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be tett STERLING GALT,EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR ESTABLISHED OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY TERMS-si.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE VOL. xxxviii EMNITTSBTJR.G. MARYLAND, FRIDAY, MA_RCI-1 30, 1917 NO. 50 MAW LAS D DOING ITS PART.— FROM THE COUNTY. STATE CONDENSED. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR WITH FREDERICK COUNTY ACTIVE GERMANY GO STEADILY ON With thirty-three charter members Charles Darrell, one of the most prominent of the English residents of Governor Harrington Making Every the Thurmont Grange organized a lodge The Country Responding.—Individual Baltimore, and formerly head of the JE ndeavor to Put Maryland on War by electing the following officers for States Taking Precautions For De- firm of Charles Darrell & Co., died at Footing the current year: Master, Prof. A. M. fense. his home, 2112 Oak street. Maryland is determined to do its full Isanogle; overseer, Herbert L. Zentz; From the moment the President de- John R. Bland, president of the Allied part in recruiting the militia to its full secretary, David F. Firer; treasurer, cided to call an extra session of Con- Mrs. National Exhibition, received a check strength and in cooperating with the Prof. H. D. Beachley; lecturer, gress the war spirit and the feeling that chaplain, Rev. P. E. for $5,000 as an additional donation Federal Government in preparation for G. E. Rogers; war is inevitable has taken hold of the steward, David G. Zentz; as- from a Baltimorean. tiv, war which seems inevitable. Heimer; entire country. Preparedness has gone Martin; gate At the first intimation of a cal sistant steward, Frank R. Col C. Chaille Long, a native of Som forward with dispatch, regularity and Mrs. Ed- erset county, for troops Governor Harrington ex- keeper, Harry Zentz; ceres, Md., and who won distinc- deep earnestness. Every department of Hauver; Lady President Wilson signed an order au- tion in Egypt, died ercised his authority and has been in gar Peddicord;flora,Clara Friday. at Virginia Beach. the government is exerting utmost en- Linnie McGuigan; thorizing the increase of the Navy to constant touch not only with the mili assistant steward, The Pope appointed Mgr. James Mul- The campaign of the Union Protest- ergy and each is cooperating with the 87,000 men. tary branch ot preparedness but also pianist, Ethel Foreman. doon Bishop of Monterey. Bishop Mul- tent Infirmary to raise a fund of $325,- other and with both branches of the with every organized unit that can lend Fifty farmers residing in the vicinity doon was formerly Auxiliary Bishop of Over a billion and a half of foreign- 000 for a new hospital began Monday. fighting service to put the nation on a aid when the crucial time arrives. of Warfieldsburg met last week at War- Chicago and has been Bishop of Rock- owned railroad securities have been ab- Chaplain Evans preached the bac- war footing. The governors of the in- Recruiting is in operation in Balti- fieldsburg to discuss the possibility of ford, Ill., since September 1908 sorbed by American investors since the calaureate sermon to the 183 members dividual States are hard at work with more and in the smaller cities of the obtaining a State road from Westmin- A "mystic love" motive embodying war began. of the 1917 class of midshipmen. the militia, bringing it up to the requir- state and plans are urder way for stak- ster by way of Mount Airy to Ridge- an infatuation as strong as it was weird, Four more sections of the American Governor Harrington opened bids ed standard, bridges and water supply ing a complete census of every youth ville, Frederick county. A committee was revealed as the salient feature of field ambulance will be offered to the Monday for 200,000 triplicate sets of stations are under guard, and every and man eligible for military duty. was elected to secure co-operation of the tragedy at Portsmouth in which French Army in April. Thus the organ- blanks which will be used in the military precaution is being taken to make each Women are playing an important part farmers along the road, which connects Peggy Spaulding, of Newton, Mass., ization will have more than 500 cars at census for Maryland The Governor commonwealth efficient—ready to do its in these preparations and through their with State roads of Washington, Balti- and Ethel Stanten, of Cincinnati, shot the front. has completed all plans for the taking "bit," various organizations are doing sys- more, Frederick, Hagerstown and and killed themselves in a crowded Con- Dr John Grier Hibben, president of of the census. The police in the larger To get at the kernel of all this en- tematic and effective work, especially Cumberland. gress street cafe. Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., cities will do the work, civilians in the deavor, to grasp the innumerable events in Red Cross work. Some have re- Joseph D. Baker, president of the Dr. Charles S. Braddock, famous for announced at a students' mass-meeting smaller towns and villages, and it is that are taking place, Chronological or- gularly enlisted as telegraphers and Citizens' National Bank, last Friday driving smallpox and cholera out of that if this country became involved in probable that the older Boy Scouts tray der has to be done away with, giving others are daily making application for night at the union evangelistic service in Siam and originator of the famous war military training at Princeton be asked to do some service. place to bull's eye pares ..apbs on the such positions as they can fit. the city ooe- which has been in smallpox vaccine virus, died at his home would take precedence over all academ- Evangelist Stephens concluded his features of the news. These paragraphs At the present time the important progress ror the past four week, com- in Haddonfield, N. J., near Philadel ic work. Beginning this week, it was campaign at Keyser, W. Va., Sunday follow. bridges of the State are under guard, plimented the ministers of Frederick on phia. He was 52 years old and was un- announced, military work would be night. More than 1,300 persons, includ- Next Monday Congress will meet in as are also Federal Municipal buildings, their effort to stage a religious awaken- married. given more prominence and the aca- ing many of the leading business and extra session to formally determine the this country. That it munition plants and water supply ing in Frederick. Conversions to date A $5,000,000 charter for a railroad to demic work lightened considerably. professional men of the town, profess- future action of will be war to the end there is no doubt. stations. Railroads operating the states have reached 260. The total attendance be known as the Atlantic and North- Buffalo said farewell to Billy Sunday. ed conversion. Evangelist Stephens will The pacifists in Congress one by one are equipping hospital cars and yacht for all meetings is 35,000. western Railway has been issued by the Four services—morning, noon, after- start a campaign in Cumberland April are coming over to the cause of nation- clubs have offered their craft for the Planning to open a dry cleaning and dye- State Corporation Commission. The noon and night—were held in the Tab- 1. The services will be held in the tab- al defense and when Congress assem- use of the government. ing plant in Frederick, R. L. Cheek, road is to run from Harpers Ferry, W. ernacle at International League Base- ernacle erected for Dr. Henry M. bles April 2, the members, if any, who Even in the smaller towns patriotic manager, has moved to Frederick from Va., to Newport News, Va., and will ball Park. The free-will offering for Wharton, of Baltimore, last summer. men would interfere with the military pro- as well as youths just passed their Norfolk, Va., and is busy arranging for also run from Harpers Ferry to a point the Evangelist taken at the four ser- The Stephens tabernacle at Cumber- gramme of the Government will be rar- sixteenth year and who hereafter may the estabishrnent of the business. The at or near Morgantown, W. Va. vices totaled $42,204.74. During the land will be dedicated next Friday night be called upon, are forming separate er than patriots were when none but firm is styled the Swiss Cleaners and Between 25 and 50 persons were campaign $59,000 had been raised to Cottage prayer meetings are held twice companies with the idea of enrolling the foresighted could see the situation the property at 324 North Market killed and probably 100 or more injured meet the expenses. Today's offering is a week in preparation for the campaign. either in the regular army or the militia into which the United States was drift- street has been leased for the business. by a storm which swept over New Al- Buffalo's personal gift to Billy Sunday. Announcement was made last week of as local entities. ing. James H. Fraley, a highly respected bany, Ind., demolishing scores of resi- Monday. the appointment of Miss Adice S. Jones, In all this preparedness Frederick The United States has formally re- citizen of Baltimore, died Monday night dences and several industrial plants. of Charlottesville, Va., as home de- county stands at the very front. Lead- Two hundred' student recruits were fused Germany's request to modernize at the Church Home and Infirmary. Mr. monstration agent for Washington ing citizens of the county seat and of Four children were burned to death in enrolled in the University of Pennsyl and extend the old Prussian-American Frailey was born in Frederick county county at a salary of $1,200 a year.