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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1893
Page
3
Special Dispatch notes April 20 in Washington DC with next 24 hours fair weather. Also lists ads under New Advertisements and Local Mention, including For Rent and All Wanted White Girl, signaling local excitement and notices.
A roundup of local happenings includes George Blumenauer nearing completion of Col C E Houck’s stable and carriage house, plans by Pawnee Bill season expe dients, and Lowenstein Wertheimer making a 40 inch seam pair of pants for one of Pawnee Bill’s giants. County events mention the Freder ick County Historical Society meeting at Mrs John Ritchie’s, Gaithersburg fire company building a new engine house on Brooker Avenue, and scholarship and teaching certificate applications in Carroll County. Page mentions champagne inheritance, a proverb on riches, Hagerstown elevation, spring cleaning, country strolls after arbutus, new pocketbooks, Hygeia Ice Company electing George Wm Smith president, a false alarm, and a new desk for Deputy Stam baugh’s office.
Purely personal notes list brief visits and movements of local residents. J H Kahn of Baltimore visits friends in the city. Mrs Mary Hospetham of Mechanica town visits relatives. Joseph Wrightler of Hagerstown attends to city business. Stewart Desa of Harmony Grove spends the day here. Airs Isaac Coblentz and family noted. Dr Frank Coblentz of Springfield Ohio visited Mr D C Kemp then left for Jefferson. David C Tromes of Washington DC is in town on business. Frank E Schmidt returns from Washington DC. Miss Fannie L Bender of Baltimore visits Mrs Chas Houis on East Third Street.
Lemuel Prince died in Baltimore on April 19 after a long illness aged 81. He was the brother of Thomas C. Prince and uncle to Emory Harper and Daniel Prince of Frederick and Captain T. C. Prince of Winchester. An honored longtime member of the Veteran Fireman's Association of Baltimore.
The regular monthly meeting saw bills and claims reviewed with multiple payments authorized. Health warnings, water works talks, street repairs, and sewer improvements dominated discussions, along with reports on market receipts and fines.
James McAllister dies near Salisbury at 79. Mrs. Thomas Turner dies near Bryanton Charles County aged 26. Nellie Brown dies burned in Unionville Worcester. Kent County to widen Galena streets. Maryland tax rate up to 100 for Garrett County schools. Bowie murder case at Marlboro advances with severance and Pinkney testimony. Navy visit expected. Herbert to attend. Court cases include Lake Roland Railway appeal denial and Seventh Day Adventist Sunday work case in Chestertown. Newcastle Presbytery elects commissioners Osmond Hough Bueh Higgins to General Assembly. Dolphin gunboat to transport Secretary Herbert to Hampton Roads.
A series of wedding announcements and social notes from Baltimore and surrounding areas. Kathryne Elkins and William A. Keagle Jr. wed at Immaculate Conception, with attendants Eugenia Biden and Agnes Bertlich, followed by a reception and departure for a northern trip. Additional ceremonies include Charles F. E. Jones and May Marshall in Shepherdstown, George D. Willard and M. Magruder Tarr in Baltimore, and Grace M. Quynn and Allen C. Rigney’s quiet wedding. The item also lists wedding cards, hotel arrivals, and local society tidbits reflecting the social season.
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Miss Gertrude Wood of Barnesville visited. Dr. Whitney and wife of New York spoke on temperance. Miss Meggie Hice of Howard county visited relatives. Mrs. James of Washington visiting Dr. H. W. Dorsey. Mt Pleasant notes report a well attended Lord's Supper with five confirmations, 16 additions to the charge. A spring wedding unites Bayar F. Crebs and Ara G. Shipley at the parsonage. Grace church missionary service draws praise with Mt Pleasant elocution class aid. Centerville Missionary Society and Pleasant Hill choir active in community life. Park Mills notes list Chapel Sunday school officers. Arbor Day at First HM school with planting and program. Miss Lillie S. Stewart visiting parents. Miss Annie D. Stewart starts Flint Hill subscription school. Flint Hill Sunday school to organize next Sunday.
Welcome visitors to the Adam Forepaugh Shows opening Friday April 28 with a grand display including a Genuine Wild Cossack Cues Co. and a living Scenes and Battles of 1776. The promotional copy emphasizes honesty and a new, monumental circus experience compared with earlier years.
News of The Churches notes Dr William H Purnell of Frederick was elected by the Baltimore Presbytery as a commissioner to the General Assembly to meet at New York Avenue Church in Washington. The Briggs case study spurred debate. an overture favoring organic union of Northern and Southern Presbyterian churches was adopted. In Rev Osborne Ingle absence lay reader Mr EC Shepherd led All Saints chapel service last night.
The Sick. Mr. John M. Whitmore, West South Street, is quite fit. Master Q. S. J. Beckley Jr., Market Space, is very ill with typhoid pneumonia. Mr. Wm. McDaniel, Mt. Pleasant, has recovered from this accident of last Friday and is able to be about his house.
G Y M O A A meeting of the F M C A was held with large attendance. W Lampe opened, Beary K De Fox played a piano solo, and Frank Moore delivered a humorous oration on Hezekiah Stubbins. A debate on whether the soldier or the statesman has done more for the country ended with a negative verdict. Orphans' Court appointed Ellen L Kemp guardian of Artie R Keng and estate settlements were filed. Great excitement at Pettijohn breakfast food sale at Geo Shipley and CE Zellers with free samples offered.
Providence April 3 John Devenish, once a government witness in the Dr Thatcher Graves murder case, received a Denver DA letter inviting him to attend Graves’s May 2 trial with promise of reasonable expenses. If Devenish cannot make May, the Denver prosecutor may travel in the fall term.
The Skill and Knowledge Essential to the production of the most perfect and popular laxative remedy Known have enabled the California Fig Syrup Co to achieve great success in the reputation of its remedy Syrup of Figs as it is conceded to be the universal laxative. For sale by all druggists.
A local shop displays a wide selection of lace curtains in various sizes and fabrics, with low prices. Curtain poles come in Ebony, Cherry, Oak and Walnut with trimmings and stall prices. A new novelty item features a corrugated white enamel pole with silver fittings.
An additional invoice for Japanese mattings arrived this morning, shipped on a steamer now unloading its cargo at New York. The document indicates fresh stock linked to the carpet department and emphasizes ongoing import activity.
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