The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-04-23
MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER

Latest Doings in Various Parts
of the State.
PREPAREDF0 UICKREADiNG
Robert B. Moore, cashier of the Ma.
tional Bank of Gaithershurg, died OF
pneumonia.
A Dutch belted COW owned by ". II.
8. Kaufman, of Caroline county, has
la record of PIT pounds of butter from
November IS, 1914, to April Is. 1915.
Work on the new macadam road
from Hughes Hill to Wileys Station. a
distance of three miles. has been
started.
The Hotel Braddock. al Braddock
Heights. has been leased for the COM
ing season by H. c. Bond, of Balti-
more, at one time manager of the
Blue Mountain House, Pen-Mar, which
was burned last year. The tentative
date set for the opening is June l.
John Mcfarland. II years old, who
served IL years as postmaster of
Homecoming. having been succeeded
several weeks ago by William J. Ford,
died there He was native of Glas-
Cow, Scotland, and came to America
in 1865. He was coal miner when
appointed postmaster by President
Mckinley in 1908.
Samuel B. Johnson, for 90 years
street superintendent of Hagerstown,
has rendered his resignation. Before
taking his position with the city Nj
Johnson was in the employ of the
Cumberland Valley Railroad. Il is not
known whom the new Board OF Street
Commissioners will appoint in his
place.
The Maryland Grand Lodge Knights
OF Pythias closed its forty-seventh an
uual session at Crisfield after one OF
the most successful sessions in the
history of the order. 1t was the sec
ond time since the Grand Lodge was
instituted that it had met outside of
Baltimore. the previous occasion be-
ing in 1912. when the Cumberland
lodge was the host
Clark Battenfield, 50 years old. a
former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
freight conductor, committed suicide
by firing a bullet into his brain at the
home OF mis- brother, Charles Batten-
field, in Connellsville He had been
i'll for more than q year, the result of
injuries TO his head when struck by an
exuresS train on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad two years ago.
Temporarily deranged. due 10
nervous breakdown. Martin L. Hoover.
aged 70 years. a wealthy farmer and
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attic of his house at Smithsburg by
hanging himself TO q rafter. Mr..
Hoover. while his wife was preparing
breakfast, went upstairs. When he
did nol come to breakfast his wife
went TO look for him and found him
hanging by rope, his knees dangling
on the floor.
The memory Of Bishop Pinkney, OF
Maryland. Will be perpetuated by the
Episcopalians, among whom he lived
for more than 90 years. by the cree
ton OF church and Parish hall on the
property in Hyattsville recently pur-
chased by the yestry of ST. Matthew'S
parish. This parish includes old St
Luke's Church IN Bladensburg. Of
which Bishop Pinkney was rector fer
many years: Pinkney Memorial
Church. Hyattsyille. and ST. Johns
Church. Mount Rainier.
The Garrett county tax rate has
I been fixed ar s117 Tie increased
rate has been made necessary by ad-
ditional appropriations for public
schools and for building and main
/ tenance Of new roads, besides proyid-
ing $4,000 for new assessment and
TO meet the requirements Of the state
tax laws The elimination OF $4,000
( from the taxable basis Of the county
by the recently enacted exemption law
: is responsible 10 some degree for the
I increased rate.
! J. Darby Bowman, for II years a
l deputy in the office of the clerk of the
Circuit Court. at Rockville. and for
the last FIVE years chief deputy. has
1 rendered his resignation TO Preston B.
/ Ray. clerk of the court, and the same
has been accepted He will be sue
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