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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1914
Page
9
An 8 o'clock observance marks Emmanuel commemoration and the eleventh founding anniversary. A special music program is planned with Communion at 8. Crowd turnout and evening services are reported, with local park activities and a reference to Washington state or team standings. The schedule mentions community events and a popular dining spot near the park.
The fragment describes H Hawkins and the American College, with mentions of a Phila based ceremony, a Baltimore decline, and a reception at Westminster Guild. It references figures like Binney and Miss Emma Wolf, and includes notes on a marriage at Kingsley M E Church, plus social activities such as a lunch room recital and Box sending to Marsh School.
Walter Powell president of the Maryland Retail Jewelers Association will travel to Hagerstown by the 2 30 train over the Western Maryland to organize a branch. A meeting is set in the Board of Trade rooms at 8 30 tomorrow evening.
Five false teeth available at five dollars per set with painless extraction offered. Advertisement from National Painless Dentists located at 100 Baltimore Street.
Mayor George Stern of Frostburg returned home from a week visiting eastern cities. Col. William J. Lavelle of Tunnelton, a veteran Baltimore and Ohio dispatcher, is improving after illness. Miss Rose Sweeney of Morgantown sails for Europe in June with six companions, her sixteenth trip abroad.
Cumberland Typographical Union No. 244 elected officers for the year. President T. Raymond Peterman. vice president Otho H. Alburtis. secretary treasurer R. A. Bryant. recording secretary Miss Ethel Fazene baker. journal correspondent Chas A. Taylor. R. A. Bryant and B. Frank Walters were delegates with Walters as alternate. auditing committee includes C O Roemer, B Frank Walters, and T Raymond Peterman. Cumberland Press name is listed with Peterman, Evening Times with Taylor, Daily News with Joseph Wilson.
The Rev C F Bergner pastor of Bedford Street German Lutheran Church was elected president and E O Edwards layman Frostburg secretary treasurer at the first annual meeting of the Mountain Conference of the Maryland Synod Lutheran Church held at Bedford Street Church on Wednesday night. Frogs Legs arrived direct from Frogland served at the Washington Lunch Room.
The Chambersburg Booster Club spent over an hour in Cumberland en route to Pittsburg with about 25 cars and nearly 100 people. George H. Stewart led the first Cadillac, 23 minutes early, at the Queen City Hotel Park Street entrance. Official timers G. W. Cromwell and H. L. Hergott arrived to perform their duties.
Obituary items report Carl Ward’s funeral after a cave incident near Patterson Creek to Clearville Pennsylvania with service at Pleasant Union Church. Additional notices cover infant diphtheria death at Car Barn alley, scarlet fever death on Union Street, John T. Hite’s veteran funeral at Thomas Street, and Mrs. Michael O’Shea’s Scottdale burial and train arrival. Also notes an advertisement for soft shell crabs and frogs legs at the Washington Lunch Room.
Advertisement notes soft shell crabs have just arrived at the Washington Lunch Room and are offered in the highest style of casine art with a limited May 28 to 31 window.
A Hamilton Ohio advertisement promotes an Ever Ready Medicine Cabinet with assorted remedies. It claims quick relief, reduced doctor bills, and general health uses from ointments to laxatives and tonics, priced originally at 38.00 but offered for 1.90 each for a limited time.
Yesterday morning a small white poodle escaped from a crate placed on a United States Express Company truck at the Queen City depot while awaiting train arrival. The company has relentlessly searched but the dog remains unfound.
The body of Mary C. Bradley was moved from Gallitzin Pennsylvania to Brunswick for burial this afternoon. Also noted is payday distribution for the Baltimore and Ohio Cumberland division and Connellsville division employees, reflecting local circulation of several thousand dollars.
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