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The sophomore class of the Woman's College, is contemplating an entertainment in the near future to be given for the benefit of the building fund of the college. The class promised a definite amount to the building fund.
George Z. Best, the well known conductor of the Northern Central Railroad, whose run is between here and Key-Mar, and who formerly ran from here to Lancaster, will next week take a run between Baltimore and Harrisburg.
Mrs. E. P. Gale gave a euchre party at her home, on Clarke Place, in honor of Mrs. Randolph A. Rau. The parlors were appropriately decorated for the occasion. The first prize was won by Miss Lou Potts, and the consolation prize by Mrs. Rau. Refreshments were served.
John H. Frazier, proprietor of the Diamond Rink, sold to Owen D. Sherley, of Hagerstown, the piano and all the other equipment of the Diamond skating rink, this city. Mr. Sherley will install the goods purchased in a skating rink in Hagerstown which he has recently erected.
A leap year dance was given by a number of young ladies' at Armory Hall. The ladies' acting as escorts, calling for the gentlemen and taking them to the hall. 60 couples participated. Committee on arrangements were: Mrs. F. K. Gilbert, Miss Margarete Dill, Elizabeth Woman and Elizabeth Craigmile.
In accordance with their usual custom, Camps, 17 and 79, Patriotic Sons of America, of this city, will attend divine services at the Evangelical Lutheran church on Sunday morning, February 25, at 10.30 o'clock, at which time the pastor, Rev. Ulysses S. S. G. Rupp, will preach a sermon appropriate to the occasion.
Contractor Lloyd Culler, of this city, has received the contract for the erection of a large mill for Bowman Brothers, at Germantown, Montgomery county. The mill was recently destroyed by fire. The new mill will be of brick and about four stories high. In all about 200,000 bricks will be required for its construction.
H. A. Bitner, a brakeman on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was killed by being struck by an overhead bridge at Shenandoah Junction. Mr. Bitner was a native of Hancock and had just recently taken a run on the Baltimore and Ohio. He was on his third trip out, when the accident that caused his death happened.
The Maryland School for the Deaf and Dumb, located in this city, has just issued its 17th biennial report of the President and Board of Visitors to the Maryland Legislature. The report also constitutes the 42nd and 43rd annual of this well known school for the deaf of the State. The school asks $32,000 for each of the years 1913 and 1914, in order to conduct the institution.
William Schnauffer, who was the cashier of the Savings Bank of Brunswick, which over a year ago went into the hands of receivers, is endeavoring to establish another bank at Brunswick. It is said Mr. Schnauffer has been asked by his friends at Brunswick to start a bank there in which he should take an active part, and after consulting a number of his friends he has agreed to do so.
Residents along the old Lancaster or York road from this city to the Pennsylvania line, near Piney Creek, want the Good Roads Commission to take over the road, and repair the portion which is now piked, and to pike the road from New Midway on to the Pennsylvania line. The portion piked, is what is now commonly termed the Woodsboro pike. Petitions are being circulated asking that the road be purchased.
At the Methodist Episcopal church, a meeting was held at which a delegate was elected to the Lay Electoral Conference to be held in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Baltimore, on March 29. Mr. Milton G. Urner was elected as delegate, and Mr. C. Albert Gilson as alternate to the conference. At the conference there will be elected five lay delegates to the General Conference which meets in May in Minneapolis, Minn.
A special meeting of the Maryland Classis was held in Trinity Reformed Chapel. The principal item of business taken up was in regard to the reception of Rev. W. C. Sykes to the Jefferson charge, made vacant by the resignation of Rev Wayne H. Bowers. Rev. Sykes came to this classis from Somerset classis, having been pastor of Berlin, Pa., charge. A committee was appointed to provide for the installation of Rev. Sykes.
Under the auspices of Rev. A. J. Conlon, a progressive 500 party was given in St. John's Hall, on Monday last, for the benefit of the church. The attendance was large. The following won handsome prizes: Rev. A. J. Conlon, Mrs. F. V. Staub, Misses Florence Schley, Anna Margaret Diffendal, Pauline Diffendal, Louise Schley, Etta Cramer, Margaret Elkins, Lucy Herring, Rose Kennedy; Messrs. Frank V. Staub, Lewis Sponseller and John A. Kennedy.
Adam T. Welzenbach, of Baltimore, was elected president of the Maryland State Council Catholic Benevolent Legion at the twenty-ninth annual convention held recently at the Catholic Club Hall, North Charles street. Other officers elected were: Vice president, W. D. Wilson, Hagerstown; chancellor, judge Wm. M Dunn; orator. J. J. Geissler; secretary. E H. Trainor; treasurer. H. P. Goldsborough; marshal, Thos. J. Flanagan; guard, H. C. Rosendale; supreme representatives, Thomas S. Edgar, T. F. Hisky, and Peter Mulcahy; trustees. C. F. Hemelt, J. A. Muth, Jr., Samuel S Bennett, D. J. McGovern and J. J. Carroll. Bishop Corrigan was re-elected chaplain.
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