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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1915
Page
3
A local ad highlights women's dresses at reduced prices as spring arrives. Crepe dresses once 30 to 39 dollars are offered at 15 dollars, street dresses from 7.98 to 29.98, silk dresses 14 to 19 dollars now 4.98, and party dresses 14.98 to 29.98 reduced to 4.98 to 6.98.
Dozens of waists in black taffeta and black silk marked down from five and four dollars to two ninety eight and one ninety eight respectively. Other odd lots offered in pretty new styles at reduced prices.
An illustrated ad lists numerous suits in various price points. Prices shown include 10.00, 12.50, 15.00, 25.00, and 50.00 with multiple styles and sizes referenced. The ad emphasizes substantial discounts and broad selection for shoppers.
Store promotes a coat sale featuring Black Kersey coats at 5.00 and 15.00, plus cloth coats priced at 9.50 12.50, claiming the prettiest styles at the lowest costs in town.
Readable text notes men’s light shirts featuring neat stripes and figures offered at a bargain price. A $1.50 shirt is advertised for $1.15 in this sale.
Paris January 11 Violent fighting along the front from the Lys to the Oise as French forces take a German trench line. Artillery duels persist from the sea to Lys with heavy combat near Soissons. German losses and casualties are reported at about 40 000 amid ongoing attempts to regain ground. The Allies hold roads toward Soultz and Gerwey as snow hampers progress.
The body of Mrs. Lucinda Smith 79 was brought through for interment in Elkins after dying yesterday in Baltimore. She was the wife of the late P G Smith and survived by a brother Jonathan Queen of Sage WV and four sons G W Smith Buckhannon WV J M Smith Jacksonville FL Ira F Smith Elkins WV and J Willis Smith Baltimore. Short services were held at the Baltimore residence of her son J Willis Smith. Interment is planned in Elkins tomorrow.
In Muncie Indiana on January 11 Web Matthews a teamster killed his wife and their infant with a razor during a sudden insane spell and then cut his own throat. He is reported to be near death.
Edward Sibley was arrested in Cumberland on suspicion of robbing interstate shipments on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He was released on $1,000 bail posted by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sibley, of South Cumberland.
Berlin reports that French forces gained a foothold north of Soissons but German units stopped any further advance. In the Argonne the Germans claim gains while Upper Alsace remains unchanged.
At a Morgantown meeting the West Virginia University athletic committee officially offered Charles Hickman the baseball coach post for next spring while Sol S. Metzger was offered the football coach role. Both offers are to be submitted with one year contracts as the board lacks authority for longer terms. The board ratified the Waynesburg football date and guaranteed schedule, with favorable action on Manager People's baseball schedule.
The Knights of Columbus Fourth Degree in Allegany County announces patronesses for Friday night’s ball at the North Mechanic street home under Chief Justice Taney Assembly. Names include Mesdames Wolfhope Db Landwehr Finan Schellhaus Brown Stakem Murray Welsh May and Fisher. The full dress ball features three new dances with a grand march at 9 and a large crowd anticipated.
Beall High School will host a basketball exhibition tomorrow evening at the Beall High School Assembly Hall featuring the Lona coning Juniors. Beall lines up forwards Close and Watson, guards Cook and Price or Brophy, center Hamill, with substitutes Sacks and Huntsman.
Cc H Todd traveling freight and passenger agent for Western Maryland Railway based in Elkins has resigned to take a position with a western railroad so to pursue new opportunities in rail travel and freight operations.
Order sets a hearing for January 28 1915 at 10 AM before Maryland Public Service Commission in Baltimore. The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Cumberland must publish notice in an Allegany County newspaper at least once before January 21 1915. True Copy from Secretary B F Findall with seal.
Society notes list Daniel Houck and Max Kamen leaving for Baltimore and Chicago respectively for business. Judge Boyd returns to the Court of Appeals. Mrs. Tatroe and children visit Iowa and return. Several locals visit relatives in New York Washington Harper’s Ferry and Parkersburg. Police officials travel to Parkersburg as witnesses in Federal Court.
The circuit court heard Alfred A. Whitman assignee V The Co-Operative Supply Co with verdict not expected until tomorrow. In a separate case Whitman assignee V Firlie Brothers a verdict favored the defendant. Cumberland property described as Lots 8 and 1 in Broadway Addition, Allegany County Maryland, improved by two brick houses and one frame house. Terms: cash. William Pfarr e Mortgagee.
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