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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1915
Page
6
Frostburg residents plan trips to the fair and Cumberland while friends visit Deer Park McHenry and Mt Savage hosts join the Cumberland fair. Widespread travel and illnesses noted with births, hospital updates and theater offerings at the Prostboro Opera House.
The Palace Theatre reveals a program change adding extraordinary three and four reel pictures from famous Broadway and movie stars to the regular lineup at regular prices after this week. Highlights include W C Fields in Pool Sharks, Florence Tempest and Marion Sunshine in Tempest and Sunshine, Gaumont releases with Fania Marinoff and Ivy Troutman, Crane Wilbur with Marguerite Gibson in The Protest, and Centaur Features presenting Bostock Zoo wildlife films and George Ovey Cub comedies.
An item from the Cumberland Press indicates a local bureau representative, Joseph Meager, is listed with contact by phone 134 K.
Keyser High School plans to start the football season on October 8 with a home game against Beall High of Frostburg. Last year Beall outplayed Keyser at Frostburg, but Keyser hopes for improvement this year under Rev. H. F. Baughman.
Miss Mary Heiskell returns from Los Angeles and plans a Maryland winter with Miss Emma Clayton and Mrs. John Livingston. Baltimore guests stay with I. M. Long. Miss Katie Orlemann visits near Mt Zion. Mrs. Spotts attends Harriet Spotts funeral in Cumberland. Mrs. Arch Miller returns to Shinston after visiting Dorsey Shores. J D Simmons and Myrtie Hodges at Harriet Spotts funeral in Cumberland. Ovis Gordunia in Washington. Spotts to Baltimore for FP&O of A meeting.
The Cumberland Press bureau operates from the Acme Store with contact by telephone 9-R and William F Farrel as a representative.
A wedding occurred yesterday at St Peter and Paul’s Church Cumberland with Rev Father Philip officiating. Denis Collins and Miss Maggie Conroy were among the attendees. After the ceremony the couple’s reception followed at the brides parents’ home Barrellaville. The couple plans to reside in Pittsburgh.
Ridgeley correspondent Leta Bowers reports from P O Box 147, phone 507 W, providing local news tips and community updates.
The Young Peoples Society will host a masquerade Thursday evening September 30 at the P C S A Hall with a prize for the best masked couple. Proceeds support raising a bell for the Calvary M F C school South which is nearly finished. Mary Ashby Mary Ashby returned from Elk Garden and Keyser. Mrs W H Brooks and son Clarence visited Elkins and Belington. Thursh of Keyser visited the town. Mrs C W Ashby returned from Keyser and Elk Garden.
R A P Hoffmecister is listed as representative for The Towns Press in a brief notice. The item identifies the contact role and publication.
Robert Cartter Cotter Morgan of Keyser West Virginia wed Miss Marry Agnes Morgan daughter of Patrick and Mrs Morgan this morning at the bride’s home in Westernpert.
A corn feast on Piedmont hill unearthed the body of a three month old child. Authorities pursue a four rig investigation into the infant's burial. Red Men lodge Black Hawk Tribe No 131 marks the fifteenth anniversary on October 15 with invited tribes, speeches, and a banquet.
Washington September 29 Navy Department receipt of estimates for sixteen coast defense submarines marks a major step in naval expansion under the March 3 1915 appropriation act. The vessels will be about the same size as L type boats and feature a surface cruising radius around 5 000 to 6 000 miles and a newly developed 8 inch gun.
Crown Prince Boris of Bulgaria, barely 21, is expected to command a Bulgarian army if war with the Allies materializes and Serbia is invaded. He gained prominence in the Balkan wars against Turkey and later in the second Balkan war against Greece, Serbia, and Roumania, and enjoys broad popular support.
W. L. Sperry, division chairman, announces captains for the upcoming YMCA membership drive. Harry A. Manley Guy Greigier W. M. Snyder and Truman Fuller lead Central teams while Robert Young takes over a South Cumberland unit for F. W. Carpenter who must serve jury duty. The organizers race to line up volunteers as the drive starts next week amid strong member interest.
The note suggests substantial breakfast options such as fish or eggs and offers gE fritters as an alternative. It recommends hot pumpkin piecust or hot cakes in place of waffles, with orange juice, codfish fritters or exo fritters, hot pumpkin biscuit, coffee, hoe cake, and maple syrup as accompaniments.
Wash and soak codfish overnight then flake. Scald drain and dry. Mix with mashed potatoes milk eggs and seasonings. Form tablespoon portions and fry in hot oil until light brown.
Six hard boiled eggs are halved and the yolks are mixed with sausage meat dripping and seasoning. The whites are filled with the mixture, cut into quarters, battered, fried to a golden color, and served very hot.
A short vintage recipe lists ingredients for pumpkin biscuits using one cupful pumpkin one eupful milk two tablespoonfuls sugar one ounce lard one-half cupful yeast one teaspoonful salt plus flour mix bake when light seasoned with breadlike texture.
Scald one pint of white cornmeal then mix in sugar and salt with boiling milk or water. Form a thick batter, spoon onto a hot griddle as large or small cakes about half an inch thick. Cook slowly until browned, then flip and serve hot with butter or maple syrup.
A home recipe describes a cucumber and potato salad with six lettuce leaves two tablespoons minced parsley and a dressing of cream Tarragon vinegar salt white pepper and grated onion. The instructions say chill mix lightly and serve immediately without a bed of lettuce.
Gardeners are urged to plant narcissus and tulip bulbs this fall to ensure spring blooms. Naturalizing in sod or partial shade is advised, with bulbs scattered like seeds for best growth. The article also reports on the lifting of cattle tick quarantine across 9,000 square miles, enabling shipments of live stock from freed southern territories to northern markets.
The Autumn Music Festival opened at the Panania Pacific Exposition in San Francisco on September 29 and runs until October 3. The 400 voice Exposition chorus led by Emil Motten alongside the Exposition orchestra of 80, conducted by Max Bendix, perform Mendelssohn Elijah tonight and Verdi Requiem on Sunday with distinguished soloists from New York Boston Chicago and elsewhere.
On September 29 in Brooklyn at Washington Park the Brooklyn and Buffalo Feds will host the metropolis first night game. Weather permitting the event aims to attract fans with modern lighting and a similar Chicago venture by Charles Comiskey that previously failed.
Five people died when the schooner Sheboygan foundered Sunday near Amherst Island in Lake Ontario. They include Captain MacDonald his wife and their Canadian sailors.
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