Pastor Rev Elmer Bittle Leads Turtle Creek Alpha Lutheran
Rev Elmer Bittle has served five years at Alpha Lutheran Church in Turtle Creek Pa. He started with 28 members, added 18 after installation, and now presides over 252 in a brick church built in 1894 and dedicated January 27 1895. The church began with no treasury and small remaining debt. Under his pastorate the congregation grew from 82 to 252 and raised 9027.92 for various needs. He resigned in January but was unanimously rejected and will continue as pastor. Bittle also served as a General Synod delegate in 1897 and is now statistical secretary and elected recording secretary for next year.
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Bittle
Turtle Creek
Haster
General Synod of the
Lutheran Church In the
United States of America
Sloane Divorce and Belmont Marriage Shock Society Scene
Wealthy financier Henry T. Sloane is granted an absolute divorce from Jessie A. Sloane. Perry Belmont marries the ex-wife in Greenwich, Conn. The court assigns custody of the Sloane children and directs disposition of the Sloane home valued at 3500,000. Separate baseball results note Philadelphia over Boston 9 to 6 and other NL and Atlantic League games.
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Fron
Perry Belmont
New York
Henry T. Sloane
Jessie A
Sloane
Justice Stover
Supreme Court
William L. Turner
Francis M. Scott
Jessie
Emily
Eleanor
Mr. Sloane
The Cyclones Victims and Tornado Toll at Newtown
Hemalye ae FINGen Kirksville Mo April 29 A tornado in Newtown caused massive devastation. About 200 families homeless, over 70 dead or injured, many unaccounted for and feared dead in fires. Damage estimated at $200 000 as homes churches and the Catholic church were wrecked. Residents saved by family efforts amid harrowing scenes.
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Kirksville
J. G. Coonfield
W. M. Hull
Fr. J. Rieger
Mary Hensley
Andrew Ellison
John Doneghy
HH. Lowel
Henry Billington
A. R. Bowman
Theodore Brigham
Lena Brown
Moberly
Albert Burr
Seth Feather
W. W. Green
A.J. Glasse
W. B. Howellis
J. RB. Larkin
John Mehaffey
John T. Mehaffey
F. M. McClay
J.T. Miller
Ora Millan
Woodland
Eine Pansthott
H. K. Sherburne
Samus Weaver
Misa Leona Wheley
Kira
Cal
Wheeler
Moc Wood
Dallas
Tex
Tom Robdinson
Hillsboro
Mary Adama
Reward of Bravery and Long Service for Miller
A F Frederick Junction telegraph operator F B G Miller has received from the War Department a certificate of honor for Civil War bravery. He swam the river under fire to save the Government wire, prompted Lincoln era communications, and later served four years as scouting operator. Miller, a 30-year B and O man, has 28 years at Frederick Junction and a family of three daughters and a son. He has long been active in Columbia Lodge A F and A M. Also notes on Lipton gift for Shamrock, Anglo-Russian talks in Berlin, and a Black Hills blizzard with heavy snow.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Frederick Junction
United States War Department
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Jackson
Winchester
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Berkeley County
W. Va
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Maryland
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National Turnpike
Washington
Thomas Eckert
Western Union Telegraph Company
Sap
War Department
Williamsport
Lovaconing
Piedmont
E . Halley
Columbia Lodge
Thurmont's Burgess J Wesley Creeger Built Vast Holdings
J Wesley Creeger, elected Thurmont burgess at age thirty five, built a substantial fortune in lumber and coal. Born 1863, he started with no capital fifteen years ago, owns 3600 acres timber land, two saw mills, a shingle mill, and manages an excelsior mill. He holds the Gilbert Hotel property and other Thurmont real estate.
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J. Wesley Dreeger
Thurmont
Creeger
Effie
M. A. Willier
Creager
House of Delegates
Burgens of
Gilbert
MRS. GEORGE ACQUITTED OF MURDER VERDICT CHEERS
In Canton Ohio on April 23 a jury found Anna E. George not guilty of murder in the death of George B. Saxton ending seven months in jail. Cheers greeted the verdict in court and outside. Welcome telegrams poured in for her attorneys and a theatrical firm offered 500 for a week in Columbus, which she declined.
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Anna E. George
George B. Saxton
Dirs. George
Arm Fracture in Two Year Old Child
A two year old child of Mr Mehmiing sustained a fracture of the right arm after a fall from a chair in North Market stress extend ed.
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Mehmiing
North Market
P O Become A Brewery. Page Foundry Sold To Begin Modern Brewery
Baltimore’s Frank Bowman plans conversion of Page’s South Street foundry into a modern brewery plant after acquiring the property. The 1868-built complex once produced gears and farm implements, employed up to seventy five, and served mills across Maryland and beyond. A fire damaged a 200 foot shed this month, but the main building’s slate roof spared heavier loss.
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Loudoun
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Berkeley
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Frederick
Page's Foundry
Iowa
Lansdale
Herman Kohler
Mellite
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