The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-08-27

or George L. Wellington caught fire
and was destroyed.
The twenty-ninth annual meeting at
4 fine Washington County Women's
Christian Temperance Union was held
in Keedysville. Mrs. Mollie Coffman.
the county president, presided.
p
N Fire destroyed the canning factory
at Big Pool, owned by w. B. Hull
Toe factory canned tomatoes and dur
hg the canning season employed
sbout Is persons.
Frederick's tax rate will be S1.1O
This levy being made at a meeting of
the Mayor and Aldermen. This is the
same rate as for the past two years
The budget for the year amounts to
$4,000
Charles A. Loockerman, oyster and
crab packer, has filed his papers as
Democratic candidate for State Sena-
tor from Somerset county. He was a
member Of the House of Delegates
from Somerset county in 1906.
The will Of the late Charles Wesley
Fontaine was probated in the Orphans
cov-+ Of p-ipoacc Anna cnd lo4+o,.c of
administration were granted to Edgar
W. Fontaine. brother. The estate
is valued at $4,000.
One of the largest mortgages ever
placed on record in the Frederick
County Court is now being copied, it
being that Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company to the Girard Trust
Company and William N. Ely, trustee,
for $65.000.060. The recording fee
mounts to $S425.
The residence. barn and granary on
the farm Of John Quein, in the Fourth
district, Cecil county, were destroyed
. by FIRE. All of this years wheat and
a Ray crops were consumed. together
& viii a lot of farm implements and
. harness. Children playing with
matches around the straw stack
/ caused the blaze.
The large frame barn on the Der
lard Mitchell farm, near Havre de
Grace, was destroyed by fire. The
barn was recently purchased by Mrs.
. Nv. l. Barron, of Havre de Grace.
Stored in the building were this years
crop Of wheat and other articles be-
longing to p L. Hopper, of Havre de
Grace These were destroyed.
Judge Robert R. Henderson, in an
opinion filed at HagerStown, dismisses
the petition Of Hagerstown in its re-
quest for an injunction restraining the
Washington County Water Company
. from installing meters and charging
. water users for water by meter meas
urements. thus ending about five years
F Of litigation between the city and the
water company
4 The Highland and Jarrettsville
" ranges held their sixth annual picnic
and fair at Highland. The exhibits
were large and varied. including live
stock, farm produce, vegetables. fruits,
machinery, fancy work, canned goods,
etc. D. G. Harry made the address OF
#Telcome, to which State Master B. j.
BLACK responded Others who made ad-
Presses were: National Master Oliver
Wilson and Governor Goldsborough.
William Fink, Jr.. 10 years old, OF
Perwyn Heights, was struck and
billed by southbound freight train
f the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at
PeTwyn Station The child in getting
put Of the way of an express train
oing north stepped in front OF the
Freight. A corners jury, with j. Fred
keefauver as foreman, exonerated the
rev Of the freight, but held the rail
oad company responsible for the boys
cath for not having sufficient protec-
pcn at the crossing
Major Hugh II. Riley and Lieut.. X.
6faham Moss, of the First Regiment,
aaryland National Guard, both living
Annapolis, have been directed to
isanize machine gun company, to
attached to that regiment. II or
shlzed, it will be the first company
the kind in Maryland. They pro-
Ose TO try to secure all of the mem
ers from students of st. Johns Col
ge' Annapolis. 81 Johns has already
exceptionally good military depart
ent, and was cle Of the 10 rated as
distinguished" by the War Depart
[enf fbie .,oo.