The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-09
LOCAL N H w S.
some Little lettings About PEG.
pie and Things.

The Hanover Basketball team will on
Friday night play the Frederick High
school on the Y. NJ c. A. alleys.
NJ L. Etchison, a merchant of this
city has filed notice of appeal from the
decision OF the court in the matter of
stationary awning poles. II. Dorsey
Ftchison is his attorney.
A banquet, intended to draw together
tbe representatives of all wings OF the
Republican party, in Washington county,
will be held at the Hagerstown Country
Club on the night of February u.
The War Department has closed neeo-
tiationS for the leasing of upward Of /. 900
/ acres of land near Winchester. Va. upon
which the second annual camp OF cavalry
Instruction is to be held next summer.
The Martinsburg Y. NJ. c. A. five
demonstrated their superiority over the
strong Frederick team in a fast game
played on the formers floor before
large crowd of rooters by the score of
81 TO %.
The British consul at Bogota reports
thai boot and shoe factory equipped
with American machinery. Is soon 10 be
erected IN Bogota The output Is ex-
pected to be about $50 pairs of boots or
shoes daily.
The new Board of County Commits
sionerS Of Washington county. which has
a Democratic majority tor the first time
in I2 Years. bailoted Saturday on health
officer and a county attorney but there
wa no election.
ST. Petersburg has spent nearly mil
lion dollars for a plant which takes the
cities water supply from the River Neva
and passes It through filters and then
through ozonlzers, destroying all deleter-
ious organisms.
Mayor Fraley stated Monday that at
the next meeting Of the Board Of Alder
men the city will consider the installation
OF public toilets in the Cit, Hall This
Is matter which the board has had I'M
der consideration some time.
salt making by the evaporation of sea
water Is the principal industry of the
Iuko and CsCoS Islands colony, and is
carried on al Grand Turk, Salt Cav, and
Cockburn Harbor, the latter being the
principal settlement in the Cacos Islands
January 22nd has been selected as the
date for the spelling bee between the
Leaders Bible Class OF the Method 81
Episcopal Sunday School, and the
Builders Bible Class of the Grace Reform
ed Sunday School The two classes will
each pick IS men.
Mr.. Hiram G. Thomas, of Rocky
Springs, injured his foot several days ago,
by getting it caught under log which
he was dragging on the mountain side.
Although no bones were broken. his foot
was painfully sprained and he has been
confined to the house.
The Washington Street School Build
ing, Frederick newest and most mod
eru school property, was occupied for the
first time Monday morning when the
public schools OF the county reopened,
after a vacation OF two weeks for the
Christmas holidays
Werheimer Bros, merchants, of Cum
berlan formerly OF Frederick, have pur
chased from Murray and Charles White,
oil Philadelphia, the White Building a
three-story brick structure in Cumber
land The price is said to have been in
the neighborhood oil $4,000.
Company A drilled in the new armory
Monday night for the first time. The
floor OF the drill shed had to be cleared
for this. as considerable work yet re.
mains to be done upon the building. The
company will not fully vacate the old
armory until January 20, when the lease
expires.
Lieut.. Sidney Erickson, of the United
States Navy, has been spending several
days with Mrs. ErickSon's parents, Prof.
and Mrs. Edward Harvey. On February
S Lieut.. Erickson will sail from San Fran
cisco for the Philippines, orders TO this
effect having been received about three
weeks ago,
Mr.. L. R. Ashley has been appointed
chief clerk in the Office of the Freight
Traffic Manager of the Western Mary
land Railway Company. He has been
connected with the Freight Traffic De.
partment of important Western roads and
resigns as assistant TO the Commerce
Counsel of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad at Louisville, Ky.
A closed automobile containing four
men, said to be from Hagerstown, went
over an embankment near New Market,
this county, Tuesday afternoon. Several
hours were required to get the machine
back into the road, and it was not dam
aged in the least. The autoists did not
give their names, ard as soon as posi-
ible started for Frederick.