The citizen., 1913-08-29

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death it is to go to her niece. Malinda
/. Byers, who IS made eXecutrix.
The Cumberland Orchard Company
has been granted certificate of in
corporation, with a capital stock of
$4,000. The company will engage in
fruit raising. The incorporators are:
Eugene Lands, Henry l.. Dougherty
and Charles Beamer of Cumberland
and Socrates F. Parks. of Virginia.
The Cecil County Commissioners
have appointed Miss Alvada Ferguson
and Miss Ada Davis. of Cecilton. to
scholarships at the State Normal
School, and Albert Steele, son of Prof
George A. Steele, of Baltimore, to the
scholarship at Charlotte Hall Acad-
emy.
The annual mountain chautauqua at
,'Iountain Lake Park ended with a re-
union of old soldiers, Union and Con
federates The address was made by
Rev. ~ II. Holmes Rev. DIR. Charles
L. Mead, Baltimore. lectured on
"America's Message and Mission in the
World
The Maryland Real Estate Company
was incorporated in Hagerstown with
a capitalization of $4,000, divided into
5000 shares. The incorporators are
Harry S. Meyers, Nevin j. Brandt,
Christian NJ Horst, John G. Ernst,
Andrew K Coffman and Charles c.
Easton.
A reception was given Miss Eliza-
beth Patterson at the home of George
w. Biles, Brick Hill Farm, by the
members of Rock Presbyterian
Church Miss Patterson is member
Of the church and will sail in few
days for China in company with a
number of missionaries to work in
the foreign mission field.
Driving from their home at Carsins
to Havre de Grace, Miss Lillian Gallup
and Miss Maude Greeland were held
of their money The robbery took
place near the Havre de Grace race
track The negro stopped the horse
and grabbed the purse on the buggy
seat and escaped.
Announcement is made that the Sec
retary of the Navy has issued commits
sions to Prof. Carlos W. Cusachs and
Prof. Theodore w Johnson as profes.
sors in the corps of mathematics OF
the Navy. The commissions carry with
them the rank, pay and other emolu
ments of a first lieutenant of the
service.
President Fitzgerald, of the Western
Maryland Railway, met party o.
Cumberland business men interested
in the project to build new hotel
They have the site at Washington anC
Water streets, adjoining the Western
Maryland property, but it is not big
enough. and the object is to have the
Western Maryland add land to it.
Robert Young, 6-year-old son of Will
liam Young, Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal lock tender at two locks near
townsville, accidentally shot himself
with a cat rife The boy found the
gun in the sitting room and shells on
the mantel. He got these and loaded
the rife The gun struck against the
mantel and was discharged. The bull
let entered the boys eye and lodged
in his brain. His mother, hearing the
shot, rushed to the room and found
her son lying on the floor with the
blood streaming down his face. He
was brought to the Washington Coun-
ty Hospital and died at midnight.
The canning season for Wicomico
county is ready 10 start The tomato
and sweet potato crops show heavy
rield and tile canning experts who have
gone over the field state that the fac
tories will have trouble in handling
and packing the crop. The farmers
and truckers of Wicomico county have
had an exceptionally prosperous year.
All the small fruits and vegetables,
especially the cantaIoupe yield, have
been profitable AS much as 5000 an
acre net have been reported for canta-
loupes. In all it is considered that
the tillers Of the soil in this section Of
Maryland have had the most prosper
Gus year in the history of the land
trucking industry.
The Town Council of Kensington
has contracted with a Washington
civil engineer for a survey and plan
for the construction of a sewer sys.
TEN. The money for the system will
be raised by bond issue.
Prof Norman Cameron, of Elkton
who has been a member of the faculty
of the State Normal School at West
Chesapeake, Pa, has resigned to ac-
cept the position as head of the depart
ment of education at the Western
State Normal School at Kalamazoo.
Mich