The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-04-07
THE NEWS
OF
MARYLAND

Navy Department this summer. Lieut.!
T. G. Ellyson, who for several months
/ past has been receiving instruction in
the operation of aeroplanes at SAN
| Diego, Cal, will be one of the instruc.
/ tors, according to present plans. Lieu
tenant Ellyson has been ordered from
San Diego to Washington for confer
| ence with the Department. One or
/ more aeroplanes probably will be pur.
! chased for school purposes. Capt.
! Washington |. Chambers, the head OF
the board having charge of naval
aeronautics, was transferred from as.
sistant to the aid for material in the
Navy Department to membership on
| the general board. He will continue
/ his aeronautical work.
agerstown.-At a meeting of the
! Washington County Anti Saloon
! Leagae committee of one hundred
was appointed to take charge of tho
1 coming campaign in this county. The
following headquarters committee
was appointed: Daniel A. Stickell
! chairman; Franklin NJ. Thomas, see
rotary; J. w. Myers, NJ. P. Moller
Isaac Emmert and Newton E. Funk.
houser Resolutions commencing tho
work here of Rev. Cyrus P. Keen. SUI
perintendent of the Western Mary
land district, with headquarters in
/ Hagerstown, we're adopted. Mr.. Keen
has been transferred to Salisbury,
| Md. His successor here has not yet
been appointed. Addresses were
maze by Rev. DR.. George w. Young,
assistant superintendent of the Ma
tional Anti-Saloon League, and Viii,
| liam H, Anderson, superintendent of
the State league.
Easton.-J. Frank Turner, States
Attorney for Talbot county, when
| seen and asked what he thought
/ about the statement made by DR..
! Charles P. Rose in Centreville TO the
/ effect that he knew positively that six
members of the last grand jury i'll
/ Talbot county were vote buyers and
! two of them were vote sellers, said:
so far as my observation extends
and think every leading Demo orat
| in the county will agree with me, tire
Corrupt Practices act has been faith,
fully obeyed from the first genera
election held under it down to Inc
present. If there have been viola
lions, | do not think they can be iaia
| at the door of the Democratic party"
Easton.-ln the Circuit Court fol
| Talbot county, Judge Adkins presjd-
| ing, the writ of maDdamLs as prayed
! for by William E. ShannaGan, Oliver
! H. Henry, James A. Spence ara John
w. d. Jump was granted, directing
the Mayor and Council of Easton 70
borrow $4,000 by the issue Of
coupon bonds of the town OF Easton.
The proceeding is in accordance with
the provisions of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, and the money is to
be used for the building Of improved
streets
Annapolis. Fire of uuascertain4d
origin destroyed large concrete and
frame structure. together with d big
chicken house belonging to Fred r.
| Stehle, at the extreme western end OF
Murray Hill. The blaze started in the
larger structure and, driven by a stiff
westerly breeze, soon enVeloped the
whole building, spreading also tc the
other building, % yards away. In Fae
! larger building was stored a lot of
lumber and other building materials.
The loss is about $4,000, partially COW
! cred by insurance
Hagerstown.--The promoters OF the
| Hagerstown and Clearspring Railway
Company will go before the Public
! Utilities Commission in Baltimore this
week and ask for permission 10 CON
struct the road. 1t is announced that
sufficient funds save been secured and
work will be started as soon as the
| Commission grants permission The
road will be II miles in length an;
Will follow the old Nation4. turnpike
nearly the entire distance.
Boyds. investigation will be
asked by Seymour Edwards, Of Boyds.
brother of Charles Willard Edwards, Of
| Dickers0n, who, it is claimed. was
! drowned a few days ago at Great Falls.
| Montgomery county, by falling from a
boat. The boat was in charge of Cap
| tain FLASHER, of Cumberland On &C
count of number of COMMISSIONS on the
forehead and body of Edwards. his
/ brother here thinks he may have met
with foul play.
Hagerstown.- Professor Frederick
Doyle KeTshner, native of Wash
! ington county, formerly vice-president
of Kee Mar College, Hagerstowp. now
president of Milligan College, near
Johnson City, Tenn, has been offered
the presidency of the Texas Uniyer-
sity at Austin.
Easton.-Mrs. Margaret Adams
| Cheezum, aged 80 years. one of
Easton's Oldest and most highly es-
teemed women, the widow of the lato
Daniel Richard Cheezum, died sud
denly of heart failure at the home of
her son-in-law, Charles w. Baker.
| Hagerstown.-Th residence of John
Wolf at Welsh Run was destroyed by
! fire, which started in an upstairs bed.
room. A few articles of furniture were
saved The fire was discovered when
the family retired for the night.