The citizen., 1913-06-27


ognition of his services.
While driving several horses and
colts from pasture to the barn Sam
uel Reed a farmer and fruit grower
of near Boonsboro, was kicked on the
arm and in the stomach and seriously
injured
The Frederick Trust Company, re.
Gently organized, has purchased the
property Of William H. Ramsburg, cor
ner of Market and Third streets, and
will remodel the building into a bank
ing house.
The Norfolk and Western Railway
Company has purchased the Dou5
/ farm of 80 acres, in the southern sub
urbs of Hagerstown, and will use the
site, together with the 160-acre Scott
farm. recently purchased, adjoining,
for yard purposes and a roundhouse.
Taxpayers and residents of the
| Ninth district have presented peti.
tions to the County Commissioners
and the School Board asking for an
appropriation of $4,000 for an addi-
tion and improvements to Calvert Ag-
ricultural High School
j. p. Hunt, So years old. of Cum
berland. has recovered, after having
four-ffths of his stomach removed by
Drs. f. B. Claybrook and John r. Lit
tlefeld He was suffering from
cancerous growth and was slowly
starving to death Hunt expects to
resume work soon.
The Harvard Club, of Baltimore has
awarded a $3.50 tuition scholarship at
the Harvard Law School to Cadet
Calvert Magruder of Annapolis, hon.
or man of the class to be graduated
from St Johns College tomorrow.
Young Magruder is son of former
Judge Daniel r. Magruder.
Ira Biddle, % years old, son of
Jacob T. Biddle, of Elkton, was kill
ed by train at Lamoliin Station. Mr..
Biddle and his wife went to the sta
tion to see some relatives. While
standing on the track awaiting the
arrival of northbound train, Mr..
Bidde was struck by the Lamokin
local.
The sixteenth annual camp, at the
Holiness Camp Ground. Denton, will
begin July 25 and last until August
,. This camp is one of the best
known in the United States of the
Holiness denomination, which is par
ticularly strong in Maryland and ad-
joining States, and in the West and
Southwest.
Deputy Game Warden ]. c. Turner
has secured a warrant for Charles A.
Steiner, superintendent of the West
Virginia division of the Western
Maryland Railway. He charges the
company with dumping sawdust and
shavings into Willis creek. This, he
says. has been fatal to the fish of the
creek and river.
Brunswick has made the greatest
stride of any town in Frederick coun-
ty, having increased its taxable ba.
sis $4,000 since last year. Walkers
vile comes next, with a gain of $20.-
600. Last year the county tax rate
was SS1a cents on the $100 and the
State rate 23A cents. This year the
State rate will be 81 cents and the
County Commissioners are making an
effort to reduce the county rate
While going from Baltimore to OAR
lington, Hartford county, in an auto
mobile Mrs. Alvey, widow of Chief
Justice Richard H. Alvey, of Hagers-
town, and her two daughters, Mrs
Glenn H. Worthington. of Frederick,
and Mrs ]. A. G. Allen, OF Darling
ton, were thrown from the car by the
breaking of a front wheel. Mrs. AL
vey sustained a scalp wound and her
daughters were badly bruised.
The Chevy Chnse Equal Suffrage
League has been formed at Chevy
Chase, with SO members and the fol-
lowing officers: President, Dr. Ryan
Devereux; vicepresident, MRS. w. c.
Brooke; secretary, Mrs. Eugene e.
Stevens; treasurer, Ray p Teele; ex.
ecutive committee. Eugene f. Stew
ems, Mrs Cliff r. Richards, George ]
Hesselman, Miss Lucy v Mackrille
and Mrs. B. Ashby Leavell
Because of road improvements, a
number of the districts of Montgom-
cry county will have to pay a spe-
cial tax, in addition to the general
county tax of SS cents on the $10O.
They are Rockville district, 10
cents on the $1OO; Colesville district,
| IL cents; Darnestown district, Z
cents; Bethesda district, II cents;
Potomac dictrict, 81 cents; Wheaton
district, cents.
Harry B. Hackett, Maryland Stat
Roads Inspector, in charge of til
fredericksburg -Hurlock State road, was
burned by an explosion of oil Mr.
Hackett was opening barrel of road