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, ( WAIi ILAND GAZETTE — ESTABLISHED 1777.
"THT I.NX No. vo.>.
BIT ELECTIONS
IT TO DISTURB
ENTIRE BOARD
piar. Adopted In 1912 And Con
tinued By Act Of 1918 Result
Of Mature Consideration Foi
Water Company Sale Oi
State’s Stock
HAS WORKED- WELL
RESULTS SHOW
I:, -a the fourth instalment of th
... :;i j report made by Otorge 1\
y. vin of the Annapolis Water Com
{, , ~nd submitted to the Hoard ot
• . rf at a recent meeting. It deals
with the sule by the Hoard
- j-jMh works of the State’s stock
, Company, when it was acquir
, |, v the city, and the Act of the
1..K :,ittire of 1 y 12. pertaining to the
..... -..ra:.- of the company which was
~ i Mil o;|uent thereto.
\ point of particular interest at
, pn-xent time is t lie reference to
. ~ f.i, that when etty ownership was
K ,-<:iiiK under way careful and
ir.' consideration was given to
t;.. l est means of operating the Coin
]u(!> , , to lt as far removed
pns-cble from complete political
ih.uuo every two years. It was then
,!, j,||. ] that it would be inadvisable
■ have thi * ntire directorate subject
eliangc dependent on the outcome
ni the bi ennial municipal election,
which would result if the manage
ninit of the Company were placed ex
rlusivelv in the hands of the City
p,mnr.l Therefpre, Chapter 86. of
the Acts of 1012 was enacted which
jir vided a plan whereby there would
always te on the Hoard at least one
r. or holding over and familiar
w:h the Company’s affairs. The re-
Ikt: says that this plan met the argu
ment then advanced by the opponents
(if municipal ownership, that the
Company, on account of the bi-cn
r.sl election, would become .a “foot
hill in politics ” Since then tho oper
a'.cr; of the Company have been un
der this form of directorate and by
the Act of 191 S was increased by udd
(Oontinued on Page Four)
Notice— Ladies!
All l.oio'x interested in the welfare
of the Independent Fire Company,
tire requested to meet at the Com
pntv's quarters. Friday evening at 8
k. • ' arrange for bazar.
JOHN M. TAYLOR.
Chairman.
Reward
$lOO 00 REWARD for informa
: to the identity of parties
' ‘f 'ho\c. niv Reo truck to Hal
' Saturday night,* to the
' ctv 1 lieatre.
ROY Y. TYPINGS.
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V STATEMENT OF 8!
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i The Annapolis Banking j
! & Trust Company 1
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Showing Its Remarkable Growth
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i TOTAL RESOURCES I
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MaylS, 1905, --- - $ 13,496.00
I May 13, 1906, - - - - 108,885.48
? Dec. 31.1917, --- - 653,843.87
Dec. 31,1918, --- - 1,036,860.85
December 31, 1919, $ 1,331,944.38
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L ' R i ’HR CENT Paid on Savings Accounts %
! TWO PER CENT Paid on Balances (Check- |
ing Accounts) over SSOO
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SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT f
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’ TVARI) THOMPSON. JR JAMES A. WALTON £
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o Ireasurer President
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Abetting (Capital.
COM. FAIRFIELD SPEAKS
Naval Officer Gives Interesting
) Address Before Univer
sity Club
TELLS OF THE WAR ZONE
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At the University Club last even
ting Commander A. P. Fairfield, U. S. j
if Navy, Head of the Department of Ord-:
i nance and Gunnery at the Naval i
Academy, spoke on his experiences]
and observations in the war zone. ;
The meeting was largely attended
and was one of the most interesting !
and entertaining of the year,
e Commander Fairfield went over in
\ the MacDougall shortly after the £n-|
trance of the United States into the
* war, and he saw service in her for
8 several months off Queenstown. He
1 was then detached and came back to
the United States for a new boat, the
* Gregory, jn which he returned to the:
e Mediterranean.
e His talk was simple, direct, and
8 full of interest. He told of what he
had seen and learned about the war.
