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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1902
Page
3
This weekly Frederick city and county newspaper boasts the largest bona fide circulation and offers many advertising advantages. Ready Thursday the 12 page issue will feature news and special features. Advertising copy for new ads is due by Wednesday at 6 p.m. and changes by 12 p.m. that day.
The funeral of Napoleon B. Walsh was held yesterday at the Baltimore depot with services at the grave by Rev. Ellertowe of the Primitive Baptist church and readings by Rev. Thomas Freeman Dizovu. Pallbearers included Wim. H. Beall and B. A. Bennett. FE. Schroeder was funeral director. Mrs. Kitty R. Davis Funeral held at 10380 o'clock from the Catholic church Liberty with pallbearers H. Clayton Trundle Frank Hammond Sidney Dr. James T. and Greanbury Sappington. Interment followed in the nearby cemetery. Jemima Scholl’s funeral is set from her South Market Street home at 10.30 tomorrow morning with services at the home and burial at Mt. Olivet cemetery.
Amelia Palmer arrested for cutting Thomas Potts with a butcher Enife sentenced to 30 days in jail or $20 fine and costs. John Lawson and Richard Offutt charged with disturbing the peace Doubs Offutt released Lawson fined $10.26. Richard Potts fined $1.50. George Diggs fined $2.59 for disorderly conduct. Jerry Hopkins fined $1 and released. Wu Schooler disorderly street arrest and 30 days jail in default of $5 fine.
News of the churches reports revival services at the W C U rooms led by Revs John W Evans and B A Kipe of the Church of God, with many conversions expected. Tonight’s services are at 7 30 o clock and the public is invited. A Grace Reformed mite society meeting is set for Kemp Hall at 7 30 with no literary program.
A large audience gathered at the Court street rooms for a Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting. State President Mrs Haslup gave a persuasive talk on Temperance Work. Miss Mabel Kindley and Miss Matilda Houck sang well, and Sunday school children performed songs with evident effect.
The year-old son of Mr. Benjamin Grove narrowly escaped severe injury yesterday while climbing a moving lumber wagon. He became wedged between a rear wheel and bolster end and was freed by sawing on the top of the wagon. His leg suffered a bad bruise.
The Middletown election was hotly contested with the People's ticket led by A. Gross defeating Justice Shiffler for burgess by 41 votes. Other successful candidates include Charles Michael Charles V Anders Clayton Fox and Charles E Boileau. Peter Shafer failed to win a seat as a commissioner. The As a result, the opposition to Shiffler stemmed from fines he imposed on boys at the public schoolhouse provoking unrest and a later nominating push for Groag as burgess.
The Van Dyke & Eaton Company opened a week at City Opera House with A Parisian Princess. Miss Olie Eaton played Mary Greenwood and Fanchette Fontaine with notable skill. Walter Newman Lawrence Claymore and George Saliabary delivered strong villain and supporting roles. Interludes between acts featured songs and dances. Tonight The Toree Musketeer will be presented with tomorrow and Saturday matinees listed.
Eugene Sponseller, a well known liveryman, received a modern brougham from James Conningham Son & Company of Rochester New York. Finished inside in blue satin and blue cloth with extra white linings, it features incandescent lights an electric bell and premium fittings. The black running gear and very dark blue body mark it as among the finest carriages, likely unique in the state aside from one other similar model.
At the regular quarterly meeting of the United Fire Company LT MacGill Jr Chas P Levy John H Pratter Hiram R Heck and W B Storm were named delegates to the Maryland State Firemen Convention in Lonaconing Alternates to be chosen at a special meeting Wm B Storm elected treasurer replacing the deceased Lewis Rice Joseph W Gaver elected director replacing Storm Seven candidates admitted to membership of the company.
Officers of the Frederick City Hospital Association will be at the hospital each day this week from 10 to 5 for a donation week. Yesterday there was good attendance and substantial donations including cash linen dishes kitchen furniture and household items. Friends are invited to send useful items and all will be welcomed and shown through the building.
At a stockholders meeting of the Frederick Brick Works Company held yesterday at the Farmers and Mechanics Bank the following directors were elected Col D G Winebrewer Dr George Johnson Edward S Eichelberger Col Charles B Trail and John Baumgardner The board organized with Col D O Winebrewer as president Col Gharias E Trail as vice president Edward S Richelberges as secretary Calvin Schildtknecht as treasurer and manager and Arthur Wyand as book keeper.
