The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-06-18
maryland NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.

Inc laIeSt GIeanlngS from All
Over the State.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
]. W. Month. Of Hagerstown, was APP
pointed superintendent of Antietam
Battlefield.
A blight has got into fruit trees in
the Boyds section that has killed half
the fruit which promised this year to
be the largest for years.
The new $500 Methodist parson-
age at Clarksburg has been completed
and Is now occupied by its pastor,
Rev. Thomas S. Davis.
The sum of $1.001.40 was cleared at
the bazar held recently for the benefit
OF the Riyerview Cemetery, Williams
port, by the Endowment Association.
Charles S. Dove, of Middlebrooke,
Montgomery county, received Is lashes
in the Rockville jailyard for wife-beat-
ing
Mrs. Frank Newton. wife of the
superintendent of the Maryland House
Of Correction. was seriously injured in
an automobile accident.
Postmaster c. w. Jefferson, of Fed
eralsburg, has been notified by the
| Postoff1ce Department that beginning
July his salary will be increased from
$1,000 to $1,000.
Thousands Of people from Maryland
and Pennsylvania were present Satur-
day at the exercises attending the I'M
| yelling Of the monument at the birth
place of Francis Scott Key, near Keys
Vile, Carroll county.
The Washington County School Board
has awarded the following free scholar
ships: Miss Isabel Beckenbaugh, of
Hallway, and Miss Inez E. Alexander
Of Boonsboro, to the Maryland State
| Normal School.
Lanham Grange, Patrons Of Hus-
bandry, at recent meeting passed
resolution fayoring the election OF DR..
II. ]. Patterson as permanent presi-
dent of Maryland Agricultural College
and director of the experiment station.
The contractors have started laying
rails for the new Williamsport, Nessle
and Martinsburg Railroad. which will
connect with the Western Maryland at
| Charlton The road as far as the
Hedgevlle grade is expected to be
ready for traffic by June %. In few
days track laying will reach the
quarries of the Pittsburgh Limestone
| Company.
The Washington County Commits
sioners voted to deposit the county's
money at the Hagerstown City Saw
ings Bank, which offered to pay 29s
per cent. interest on the deposits. All
of the other banks of the city bid 2R
per cent. Last year the county re-
ceived . per cent. interest on its de-
posts. The taxes to be collected for
1915. it Is estimated, will amount to
| $3.50, 900.
The STATE firemen, in annual conven-
ton at Homecoming, selected Havre de
Grace as the place for next years con-
vention and elected the following Off
GERS for the year: President. A. G..
Kelch, OF Raspeburg; senior vice-presi-
dent, David Dehan. member of the Bal
timore Veteran Fire Department; sec
rotary, william Weatley, of Westmins-
ter: treasurer, Edward Stevenson, of
Homecoming; trustee for five years, w.
H. A. Hamilton, of Hagerstown.
Montgomery county is to have a new
general tax assessment. By direction
Of the State Tax Commission, the Coun-
ty Commissioners have made provision
TO meet the expense. which is estimated
at about $4,000, and it is understood
the work will be started within the
present year and under the direction
of the State Tax Commission. AS a
result of the work. it is believed the
taxable basis Of the county will be
very largely increased. The last gen.
eral assessment was five years ago.
Believed to have become suddenly in
sane Daniel White, young man liv-
ing at Shamrock, near Parsonsburg,
secured double barreled gun and shot
J. B. Fink dead. afterward killing him.
self. As Fink. In company with a
young boy named Holloway, was cross
ing the field Of White the latter sud
denly rose from ditch in which he
was concealed and fired one barrel into