Young farmer beaten at Big Spring dance
Daniel Holland Jr., 27, a farmer near Indian Springs, was stabbed and battered at a dance in Big Spring. He received a six inch knife wound, his ear torn off, and facial injuries. Stevens brothers and a third man allegedly joined the assault. warrants may be issued. Holland was treated at Clearspring and returned home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Holland, Jr
Indian Springs
Big Spring
Sen Holland
Michael Stevens
Tern
Maryland Railway
Hagerstown
Stevens
Clarence
McCoy's Ferry
William
Franklin County
Pennsylvania
Clearspring
Charles T. Mason
Claim Tractions Do Not Injure Roads In Frederick County Case
Twenty witnesses for the defense testified in the State Roads Commission versus threshing machine owners over a new act banning threshing machines with treads on state roads. Additional witnesses will follow before the defense presents about a dozen owners. The case probes whether machines harm roads as charged. Downey of the Maryland State Road Commission testified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Roads Commission
Frederick County
T. Downey
Maryland State Road Commission
Business Improve Regions Hint at Coal Fueled Growth
Patrick Cain of the Western Maryland Railway reports in Martinsburg that mountain West Virginia districts spanning over a hundred miles show slow but steady business gains driven largely by coal demand. He expects further improvement as freight traffic on the line resumes with safety gains. Penrose to address Jr 0 J A M convention in Scranton noting his candidacy for another Senate term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick Cain
Western Maryland Railway
Martinsburg
Peter W. Reherd
Coal & Tron H Railroad Company
West Virginia
Hager Fined for Connecting Property to City Sewer
Walter Hager was fined $20 by City Magistrate J W Heck for connecting his property at 8 and Flat street to the city sewer without a permit. The warrant for his arrest and trial was issued by Health Officer Max Col.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Hager
J. W. Heck
Hager
Max Col
Cumberland Press Personal Notices Request News Items
Patrons and friends are asked to telephone personals and any news items to the Cumberland Press. The editor invites any matter of interest for publication and thanks readers for their contributions.
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The
Cumberland Press
Numerous residents return from travels and visits
Mrs. W. 8. Harig returns from the Eastern Shore and Virginia while Mrs. Frank M. Crane arrives from New Jersey to visit her parents in Bedford. Miss Georgia Lanner visits Denings Mills after Baltimore and Miss Mabel Harrison stays with her sister in Brunswick. Several others travel to Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Akron and Morgantown while John W. Kelly Jr. leaves for Atlantic City and Niagara Falls.
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W. 8. Harig
North
Liberty Street
Eastern Shore
Maryland
Virginia
Frank M. Crane
West Collinswood
N. J
Frank
Muskegon
Mich
James Grant
Bedford St
Georgia Lanner
Baltimore
Denings Mills
Mabel Harrison
Brunswick
Susan A. Darrow
la Fayette
Indiana
Bertha Darrow
Independence Street
Eugenia Larned
Cumberland
Frederick City Hospital
Frederick Post
W. C. Montignant
Frank Stein
Edith Stein
Joseph Ryland
Fannie Stein
Philadelphia
Myrtle
Caroline White
Huntingdon
Paul Ritter
South Lee Street
W. G. Krause
Hattie S. Kontner
Geo. F. Herpich
Fairview Avenue
Pittsburgh
Elsie Wilhelm
North Centre Street
T. W. Stingley
Thomas F. Meyers
Lance LeRoy
Ridgeley
Lon Jones
West Elizabeth
Somerville
Harrson Street
J. Wesley P Somerville
Altamont Terrace
Akron
Ohio
John W. Kelly, Jr
B. and O. Railroad
Kelly
Atlantic
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
J. Wilson Dodd
Green Street
Elkins
Harry Hinkley
Clarksburg
W. Va
Ord Hinkley
Paca Street
C. A DeKalb
Portsmouth
W. EF. Judy
Goethesreet
Margaret E. Morris
Morgantown
Acorn Pool and Lots Winter Reopen Noted
Fragmentary text notes winter reopening for the Acorn Pool and adjacent lots. Mentions courteous service and first class tab and references to billiard par and S Pder Brothers with unreadable details.
Violinist Fritz Kreisler Reported Killed Near Lemberg
Reports from Vienna claim Fritz Kreisler the world renowned violinist has been killed in the fighting near Lemberg Galicia captured by Russians. Kreisler an Austrian reservist served with a regiment facing Russian cossacks in the assault on the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Vienna
Fritz Kreisler
Lemberg
Galicia
Lembes
Wright Selected as Socialist Nominee in Sixth District
At a Socialist conference in Hagerstown office of Sylvester W. Young H. Clifford Young of Brunswick was chosen as the Socialist nominee for Congress in the Sixth district replacing Ross W. Ayers of Cumberland who had been nominated weeks earlier. Wright served as secretary of the convention that nominated Ayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvester W. Young
Hagerstown
H. Clifford Young
Brunswick
Congress
Ross W. Ayers
Cumberland
Wright
Ayers
Society Notes: Two Shepherdstown Weddings Planned
Invitations are out for Miss Rose Eleanor Snyder daughter of Harry L Snyder publisher of the Shepherdstown register and Charles Franklin Lyne near Shepherdstown to be married October 1 at St Peters Lutheran Church Shepherdstown. Engagement announced for Miss Florence Licklider to Raymond E Ward of Elkins with a Shepherdstown wedding October 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Eleanor Snyder
Harry L. Snyder
Shepherdstown
Edward T. Licklider
W. Va
Florence Licklider
Raymond E. Ward
Elkins
Petersburg contracts awarded for standpipe and utilities
At a Petersburg West Virginia Town Council meeting the contract for erecting a standpipe was awarded to the R. D. Cole Manufacturing Company of Newnan Georgia and the water and sewerage contract went to F. C. Bartley & Co. of Cumberland Work will start immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petersburg
W. Va
R. D. Cole Manufacturing Company
Mewnan
F. C. Bartley & Co
Cumberland
boy shipped by parcel post from Highview to Virginia
A 6 year old boy, George Larick, was accepted by parcel post at Highview near Romney and delivered to an address in Virginia. The 50 cent postage and a special delivery stamp were used. The postmaster allegedly did not know that mailing human bodies is illegal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highview
Romney
George Larick
Virginia
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Cumberlands
Edison Mazda
Mazda
Yrontz
Seranteed
Amelie
Howe
Edison Felecefic Illuminating Co
Union Street
Fran
Penrose
Scranton
Boise Penrose
United States Sena
Phila Lodge
Nina Cornwell
Pder
Brothex Strictly fResh — Sauer Kra Omn
Ducud
Fritz Whreisler
Chers
TA Joan A. Fultan & CO
Baltimore and Liberty Sts
Cumberland, Maryland
F. F. Lockenott
North Ceffre Street
Urs. P.i
John C Wolford
Gid
South Laberty ST
Peoples Loan
Third National Bank
L. W. Bullard
South Centre Street
Wake
Habig Brothers
N. Centre St
Habig & Stegmaier
Agency For Service
Cyril B. Geare
Seaver & Geare
Walsh Building Telephone
Cumberland, Md
J. P. Wiesel
Baltimore Street
W. FP
Frederick
Cumberland’ Laundry
N. Mec
Louis Stein
NERAL
the. Chlanorgue
North Centre
Hhmberland
Phlice
Ruppert’s
Co Third National Bank
Moose Home
Mgggland Ave
ALL
Windsor Hotel
Diamond & CO
State Sanitary Milk CO
Nerland
H. T. Mullen
Flurshutz
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