined to take the stand
that eight hours should constitute a
working day, whereas the bills show
ed that the number of hours of work
ranged from three to eight or more.
Hagerstown.-At a special meeting
of the mayor and city council the or
dinance authorizing the Western
Maryland Railroad Company to lay
an additional main track on Foundry
street and third track on the COM
pany's land east of Foundry street,
etc., was passed, and will be APPROX
ed by Mayor Scott. This is prelimi-
nary to the erection of the proposed
new passenger depot in Hagerstown.
The ordinance must be accepted by
the railroad company within two
months AS railroad officials have ex-
pressed a desire to have the new
depot completed by next October, it
is said no time will be lost in &C
cepting the ordinance, which in a
general way is said to be satisfactory
to the company.
Hagerstown.-Des because
Of i'll health, Miss May Ridgely, aged
Is years, attempted suicide at the
home of her grandmother, on Cramer
avenue, Hagerstown, by slashing her
throat with small pocket knife.
When the blood began to flow the
girl screamed, and her grandmother
rushed to her room. 1t was rWmored
that the girl had also swallow wed a
quantity of carbolic acid, but this was
denied both by her relatives and also
the physician who attended her. The
girl is expected to recover.
Snow Hill.-The largest dwelling
house on the Charles Clayville farm,
near Snow Hill, was destroyed by
fire. The property was owned by
Mrs. Charles Clayville, a sister of
United States Senator John Walter
Smith 1t was tenanted by Edgar
Dryden, who lost all of his house
hold goods.
Westminster report of the
assessors shows the new taxable basis
of Carroll county to be $25,454,431,
OF which $17.S95,7OO is real and
$S,526,527 personal property. The
Increase, as compared with the old
taxable basis. is s7,aSs,129.