The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-04-12

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Forest Hill-Garden Lodge of Odd
Fellows, of Baltimore, instituted a new
lodge here with membership of fifty.
Chestertown.-Mrs Anna NJ. Twill
ley, widow of the late Dr. Joshua Twill
ley, died at her home in this town,
aged seventy-siX years. She leaves
three sons, all physicians.
Colorado guard against thieves,
Charles Fl. Krauss placed his dog in
the hennery and during the night the
animal had killed a number of his
chickens.
Upper Marlboro-The county com
missioners have fixed the tax rate in
Prince Georges county at 80 cents, a
reduction of "a cents over the rate for
/ 1911. The assessable basis Of the
county is $17,O21, O29, or an increase of
$27,555 over 1911. This means an
estimated revenue of $153, 1925.
Cumberland.-Boat started for
the season on the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Thursday. The first boat
to be loaded was No. 10, of the Canal
Towage Company, Capt. Charles Fox.
1t started with 116 tons of coal for
Georgetown. Up to noon yesterday
nine boats had been loaded.
Cambridge.-At the meeting Of the
Woman's Club the following delegates
were elected to the State Federation
of Clubs, which will be held in Balti-
more, April "a, % and 20: Mrs. Samuel
l.. Byrn, Mrs. John G. Mills, Mrs.
Frantz Naylor. Alternates, Mrs. Frank
G. Hanna, Mrs. Frederick II. Fletcher,
Mrs. James C. Leonard. A subscrip.
ton luncheon will be given at the
Baltimore County Club, April 26, when
Mrs. Phillips Lee Goldsborough will
be the guest of honor.
Easton.-There will be two separ-
ate and distinct elections in Easton
Monday, May 6. One will be the State
primary to elect delegates to the ma
tional conventions of the Republican
and Democratic parties, candidate
for Congress from the First district,
and a candidate for chief judge of the
Fifth circuit to succeed Judge Pearce.
The other is the town election to elect
a Mayor and president of the City
Council and four City Councilmen-
one from each ward.
Prince Frederick.-A tornado pass
ed across the PatuXent River the other
night in an easterly direction to the
Chesapeake Bay, leaving destruction
in it's wake. Henry Hutchins' barn,
on the river, was destroyed by the
force of the wind. The house of
hurry Egans was blown down. 1t
caught fire and was destroyed. The
many large oaks a century old in
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church,
Port Republic, were wrecked by the
wind Greater damage was done on
the premises of Otis z. Talbot, near
Governors Run where all the trees on
his lawn were blown down, section
of his residence wrecked, fences level
ed, barn and other outbuildings de-
stroyed and apple orchard uprooted
At Governors Run much damage was
done There the bungalow of J.
Peterson Dorsey, situated on a high
elevation, was blown into the bay
Considerable damage was done in 9th
err sections of the county by the storm.
Hagerstown.-Dr John p Beck, of
Cavetown, has sued the Hagerstown
Fair Association for $4,000 damages
for injuries sustained last October
when a grandstand railing broke and
he fell to the race track.
Cumberland.-Th monument to be
erected to the unknown Confederate
dead in Rose Hill Cemetery, Cumber.
land, has been ordered and will be
placed about June l. 1t will be Is
feet high, of granite and marble Mrs
Roderic Clary is chairman of the com.
mittee in charge.
Chestertown.-H;s hand catching in
a planning machine, Alfred Taylor lost
three fingers.
Salisbury.-A boiler at the Salisbury
Ice Company's plant exploded, killing
one man outright, injuring another so
that he died in few hours, while
several persons were more or less seri.
ously hurt by flying bricks, bolts and
pieces of pipe and iron from the
wrecked boiler. The explosion oc.
Cured within a few minutes of the
change of shafts, which fact saved
many lives.