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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1914
Page
6
Patrons enjoyed an entertaining Majestic program with the serial Zingo featuring underwater and whale scenes. The 4 reel film plus a comedy reel drew crowds. five reel showings run today and tonight at five cents admission. Marion Leonard will attend Saturday. weekly lineup includes The Confession and The Road To Ruin.
The Republican executive committee of the Second West Virginia District set August 17 for the nominating convention to be held in Elkins. Candidates include Speaker Taylor George, Vernon Johnson of Berkeley Springs, and ex State Senator L J Forman of Petersburg. Democrats in Mineral County chose delegates at Keyser for a June 24 convention to nominate a Congressman at Large backing Wylie Beall of Wellsburg. Delegates in Charlestown for June 17 were instructed to back William G. Brown's renomination.
The Epworth League of West Virginia begins its biennial convention in Clarksburg tomorrow and runs through Thursday. Speakers include Rev. Dr. Charles R. Guthrie of Wilkes-Barre Pa, formerly Baltimore, Rev. Dr. Ernest Wray Oneill of Chicago First Methodist, and Rev. Dr. D L Marsh of the Pittsburgh conference.
The thirty seventh annual council of the Protestant Episcopal Church of West Virginia opens in Morgantown on Wednesday and runs through Sunday with Bishop George W. Peterkin presiding and Bishop-Coadjutor Gravatt assisting. The Woman's Auxiliary annual meeting will be held in connection.
The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles issued licenses to multiple individuals across Cumberland and Oakland in Maryland. Names include Frank Billmeyer Alexander A. Davis Mrs T Casteel Frank Himmler Rev James F E Connell Percy Sloan Allen B Spier E W Nave Morris Rosenbaum M J Ward Henry A Jenkins William C McCray Walter J Boyd Milton Dickens Henry Vogel with vehicles ranging from Ford and Buick to Chalmers and Cadillac.
Neighbors corroborate that the soprano Mrs Schumann Heink cleans floors and helps with housework at home while testifying in her divorce suit against William Rapp Jr. She says at home she cleans, scrubs and cooks when not on engagements. London notes suffragette Mrs Fauston sparks riot court scene refusing to promise peace.
The first international polo clash between England and America at Meadow Brook Club was postponed to Saturday after a medical report on Lester Cheape. Doctors say Cheape’s eye is nearly closed from a Sunday practice strike, preventing him from playing this week.
The Public Utilities Commission in Columbus holds a hearing today on the proposed consolidation of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern with the New York Central & Hudson River roads. The filing by S. H. West on May 15 outlines a capitalization of 30 million dollars, the largest merger request the Ohio commission has ever faced.
An old advertisement notes guard crowns and plates offered by a dentist on Millmore Street with contact for Teedgold and unnamed provider. It also mentions business cards engraved or printed at The Evening Press.
A crowded classified page lists several rental offers for furnished rooms and housekeeping spaces at 17 Glenn Street and 1098 K, along with a front room for a gentleman at N Centre Street and a modern house for rent at 100 Second Street. It also notes a June 9 Cape Cod Canal inspection trip by the Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange including Congressman Greene and military officers, plus miscellaneous notices and ads for sales and services.
Lieut. Gov. Thomas Morris launched his bid for the Republican nomination for United States senator in Racine. The southeastern Wisconsin rally was billed as a Progressive Republican gathering and Morris planned to address tariffs and national and state issues in his evening speech.
The Eckhart Flat Land Company sells a parcel in Eckhart Flat Addition to Frostburg to Edward F. and Catherine Chabot. John Barnard and wife transfer land at Westernport to Mrs. Elizabeth C. Robinette for 1200 dollars. William Kornhoff sells land on the Bedford road near Cumberland to Theodore B. Hardinger for ten dollars.
Marriage licenses issued in Pennsylvania and West Virginia include Robert Beers and Verna Cough. Samuel Lenison and Clara Abramowitz Scheim. Henry Harmison and Flora Patterson. Clarence Proshater and Mildred McPherson. W F Barnard, Socialist lecturer, addressed a large Hagerstown crowd opposing a proposed charter for a commission form of government.
The notice outlines an effective January 1 1994 timetable for trains between Frostburg Cumberland Baltimore Street with hourly arrivals and departures. It lists stations including Hebbart Clarysville Longs Narrows Park Moscow Barton Reynolds Lonaconing Midland and Westernport. It names FERD WILLIAMS President Dr VARTZELL Secretary-Treasurer ETAYLOR Superintendent.
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