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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1891
Page
4
A jumble of local ads and notices includes rent and shop specials, paper and linen products, a legal notice No 5731 Equity, and various social notices. Local residents and visitors such as Fred W Bacmann Samuel Johnson and James McDevitt are listed with brief travels and visits.
The Chauteuqua Literary and Scientific Circle met last evening at Miss Carnivella Travis's East Third Street home. An interesting program was presented. The group will meet next Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Nannie Routzaun on North Market Street.
Readers report twenty eight inches of snow near Blue Ridge and a heavy snowfall in Asheville with roads blocked. Letters reflect casual anecdotes, travel plans, and opinions on operas, violin music, printing presses, and patent law. Names mentioned include A Wastier Nick Lease Sam Thomas Cypton Q, J C Walker, The Beatztown Bard, Gertrude Man, Bert Bader, Job E Shepherd, and 2 J Dab.
Continent school teacher Harry Smith returns from Easter visit to Braddock as pupils warm to him. Master C Wade Hedges recovering after three weeks illness. Wolfsville reports 22 inches of snowfall shutting roads and delaying mail. Sale of Mr Brandenberg postponed to April 2 due to weather. Huckle from Mechanicstown stayed over due to blocked roads. Local church ladies plan oyster and meat supper for new church project. William Ford building a new house. Mrs Chas McConiss visiting Baltimore. Farmer Jones’s cow calves weighing 230 pounds. John Smith plans a new farm house. Young People prayer meeting led by Maggie Addison. Mrs Annie Cronenburg returns from Point of Rocks. Linens and paper ads follow.
4 New Firm. Mr. D. Willard, of Doubs, this county, has associated with him Air. D. G. Dutrow. They will conduct a general merchandise business in all its branches under the firm of Willard & Dutrow at the above place. More Linen Paper. Cister Linen Paper only 2c. 2 Ib. or 5c. Pine of it at Smith's Temple of Fancy.
Public sale yesterday afternoon conducted by Captain Walter Saunders as auctioneer. The mortgagee William J Wormen sold a solid two and a half story brick dwelling on the west side of the street to C Raland for 579 dollars.
Cloth bound books by E P Roe offered at 30 cents each with 60 cent fine cloth editions. Blank books Bibles hymn books and related items advertised as cheap at Smith's Temple of Nancy.
Real estate transfers include Chea M Wenner and wife to Yeven with date in Brunswick Samuel M Caller and wife to A Culler large tracts of land Fr Margaret A Caller to Willie Rhoderick acres two roads and 12 perches John B Thomas asignee to Lydia A Wood 11 acres Ezra Fors by Orho J Garver and wife to Nathar A Waehter and wife 5 acres Zit Sarah H and Geof Siuemsker to Jola J Liggett one acre Saviia Shoemaker to Jola J Liggett seven acres with prices noted.
Multiple obituaries report the deaths of Eriacva wife of William Carroll of vessel, and Frederick Kimmel of Mount Pleasant aged 70. Others include Mrs Anthony Riehl of Topeka, Mrs Harriet R Donnelly of Cumberland, and a five month old child of Mr and Mrs J A Norris near Unionville. Funeral details and burial places listed.
Church notes report rebuilding plans to join infant and Sunday school rooms into one space. Easter services at All Saints' P. E. church at 7 30 p m. St Mary’s Guild met. Holy communion at Unicon chapel next Sunday morning April 5th at 10 o'clock with Rev A Shuienberger celebrant. Preparatory services on Saturday the 4th at 2 p m. Center ville church holds 2 p m service Sunday. Mt. Pleasant Missionary Society meets Sunday night 7 30. Christian Endeavor at Evangelical Lutheran East Church Street at 7 30 tonight. Maryland Methodist Conference opens in Lafayette Avenue church Baltimore. United Brethren trustees vote repairs to church. Gaited Brethren Young People meet led by W W Lease. St John’s Catholic church services tomorrow and Friday at 7 30.
During Easter vacation Grace Ely visits friends in Orange. Miss Frost the principal's clerk suffers relapse and stays home. Joel Clark of Caroline County visited his ill son John. Mary Breidenbach of Harford County married February 18 to W. Wisetz. MacCoun's charts purchased for classroom use. Rosa Bradford of Baltimore County and John S. Kennedy of Harford to wed on the 25th.
Thieves raided the residence of Jacob V Summers two miles northwest of Frederick on the reservoir pike on the 23 ultimo seizing three new grain sacks one containing chickens another with corn and an overcoat, gloves and linen paper items advertised at Smiths Temple of Critically US and Smiths Temple of Fancy with prices. Mrs Josiah Zimmerman from Using Meer Retreat school house went to Baltimore for cancer operation with husband and son Milton traveling to Baltimore after the message of her critical condition.
