Marshmallow roast brightens South Cumberland social evening
A chaperoned gathering of South Cumberland youths hosted a marshmallow roast at the reservoir with Miss Hazel Hollar and others in attendance. Local residents Earl Murray and Edna Earl visit Hancock relatives.
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South Cumberland
L. G. Wilson
E. O. Burch
Hazel Hollar
Nina Robison
Bernice Willard
Lola Henry
Jessie Gank
Marjorie McDonald
Stella Wilson
Edith Bartlett
Delmar Workman
Leroy Davis
Clyde Lashley
Clifford Spiker
Louis Wilson
Charles Wilson
Walter Welton
Raymond Smith
Society Notes Highlight Picnics and Celebrations
Social items report a Riverside Park picnic in honor of Miss Edith Reilly of Cumberland with guests from Meyersdale Salisbury and nearby towns. Also noted are a corn roast on the old National pike, a Golden Wedding anniversary invitation for Mr. and Mrs. F. X. Millman, and a music evening at Frederic Foster Snow’s studio featuring Clarence Albert Jones.
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Edith Reilly
Cumberland
Florence Just
Meyersdale
Riverside Park
Florde
Effie Lichliter
Merl Baldwin
Salisbury
Grace Hoover
Messrs
Chas. Griffith
Park Weimer
Leslie Stotler
Old National Pike
Allegany Grove
Charles O. Roemer
C. L. Owens
Maxie Pile
Helen Wertheimer
Mildred Hart
Edith Wertheimer
Mary Pile
Bertha Hart
Pauline Miller
Mildred Twigg
Nannie Hereford
Dorothy Roemer
Ruth Wertheimer
Eloise McDermott
John McBeth
Fred Wertheimer
Percy Miller
Dr. Staley
Marshall de Shields
Somerville Nicholson
Marion Pire
Stanley Brooks
William Vogle
F. X. Millman
Green Street
Frederic Foster Snow
Clarence Albert Jones
Boston
Mass
Mr. Jones
MacDowell
Debussy
Roensky
Liszt
Mr. Snow
War News From One Year Ago Today
Paris reports German armies in France cannot advance. Berlin notes concerns about French and British forces. St. Petersburg cites 350000 Austrian losses in Galicia. Roads blocked by abandoned commissariat trains. Austrian government sends more troops to the Italian border amid nationalist demonstrations in Italy.
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Paris
France
Berlin
St. Petersburg
Galicia
Italy
Personal notices scattered across Cumberland area
Miss Edith Kine of Baltimore tests today for home. Maxewell Sloan leaves for Port Deposit to resume studies. J R Shurretts and O H Porter travel to Hagerstown with railway union. Rev E G Switzer to Salem Va for marriage next Tuesday. J W Logue visits Cumberland after 25 years. Several relatives visit or travel between Berlin Pa Elkins W Va Cumberland and Martinsburg area.
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Maxewell Sloan
Port Deposit
Jacob Tome Institute
O. H. Porter
Ridgeley
W. Va
J. Robert Shurretts
Hegerstown
Brotherhood of Railway
E. Glenn Switzer
Presbyterian Church
Berkeley Springs
Salem
J. W. Logue
Council Grove
Kansas
Justice J. W. Heck
Knox Street
Mr. Logue
Cumberland
B. Kilmer Knepper
Berlin
Myra Knepper
H. W. Knepper
Ra Patterson
Virginia
Francis
Anna Wallace
Solomons Island
J. J. Wallace
Elkins
George Hi. Carpenter
Winchester
West Virginia
M. J. Fleming
Margaret Welsh
Terra Alta
Elizabeth Howler
Harper's Erry
Carranza Agent Requests U S Probe of Brownsville Attack
A Carranza agent arrived in Washington to demand a formal State Department investigation into charges that American soldiers carried out an unprovoked attack on Carranzista troops near Brownsville.