1 and ho expalined the tactics of sub
-3 marine warfare, the convoy system,
3 and destroyer methods in a very clear
1 manner that was made intensely in
-3 tere’sting by a wealth of illustration j
■ from his own experience or that of I
' other commanders in the war zone !
* The members of the club were deep-1
1 1 ly interested in what he said, and!
e very much gratified to have the op-j
1 j portunity to hear him, and they were
e pleased to learn how splendid had
• been the achievements of the United
■ States Navy during the war and how
*!modest and unassuming was the con
f duct of its officers,
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NAVY VS. LAFAYETTE;
1 ST. JOHN’S - GETTYSBURG
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Lafayette College, of Easton, Pa., *
. will be the attraction on the basket- 1
s ball court at the Naval Academy to-1
morrow afternoon. The game will be 1
. j played in Dahlgren Hall, starting at 1
. 2:30 o’clock, the usual time for such]
_ contests.
To play their first scheduled contest .
of the season, the team of St. John’s 1
.'College Cadets will travel to Gettys
burg, Pa., Gettysburg College will be!
i the opposing force. j
■ Oyster Supper
will be given for
e
BENEFIT OF EASTPORT
FIRE DEPT.
J AT THEIR HALL. tf !’
JANUARY 21 and 22
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-I —TRY— [I.
MERVIS SALAD
KING BRAND
Mayonnaise Dressing
, j AND
Tartar Sauce
For sale at all good groceries'. !
Sold with a guarantee of
money refunded Jl4
DECLARES EIGHT
i PER GENT ANNUALLY
| ON CAPITAL STOCK
/
Banking & Trust Co. Shows
Prosperous Growth To Stock
holders’ Meeting—Old Board
Of Directors Re-elected With
Two Additions
SAME OFFICERS
ALSO CHOSEN
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of Ih'e Annapolis Banking and
, Trust Cdftipa'riV was held .it the bank
ing quarters, at the corner of Main
street, and Church -Circle, yesterday,
and resulted in the re-election of the
same board rif directors, with the ad
dition of Dr. George T. Dent, of (be
Eighth district, for the West River
Bank, and of Conrarl Stoll, of Hrook
lyn. to succeed his late fifner, Herman
Stoll, for the Erooklyn-Curtis Bay
Bank.
Dr. Dent is a prominent and influ
ential resident of the lower end of the
county and his addition to the hoard
will bring strength to it. especially as
to the branch at Galcsville Mr. IT to’!
i 3 one or t&o most progressive men of
the Brooklyn neighborhood, and with
Messrs. Crisp and Gray, will form the
directorate for that branch, which is
rapidly forging to the front John H.
Hopkins, Jr., a brother o* Dr Walton
H. Hopkins, of Annapolis, is the
cashier of the West Itiver Bank and J.
tie Courcy Brenan is cashier of the
branch at Brooklyn.
An important feature of the meeting
was the declaring of an increase of
dividend on the capital stock from
•three to four per cent semi-annually.
Tis makes an annual dividend of
eight per cent on the stock and reflects
the prosperous growth and strength of
tile bank, whose total resources readi
ed the high mark of $1,331,944.38 for
the period ending December 31, 1919.
(Continued On Page Four)
TAXPAYERS HOLD
ANOTHER MEETING
The general committee of taxpayers,
composed of representatives of the
several districts of the county, for the
purpose of recommending or suggest
ing certain new legislation or wiping
out some of the laws now’ on the sta
tute books is closing up its work at a
meeting at the Court House this after
noon. The sub-committees held a
'meeting this morning. It is planned to
take some definite action before the
close of the day’s conferences, so that
a report may be framed for submission
at a meeting of taxpayers, generally,
which has been called for Tuesday,
January 20.
Uppermost among the subjects under
discussion today has been the law
governing the County Commissioners,
particularly a regards the suggestion
of reducing the membership of the
Board from seven to three, and regu
lations governing the County Engineer
1 and roads. , - .
