The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-02-02
MARYLAND
STATE NEWS
Newsy Items Gathered From
ALI Parts OF the State.


Rising Sun have organized dancing
class of 25 members and will give
weekly dances.
Hagerstown.-Edw Slifer, aged
35 years, farmer diving near Downs
vile, has been adjudged insane, with
lucid intervals, by sheriff's jury.
Boyds-The Germantown Milling
Company whose plant was destroyed
by fire at loss of about $4,000, will
rebuild. There was but $500 insur-
ance.
Elkton.-Col George r. Ash, State
Auditor and owner ana editor OF the
Cecil Democrat, died at his home,
Holly Hall, near Elkton, from acute
Indigestion, aged 81 years.
Boyds.-At Germantown one of the
largest Farmers club in Western
Maryland is organizing. Fifty have
paid dues and about 100 will start
the organization. Meetings will be
held weekly and a library will be
formed.
600, given by the Security Cement and
Lime Company to secure an issue of
per cent. bonds and covering the
company's plants near Hagerstown
and at Berkeley, w. Va, was filed for
record here on Friday
Benton. - The Commissioners of
Denton have closed a contract for a
60, 000-gailon steel tank for a water
plant to take the place of the wooden
tank. The tank will cost $2,400. The
water supply will later be increased
from the second big artesian well on
North Second street to be electrically
pumped into the main
Denton.-Hoffman Bros, near Ridge
ley, who have the largest peach
orchard in Caroline county, find that a
large per cent. of the buds on the FL
berta trees are living Edward Cook,
near fredericksburg, found that his buds
had been killed by the cold weather.
Growers agree that much damage was
done.
Federalsburg.-Gra from al!
parts of Dorchester and Caroline coun-
ties met here Thursday as guests OF
| Nantlcoke Grange. State Lecturer
! Smith, of Kent county, spoke on the
recent corn-growing contest in the
morning. Dinner was served by the
ladies of Nanticoke Grange. Lectures,
speeches and social features took up
the afternoon.
Boyds.-Baltimore and Ohio men
are placing new single track auto
matte block from Germantown to
GAINESVILLE, and from Dickersons to
Washington Junction, which embraces
about IA miles of track which is now
hanuled by the manual system, and
the only portion of the Metropolitan
branch which is not double-tracked.
Rockville-A new woman's club has
been organized at Bethesda, this
county, with the following officers:
President, Mrs, Francis c. Getzendan,
ner; first vice-president, Mrs. E. 7
Cronin; second vice-president, Mrs
Morris l.. CroXall; recording sec
l y ,
corresponding secretary, Mrs Charles
f. Dickens; treasurer, Mrs. Daniel
Morgan; critic, Miss Lillian Miller.
1 The Bethesda Club applied for admis-
sion to the federation.
Annapolis.-Albert Tyler, convicted
of the murder of his son-in-law, Rob
ert w. T. Robinson, at East port, a
suburb of Annapolis, and the con
fessed slayer of his aged wife, Cath
crime, was sentenced to life impris'
onment in the penitentiary. Tylers
life was saved by unanimous rec.
ommendation of the jury that the
lesser penalty be inflicted. Tyler has
escaped the gallows, as States Attor.
ney Green has decided not to try him
for the murder of his wife.
Hagerstown-Farm and fruit
growers of Washington county form
ed club at meeting in Hagerstown,
the officers chosen being as follows:
President, Thomas A. Poffenberger;
secretary, Harry II. Humrichouse;
treasurer, John E. Wagaman; eXecu-
tive lcommittee-lsaac Emmert, Caleb
Long, George H. Thomas, William d.
Hughes, Harry B. Wolfinger and Sam.
uel S. Stouffer. There will be appoint
ed vice-president for each district
in the county. The club will be in
corporated and will establish per-
manent headquarters in Hagerstown.
Salisbury bond issue of $4,000,
for the purpose of the extension of
street improvement and installing of
a modern sewerage system in this
city, was agreed upon at representa-
tive meeting of citizens of Salisbury,
held in the Courthouse in this city, in
response to a call CT the Mayor and
City Council. Every phase of the i'm
provements was discussed and it was
the unanimous opinion of those pres
ent that these important improve
ments should be continued, and in
order that work might go on a bond
issue was decided to be the most eco
nomical manner in which to raise the
money.
Hagerstown.- Frances waste
aged II years, daughter of Edward
waste, died from shock and exposure.
after being rescued from the Antietam
creek, near ,Breathedsville, by her bro
Their, Augustus waste. Miss waste was
one of party of four who were skat-