The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-10

C. ]. Murray was placed under ar
rest at Cumberland by Policeman
Pugh, charged with soliciting maya
zine subscriptions in violation of the
, law.
Inability to secure sufficient straw
has caused the American Strawboard
Company TO close its plant at Chester
town The mill employs about 20
workmen.
A rear-end collision of westbound
freights on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad at Magnolia, w. Va, east of
Cumberland, resulted in the blocking
OF both tracks all day.
Because of the development of scar
let fever among some of the pupils Of
the Aberdeen High School, DR.. Charles
II. Kriete, County Health Officer, has
ordered the school to be closed.
The new automobile fire engine of
the Antietam Fire Company, of Ha-
/ gerstown, has arrived. 1t has a wheel
base of 10 inches, is 6-cylinder, 90
horsepower engine, carries 120 feet of
hose and cost $6,70O.
Carl Hardy, for many years chief
clerk in the executive offices at the
State House. who has been confined
to his home at Annapolis by illness
for several weeks, is able to be out
again.
The Rockville Lodge of Masons has
elected officers for the ensuing year
as follows: Worshipful master, Wal
ter A. Williams; senior warden, w.
Russell Brewer; junior warden, George
P. Henderson; secretary, James f.
Allen; treasurer, Richard H. Stokes.
The installation will take place next
Monday evening.
The Pastmasters' Association of
Montgomery county. the membership
of which consists of all the pastmas-
tiers of the Masonic lodge of the coun-
ty, has elected officers for the coming
year as follows: President, Frederick
H. Grimm, of Gaithersburg; vice
president, DR.. George Fl. Wright, of
Forest Glen; secretary-treasurer,
James F. Allen, Of Rockville.
William Weagley and Charles o.
Reynolds, of Ringgold, while driving
home Sunday night saw an immense
meteor descend from the skies 1t eX-
ploded when about so feet from the
ground, breaking into three pieces,
which buried themselves deeply in the
earth. near the residence of Florist
Henry EichholtZ. 1t came out of the
southern heavens and left long trail
of sparks in its wake.
John A. Garrett attorney to the
Board of County Commissioners, is
engaged in investigating the circum-
stances surrounding the recent ar
rests at Chevy Chase, this county, of
numerous Washington automobiles,
some of whom. it is asserted, were
guilty of nothing more than failure to
have their Maryland license number
tags attached to their machines in the
manner prescribed by law.
Physicians of Havre de Grace made
public an agreement for a uniform rate
Of fees, considerably in excess of
charges generally made heretofore.
The schedule fixes the charge for Office
visits at so cents; out-of-town visits,
day, $1.50 for first and 81 for sub
sequent calls, and 81 for night calls.
The agreement is signed by Drs. r.
II. Smith, A. C. Crothers, ]. Lee Hop
kins, /. J. Woodward, F. w. Steiner
and James II. Bay. DR.. Daniel w.
Hopkins did not sign the agreement.
A number of applications have been
received by the Caroline County Com
missioners for appointment to the
vacant position of county road
engineer. Among the applicants are
Harry Waldorf, now resident engineer
at Easton, in charge Of State road
work in Talbot, Caroline and Dorches-
ter counties; Winfield w. Hubbard,
of the Baltimore and Ohio force, and
! Allen Reynolds, now with the Balti-
more Sewerage Commission, formerly
as inspector of the State Roads Com
/ mission.
| T. A. Poffenberger, president of the
| Washington County Farmers and
! Fruit Growers Association has asked
the Hagerstown Board of Trade to
assist in the arrangements for the an
nual farmers institute, to be held
there next month under State auspices.
Hubert Rust, chief of the construc-
ton department Of the Cumberland
Valley Telephone Company, was called
to Jacksonville, Fla, by the death of
rich bachelor uncle, who left an estate
valued at $4,000 to Mr.. Rust and his
two sisters after making large be-
4quests to charitable institutions.