The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-05-02

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$4,000, will be built on the site OF the
present edifice in Woodsboro.
Inc postoffice at Dawson, closed
since the death of Floyd Stotler s,ms
months ago, is to be reopened bv Otis
Metcalf, who has been appointed post
master.
A public meeting in the interest of
woman suffrage was held in the public
hall at Rising Sun, under the auspices
OF the just Government League of
Cecil County. Mrs. Belle Haines pre-
sided.
John E. j. Buckley, .well-known edu-
Gator and newspaper writer of Cum
berland, was adjudged insane by a
jury. He is 81 years of age and a
graduate of Dickinson Collcge. He
had been principal of We .ous schools
IN this county.
The old town of Port Deposit is to
hold centennial celebration, and has
perfected an organization with O. p.
Haggerty, president; Miss Lizzie
Atkinson, S. D. Lamm and John Atkin-
son, vice-president; Cecil A. Ewing.
secretary; John H. Kimble, treasurer.
The Washington County Historical
Society will take steps to have the
famous old Dunkard Church on Antie-
tam Battlefield preserved. This church
was used during the Battle of Antie-
tam as a hospital and its walls are
SCARED with shells. The property, it
is said, will shortly be offered for sale.
George Garner has resigned as edi-
tor and manager of The Cumberland
Press, the afternoon daily established
here December l last, to accept the
position of Washington correspondent
of The New York Press, and has been
succeeded by Carter Field, a former
Baltimore newspaper man.
The suit for $4,000 damages by
Lloyd Buoy against DR.. William F.
Twigg, at Cumbarlend, former county
physician, for alleged permanent dis
ability resulting from the treatment
of fractured arm was on motion of
the defendant removed to Washing
ton county for trial.
The twenty-second annual meeting
of the Woman's Home and Foreign
Missionary Society of the Western
Conference, Maryland Lutheran Synod
will be held in Hagerstown at ST.
Johns Lutheran Church, beginning
May %. One OF the speakers will be
DR. Mary Baer medical missionary in
India, now in America on a Through
The trustees of j. Taliaferro Bridges,
of Hancock, whose affairs are in the
hands of receivers, sold several par
GELS of real estate, near Pecktonville
at public auction to State Senator
Samuel Emmert, of Hagerstown. A
tract of 591 acres brought only $155
an acre. One tract OF 129 acres was
sold for $3.50 an acre and tract of
$50 acres brought $40 an acre.
The Cumberland Electric Railway
Company, of which ex-senator George
l.. Wellington is president, filed with
the Council a statement of the gross
receipts and earnings for 1912 amount
ing to $106012.38, of which SOB, SOB "a
was from fares and $1,80S44 from
freight The total mileage of the COM
pany is Is, of which 2-3 is outside
the corporate limits.
The Port Deposit Patriotic Associa-
ton, the official representative of the
town government in the centennial an
niversary of the town, which will be
held July 4, organized with these Off
GERS: o. p Hagerty, president; Miss
Lizzie Atkinson, Stephen d. Lamn and
John Atkinson, e-presidents; Prof
Cecil A. Ewing, secretary, and John
II. Kimble, treasurer.
Governor Goldsborough took a trip
down the bay on the State steamer
Governor Thomas Friday. Before
leaving he said he might inspect some
of the State roads in Southern Mary
land. The Governor was accompanied
by Mrs. Goldsborough and her sister
and brother-in-law and Mr. and Mrs.
Archibald Bowman, of Springfield
Ohio.
The annual inspection of the cadet
battalion of st. Johns College, in ac-
cordance with Federal regulations. was
completed Friday. The inspecting Off
Ger was Capt S. ]. B. Schindl, of the
United States Army, who expressed his
satisfaction with the proficiency of the
corps. The cadets were inspected in
a series of drills and exercises, includ-
ing a sham battle that took place at
West Annapolis.
Herbert Bailey has sold his farm
near Scarboro, to William II. Murphy.
J. S. Baer has sold the Charles E. Will
son farm, containing 125 acres, near
Havre de Grace, to J. w. Barker, of