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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1901
Page
3
The Weekly News will be a handsome twelve page issue ready Thursday with news and special features. It claims Frederick city and county has the largest genuine circulation and promotes advertising advantages. Copy for new ads due by 6 p.m. Wednesday, changes by noon.
Mrs P 8 Kunkel returns from Washington and many locals visit relatives or travel to cities such as Boston Atlantic City and Blue Ridge Summit. Numerous residents including Misses Stone Etts Eschbach and Hoack along with Mr. Lipps and Dr. Eniss are noted for recent trips and visits around Frederick Hagerstown and Waynesboro. Buckheimer supplies cantaloupes. Colorado Gem melons praised. Hagerstown band carnival planning led by Robert Lorentz.
Grand Lodge of Maryland laid the cornerstone of the Masonic Temple at West Church Street in Frederick. Officers present included Acting Grand Master Henry Larrabee and several grand officers. Architect Harry Bowers received the tools, and John E. R. Wood delivered a Masonry address praising Judge John A. Lynch.
The Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station adopts apprentice labor to train young men for skilled farming roles. Apprentices, often sons of farmers, receive room and board or pay in money, with six month to one year programs. Instruction covers horticulture and dairy related specialties, expanding station work and building a dedicated constituency. Vacancies are limited and filled by order of application.
Investigation allegedly widening into the circumstances of Wilson Hurry's death found in a stable near Indian Springs last week. Officials had attributed heart failure, but friends claim he was intoxicated and fed eggs by associates before being left there, with death occurring hours later.
A horse owned by Long and Coffman liverymen collapsed and died on Sunday night along the Leitersburg pike near town. The animal, valued at 125 dollars, had reportedly been hired by a young man named Harry Main of this city and driven toward Waynesboro.
The Pennsylvania pay car arrived in Frederick yesterday and the employes of the road were paid their calarica for the month of July.
Complaint filed over free wagon route mail delivery from Fonkstown to Beaver Creek. Patrons place road boxes for carriers, but many boxes are inaccessible or misused. Daily papers arrive late or not at all. boxes lack patron names. Carrier J. Warrenfaltz, bonded for 1000 dollars, notes boxes must be wagon reachable and properly labeled. Postmasters allegedly mishandle mail and traffic issues slow service.
A Saturday Buckeystown baseball game drew a large crowd. Buckeystown defeated Park Mills 14 to 5 in five innings. Winning battery Megara Archibald Mossberg Archibald Snouffer. Park Mills battery Broady Dickinson. South Street boys organize a team, the Flying Mosquitoes, with manager William Fier dman and players Chew Reynolds Hahn Harrigan Wiles Eckstein Sponsoler and Shortes Hahn. They plan to open against Young Sluggers Wednesday evening, hoping for a walkover.
At the Bar Association gathering near White Sulphur Springs Virginia Col John Goode spoke on Our Country praising Admiral Schley. He declared that regardless of any court of inquiry verdict the American people view Schley as naval war hero alongside Jones and Perry, drawing wild applause.
Clerk Douglass H. Hargett reports a drop of 55 marriage licenses in the past eight months compared with the first eight months after he assumed office on December 1, 1897. County totals show 415 licenses from Dec 1, 1897 to Dec 1, 1898, 394 from Dec 1, 1898 to Dec 1, 1899, 435 from Dec 1, 1899 to Dec 1, 1900, and 239 from Dec 1, 1900 to August 9, 1901.
The Washington branch of the Church of the Lord Jeans was addressed by Elder Henry Danterich and has fewer than a dozen members, teaching immortality through faith as salvation and citing St Paul. A Camden trio, Mrs. Louisa Nafey and Misses Anna Bitting and Laura Toone, set a 357 mile long distance trolley record from Boston to Camden, passing through Connecticut, New York, the Sound, and New Jersey. Miss Bitting is daughter of William Bisting of Philadelphia.
Charles Shope, an employee at W. D. Bower's lumber yard, fell from a 12 foot platform while loading lumber onto a wagon. He sustained bruises, including a head injury, but no broken bones. Dr. Hendrix attended him at the scene yesterday.
Mr J B W Hargott lists corn per barrel two dollars fifty, shelled corn fifty cents per bushel, wheat No 2 rea seventy one, steamer sixty, rejected fifty venta per bushel. Hay from thirteen dollars ten cents to fourteen dollars per ton.
Dr Thomas Sappington one of the state’s oldest physicians died at his son in law’s residence in Baltimore Sunday night aged nearly 85 born October 26 1816 in Liberty town Frederick County He retired from practice about 20 years ago survived by two daughters and several relatives including nephews practicing in the county A solemn requiem mass will be held at St Ignatius Catholic Church with interment in Bonnie Brae cemetery.
Joseph I. Adams shot and killed his wife Mrs. Adams and her companion Charles Houck on Cedar Avenue Bridge after discovering an affair. Houck, a cripple who lost a leg a year earlier, died at the scene. Adams was arrested following the shootings.
In a single morning, John W. Phoebus funeral was held at his West South Street home with Rev. Dr. Osborne Ingle officiating. Separately, a double funeral for James F. Burch and his five year old son Clarence followed at their former home, with services by Rev. Strayer. Both burials occurred at Mt. Olivet Cemetery under D. C. Schroeder.
W F Mc Sperren of Lancaster county Pa explains growing crimson clover as green manure. Sow 15 pounds seed per acre with corn in August, harrow well, and obtain a good stand. Clover stores nitrogen, improves soil fertility, and aids moisture retention. It crowds out erosion, supports root and top development, and allows fall manure application. He has grown it for ten years, using it for soiling, ensilage, hay, and plowdown, with better crops where kept well covered and moist.
In La Plata Charles county Cardinal Martinelli laid the cornerstone of a new Catholic church. The report also lists local legal cases with James W. Foster replaced on the Harford county Democratic ticket, J William Grant illness in jail awaiting murder trial, Buckingham guilty of forgery with a five year penitentiary sentence, Bankard charged with attempted assault held for August 15, and reports on lynching talk after Fayette Watson’s stabbing. The Baltimore District Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South meets in Rockville for four days with 25 charges and 5,045 members. A merchant Warfield of Slidell is jailed over pear cider sales amid arsonation claims. white witnesses summoned, Warfield on bail, and fugitive search ongoing.
Local notice items invite attendance at a Braddock Heights dance tonight with oars schedule and an athletic park visiting exhibition by Prof. R. Emmett and his trained dogs on Thursday night. Carpet cleaning by Excelsior Steam Carpet Cleaning Co. on Tues Wed Fri. advertisements for seed wheat and fertilizer. optical services offered in Frederick. dressmaking and gown development services listed with hours and locations.
Advert announces vast inventory of desirable merchandise at reduced rates with phrases like giving away prices. Mentions linen skirts and half price items, urging shoppers to visit and shop for two months of wear. The notice uses sales language and aims to attract customers with affordable summer to fall transition goods.
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