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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1889
Page
3
Announcement outlines weekly notices and display ad rates. Ads must reach the office by Wednesday and Thursday before publication for timely inclusion. Monthly accounts are settled on the 1st of each month with specific billing dates for late notices.
Special notices appear to reference Froge and Found items with emphasis on key facts. The fragment lists Opening and Important Facts as headings, indicating a preliminary summary or index in a historical notice page.
Residents of Ellicott City discussed electric lighting months ago and now expect immediate action. The leading merchants will push plans, with the current mayor and city council said to favor public improvements and funding will likely be arranged. County commissioners Edwards Stern and Chanley indicted for passing county bills in which they had an interest, prompting countywide sensation. The indictments concern a 1870 law prohibiting such conflicts. the current board is Democratic.
The April 20 1889 list shows uncalled letters in Frederick with names such as Mrs Susan Bowman Miss Anna Eline Miss Carrie May and others. Unclaimed letters must be claimed within one month or be sent to the dead letter office.
Reports from Washington and Hagerstown detail trouble within the Washington Merchants Protective Union with branch offices in major cities and members in Hagerstown. Some parties seek commercial libel action. an attorney handles the case. The union lists a resident lawyer in Hershey town, M L Keedy.
Indications point to a genuine though moderate improvement in business, with volume rising more than profits. Crop prospects brighten, exports up, and money abundant. Railroad earnings rise. some trade failures occur. interior centers favorable while iron and leather sectors face overproduction. Cotton, wool, and lumber show mixed trends amid open winter and weak prices in leather. Exports rise for two weeks of April, Treasury disburses heavily, and total business failures drop from prior weeks.
An old advertisement urges readers to use Berry's Tricopherous to groom hair and then ask the mirror if they look handsome, presenting a period beauty pitch for personal grooming products.
Frederick readers learn that the Dover Courier reports Judge Jere C Grove of Dover was honored with a surprise serenade by a marching band on his residence veranda Saturday night in Dover. The event celebrated his reelection as Police Judge with music and hospitality.
A Frederick column lists society guest visits, church plans, and local notices. Marie Shellabarger visits Miss Marie Byerly in Decatur UL. Cardinal Gibbons may leave Baltimore April 30 for New Orleans to bless Archbishop Janssene. a May 5 ceremony planned at St. Louis Cathedral. Also notes hotel arrivals, hospitalities, remedies, and local incidents including a child killed after being run over in New York and a meat sack ad from Frederick, Md.
Mr Hezekiah Deleplaine of New Midway died last night from heart trouble at age 71. He was related to Misa Tazzie Carmack and Mrs Maggie Rhodes of this city.
A select dance will be given by the young gentlemen of this city at Junior Hall tomorrow night under the management of RG Gambrill CG W Ross JF Hf Sifford and W A Markell. The CB orchestra will furnish the music.
A hearing in Urbana was held before Magistrate Dohna on charges against Ephbram Smith for shooting Charles Johnson on March 30. The prisoner was held for action by the grand jury.
In a Cumberland Times letter Col H Ryd Douglas reports his health greatly improved and says he is guest of Col James Clarke in Mobile. Clarke, once president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Gael, now Mobile & Ohio Railroad general manager, will host Douglas before his visit to Gen Gordon. He then plans to return home and attend the Centennial in New York.
A meeting of the Board of Managers of the Agricultural Society held Saturday in the Manuai Insurance rooms set October 15 to 18 for the next exhibition. A resolution authorized the secretary to join the Maryland and Delaware trotting circuit ensuring continuous trotting from early September to late October.
A parchment 1798 land grant of 50 acres from the State of Blarsland to Nicholas Holtz, preserved with a two layer parchment seal bearing the state coat of arms and a horseman. Chancellor Alexander Conee Hanson granted the deed at that time.
Bright Easter day scenes unfold with cloudless skies and full churches. Elaborate floral altars, jubilant music, and sermons mark the celebrations at ALESAINTS' and LUTHERAN churches. Children receive centennial certificates. Sunday schools overflow with joyous parades of blooms and Easter eggs.
Easter observances filled multiple churches with rich choral works and organ accompaniment. St John’s German communion, then services at St John’s with Haydn and other works, followed by Reformed Church Easter music and Middletown gatherings with large audiences and confirmations. Route agents appointed in railway mail service include Milliard G. Bovey, Chas E. Young, and Elmer W. Dotty.
The Rockville post office, long led by Albert J. Almanay, is now operated by Theo Dawson who moved the office to the western part of town. Postmasters and staff are awaiting central placement by the Washington office. The Maryland State Temperance Alliance holds its sixteenth annual convention at Old First Methodist Church starting Tuesday April 30 with Centennial Mass Meeting, Joshua Levering presiding, and Philadelphia’s Fotes L Bailey speaking on The Delusion of High License. The convention continues Wednesday with Lewis Hochheimer in charge and includes remarks by Sidney Perham, former Governor of Maine, and Rev. Sam W Small at the closing meal Thursday night.
The Emmitsburg Chronicle reports the May sitting of the registration office will be held on Monday and Tuesday the 13th and 14th. Miss Ide Macrum, visiting her aunt Mrs. Catharine Motter, heads home toward Pittsburg. Carrie Kenfauver and Beth Firer have returned to Harmony Grove and Mechanicstown. The Reformed charge of Hanover West Manheim Township elected Rev. Jos Peters as pastor. Mrs Mary L. Gaddens postponed her Baltimore entertainment to Saturday May 4th. Limestone bed found at John T. Cretn's farm near Mt St Mary's College. Felix Walter leases and plans kilns to burn soon.
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