QUIET WED&NG AT '
MD. AVE. PARSONAGE
A quiet wedding ceremony was per
formed at 1 o’clock on Monday after
noon at the parsonage of Marylnad
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church,
when Miss Loversha Cantler, daughter
of Captain and Mrs. Albert Cantlar. ot
Annapolis, became the wife of John
' James, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
James, of Camden. N. J The cere
! mony was performed by the Rev. E. R
Spencer, pastor of the church. Wit
nessing the ceremony wrnre Mrs. Mabe!
Trew. a sister of the bride, and the
parents of the bridegroom Mr. anti
Mrs. James will reside at St. Mar
garet’s, in the Third district.
MEXICAN TOWNS WIPED
OUT BY EARTHQUAKE
(By The Associated Press)
Mexico City, Me\„ January 9.
Seven towns near Teoeelo, south o
j Jalapa, have been overwhelmed bj
the earth disturbances and a grea
lake is covering their former site:
according to a message received to
day from Teoeelo. through Vera Cruz
Thirty-four bodies had teenr recov
ered when the message was nled a
Teoeelo.
To Ratify Suffrage
Denver. Colo.. Jan. 9.—A specia
sesion of the legislatures of thre<
western states—(New 'Mexico. Idahi
and Wyoming—will l.e called withit
the next few days for ratifying th
Federal Suffrage Amendment, accord
! I >ng to an announcement made today
THE MARYLAND GAZETTE. ,
ANNAPOLIS. Ml).. FRIDAY. JANUARY 9. 19*20
TRAGIC TRIANGLE
LEADS TO lIER
! AT ROCHESTER, N.Y.
(P.v Til. 1 Associate! Pros*l
5 Rochester. N. Y„ Jan. 9.- Alleged
actors in a tragic "triangle of love
and revenge, James S. Odell and his
V wife today were charged with Ynur
-1 der in the first degree, the' victim be
ing Edward Kniep, whose lody, mark
!ed with many bruises and stab
wounds, was found yesterday under
neath a culvert on the Mcsquito
Road near here.
1 The victim according to the police
was taken handcuffed in a taxi-cab
to the lonely country road on a pre
" tense of leing in the custody of Odell.
' who impersonated an officer, on a
charge of criminal assault and the
1 taxi-cab dismissed. The police say
* they • have confessions from both
e Odell and his wife. Kniepp was
' handcuffed to a tree and Mrs. Odell
1 eat him with a file alout the head
1 until he lecame unconscious, the con
fessions are said to declare. The
1 handcuffs were then removed and the
■ two started away.
Odell returned to ge>t a letter from
Knlep’s pocket and started to cut the
3 clothing from the tody. He says
* Kniepp sprang to his feet and struck
* him. Mrs. Odell then, says the police,
‘ struck Kniep on the head with the
' file and again knocked him uncon
-1 scions. Flie also took a knife from
? the victims pocket and slashed him
several times with it. The two hid
’ the clothing and walked to the city.
1 They intended to leave for Pennsyl
-3 vania this morning. Blood-stained
clothing, l elonging to Odell, was
' i found in their room.
The parties to the tragedy are all
r t
’’ young. Odell being 21, his wife IS, and
die dead man. 23 years old.
: HOLD lift FOR
I GRAND JURY ACTION
; ON MURDER CHARGE
Charged with f the killing of Rudolph
Gross, colored. 29 years old, John Hol-
I land, also colored, 35 years old, wa c
| given a further hearing before Polka
Justice William S. Welch, of this city
j yesterday afternoon and was commit
ted to iail to await the action of the
j grand jury at the coming April term
j of the Circuit Court.