Major Goldsborough spoke Friday afternoon on "The Battle of the Monocacy" before Male High School pupils. The lecture was interesting and instructive and was greatly enjoyed.
The Frank Adams Theatrical Company, "Uncle Gez," have closed the season and are expected home today or tomorrow. Zinc and grinding double the wear. Zinc and grinding double the wear.
Notes of proceedings at Center ville and Baltimore cover the upcoming seventy fifth annual session and the Diamond Jubilee celebration of the Methodist Protestant church in 1903. Statistics list probationers and members, baptisms, Sabbath schools, and church properties with debts and insurance. A conference report outlines allocations for ministerial education, missions, and building needs. A Chinese immigration law amendment proposal is debated, then work on Maryland roads shifts to a contract system reducing political appointments.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company releases Wonderland 1902 an annual volume with fine views of routes industries and natural charms. Alfred Lenz New York provides cover designs and readings while the text highlights commercial advantages and regional scenery. Send six cents for postage to Chas S Fee St Paul Minn for a copy.
A gang of slick swindlers prey on farmers by appointing them as agents for a patent hayfork. Farmers are paid if they show the fork and take monthly orders, with each signed contract split into two notes the farmer must pay at a bank. Several farmers have already paid from 75 to 100 dollars.
At six this morning Fra Mulvaney and Gaffney presided as Sisters M Germaine and M Loyola professed taking the whites veil. M Germaine was Katharine Casqueston of Philadelphia and M Loyola was Bessie Dove of Georgetown D C. They became novices about a year ago.
A claim highlights a bold personal enterprise with rising strength and wide expansion since inception. The source notes persistent effort by management to build the business, asserting unrivaled position in its line and continued aggressive development.
Justice Barnard in the Probate Court of Washington DC ruled that Charles H Utermehle cannot contest the 1900 will of George W Utermehle due to long delay and lack of timely evidence. The decision favored the cavestees Dr Leroy M Taylor Mrs Mamie E Norment Leroy M Taylor Jr Mildred and Dorothy Taylor over the grandson contestant in a matter affecting over 1 million dollars in DC property.
Reports from Howard and Carroll counties note deaths, fires, wrecks, and social changes. George Crouse died April 7 in Westminster at age 3. Susan Forsythe died of consumption near Indian Springs aged 60. Aston Lanehart’s frame house and barn burned near Hancock with 2000 loss and no insurance. Michael Chronister of Sykesville missing. A freight train wreck in Hagerstown disrupted tracks. A bid for Western Maryland Railroad and tax levy debates loom in state government. United States Geological Survey engineers arrive in Ellicotts City to survey Howard County.
Frostburg citizens launch a movement for higher morality. A meeting at the Methodist Episcopal Church led by John Steen engaged general Sunday school superintendents who propose merchants and saloon keepers sign an agreement to close their shops on Sundays and to stop selling tobacco to boys under 16.
In the musical farce A Wise Woman Miss Marie Lamour introduces a melodious Southern crooning song and lullaby. The catchy number becomes instantly popular as it is whistled and hummed by children and adults during performances across venues.
In Trela New Quarters Frederick Masons and Mountain City Knights of Pythias met in the new lodge room at Mugzonlo Temple. Grand Lecturer J. Graham Dukehart of Maryland attended and will visit branches. Seventeen new members were initiated as the room is praised for its finish and art. A temple dedication is anticipated once construction completes.
The Y M C A Literary Society will meet in the association rooms this evening at 7 30 o clock. Members are reminded to attend and participate in planned discussions and readings.
Col. Thomas M. Willey represents the Picacho Blanco Mining Company, owner of 33 mining properties over seven miles in a rich Arizona district. Two mines are producing and valued at $700,000, with potential to yield 12 percent annually on capital. 31 other properties await development while the stock trades around 50 cents per share, suggesting a 25 percent yearly return. Willey invites investors at the City Hotel to review maps, photos, and officer details.
A fragmented advertisement extols a department store offering a wide range of goods. It touts durable merchandise over fleeting fads, promising reliable items at fair prices, with emphasis on ribbons, underwear, lingerie, fine cotton dress fabrics, and women’s and men’s apparel. The text imitates late 19th or early 20th century marketing style.
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