The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-31

- ham Pratt, colored, has been lodgu III
, a. the Kent County Jail.
, Chesapeake Council, Daughters of
Liberty, of Hayre de Grace, celebrated
the fifteenth anniversary OF its organ
ization Thursday evening.
In his suit against the Baltimore
M and Ohio Railroad for the death of
~ his fye-year-old daughter, who was
- killed near Aberdeen in September,
|; 1910, William Abent has been awarded
3 $1,000 damages.
r. Charles W. L. McDermott, a former
gf resident of Cumberland, has resigned
-, as city editor of the Evening Times,
- McKeesport, Pa to accept the position
of managing editor OF the Evening
Times, Cumberland.
rs A new chapel in Mount Olivet Gene
terry, Frederick costing $1,000, has
been completed. 1t is built of blue
B stone, with terra Gotta trimmings and
an interior finish of oak The windows
Z are Stained glass of artistic design.
Not in many years has pike fishing
j been so good during January at the
4 mouth OF the Susquehanna U. G.
Way caught 200 pounds Of this variety
of fish during three days last week
and others have made correspondingly
=, large catches,
A handsome new pipe organ, pre-
scented TO the Walkerville Methodist
Episcopal Church by Mrs. Margaret
Bale and Misses Elizabeth and Lydia
Cassell, Of Westminster, as a me-
mortal to the late John and Nancy
|; Nicodemus, was dedicated Sunday.
c. F. Tresher, a farmer near Gre
asptown, has brought suit against the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company for $500 for the loss Of a
horse. His telephone was out Of or
der when his horse was sick and he
could not summon veterinarian.
Mrs Carrie Warren, Frederick, was
given verdict of $500 against George |
III. Davis in a damage suit before a /
jury for $4,000. The plaintiff and her .
husband were tenants on the farm of /
the defendant and during a dispute the /
latter struck Mrs. Warren across the |
head with stick.
John Reed, foreman of construction /
work at the new first National Bank .
Building. and Daniel Haggerty chief .
track foreman of the Georges Greek |
and Cumberland Railroad, were fined F..
$40 each at Cumberland on a charge .
by Health Officer Harrington that they /
had unvaccinated men in their employ. /
The Rambling Sam, a houseboat .
owned by Postmaster Thomas o. JEFF
ferson, Of fredericksburg, and for years
a familiar sight on its summer trips !
on the Nanticoke river, is to ramble .
no more. Mr.. Jefferson has given or
ders for the boat to be hauled upon .
his estate and will have it converted /
into dwelling for one of his tenants. /
The New Home Building Loan and |
savings Association, of Hartford coun-
~, has elected the following officers
1orlthe ensuing year: President. Isaac
Heeht; vice-president, Joseph L. Nc
Ney; secretary, Joseph c. Parker;
treasurer, William A. LETTER; counsel
Tor NJ H. Fahey; directors, James II.
tahey A. L. Lyon, Barney Levy,
Henry Greenbaum, T. Milton Carroll
and William A. Leffler
Observation-Disclosures A. Filler has
peen appointed scoutmaster for the
troop of Boy Scouts of America,
recently organized at Kensington.
The citizens of Havre de Grace are
aMiously awaiting the reply Of the
pnysicians to a committee sent to ask
them TO rescind their recent concerted
ac<ion in raising their rate of fees
when the doctors published their &C.
f1on at the first of the year, general
ol2approva, was expressed and an
Malgnation meeting of about $50 rep
feHentative citizens was held.
y Eharles Beal, 45 years old, was killed
att Berlin, a mining town. he being
caught in an overhead shaft. Nearly
every bone in his body was broken as
& ne was whirled around
Il
a lotion steel crane, with boom Y
feet long, used in placing steel for
me new bridge of the Western Mary
A4nd Railway across the Potomac at
Wonderland, turned turtle late yester-
n7y evening, wrecking the crane, dam
ing one span of the bridge and
using serious injury to R. D. Toms,
zoreman.