J The crime for which Holland is held
, was 'committed at his home near
. Churchton, in the Eighth district ot
j the county a few- weks ago. in the pres
. enee of his paramour, who was the
j wife of Holland’s brother. The where
-3 abouts of the brother are said to be
> ] unknown. Holland shot Gross with a
(I shot gun, after objecting to the latter’s
3 presence at the house, and ordered
him from his place. The load of shot
J entered Gross’s right .‘♦id? and pene
! trated the lung. He lived about three
r i hours. Soon after the tragedy, Hol
v land surrendered himself to the county
police authorities and made a state
-3 ment to the effect that he shot Gross
f in self-defense, claiming that the lat
_ ter drew a revolver and threatened to
r shoot him.
Evidence adduced at the first hear
ing before Police Justice E. G. Sutton,
and also before Justice Welch, how
- ever, failed to hear out Holland’s state
ments. Even his wife, or paramour.
Jttestified that Holland shot Gross with
■ out provocation. She admitted, how
'• ever, that Gross was armed with a re-
L volver. and fired a shot after he had
k been mortally wounded by Holland.
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■ WORKSHOP FOR BLIND
L A PREY TO FLAMES
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‘ Baltimore, Mu- Jan. T. —The W’ork
•shop of the Maryland School for the
Blind, a four-story building at Fayette
and Paca streets, was destroyed by
fire of undetermined origin early' this
morning. Thousand of dollars y/orth
of the handiwork of the pupiH v.a?
burned. An officer of the school esti
mated the loss at $200,000. The stock
~ of Solomon Rosenbloom in an adjoin
ing building was damaged by smo’ct
>' and water to the extent of $75,000, Mr
Rosenbloom said. j
- s The Workshop was an old landmark
in Baltimore. For many years it was
z used as a club house by the societj
* r *; folk of the city and later became thi
Gi'home of the Union League of Mary
: land.
For Near East Relief
H The committee for the relief cf tht
Near East reports the receipt of thin:
io woolen sweaters, 1G hats and 15 muf
in flers from one of the most popula:
ie and generous merchants of Annapolis
i- Donations coming in all the tinn
y. l and are shipped each day to Baltimore
HOSPITAL BOARD
MONTHLY MEETING
HEARS REPORTS
!
i Owing To Absence Of Members
Regular Annua 1 Election Of
Officers Did Not Take Place
At Yesterday’s Session—Many
, Donations Are Acknowledged
’ SUPT. SUBMITS HER
•j MONTHLY STATEMENT
:l
At yesterday's regular monthly
L meeting of the Board of Managers of
, the Annapolis Emergency Hospital
,; Association, much l usiness of im
, portance was transacted.
. j It was the first monthly meeting
I after the annual meetihg, and the oc-
I casion for the annual election of of
ficers of the Board, but this was de
, ferred on account of the al Bence of
, several of the members, including
somd of the charter memters, and
( those now holding office.
, Reports of committees were sub
. ; mitted, and ail show the hospital is
working along linep_of lest, advant
age and interest to the good of the
! community and the patients.
Superintendent’s Report
! The Superintendent and Head
1 Nurse. Miss Margaret Wohlgemuth.
I submitted her monthly report ending
Decemter 31, as follows:
’ | Number of pay patients admitted, 12;
' No. of part-pay patients admitted, 7;
I I No. of free patients admitted, 14;
total number admissions, 33. ~
| i Hospital Days--Free patients, 305;
hospital days, part-pay patients, 94;
hospital days, pay patients, 181; tola!
number hospital days, 580
Out Patient Department—New pa
tients, 44; number visits, 119; mini
her of operations, 3; numier of
'irths. 3; number of deaths, 3.
’ Respectfully submitted,
M. C. WOHLGEMUTH.
(Continued on Page Four)
MURDERER TO BE
RETORNED TO IAIL
Robert Robinson, the colored man
! i vho has been convicted of first-degree
: murder and sentenced to death, will be
* j nought to Annapolis and lodged in the
*1 county jail within the next few days.
1 tis expected.