Heavy rain and melting snow cause high water in county streams, with Catoctin Creek in Middle Town Valley overflowing its banks. No damage reported, though several county roads remain blocked by high water and debris.
A monthly health record lists interments and deaths by race under age groups, with cause of death including influenza old age heart disease and pneumonia. The clerk records deeds mortgages chattel mortgages plat articles of incorporation and other instruments totaling 177 for March.
Mr CO L Stull moved from the F I Lewis building on East Patrick to the former Eyater Edmunds room at Second and Market. G J B Lewis will occupy the Bir Stull storeroom. The Misses Mantz moved their stock to a new store on South Market Street. Mr B H Blackston is stocking goods in the room vacated by Messrs A and W Good beside Adams Express office.
A small treasure offers a vest pocket savings token promising 5 dollars in 10 cent pieces to unlock it. Available for 25 cents at the Gem store opposite City Note.
A wall crack at D C Winebrewer Co endangers ceiling. repairs needed with props. St Johns Catholic Lyceum baseball meets 7:26 pm to assign positions and plan the season. High School Entertainment at City Hall on Friday April 10 1891 features Prof Hawks and music with 23 cent admission. Vernon Molesworth near the city reported catching a carp weighing eleven pounds in April.
Fragmented OCR yields a dialogic verse scene featuring a speaker named Corell Frederic E. Weasherly in a work titled Toerpie Har. The text sketches a playful yet critical courtship with lines about appearances, propriety, and a preference for character over clothes, conveyed through archaic diction and garbled phrases.
A list of guests checked into hotels yesterday includes Orry Haren J P Lawson Hegers town W Levy T Fenn T George from Philadelphia B Matter H Fox H G Dorney H K Wickes Wm Chamberlain N W Dors ey J H Orem Jr Geo E Water C Jessop Gideon Staley Af Chrystal Baltimore J C Ser ing R P Speed New York A Snook Newburgh 5 Hinkle Weston W Va J Trayer Harrisburg Pa E B Skinner Toledo O D A Howe Williamsport Pa J S Howland Massachusetts F C West Delaware 13 from the county Canuis Hover W P Face Reading Pa C J McCarty Columbia Pa B M Dennis Wm J Cousins C H Nelson Baltimore Mi Clemson Carroll county C O Kilea Washington DC 7 from the county Grorr House J V Palmer Carroll county A R Renner Sharpsburg A ickmace James Cuttress Buffalo N Y 3 from the county
Braddock Lutheran congregation resumes regular Sunday services on a biweekly schedule. Dr Jebl started catechism for over twenty youths, drew up a constitution, and formed a church council with incorporation. Dr Dishl led a call to Dr Bergstresser, catechism continues, most students to be confirmed next Sunday. evening services begin tomorrow with communion next Sunday.
Life-time teaspoons 6c a dozen and tablespoons 120 a dozen. Quarter-inch silver plated bears 10c a pair. Knife, fork and spoon sets for children 0c. Large wooden spoons 2c each. Glycerine ball soap 5c ball. 25c purses now 15c. Glassware 6c now 8c. Call at Smith's Temple of Fancy.
Retail sales of Ceresville roller flour rose one third in the week ending March 31, signaling strong consumer demand for a locally produced article. Also advertised are timing aids, clocks, playing cards, and advertising novelties, along with health tonics and cough remedies offered by local merchants.
Mullinix and Kemp announce open stock curtains in plain and fancy styles and a full line of lace curtains from New York ports. They advertise an attractive assortment of tapestry Brussels carpets and invite customers to inspect samples before ordering.
An OCR fragment recounts a late 18th or early 19th century scene with General Bocaparte at Rue Chamereipe, a street confrontation, and a bank money transfer detail. The text shifts to editorials and poems, then an anecdote about deportment teaching, followed by short ads for Cerestille Self Rising flour and Miles' Nerve & Liver Pills.
Box paper and envelopes regular 10c but now 8c. Finebox paper and envelopes former price 15c now 9c. Toolscap paper 6c per 2 quires. Note paper 3c. 25 good white envelopes 2c. 8 pack good ink 2c. 2 bottles at Smith's Temple of Fancy.
Li Joan T Keeney and Annie E Beatty both of Woodsboro are wed in a simple ceremony. George Fox the clown performs a Humpty Dumpty routine. Dr Bartleys remedy does not grant immortality but claims to cure catarrh. Phoeblins recommend it and many use it with certain effect. Get it from your druggist for $2.
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