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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1915
Page
8
Patrons and friends of The Cumberland Press are asked to telephone personals and any items of interest to the paper. The Editon invites community news and updates for publication.
Benjamin A. Richmond left yesterday for a brief visit in New York. Miss Katie McKnight of Madison street is seriously ill. Miss Ruth Diehl of Everett Pa underwent an operation yesterday at Western Maryland Hospital for appendicitis. Mrs Lottie Frost of Baltimore avenue is at Western Maryland Hospital with pneumonia. W E Crane of Oakland was operated on last night at Western Maryland Hospital for appendicitis. Miss Nora Brant of Garrett Pa underwent an operation today at Western Maryland Hospital for appendicitis. Mrs Oscar Allen of Meyersdate went to Washington to visit her mother in law Mrs Mary Allen. Mrs Jesse Carvin and children returned home to Hancock from visiting Mrs Garvin's parents there. Mrs Irene Benjaman of Camp Hill spent several days in Cumberland. J Jenkins of Frostburg registered at the New Willard Grafton. Mrs Martha Harbaugh returned yesterday from New Baltimore Pa where she had been called by her father's illness. H Koons chief ms partner for the Western Maryland Rathway at Hagerstown was a visitor at the local office today.
The Girle Friendly Chi will stage Rostand's La Romamnques on Tuesday night May 25 on Judge Henderson's Washington street lawn with a dancing exposition. Miss Helen Henderson leads the event and Miss Cora B Morse directs the dancing at a large Paul’s Lutheran Sunday school meeting.
Teachers meeting last night approved a Sunday school picnic at Narrows Park around June 1. They also adopted plans to repaint and refinish Sunday school rooms to be rededicated October 3. Windsor Hotel proprietor M J Mullaney hosted a dinner at Windsor Hill's Farm with guests R Hugh McCleare Charles F Parlougher J Frank Fyman John Mullaney Will N Eyler and W W Brown. Mrs R Mason Hill hosted bridge for friends at Fayette street home.
Obituaries report Jacob Wilkinson of Flintstone dying at his son Amos B. Wilkinson's home in McConnellsburg aged 88 and to be buried in Hancock. George W. Weber, a retired farmer and Confederate veteran, dies in Big Springs near Martinsburg at 75, survived by eleven children including Emma Conn. Henry Fuller Mordecai, 64, dies in Elkins and is to be interred in Baltimore. son of shipbuilder David M. Mordecai, educated in Germany, once in wholesale drug trade.
Businessman in Baltimore notes six children survive: A. M. Mordecai, V. C. Mordecai, and J. R. Mordecai of Baltimore, Cline Henderson of York Pennsylvania, Hender son Barham of Elkins and Murray Tarleton of Philadelphia. Two sisters Eugenia Mordecai of Philadelphia and Mrs. William A. Stanley of New York also survive.
Dr. Irvin Broadwater of Oaksend Maryland married Miss Jessie Bowden a graduate nurse daughter of J A Boyd Bowden Gross this county on Wednesday morning at the bride's home. The couple departed on an extended trip after the ceremony.
A Cumberland and Westernport Electric Railway car returning from Frostburg collided with a Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad train near the Glass House switch. The wrecked car had just come from the shop and will be overhauled. Nearly a dozen passengers rode the car but all escaped injury. The train was being pushed over the connection from the Western Maryland to the Cumberland and Pennsylvania tracks when the run-in occurred.
S Ennes general superintendent of the Western Maryland Railway was guest of honor at the Joshers Club semi monthly dinner at the Maryland Restaurant. Division Superintendent Charles Steiner and Division Freight Agent Harry Williams attended. Former Mayor George G Young presided as notables joined in the Western Maryland Night banquet.
Huntingdon Pa May 18 Not guilty pleaded Adam Snyder 20 in the murder of Mrs Rebecca Port wife of Plummer Port Hunt ingdon county farmer Indictment yesterday after five hours jury paneling District Attorney Brewster opened the Commonwealths case excluding women and boys from the court due to nature of evidence one woman refused to leave the courtroom her the boy s mother
Minnie Brooks aged 20 and John Bohis aged 21 wed after an interfering jail courtship in Morgantown West Virginia They first spoke through jail windows then by a hole in the floor to hold hands before obtaining a marriage license at the county clerk's office The couple had not seen one another prior to the ceremony.
Governor Hatfield called the West Virginia Legislature to meet in special session May 18 to raise state revenues for resumed expenses. The agenda includes appropriation bills stream pollution measures and ratification of defects in existing laws.
YD Lambert, a well known machinist from Zeigler Pendleton county West Virginia, was run over and killed by his own traction engine on West Market street in Harrisonburg Virginia, dying within a few minutes.
Friday May 14 from 10 to 11 o'clock Mullen Bros offers Boys Oliver Twist Suits size 2 to 6 at 35c Rugs 9x12 at 1.95 and Ladies 26c Round Belt Aprons at 1c. Exceptional values only during the hour no phone orders.
Advertisement notes low prices for wallpaper with lines at 2, 8, 4 and 5 cents per roll and gold prints at 5 cents. Offers savings on all grades at Bylers 30 N Centre St as an April 9 classified ad.
Richard B. Tippett of Baltimore was unanimously reelected supreme president of the Catholic Benevolent Legion at the Cathedral Club in Brooklyn. He urged calm neutrality as world tensions rise and sent a telegram of faith to the President, praising the organization's example for patriotic devotion.
Chief J Thomas Eisenhower orders all officers to assemble in uniform at the Police Department this evening to greet the new Police Commissioner A A Wilson.
Owen Price Sr of Eckhart died April 5 leaving a coal derived estate valued between 50 000 and 60 000 dollars. Executors are John F. Price and Owen Price, Frostburg. The will leaves the estate to Owen Price of Eckhart, his only child. Several nephews receive small bequests and four grandchildren are named. Price labored 61 years at Eckhart with only illness or lack of work stopping him.
Mrs Bertha B Denney of this city obtained an absolute divorce from William Denney. They wed in Cumberland on August 27 1908 and separated in October 1909 when he allegedly deserted and left Maryland. She may resume the maiden name Bertha B Jenkins with Arner G Carl as her attorney.
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