Robinson has, for the last several
months, been confined to the Baltimore
' | ity jail, having been taken there when
f ria! of the case was removed from the
1 j local Court to the Criminal Court of
- he city. The crime, a most atrocious
*; one, was committed on April 26. 1919,
’ j near Boone station, In the Third dis
l ;rict of the county. Robinson slew
James Elder Tydings, a prominent
' i farmer of that section of the county.
’ L The papers in the case have n<bt as
’ cot reached the Executive offices at
: the State House, and as the- ftdmlhis
' ration of Governor liarrrngton closes
3 on Wednesday next, it is a question
whether or not the duty of signing the
’( ieath warrant of the condemfiLL.mi^
* j and fixing the date of th’eUUHidon
' j vill fall upon him or his successor
"; Governor-elect Albert C- Ritchie.
•j In the meantime. Sheriff Thomas S.
1 j Dove is awaiting instructions as to
*! when Robinson will be returned to the
j j county jail.
DAMAGE TO STEAMER
ST. LOUIS, $1,000,000
(P.v tin* .*.asx-inte<l l’resul
New York, Jan. i).—Damage to the
. American Line steamship. St. Louis
) l which burned at a Hoboken shipyard
last night, was estimated at $1,000,000
today. The interior of the ship waf
‘ wrecked and her planks badly warp
e ed. The origin of the fire is not
e known.
• v j The St. Louis was being rtf-fitted as
s a passenger steamer after serving as
h a transport, the Louisville, during the
F war. Launched at the Kranch ahip
'"iyard in 1894 and christened by Mrs
k Grover Cleveland, she was the firs;
1 : passenger steamship to be built in
* this country in more than twenty
years.
k j EXTEND TIME OF
* STANDARD R. R- RATE
ie
(By The Associated Pre*.
Washington, D. CVJan. 9.—Contin
uing of the standard rate to Railroad!
| for a period of six months after th<
ie termination of Federal control wai
y agreed upon today by the Senate ant
f- House conferees on railroad legisla
u* tion. In advising this date the con
s. ferees accepted the Heseh bill pro
ie vision. The Cummins bill would har<
e. limited the time to four months.
NEW FEATURE AT THE “Y"
Sunday Afternoon “Open House”!
For Young People Started
MRS. CARPENTER HOSTESS
A new feature of the Y. W. C. A.
work will be introduced in Annapolis
next Sunday, when the local associa
tion will hold its first Sunday afternoon
open house for young people from four
jo six o'clock at the association's head
quarters, corner of State Circle and
! Francis street.
Mrs. Dudley Carpenter, wife of Cap
tain Carpenter, U. S. N„ will be the
hostess, assisted by a splendid group j
of ladles. There will be special music
provided by Annapolis talent, story
telling, and plenty of opportunity tori
impromptu group singing. Tea will bej
served during the afternoon.
The Sunday afternoon hospitality of,
the Y. W. C. A. has become popular
i'.mong young people In every city |
where it forms part of the program of
he association.
The members of the provisional com
mittee of the local Y. W. C. A. desire
to follow out the Hostess House idea,
as far as possible, and they hope that
he young people of Annapolis, young
men as well as young girls, will accept
ihc hospitality of the association next
Sunday and the following Sunday af
ternoons.
COUNTY NEGRO GETS
SIX MONTHS IN “CUT”
Arrested a few days ago on a charge
o? carrying concealed weapons, Ben
amin Simms, colored, a resident of
he Eighth district of the county, was
| committed to the House of Correction,
j t Jo-sups, this county, following
j rial before Justice E. G. Sutton, of
| .hit sec*ion. In custody of Deputy
| Sheriff Edward Dove, Simms was con
! eyed to the “cut" on Wednesday to
| serve his time.
j fO HOLD BAZAR FOR
INDEPENDENT FIRE CO.
To arrange for a bazar to be held in
:he near future, all ladies Interested;
n the general welfare of the lndepend- j
nt Company, of volunteer firemen,!
have been requested to meet at the *
quarters of the company on Glouces-;
ter street tonight to outline plans for
the function. The call to the ladies
has been irsued by John M. Taylor, I
president of the company, and chair
inah of the bazar committee. Presi
, ion; Taylor is one ot fhe most active
vorkers among the fire laddies.
