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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1915
Page
3
An advertisement lists women’s apparel including Lingeries in white and colored fabrics, Tub Skirts priced from $1.00 to $1.98, and coats in Linen and Beach Cloth with patch pockets and belts. It notes sizes from 6 to 16 for dresses and 12 to 16 for juniors, highlighting ginghams linens voiles and dimities.
By order of the City Council an ordinance requires streetcars to stop on the near side for boarding and alighting. The change affects the Baltimore and Centre streets junction where Second Street cars now load on the far side.
Allegany county Maryland and Mineral county West Virginia lodges join for an all day meeting at Junior Order Park Frostburg on July 15 expected to draw over 1000 Knights and ladies. Notables include Grand Chancellor George A Deaver Grand Vice Chancellor Harry W Nice Grand Instructor J Fuller Shryock and others. Also July 12 sees installation of Cumberland Lodge 60 Allegany Lodge 146 and Queen City Lodge 146 officers by Karl F W Stuiber with David J Lewis to speak on The American Flag at Centre Street Methodist Church.
Peter McGee a Cumberland restaurant owner aged 56 died this afternoon at 1 oclock at his home 358 Maryland avenue after an eight month illness. He spent time at Sabillasville sanitarium before returning home. A Cumberland police veteran 1898 he was a Democrat and active in St Marys Catholic Church the Loyal Order of Moose and the Young Mens Institute. Surviving are his wife three sons Megan Frank and George and four daughters Mrs Henrietta Welsh Pearl Catherine and Loretta McGee all of the city.
Chairman C. E. Weller of the State Roads Commission will open his headquarters and start his Republican bid for governor tomorrow. Amos W. Woodcock will run the campaign. Woodcock was elected secretary of the Republican State Central Committee last fall and will resign. The Weller camp includes Edward C. Carrington, William F. Stone, Sydney E. Mudd, Frederick N. Zihlman, Charles H. Heintzeman, and Charles H. Holtzman. If Governor Goldsborough runs it would mark a clear split with former Senator Jackson.
In a Commercial League contest Saturday, The J. C. Orrick Son Co. defeated The Kenneweg Co. 15 to 6. Key plays came from Paul Gooke at short and Golden H as the pitcher, with Rev. Wilbur M. Snyder umpiring.
Arthur Ryan of Potomac Lumber Company mangled in a mishap while boarding an engine at McNeill West Virginia. He was transported to Western Maryland Hospital in Butler's ambulance and may lose his right leg and left arm.
Carranza forces under Gonzales seize Mexico City after defeating Zapatistas. Marietta gunboat ordered to Progreso to block sisal shipments to the United States. Huerta arrested at El Paso and watched by Treasury officials to prevent bail jumping. Villa with 3000 troops is about eighty miles south of Juarez awaiting Huerta's next move.
Justice Hendricks rebuked the New York press for its attitude in the Thaw trial. He warned reporters and editors they would be summoned for contempt unless they stop dictating what evidence should be admitted, accusing the press of turning the case into a newspaper trial.
A Madrid dispatch reports a refugee from Egypt recounting an Arab who learned arithmetic and used subtraction on German losses and strengths from anti German papers. The Arab asks La Bourse editor whether the 500 remaining Germans are in the western or eastern zones or in the navy or among Turkish allied officers.
Vital statistics for Cumberland show births and deaths in the week ending June 26. Births list two sets of parents including Vincent, F. and Fanny E.. Fogle, Harry A. and Nellie B.. plus several other couples for male and female infants. Deaths include Susan Fulton Wiesel, Lizzie Hendrickson, David James Blackiston, William Weigand, Catherine Himmier, Carmella Cristafaro, Sarah Haines, Mary Rita Malloy, and Mary Florence Lueck with ages from 2 to 89.
A local sale advertises 40 inch printed Voiles seer 40 in striped Voiles and Oxfords priced at $3.50. The ad emphasizes these fabric items available at discount.
Patrons are urged to phone in personals. Editor Mr and Mrs Edward Twigg and family stay in Sharpsburg caring for Mrs Twigg's paralysed mother. Numerous travels and visits described, including Constantine Greaves recovering in Youngstown Ohio, and many Cumberland residents visiting relatives, attending events, or traveling to cities like Pittsburgh Washington DC Baltimore and Morgantown.
The record lists numerous marriage companions including George W. Tipton of Baltimore paired with Ada M. Porter of Cumberland, and Harry E. Davis of Gilpin Maryland with Josephine Fazenbaker of Westernport. Other couples include James M. Kerns of Town Creek with Sarah R. Pittnogle of Cumberland and Norman A. Jones with Nina D. Hut zell of Williams Pennsylvania. Additional pairings span Charles L. Denson of Cumberland with Gertie V. Gilmore of Piedmont West Virginia Ray M. Whitworth of Romney and Catherine Day of Moorefield both in West Virginia Louis L. Sharpneck of Carmchaels Maryland with Nora Hewitt of Greensboro Pennsylvania Everett F. Long and Margaret E. Silk from Johnstown Pennsylvania Raymond A. Hampton with Cora M. McDowell of Dunbar Pennsylvania Jacob B. Forsythe of Beatty Pennsylvania with Clara B. Nair of Donahoe Pennsylvania and Harry B. Rohrer with Jessie Garilio of Luxor Pennsylvania.
Detroit opens the first annual convention of the Association of Governmental Labor Officials of the United States and Canada. Attendees include state provincial and municipal heads, with attendees representing nearly two thirds of the United States and Canada.
Mrs. Luda B. Whitaker promoted a plan to share in a $400,000,000 Drake estate for $25 and drew hundreds of Des Moines residents. The county attorney questions her claims, noting possible resemblance to a prior Missouri scam, while many victims still defend her and her investment.
Governor Carlson forms a committee to seek employment and relief options for starving miners. F J Radford of Trinidad H J Alexander of Denver and A A Reed of Boulder lead the group which lacks state funds and employment power but will pursue near state aid, cooperate with the highway commission on projects to generate jobs, and solicit donations for relief in the form of employment opportunities.
Captain C. T. Connell of the immigration bureau reports a new method among Chinese smugglers. Insignia tattooed on bodies grant access to inner council members and messages are repeatedly tattooed, allowing covert communication without alerting secret services.
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