The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-27

Work was discontinued last week
for the winter on the state road being
built between Elkton and North East.
In four nights George Sprout Ros.
ton Steele and Dallas Racine, Provi-
dence lads, captured "a skunks.
While operating q con-huskcr vii
Liam H, Harrington, Of near Elktou,
severed the ends of three fingers.
/ A Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train
killed a number of COWS belonging to
Charles Murtzor, Of Orange Grove.
Thirty-eight professad conversions
are the result Of the revival mo.tings
at Rosebank Methodist Episcopal
Church.
The owner Of q $1,000 automobile in
Maryland is compelled to pay 5000
annually in taxes and licenses 10 the
State.
While resting his gun on the left
foot during a cunning trip on Bush
River, John Seaver lost a toe. the
weapon accidentally discharging.
While walking through a wood,
Terry Krauss, of HarrisyilIe kicked
up from beneath the leaves his gold
watch, intact, lost two years ago.
Failing from loau of hay and the
wheels of the wagon passing over his
body, George L. Brown, a farmer near
Ingleside, sustained a broken arm.
The annual Washington County
Teachers Institute win be held in the
Courthouse at Hagerstown January l
to 4.
The 2S5-acre Tusculum farm. near
Princess Anne, has been bought by
Henry Oswald Yarrow, Of California,
for $S,777.
The Cecil County Commissioners will
receive $l,3G5.S9 as their share of the
automobile license, as against 81. 629.52
last year
The Caroline County Commissioners
were notified by Road Engineer II. A.
Paine that he would leave the service
on March l.
Playing with matches, James Eagle,
two-year-old son of Ernest Eagle, of
Mount Winans, set his clothing on
fire and was severely burned
Fire destroyed the new hotel on the
property of the National Slavonic So
ciety, near St. Mary's City, in ST.
Mary's county.
Work on the construction of the
Washington and Great Falls Railway
in Montgomery county is to be
pushed.
DR.. William D. Campbell, health
officer for Washington county. has
been appointed local surveyor for the
Western Maryland Railway Company.
The Elkton Improvement Associa-
ton has closed arrangements with a
large shirt and wrapper factory to To-
cate in the town, provided sufficient
help can be secured.
Charged with stabbing Frank Izer,
of townsville, in the back at Will
Transport. Max Kreps was arrested and
committed to the IIagerstown Jail with
out bail.
A chicken alighting upon its back,
horse belonging to Lewis Sprout Of
Providence, kicked a small stable to
pieces and two 1O-year-old boys mar
rowly escaped being trampled.
Rev. Irving S. Owens, of Sharptown,
has been appointed pastor of Bivalve
charge of the Methodist Protestant
Church in Wicomico county to sue
coed Rev. f. S. Fooks.
Philip Lloyd, Of Frederickstown, has
been appointed by the County Com
missioners of Cecil County bridge tend
er at the Sassafras river bridge for
the year 1913.
A horse owned by the late State Sen
ator B. Abner Belts broke out of the
stable at Chewsville, wandered on the
Western Maryland railroad and was
killed by train.
After a passionate of seven and one
hall years, Rev. o. C. Mees has re-
signed from the Hamilton and Laura
Vile Evangelical Lutheran congrega-
ton to accept a pastorate in New
York.
A movement is on foot to have the
Maryland Agricultural College, most
of whose buildings at College Park,
near Washington, were burned recent
ly, relocated either at HagerstOwn,
Frederick or Annapolis.
The Tekoite Literary Society, of
Webster, has been organized, with
Reese Gilbert as president; Newell
Treadway, president; Mary Walk
ar sncretarv and Steel TreadWaV.