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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1914
Page
2
A brief item from Frostburg spotlights Spiker Arnold, noting achievements and local recognition among nearby communities. The report emphasizes community ties and regional sports coverage, with focus on the athlete's rising profile.
The report lists a wedding worry at St Pauls Lutheran parsonage with Hits Spiker and Miss Sereld Arnold, a supper at the bride’s home, and nuptial festivities in Sheft. It mentions a church supper, a planned visit by guests Ada and Krovac, State Normal School talks on Lake Siger, a grape display blue ribbon at the fair, a new young ladies club, and St John Church events.
The article notes a Woman's Home Missionary Society event with refreshments and a program. Vocal artists from the First M E Church assisted, and the piece mentions Union Street and Jonee’s store. Other items include personal notices and local movements.
Work on the foundation of the New Baptist Church on Florida Way is nearly finished and the structure should be ready for occupancy before winter. Mrs. John Wesley Evans shows slight improvement after a painful accident that caused a dislocated right shoulder as she traveled home from McKeesport. A sod party at Miss Sarah Stewart’s East Main Street home celebrated the Star Fishing Club with music and a luncheon. An exhibit from the State Forestry Commission in Baltimore drew hundreds at Central High School, featuring woods, forest-fire causes and prevention. Moving days saw Andrew Dick and Benjamin Wilkes relocate households on East Main Street and Seatch Hill as others followed. Attendees at the Maryland Theatre show in Cumberland included Mr and Mrs T C Miller and James McFarlane among others. Mrs Peter Smith of East Pittsburgh visits the Millan family on Scotch Hill.
Banacoaine residents note J B Morgans Store on Main Street in Lonaconing Maryland with Joseph Baumann listed as presentative and contact for the Cumberland Press bureau local bureau activities.
The Lona coning Electric Light Company will install a new scale for weighing heavy loads of timber and coal near their plant on Railroad Street early next week. John Piel Jr of Thomas West Virginia, formerly of this place, has shown marked improvement after four months in Frostburg Miners Hospital where he was treated for typhoid fever.
A Hague dispatch states Magna Bell, native chief of German Kamerun, was executed for attempting to foment rebellion against Germany. The report, credited to Governor Ebermayer, notes Kamerun as a German colony in Western Equatorial Africa with 191 000 square miles and about 3.5 million people, under imperial administration from Buea.
Huntington West Virginia October 23 After living 13 years with a bullet in his brain Alex Church a member of the city fire department underwent a successful operation for its removal at Kessler Hospital An X ray showed the bullet to be one inch beneath the skull between the layers of the brain Church was shot in 1901 by Lee Boggs who served two years in the penitentiary for the crime The bullet had not bothered Church until a few weeks ago when he lost sight of one eye and the other became affected The operation was to save his sight
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