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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1914
Page
2
News item notes Union Woolen Mills relocating to a new store room with a summer fabrics display and a sale offering an extra pair of giants free with every suit ordered by next Saturday. The Cumberland Press promises made to measure clothing with a price of $15 for extra pants and suit, delivering $20 value.
The Westernport High School alumni elected officers for the year led by President Mrs Edna Bruce Davis and Vice President Mrs Leola Stewart Thomas. A Maryland State Board of Health official will meet Westernport leaders to discuss sanitary conditions and a joint crematory plan for Piedmont and Westernport to dispose of garbage along the Potomac.
Visiting suffragists plan a hiking campaign through Garrett County with meetings in Frostburg Lonaconing Grantsville and Oakland. Key figures include General Edna Latimer Miss Madge Thurlow Miss Minnie Jackson and Miss Maury Trenman with a schedule of stops from Frostburg to Oakland and Deer Park.
The program includes S. R. Tiddy W. H. Davis D. W. Kalbaugh and Walter Cook with Rev H L Earnest giving an address. Mrs W L Lynn provides The Star Spangled Banner and Rev William Black delivers another address. The Red White and Blue song is performed with Benediction by Rev W S Nicholson and music by Frostburg City Band.
Tonight at 8 o'clock the Lonaconing central High School auditorium hosts a school banquet for the graduating class of 1414 followed by an alumni induction. A musical and literary program will be presented. Personal notes report Gustave Feichorn and family returning from Annapolis and relatives visiting Pittsburg and North Baltimore with further moves and job plans in New Jersey.
The Mendelssohn Glee Club directed by Dr Geo H Wilson with Mrs G H Wilson and Marie Roland along with the Porter Orchestra present a first concert on Wednesday evening at Junior Hall under Coal Valley Council No 75 Jr O U A M A social will follow on the upper floor. Louis Garcie is recovering after a hand injury and surgery at Miners Hospital Frostburg. Sadie Price a student at Ithaca Conservatory is visiting her parents. The Men’s Bible group held a unanimous vote.
Several Protestant churches in South Cumberland held a meeting in Odd Fellows Hall under the Ministerial Association to push Sabbath observance. Speeches by Rev. Dr. W W Davis of Maryland and Rev. Dr. Ware of Seattle, both linked to the Lord's Day Alliance, plus local clergy, outlined plans to organize a county branch in Frostburg after earlier talks in Barton and Midland.
The Cumberland Sunday Schools lead the first division in Lonaconing's big Sunday School parade with Lonaconing in the third division. The Loaconing City Band will lead the procession and Good Will Fire Company will provide police escort. After the parade, speakers including Hon. David J. Lewis and Rev. B. W. Kindley address the convention as sessions continue through Wednesday. Andrew S. Dick is chief marshal and 2,000 are expected to participate.
The Federation of Protestant Societies of Allegany County held Flag Day in Frostburg with a parade led by the Frostburg City Band and patriotic addresses at Jr. O. U. A. M. Park. Special trains carried members from across the county, and Rev. H. L. Earnest and Rev. William Black spoke at the park.
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