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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1903
Page
5
Subscribers are urged to report promptly any irregularity in receipt of The News. The city paper requests readers inform the office of missed or late deliveries to ensure prompt corrective action and continued service.
Alexander Noland a respected colored man died suddenly at his South Market Street blacksmith shop about 11:80 this morning while shoeing a horse. A hemorrhage ended his life. He was born in 1834 at Bookeystown and opened the shop in 1862. He leaves a widow and two daughters. funeral arrangements not yet made.
Miss Susan Markey spends the day with friends in Adamstown. Mr. George Hane and son from Washington DC visit local friends. Mr. J F Murray returns home in Washington after several days on business. Rev T Freeman Dizon returns from Baltimore Presbytery session. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Clatterbuck visit Virginia to see parents. Mrs Qacar W Reed returns to Portsmouth VA from East Patrick street. Rev George E Mardwell recalls years on Thermont circuit and visits old friends. Sidney Trundle starts clerkship with B&C RR at Spear's Wharf Baltimore.
The funeral for Mrs Jonana Oden was conducted at 3 o'clock this afternoon from her residence on South Market Street by Rev T Freeman. Attendants included John Ward Sr Tous J F Biciteld G Warren Ebber Brown and Edward B a Lotercmeas. Interment followed at Mt Olivet Cemetery. A separate service for Lace Sameer Sumas was held at 2 PM from his brother Fraska Mee’s house on South Market Street with pallbearers from the United Steen Fire Company, Rev E L Mclean presiding, interment at Mt Olivet Cemetery.
Local notices list sermon times and Sunday school hours for All Saints Episcopal Schreysville Mission German Baptist Brethren Lutheran Burkitville Knoxville Trinity M E Evangelical Reformed Grace Reformed and other churches. May devotions and Young People's Society events noted with dates and speakers for Frederick County Day activities and Christan Endeavor meetings.
Multiple obituaries and notices: Katharine A Rhoderick dies of paralysis at 6 years. funeral Monday at 2 pm at her home led by Rev E S Todd. Lucy Parker, 63 West All Saints, dies at Baltimore City Hospital from appendicitis. funeral at Asbury church tomorrow at 2:30 pm. A child, four-year-old twin of Chas Wilhide, dies. burial in U B cemetery Thurmont on April 20. Mrs Lillian W Willmax dies at 38. buried at Thermont. Miss Julia Ambrose dies at Deerfield at 31. funeral Thursday at Sebulae. Real estate: William H Keller buys one-half of Calvin Keller's farm on Contoctin Mountain for 1350. Nos E Cramer sells Mary Engle and O L Engle ground on Center Street to Robert Hodge for 1000. Ad ends urging advertising.
Patrolman Aligire, a B&O officer, recently captured J Walter Beard, a colored man who shot and killed Peter Welekirche on April 9. Born July 8, 1866, in Westminster, he joined the Baltimore force in 1891 and served ten years, earning a reputation for daring arrests and occasional loan to the B&O force to nab train thieves. In one notable pursuit he faced a double barreled shotgun and still captured both the suspects and the weapon.
B and O police veteran Allgire recalls tracking and capturing the Beard killer after learning of the Weiskirche shooting. He searched homes, prepared for the chase, and warned his family he might be gone long as he sought justice. Citizens praised his solo effort as cost saving for Frederick County.
The Firemen's Herald reports the eleventh annual Maryland State Association convention to be held in Frederick June 10 to 12. Thirty five Maryland companies join visiting units from Pennsylvania New York Virginia West Virginia New Jersey Delaware and the District of Columbia with bands and apparatus for the grand parade June 10 and contests June 11. Reduced rail fares and excursion trains will operate during the events.
Fredericktown Savings Institution and Franklin Savings Bank weekly deposits are shown alongside bids for Loudoun County and Frederick Bridge Company stock and Great Southern Printing and Manufacturing stock. Bonds priced at par 100 each sold for 10.50. various deposits to named individuals including Jacob Rohrback, Eichelvarger, and Granville Smith are listed with per dollar rates.
The Board of Aldermen met to discuss rails for the B and F Railroad. Messrs J E Ingram Jr and C P Matlack asked to change the 8 inch flange requirement, saying no rails exist with a 3 inch flange. They noted the widest flange rail is 2 3/4 inches and the change was approved as immaterial. Ingram spoke of delays by Baltimore railways hindering freight over their right of way. He said delivery of rails, once arrangements with Baltimore roads complete, would accelerate work. Initial delivery was four months, now sixty days more likely, and the road would be completed beyond question. Logram and Matkack returned to Baltimore this morning. Mr Charles Robinson of D Winesbrewer Son and Q M Bloom Co of Hagerstown hire as traveling salesman covering Pennsylvania Maryland Virginia.
Local notices advertise Shipley shop specials with discounted fabrics, lace curtains, underwear, tires, pots, lamps, brooms, and more. Also listed are charity events at Frederick’s W C T U room, a Mountain City Council book reception, new shop openings, lodge invitations, and miscellaneous city notices with musical entertainment and social happenings for April 1903.
A mixed page of ads and notices includes prices on lace curtains silk waists and parasols, optical services by Orme Optical Co, bed ware, crockery, knives, and a carpet shop inviting shoppers to spring openings. Memorial verses honor Maggie Plankett and Ide Conningham, with local merchants promoting spring stock and home goods.
William K. Vanderbilt, the New York millionaire, and Mrs. Angus Rutherford were married today in St. Mark's church North Audley street London. The ceremony was conducted by Rev Hadden.
Special Dispatch reports General Manning stating two thousand of the Mad Mullahs were killed after an engagement with their forces in Somaliland. British losses are not disclosed. The notice also mentions an ad for Dean's Kidsey Pills at Clinton E. Main's Pharmacy.
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