First Talk Of Club Women Opens Dress and Suffrage Debate
Chicago June 11 The General Federation of Women's Clubs opened with discussions on restricting the resolutions committee to curb its power. Suffragists aim to push their pleas to the convention and secure floor time, with plans to admit political organizations to boost suffrage and equal rights influence. Mrs Rudolph Blankenburg of Philadelphia comments on the committee’s tools.
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Chicago
Rudolph Blankenburg
Philadelphia
General Federation
Memorial Service For Chosen Friends Lodge Set
The annual memorial Sunday service of Chosen Friends Lodge No 34 Independent Order of Old Fellows will be held Sunday at 3 PM in Odd Fellows Hall. State Senator Frederick N Zihlman and Rev Joseph Dawson deliver addresses. D L Clayton James A Young and Ian Praeger will eulogize the deceased. George F Dowden John T Hite and G A Clark are remembered this year. music featured. All Odd Fellows and Rebukehs invited. public welcome.
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Chosen Friends Lodge
Independent
Order of Old Fellows
Odd Fellows Hall
Frederick N. Zihlman
Joseph Dawson
D. L. Clayton
James A. Young
Ian Praeger
George F. Dowden
John T. Hite
G. A
Store Building Remodeling Rumors and Plans
The building at Canal and Baltimore streets owned by Joseph H. Reinhard is being remodeled with a new story and elevator. A furniture store operates in one lower room while Reinhard expands to house a larger department store. Meanwhile Miss Mabel Shifler of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company will resume duties July 1 after an appendicitis operation and a two week vacation. Her father died during her absence from Cumberland.
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Joseph H. Reinhard
Canal and
Baltimore Streets
Reinhard
Mabel Shifler
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Hagerstown
Miss Shifler
Cumberland
Testimony in Rolling Mill Case Ahead of June 1
The Hedlan suit against the Mayor City Council and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad seeks recovery of B&O property allegedly forfeited for failure to operate the rolling mill. Examiners will hear testimony from city claimants Tuesday June 1 with Attorney James A. McHenry as examiner.
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Ella V. Hedlan
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimoreand Ohio
James A. McHenry
Rev Bergner Returns From Washington Sermon
Rev C F Bergner pastor of the Bedford street German Lutheran church returned home this morning from Washington DC where he preached the dedicatory sermon at the installation of a new pipe organ at Zion's Lutheran church Zion's congregation holds services each night this week to honor the occasion.
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C. F. Bergner
Bedford Street
Washington, D. C
Zion’s Lutheran Church
Zion’s Church
Lyons Divorce Granted by Henderson
Mary E. Lyons was granted a divorce from James D. Lyons this morning by Judge Robert R. Henderson on grounds of desertion and non support. The plaintiff of Reynolds Maryland was represented by attorney Richard S. Bell.
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Mary E. Lyons
James D. Lyons
Robert R. Henderson
Reynolds, Md
Richard S. Bell
Recovered Jewelry Won’t Prosecute Steal Case
Walter Rankin, charged with stealing jewelry from Jacob Kahn at Steckman Hotel, confessed and led police to the loot behind the Kennewey Company building on Baltimore Street. After the recovery, Kahn refused to prosecute and Rankin was released.
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Walter Rankin
Jacob Kahn
Steckman Hotel
J. Thomas Eisenhauer
James Nicely
Rankin
Kahn
Kennewey Company
Baltimore Street
Gardener Finishes Flower Beds at Footer's Dye Works
S D Phillips on Second Street completes large flower beds at Footer's Dye Works. A circular canvas bed fronts Window Street, with scarlet sage rows along the race on both sides. Foreman George Forbeck adds light wire fences for protection. Mayor Koon hires Phillips to redesign his Baltimore Avenue backyard with scarlet sage and heliotrope.
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S. D. Phillips
Second Street
Footer’s Dye Works
Window Street
Footer
George Forbeck
Footer Dye Works
Thomas W. Koon
Mr. Phillips
Baltimore Avenue
Arrest on Non Support Charge of Local Man
Under orders from Major Sylvester in Washington D C James H Barbour colored of Druid Hill Baltimore was arrested by Chief Eisenhauer on the 1250 train from Elkins W Va today. Barbour is wanted for nonsupport of his wife and child. He is 24 years old and will be held here awaiting orders from Washington.
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Major Sylvester
Washington
D. C
James H. Barbour
Druid Hill
Baltimore
Eisenhauer
Elkins
W. Via
Barbour
Teachers to Receive May Salary Checks Tomorrow
Public school teachers in the county will receive checks for services rendered during the last month. A final pay for the last term of school is expected in mid July.
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Morings Miail
Books For High School Presented To Allegany County School
Miss Carrie Perrin for the class of 1913 donated about $50 worth of books for the Allegany County High School library. The principal accepted the selection for the library.
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Carrie Perrin
Allegany County High School
Local residents head to events and travels
Miss Theresa PD Fesenmeier departs for Baltimore and Emmitsburg to witness her niece Anna Fesenmeier's Mount St. Joseph's College graduation. Various locals travel to Baltimore for commencements, vacations, or family visits while others undergo medical care and attend events in Cumberland and surrounding towns.
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Theresa PD. Fesenmeier
Smallwood Street
Baltimore
Emmitsburg
Anna Fesenmeier
Mount St. Joseph's College
Michael L. Fesenmeier
James T. Robertson
Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad
Robertson
Philadelphia
Grace Elizabeth Malamphy
M. J. Malamphy
Lakewood
Maryland State Normal School
Eleanor
Margaret Malamphy
Gov. Goldsborough
Mary Jane Munn
Clarksburg
W. Va
Ocean City
Fannie Hammersmith
Pittsburg
Herman, Pa
T. J. Aggleson
L. J. Beck
Elkins
B. F. Close
Imperial Hotel
Mary Converse
John B. Converse
Baldwin Locomotive Company
Roberdeau Annan
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Minnie Elizabeth Schaeffer
New York
Minnie Elizabeth Schaefer
Fred M. Schupp
New York Giants
Louisville, Ky
Gardener
Edward Edwards
Port Deposit
John E. Edwards
C. W. Kelly
Connellsville
John Hopkins Hospital
Lillian Laing
Stephen B. Elkins
Dalton Lewis Bretz
W. M. Snyder
Cumberland Circuit Methodist Protestant Church
Western Maryland Hospital
Flaville Percy
Europe
H. H. Adams
Harrison Street
C. M. Brown
Charleston
Nettie Brown
Allegany Heights Hospital
Davis
Whitmore
Mith’s Sheery
Smith Sheery’s
Cumberland Store
Baltimore and
Liberty Streets
W. A. Spruill
Russia
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