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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1951
Page
4
The Frederick News dated Tuesday August 14 1951 lists subscription rates and postage terms, notes afternoon publication time, and provides office address at 36 North Court Frederick Maryland. It notes entry as second class matter and mentions the Audit Bureau of Circulations membership.
Hand made leather products from the J. M. Bucheimer Company of Frederick are shown at the C. Burr Artz Library this month. Displays include molded holsters police equipment and braided riding crops belts and billies. The exhibit highlights skill in hand braiding and carving with many models and tools used in making exact fits and designs.
The article notes intergovernmental strides to erase border restrictions for moving fire equipment and medical aid between the United States and Canada, while also reporting on the Kelly reunion held at Mountandale with many attendees from multiple states and Maryland. Three individuals were jailed overnight on municipal charges for intoxication, disturbing the peace, and loitering, with details from the Frederick police blotter.
Aug 14 1901 items note large corn canning crop with 4000 acres in two local companies. A. A. Moser proprietor of Bee store suspects a break in overnight though nothing stolen. Heavy rains wash out corn fields and roads across Carroll County. A mule owned by Mrs. Mollie Bush near Sandyville swept away in a stream. Miss Margaret Suman missionary in Ikoko Africa describes life and duties. A horse of Celius Reddick had its head snapped by a strap slipping from an awning pole in front of Kemp dry goods store.
Frederick County farmers hold to their unthreshed wheat waiting for higher prices above 44 cents. Detrick Field officials acknowledge shooting their own plane in air war games and plan a large night attack on Frederick next week. Progress on Singapore filtration plant shows pipe work nearly complete. Braddock Heights Observatory completed and in service.
Aug 14 Hibbing Minnesota story recalls Pete the roustabout who found rich iron ore in 1882. The Oliver Mining Company says the 1450 acre pit now 500 feet deep employs 30 nationalities and has produced nearly 2.5 billion dollars worth of ore at peak. Iron ore from the Mesabi Range powered U S industry and World War II. The pit’s future lies in low grade taconite and processing advances.
The Officers' club of the Women of the Moose Frederick Chapter 347 will host its annual banquet at the Peter Pan Inn in Urbana this evening. After dinner an election of officers will be held as the group meets at the Moose lodge at six o'clock.
A Church of the Brethren ceremony near Monrovia united Blanche Marie Harshman and John Robert Harris in marriage on Saturday at 7 30 pm. The event featured a twenty minute musicale by Kenneth McSolorick and Mrs. Carl Smith and a Mendelssohn wedding march recessional. The bride wore white net over satin with chantilly lace, a pearl edged veil, and carried an orchid on a white Bible. bridesmaids wore orchid and green, with nose-gays. The groom’s party included Leroy Hanaberger as best man and ushers from Mt Airy and Damascus. A reception followed, and the couple plans a Philadelphia Atlantic City honeymoon before settling in a new apartment at the bride’s home. The bride is a 1950 Frederick High School graduate. the groom is a 1949 Cram Mt Airy High School graduate employed in Mt Airy.
Mrs Guy Stull hosted the Utica Evangelical Reformed church Women’s Guild with Mrs Hoy Hessong presiding. Mrs Clarence Warner led devotions and readings. Seventeen members attended. They discussed refugee packages and a fundraiser for Homewood building. Next meeting set for September 13 near New Market with program by Mrs Clarence Schultz. A town dinner honored Mr Ramsburg and family. In American coal mines fuel is now largely cut out mechanically.
Mountain Theater at Brad dock Heights stages Just Married a 1922 farce on a transatlantic liner with mistaken identities and mixed staterooms. Directed by Charles Crain stars Kay Dawn and Robert Drew supported by Richard Woods Lee Sanders David Ryan Wall Loomer Eunice Wheaton and others. Next week the season adds Dark of the Moon.
Washington Aug 14 President Truman markets his praise for General Eisenhower while signaling a growing Republican rift. A national divide pits internationalist and nationalist wings with Taft favored by many, while Eisenhower is urged as a potential nominee. The piece weighs electoral consequences and party unity ahead of the GOP convention.
Deaths across Maryland and West Virginia list Rev B J Kline 82 of Hanover born in Frederick County as Church of the Brethren minister and farmer. Other obituaries note Mrs Eliza J Wise 84 of Charles Town. William R Thompson of Thurmont. Mrs E Verda Hoffman 72 of Waynesboro. Mrs Mary R Myers 63 of Hanover. and many relatives with funeral details, calling hours, and interments in Rest Haven and local cemeteries. Funeral services and interments are scheduled for today and the coming days across multiple counties.
The notice lists Ethel N Keller of Middletown and Harry C Keller of Middletown along with Earl R Keller of Wilmington as survivors of a Routzahn line, plus Elmer C Routzahn of Middletown and seven great grandchildren. It notes a Middletown Lutheran affiliation and Thursday services. The Scott obituary memorializes Frank Scott aged 52, a World War I veteran and Baptist church member, with survivors including wife Mary Fisher Scott and multiple siblings. Funeral arrangements pending.
The body of Pfc. Raymond R. Flair of Frederick, killed in Korea, arrived Sunday in San Francisco aboard the USS Lynn Victory. His wife Ida and six year old daughter live at 106 West Fourth Street. Flair’s ashes will be sent to Frederick under kin’s directions as part of a larger return of over 500 casualties.
Funeral services were held last Saturday for Wrcter William E. Gosnell 77 of Taylorsville at Sam's Creek Church of the Brethren with burial in the shared cemetery. Calvin F. Solt 93 a Gettysburg tailor died Friday at the Masonic Home in Elizabethtown Pa. and funeral services were held Monday with Masonic pallbearers. Charles B. Reaver a Taneytown builder and farmer had services at two o'clock in Taneytown with interment in Grace Reformed church cemetery. Pallbearers included local residents and Masons. funeral directors were C. C. Fuss and Son.
Among the sick Mrs Margaret W Kern of Brad dock Heights is convalescing at the Stevens Convalescent Home Military road from a recent operation at Union Memorial Hospital Baltimore. CONDITION OF STREAMS Monocacy muddy at Frederick Junction. Potomac clear at Weverton.
Know America Today lists birth anniversaries of John Tipton Park Benjamin Ann Pamela Cunningham Ernest Thompson Seton Bion J Arnold Harry M Jewett plus 1795 to 1950 milestones. It notes Today in History events such as the Jay Treaty 1795, post offices 1848, and the Social Security Act 1935 with a birthday roundup and horoscope. It also covers a surprise birthday party for Mr Wolfe and an S P C A meeting in Frederick.
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