The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-05-03
MARYLAND
STATE
HAPPENINGS

appropriating S103500 for a public
building at Cambridge has passed the
Senate.
Elkton.-Dr. T. ]. Conrey of Chesa'
peake City, has been appointed secre-
tary of the Cecil County Board OF
Health by the County Commissioners
of Cecil.
Mar.-The Melvue Hotel near
the park, Mrs Ewing, proprieuess.
has opened and several guests from
Baltimore have arrived to spend the
season.
Hagerstown. Work was begun
Thursday on the new roundhouse and
coal chutes of the Western Maryland
Railway in Hagerstown. Surveyors
were also at work on the site for the
new passenger depot.
George Myers, who is en-
gagged in the real estate business at
Long Beach, Miss, and who uSlally
spends the summer at this place, has
arrived and will have the management
of the Pen-Mar store.
Observation-Disclosures NJ. Dryer,
well-known farmer, near Monrovia,
this county, killed himself. Dryer
used shotgun, having gone to the
cellar of his home for the purpose. Mr..
Dryer had followed farming all his
life.
Elkton.-Dr. II. Arthur Mitchell has
been elected president of the Cecil
County Medical Society; DR.. Ernest
Rowland, vice-president; DR.. Howard
Bratton, secretary and treasurer; Dr.
John II. Jenness, delegate to the State
society.
Federalsburg-Far living near
Grove have formed a corporation for
the purpose of packing fruits and
vegetables, under the name Of the
Farmers Canning Company. The
capital stock is $4,000. Walton P. Tay-
lor, G. X. Kelley and j. Hudson Tay-
lor are the incorporators. A canning
house will be built and equipped.
Hagerstown.-Fire that is supposed
to have started from a defective flue
destroyed the general merchandise
store and dwelling of Jas. A.
Daley at Cearfoss, this county, entail
ing a loss of about $4,000, with prac-
tically no insurance. Everything IN
the store, which was well stocked with
produce, was destroyed.
Frederick-Miss Mary Hauer, SO
years old, a lifelong resident of this
city, has removed to Hanover, Pa, to
make her home with her sister, Mrs.
Vouck. She is a cousin of Barbara
Fritchie, Whittier's heroine, and at
one time taught private school. Bar
bara Fritchie's closest living relative
now is Mrs. John II. Abbott, a grand
niece, of this city.
Rockville.-At a mass-meeting OF
the citizens of Takoma Park, this
county, which was presided over by
Ben G. Davis, with James o. Nc
Allister. secretary, candidates for
mayor and members of the town coun'
Gil to be elected at the town election
May 6, were nominated as follows:
For mayor, f. Norman Jackson, S. W.
Williams and C. w. Pafflew; for town
council, H. F. Taft, L. T. Graybill, R.
d. Rush, Joseph Austin and B. B.
Jenkins. Three councilmen are to be
chosen to succeed Councilmen Taft,
Graybill and Rush.
Boyds.-At the home Of Ernest Stat
tlemyer, near Boyds, a tragic death
occurred through the careless hand
ling of shotgun by the 7-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Stottlemeyer. A
little sister Of the boy, aged 1 year,
was under the table and another sister
was amusing it by swapping the trig-
ger of the gun. The boy came in and
took the gun, and his sister ran after
a shell and placed it in the breech.
On the second attempt to pull the
trigger the gun went off within foot
of the infant, the full load tearing an
ugly wound in its breast and causing
immediate death A physician found
life extinct. The father and mother
are Frustrated.
Crisfeld.-An organization was per-
fected at a meeting in the Majestic
Theatre to be known as the Good
Roads Association of Lower Somerset
for the purpose of having the appro-
priation for State road work in SOmer-
set county this year spent on building
the road from Crisfleld northward in
stead of from the upper section of the
county southwark, as heretofore. Rep
resentative citizens and taxpayers
from Crisfield, Asbury and Lawson's
districts were present. They are
working in hearty accord to bring
about the desired result. The Girls
field Board Of Trade has been asked
to assist in the undertaking. The
Good Roads Association will appoint a
large committee to appear before the
Governor and the State Roads Com
mission urging that the building of the
road commence at Crisfield.
Cumberland.-Wi William NJ. Young,
aged 40 years, who came to Cumber-
land several months ago from Scot
land, was struck and instantly killed
at Virginia avenue crossing by Baltt
more and Ohio passenger train No. l..
He was on his way uptown from the
South Cumberland Y. M. c. A, where
he boarded, when overtaken by the