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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1916
Page
8
Letters From Correspondents recount visits from Mrs Airy Miss Sarah Metcalf and others in town along with relatives from Baltimore Frederick Perryman and York. Includes births marriages travels to Baltimore Washington and Brunswick plus hospital and festival notes.
Laytonaville items show H J Green and family hosting visits from Dawsonville and Etchison relatives. Baltimore guests Annie Zile and Marie Geiss vacation with local Green relatives, with Mrs Emma Weber and others staying or traveling to Rockville and Washington Grove Camp. J L Green improves after a long illness.
Baltimore’s Mrs. C A Watkins and two children visit her mother Mrs J R Woodfield. A circle visited Miss Flort Kemp including Edith Burdette Dorcas Ifert Iona Pearl Burns Lucy Burdette Somerville Robertson Frances Lindall King Oliver King Norman Burdette Maynard King George Pope Mercie Becratt. James B Hawkins family and Annie Ridgley visited Cedar Grove area relatives. Visitors to Mr and Mrs James M Kemp included Mack Robertson Frank Duvall and Nani Thompson.
Miss Bicache Creager visits aunt Mrs De Berry of Keymar while Mrs Butler from Brunswick stays with her brother James Conner. Families from Utica Creagerstown and Philadelphia join Mr and Mrs William Cramer for Sunday. An Apples church festival with Thurmont Cord Band on Saturday August 12. Miss Blanche Morningstar returns from Baltimore. Jacob Welty visits John T Colliflower. Miss Roth Six from Keymar visits grandmother Agnes Collistower. Preaching Sunday.
Morning church services and love feast noted for Miss Lee C Boardman at ten followed by a communion. Families from Baltimore, Keysville, Frederick, Hagerstown and beyond spent Sunday with relatives in town. Word arrived of the death of William Alarms, father of Mrs Harry Albaugh, who had been living with his son Ross in Middletown.
Miss Irene Boaley of Pooleaville visits kin in town. Browns and Haines families share Sunday visits with relatives in Sykesville. Baltimore’s Rena Piquett visits Mrs. B Hilton. LO.G.T. picnic at Wildwood Park attracts many. Various residents host and visit in Washington and nearby areas including Dogtown, Pen-Mar, German and Ridgeville.
In Yellow Springs threshermenwork reports two days of threshing by George Ramsturg near Lewistown yields include John Linton James Linton Charles Linton William Staub and W M Compher with a noted wheat loss. John Moore family visited relatives nearby and Rev Shuke preached at Hethel on Sunday with Catechism class afterward. Council elected Deacon Chester Clem Spencer Stup Elders Thomas Stull John Wachter for the year. Jol Lortzs's condition remains stable and the canning corn crop shows promise.
Mr. Martin Clem is at Frederick City Hospital after a recent operation and is progressing very nicely.
A sequence of visits and gatherings describes Wilmington area families hosting relatives from Baltimore and Frederick. Activities include a Hansonville Sunday school picnic at Millers woods on August 26 with music by the Yellow Springer band and an evening festival, a Ladies and Aid meeting with a program led by Rev. R W Doty, and several visits by residents to relatives in Walkersville, Gettysburg, and Monroeia.
Residents of Liberty Town list visitors and travelers from Baltimore Frederick Hampstead and Jeannette Pa. Robert Metcalfe and wife return from two weeks with relatives. Several families and clergy plan trips and preaching in Swinsdale Pa with changes to Burkittsville service.
Fifteen persons boarded the Baltimore and Ohio train this morning to Atlantic City while two others headed to Niagara Falls New York. They will spend some time at the chosen destinations.
An old promotional ad urges long life by kidney care and a milk and vegetable diet. It hawks Anuric, a supposed uric acid eliminator from Dr. Pierce of Buffalo, claiming high potency and rapid dissolution of uric acid. Send 10 cents for a trial package to learn its effects.
A survey of curious notes cites Caracas building plans and a giant Lenox mall, Cuba’s quillless porcupine, China’s kerosene imports near 200 million gallons yearly, a patent for oven tongs, Roumania’s area close to New York and Massachusetts, the Prince of Wales income from Cornwall estates, Burma’s tallest railroad bridge at 800 feet, ancient Rome elevators, and fourteen toilet species found near St Johnsbury Vermont.
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