FOR SALE
! | The double dwelling, Nos. 16 and 18
1 ! 'ccond Street. Large lot. Low price
'ifor quick sale. E. W. Iglehart, Heal
' ; Estate, Advertiser Building. J9-tf!
, NOT : ICE -
After being out of the paper so long, the
,! .iiihlic fa thinking that we are not buying
I M:e second-hand line any more, we are tak
ing great liberty to let the public know
that we are still buying Ladles and Men'a
| ■•lotlilng: men'a, ladies shoes; furnlthre,
l kitchen ntensils. mattings and ruga. Please
► give us the first call. Mltß. I’AI'LINE
ft LOOM. 90 Main street. Annapolis, Md„
’ :dione <\ A I’. 501-It —or drop a postal.
; P. S.—Please don't forget the number.
I i ,
A. W. SHARPE
11 Optician
136 Main Street
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND.
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, A Prosperous and
j Happy JVew Tear
• To All of Our Patrons
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p A Bank that is strong enough ‘\
e and liberal enough to care for
s ‘ its patrons at all times
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Y ESTABUSHED IN 1805
Gross Assets Over $2,700,000.00
t- 4 Per Cent Interest on Savings Accounts
•I
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• The Farmers National Bank
llj Of Annapolis, Maryland
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RAIN
Rain this afternoon; ;
snow tonight; Saturday
fair and colder.
THIS EVENING CAPITAL—ESTABLISHED UK.
PRICE TWO CENTS.
WILSON MID BAYUN
SPLIT ON MAKING
; ' LEAGUE IN R
That Democratic Chieftians Are
At Parting Of Ways Develops
At National Committee Meet
ing And Jackson Day Dinner
Last Night
LEADING PARTY MEN
AT BIG POW-WOW
Washington, January 1). -San
Francisco Is the place and Mon
day, June 2H, at noon. Is the time
for the Democratic national ecu.
Yentlon.
The selections were made yes.
terdny by the Democratic National
Committee at its quadrennial
meeting. The committee at the
same time unanimously udopt<d
resolutions endorsing the Treaty
of Versailles and denouncing,the
“arrogant'’ Republican leadership
of the Senate as tuning earned the
“contempt of the world” by thrott
ling the treaty for seven month'.
President Wilson and Mr. Bryan are
at the parting of the ways and all
Democrats roust choose under which
flag they will serve in the next g-eat
battle.
The Issue between the Democratic
and Republican parties for the presi
dential campaign of IHL'O has been de
fined, so far as President Wilson can
define it.
These developments came with the
meeting of the Democratic National
Committee ahd tho Jackson Day dinner
in Washington yesterday.
The plhn of campaign upon which
the Democratic party will act during
the presidential conflict has been out
lined so far as William Jennings
Bryan can outline it.
These two leaders of democracy,
Wilson and Bryan, ended the mystery,
•which for a week has engrossed the
attention not only of their fellow-
Democrats but of the American people,
and which has completely dwarfed the
| deliberations and actions of the Demo
cratic National to which
body the utterances of the two leaders
' were directed.
Place It I'p To People
President Wilson’s declaration came
in the form of a letter which was read ,
last night simultaneously at two great
Jackson Day dinners in the Washuig
(Continued on Page Four)
NOTICE!
! In view of the great wasto of
water causing very low pressure
in the city, greutly increasing the
expense of pumping at the water
works and almost exhausting the
sources of supply, the board of di
rectors of the Annapolis Water
Company has passed an order that
waste of water must be stopped,
and that landlords and tenants be
notified that meters will be in-
I stalled where this notice is disre
garded. Those who wilfully wasto...
the city's water Supply cannot
complain if they are required to
pay for what they waste.
GEORGE T. MELVIN.
President Annapolis Water Co.
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