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Washington
Brownsville
State Department
Real Estate Transfers In Mount Savage Area
Real estate transfer notes show Minor Mining Company transferring a lot in Mt. Savage to Mrs R B Smith for ten dollars and related details noted in the Transactions section.
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Minor Mining Company
R B. Smith
Lot
Mt. Savage
Building Permits Granted for 0000 House and Additions
City Engineer Gaffney approves multiple building permits including a two story brick residence for Harry Footer on Washington street valued at 7000 dollars, and additions or structures for several other property owners across Johnsons Heights, Green Street, Virginia Avenue, and Beall Street with contractors named Bowman Lashley Rank Campbell. Also notes Garfield death anniversary and assassination details.
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Gaffney
Harry Footer
Washington Street
H. W. Campbell
Millman
D. J. Biddle
Frederick Street
George A. Bowman
J. J. Boost
Virginia Avenue
Lashley and
Rank
Bruce Wilson
Princeton Street
J. Lawrence Mathews
Hilltop Drive
Johnson's Heights
John S. Vandergrift
Mollie Kean
Green
Charles McAvoy
Green Street
Thomas M. Lee
Beall Street
Perry J. Shipley
Pennsylvania Avenue
A. Taylor Smith
Walnut Alley
Fayette Street
T. G. William L. Webster
Harrison Street
Youthful elopers wed at courthouse
William Harold Dent and Florence Edith Snyder aged 19 and 18 from Altoona were issued a marriage license and wed on the courthouse steps. Rev J H Wise of Hyndman Pa Evangelical Church performed the ceremony with witnesses not recorded. Dent works as a draughtsman at the Pennsylvania railroad shops.
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William Harold Dent
Florence Edith Snyder
Altoona
J. H. Wise
Hyndman
Evangelical
Pennsylvania Railroad
Matrimonial Nuptials Involving Noted Local Figures
Dr Frank C Maxson longtime Allegany county register of wills wed Miss Florine Dowden in New Cumberland W Va The Dowden family moved from Cumberland to Chicago and back The bride is cousin of Albert D Dowden of this city Earl Shartzer son of ex sheriff Andrew Shartzer wed Miss Ethel Naylor daughter of Mr and Mrs F G Naylor of Oakland after a Wednesday ceremony officiated by Rev Martin Luther Enders at St Pauls Lutheran Cumberland local ties and railway town links noted.
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Earl Murray
Edna Earl
Seymour Street
Mr. Murray
Hancock
W. C. Montignant
Brunswick
E. \. Smith
Brunswick Y. M. C. A
H. Hauger
Kingwood
W. Va
Cumberland
Mr. Hauger
Co. G. Hauger
Grand Avenue
Frank A. Tole
Baltimore and Ohio
Keyser
Mary of
Deer Park
J. F. Grayson
Bert Stears
Hedgesville
L. C. Harper
Moorefield
Lillian Webb
R. A. Lamont
D. H. Kuhn
Frank Taylor
Chas. W. Donnelly
Pittsburgh
Johnstown
F. S. Deekens
Henry T. Grebe
Catonsville
C. F. W. Bove
R. J. Fink
Hagerstown
Pen Mar
Gertrude Price
Atlanta, Ga
Samuel Wertheimer
James B. Williams
Fayette Street
Mercersburg College
J. J. Morehead
Edith
Olive
Lawrence
Neb
Charles Tyler Houck
John L. McLaughlin
Maryland Avenue
Frank C. Maxson
Florine Dowden
Matilda Dowden
Albert H. Dowden
Register of Wills of
Allegany County
New Cumberland
Dowden
Chicago
Albert D. Dowden
Shartzer-Naylor
Earl Shartzer
Andrew Shartzer
Ethel Naylor
F. G. Naylor
Oakland
Martin Luther Enders
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Cassidy arraigned in bribery case over mail contract
James J. Cassidy, vice president and general manager of the Postal Transfer Service, Inc., was arraigned for alleged bribery of government employees in a conspiracy to defraud the United States. The firm handles a mail transport contract in New York worth about $473,000 annually with a five year term. Cassidy allegedly bribed a clerk to destroy around 4000 complaints, preventing about $20,000 in fines from being collected.
