The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
MARYLAND
STATE
HAPPENINGS

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| Hagerstown-Mis Edna Cramer, OF
this city, While at Atlantic City was
! nearly drowned by an undertow. Miss
! Cramer was unconscious when the
life guards reached her.
! Elkton,-Wnliam Kirk, bridge ten
| der at Pivot, was seriously injured by
! being struck in the abdomen with the
bar while turning the bridge to allow
| r yacht TO pass through the Chesa-
| peake and Delaware Canal
fredericksburg. - The old Pennsyl.
vania Railroad station here was de-
stroyed by fire This was Federals-
burgs first depot. 1t had been used
continually since the railroad began
to go through here, about 40 years
ago.
Cumberland-Th City Council ac-
cepted the report of the Commission
ers on the closing of Creek street to
further the extensive terminal plans
of the Western Maryland Railway,
which will erect a $4,000 passenger
station here and a modern freight sta
ton.
Cumberland-Th Cumberland City
Council has granted the homecoming
week committee the use of Com
merce, George and Ann streets for a
large carnival to be held in connec'
ton with the celebration, September
2 to September 7.
Chestertown.-At a meeting of the
Town Council an ordinance was pass
ed prohibiting any more excursions
of colored people from landing here
The conduct of the excursionists Mon
day and on previous occasions was
such as to call forth this protection
Gaithersburg-A Wilson, Marshall,
Lewis and Worthington club has been
organized here, with +. B. Woodward
as president, A G. Carlisle vice-presi-
dent, Claude Owen secretary and R.
E. Kanode treasurer. The club will
raise a Wilson pole and follow with a
massmeeting.
Rockville-While Jason Hoyle, q
merchant at Olney, Montgomery
county, and the members of his fam
ilv were attending a picnic across the
} road from his home and store Thurs
day, somebody entered the store and
stole $25 in cash, several checks and
other things. Sheriff Howard has ar
rested two negroes on suspicion.
Fredericksburg. -The Caroline Coun-
ty School Commissioners have con
tracted to buy seven acres of land on
Academy avenue for the site of the
new high school building, This faces
the State road A modern high school
will be erected as soon as conditions
permit. There will be ample room for
play grounds.
Fredericksburg. Farmer Daniel
Wright, near here, plucked from his
garden a unique specimen of vege-
table in the form of twin squash
Two large and perfectly formed
sQuashes are united at one side and
have a common stem. Postmaster
jefferson has it on exhibition
Cumberland. - Mrs. Benjamin D.
Morgan. widow, was so badly burned
by tar at Meyersdale that she may not
recover. Mrs. Morgan owns a three
story fiat, opposite the Citizens Ma
tional Bank Workmen were heating
tar on her kitchen stove when it
blazed up and the flames spread to
her clothes.
mberland.-Activity in Somerset
county, Pennsylvania, by surveyors
and others of the Western Maryland
Railway has revealed that the line is
negotiating for a branch from the
newly opened Cumberland and Con-
nellsville connection into the north
ern coal field of Somerset county at
Friedens and Bakersville and may
eventually enter Jamestown.
Frostburg.- Mayor and Council
of Frostburg have accepted for the
proposed new Miners Hospital the
two-acre site offered by the Consolida-
ton Coal Company at $500, including
the mineral rights. Without the min
eral, the coal company would have
donated the ground. The Legislature
appropriated $4,000 for the building.
Rockville.-Robert E. L. Yellott, of
Washington, supposed to be repre-
senting the Bradley Hills Real Estate
Company, has bought the Darius Clag-
EFT farm of 220 acres, near Potomac,
this county, for $4,000. He has also
bought from John w. Renshaw 81
acres, near Bethesda, for $500 an acre.
The Albert Stewart farm, near Lay
louisville, containing 240 acres, has
been sold by Attorneys Albert NJ.
Bcuic and Alexander Kilgour to
Charles T. Windham, of Montrose, for
$S,S93.5O.
Salisbury-James Carr, a negro
who is charged with murder, and Viii
liam Ennalls, who broke out of jail
a. Cambridge, were recaptured at
Mardela Springs by Sheriff Roy E.
Smith and Ephraim A. benson, his
deputy. Sheriff Smith got a telephone
message from the Dorchester county
authorities to be on the watch for
the fugitives, for when last seen they
were heading for this county. The
Sheriff Immediately got an automobile
and started for the Dorchester coun
t. line. When passing over the rail
road crossing, near Mardela, he saw