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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1916
Page
6
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Y M C A announces leadership for the membership drive with M. H. Cahill as campaign superintendent and J. K. Yohe as assistant campaign manager. The notice names Cahill and Yohe in key campaign roles.
The Cumberland notice urges C W Fries J P Kotschenreuther Auditon H H Summers and W C Montignani to turn in all applications daily to gain maximum miles credit. Applications go to the superintendent of the division or trainmaster for the name listed. A large number of handsome prizes will be awarded to members securing the most participants.
Members near 565 after three days in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Young Men's Christian Association drive. Train No 1 with Engineer Cheshire leads at 72 new members and 1 060 total miles. Train No 71 lags but gains speed with Engineer Storer and Millholland on top. Campaign manager Cahill and assistant Yohe schedule a meeting to review plans as crews push toward five more days of counting.
A collection of testimonials from railroad workers praising the B and O Y M C A for its support and meals. Engineers F F Englebig and H W Dodson recount long-term affiliation since 1890 and 1915 respectively, calling the Y M C A a railroad man's home and lauding kindness and value.
Leesburg Georgia January 24. The Oliver murder trial at a special Lee county term promises sensational testimony about a renown get rich quick schemes financier known as King of Climax. Four men G W Chance Claude Chance Minter Kennedy and Ike Carter await trial with alibi claims.
The Oakland Free Public Library Association elected officers: H. A. Loraditch president, Mrs. B. H. Lincell vice president, Mrs. A. Bremer secretary, Miss Cora Weimer treasurer. Advisory board includes Joseph Harned Rev A Bremer and Dr Fleming Howell. The new treasurer Miss Weimer is a member.
The first woman to swim the Solent, Mrs. Arthur Hamilton, has been using her strength to help troops at the front in northern France. She has returned home to London for a rest and is a well known society figure. Hamilton holds five medals for long distance swimming.
Los Angeles January 24 The Caplan trial expected to start this week will close the LA Times bombing case from 1910. Caplan was seized near Seattle after two years under an alias and faces charges mirroring the Schmidt case, whose trial ended with a life sentence.
A. L. Johnson, president of the Devil's Luke Cilw Coupailniten, campaigns to have Devil's Lake sell the municipal jail and use the county jail for the remaining city cases, claiming the lake's reputation makes the jail an economical loss.
United Press report from London notes Australians New Zealanders and Maoris drifting into London after Gallipoli withdrawal. It details graves at Anzac under jagged cliffs and in Shrapnel Gully, with many marked only by memory crosses. A May burial armistice shows Turks and Anzacs sharing rites before resuming fighting.
After the war hundreds of Anzacia will return to visit silent graves. It is declared not improbable that the thousands of crosses marking the graves will be replaced by durable stone markings to forever commemorate the memory of the dead.
Police in Baltimore area report a surge in railroad station robberies. Roslyn Station lost a telephone coin box and nearly $1,000 in jewelry from a trunk. Sudbrook Park Station and Skyesville station faced coin box thefts and gunfire incidents. Vansiibber on the B and O line was robbed of money from a telephone coin box.
New York Jan 24 directors of the United States Steel Corporation will meet tomorrow to decide dividend action on common and preferred stock. Prospects favor resumption of 5 percent on common stock amid record earnings and wage increases, though the common dividend has not yet been paid.
A fragmented ad listing price points 4.00 for Kind items and 92.50, plus men’s Regal Shoes and a 2.50 item from McMullen Bros. The copy notes broken grammar but indicates a sale or catalog style promotion with multiple prices and brands.
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