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New York
James J. Cassidy
Postal Transfer Service, Inc
United States
Cassidy
Obituary and Funeral Notices for Sizer and Moore
Robert Miller Sizer aged two years son of Robert and Gertrude Sizer of 26 Water Street died suddenly after a 24 hour illness from acute indigestion. The funeral of Alice Moore, the eight year old accidentally shot by her cousin, will be from 408 Grand Avenue tomorrow afternoon with burial at St Patrick's Cemetery.
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Robert Miller Sizer
Robert
Gertrude Sizer
Water Street
Alice Moore
Grand Avenue
St. Patrick's Cemistery
Wedding Unites Two Noted Families in East Hampton
A society gathering from six cities attended the East Hampton church ceremony of Miss Olga Wiborg and Mr. Sidney Webster Fish. The reception followed at The Dunes, uniting two prominent lineages led by Stuyvesant Fish and Mrs. Fish.
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New York
Easthampton
L. L
Olga Wiborg
Sidney Webster Fish
St. Luke’s Church
Wiborg
the Dunes
Frank B. Wilborg
Cincinnati
Washington
Winborg
Adeline Moulton Sherman
Major Hoyt Sherman
Shermans
Ohio
John Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman
Police Target Boys Jumping on Automobiles
Police arrest youths seen jumping on cars while drivers honk and flash lights. All suspects are sent to Juvenile Court for disposition.
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Utos
Veteran Boston Poet John Trowbridge Celebrates 88th Birthday
Boston notes John Trowbridge, renowned author and poet, marks his eighty eighth birthday quietly at his Arlington home. He remains in excellent health and vigorous for his years, regrets wartime restrictions on a European trip, and hopes to travel again once the war ends after having crossed the Atlantic a dozen times.
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Boston
Mass
John T. Trowbridge
Arlington
Chicago Amusement Parks Lose Half Million in Cold Summer
Chicago records show outdoor amusements losing about 500000 dollars due to cold weather and rainy evenings. Summer garden owners report 250000 less in credit than 1914, with picnic parks and beaches contributing the rest. Midway Gardens fared better but closed August 15 as White City manager Morris Biefeld cites the season’s losses. The era’s biggest gardens will shut down this Sunday, earlier than in prior years.
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Chicago
Midway Gardens
Midway
Morris Biefeld
White City
Railroad unions meet in Birmingham for three day policy conference
Delegates from the four large railroad brotherhoods in the region convene in Birmingham, Alabama for a three day conference on policy and mutual interests. A barbecue at the Fair Grounds entertained delegates and families this afternoon. Business sessions start tomorrow and continue Monday.
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Birmingham
Ala
Fair Grounds
Pairs Listed With City Matches Across Several States
Walter R Hosterman and Mary C Gerhart both of State College Center Pa Ray Steel Miller and Elizabeth G Grim both of Frostburg George McGarry and Mabel Michaels both of Youngstown Ohio George M Stoll and Lena M Krauss both of Bradford Pa John F Chamberlain and Bertha M Mallow both of Stresby W Va Antonio Fanti and Nunziato Valenti both of Westernport Henry W Funk Hagerstown and Mary B Kifer Kifer Md George S Taylor Westenport and Bessie E Clark Elk Garden W Va Frank McCormick and Chrystal A Smith both of Akron Ohio
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Ray Steel Miller
Eizabeth G. Grim
Frostburg
George McGarry
Mabel Michaels
Youngstown
Ohio
George M. Stoll
Lena M. Krauss
Bradford
John F. Chamberlain
Bertha M. Mallow
Stresby
W. Va
Antonio Fanti
Nunziato Valenti
Westernport
Henry W. Funk
Hagerstown
Mary
Westenport
Bessie E. Clark
Elk Garden
Frank McCormick
Chrystal A. Smith
Akron
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