The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-23

Phillip Morrison and Robert Brum-
field, while skating near Colora, had
narrow escape when they broke
through the ice.
Mr.. /. George Tawes, of Crisfeld,
and Mrs. Sadie Florence Sterling, of
the same place, were quietly married
at the Baptist parsonage by Rev. vii
liam II. Stewart.
While hunting, William, the 15-year
old son of Mrs. 7. J. Brown, of Fur
mace, near Elkton, accidentally shot
himself in the arm, infiicting painful
injury.
Howard Middleton, IL years old, Oh
Fairlee, while cunning met with a seri.
Gus accident when his gun exploded,
inflicting injuries that it is feared will
necessitate the amputation of his arm.
William S. Evans, of Elkton, has
been chosen president of the Cecil
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, sue
ceeding the late Joseph II. Steele, of
Chesapeake City.
While playing with an air rife at
the home Of his parents, in Delmar.
Alton, 12-year-old son of George Isaacs.
was painfully hurt as the result of be
ing shot through the left hand by
lath nail he had placed in the rifle.
The board of directors of the Lynch
burg Interstate Fair Association elect
ed ]. w. Mckinney president and
Frank A. Lovelock secretary-treasurer,
Mr.. Lovelock is also president of the
Virginia Fair Circuit.
A committee of citizens of Cam
bridge has requested Rev. George w.
Wray, pastor of Grace Methodist Epis-
copal Church South, to repeat the
series of sermons on the Ten Com
mandments which he preached LAST
winter.
Mrs. Bessie Jones took four-ounce
dose of ether and was found in her
room in az semi-conscious condition by
one of the boarders, who heard her
cries. She was taken to the Washing
ton County Hospital. Mrs. Jones is
| the wife of Edward Jones, who went
West several months ago. She was a
Miss StiIlwell before marriage.
At the annual meeting of the Tri-
| town Fire Company at Westernport,
| the following officers we're chosen.
President, w. W. Davis; vice-president,
James .Footen; captain, Charles L.
Davis; first lieutenant, Thomas Dolan;
second lieutenant, Thomas Kelley; sec
rotary, Clary r. Dawson, and chief,
Benjamin L. Kalbaugh.
| The new board of trustees for the
Poor and Insane for Cecil county or
ganized by electing Edward w. Taylor
president and Thomas Fl. Warburton
secretary and treasurer. James Hart
meet was elected superintendent at the
almshouse, DR.. P. B. Housekeeper chief
physician, A. F. Cameron superintend-
ent at the insane asylum and DR.. w T,
Morrison chief physician.
Bishop st. George Tucker, Of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese Of Kyto.
japan, has been discharged from st.
Andrews Hospital. Lynchburg, where
he underwent an operation six months
ago. With his wife and child he has
been on furlough since early last sum
mer. He is now the guest of his father,
Bishop Beverly d. Tucker, and will re-
turn to Japan about February !.
The stockholders of the Sharptown
Marine Railway Company elected the
following directors: Albert w. Rob
inson, Harvey F. Marvil, Curtis e.
Davis and William E. Valient, OF
Laurel, Del, and Samuel J. Cooper,
BENJAMIN p Gravenor and Purnell T.
White, Benjamin P. Gravenor was
made president; Samuel 7. Cooper,
vice.president, and Purnell T. White,
secretary and treasurer.
Several hundred delegates attended
the annual meeting of the Maryland
Circuit OF the Ladies Auxiliary of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
in the Masonic Temple, Hagerstown
the convention ending with a large
dance and banquet at the Eagles Hal
by Hagerstown Lodge, No. 227 Dele
gates were present from Baltimore
Cumberland and Frostburg, Md.
Martinsburg, Keyser and Ridgely, w
Va, and Washington.
William Payne, 50 years old, once
wealthy, who built the Payne block
of stores in Elkton during the eighties.
died at the Cecil County Almshouse.
where he had been an inmate for many