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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1923
Page
5
Fate exposed a bank defalcation in Springfield Ohio when an auto horn button was touched by A H Penfield cashier. He slashed wrists in his car, lapsed into unconsciousness, the horn sounding drew a doctor and led to an investigation that closed the bank and sent him to prison.
The notice lists funeral services for Elizabeth H Tucker infant at Hocky Springs with Rev George W Masser, pallbearers Dorothy Free Marguerite Hilderbrand Ruth Black Yeley Shultz and burial in Doubs cemetery. It also records services for Mrs Fannie Curtlett at Urbana M E church with pallbearers C W Kidd Wm E Kidd W W Pyles and Clarence Carty and burial beside the church. John Andrew Bartgis to be buried at Mt Olivet with services at home.
Mr. Oscar E. Grove near Frederick is confined at home with a severe cold. Mr. Clifford H. Doll of South Market street has returned home much improved after a leg fracture and hospital stay. Miss Marguerite Killian of East South street is recovering well after an appendectomy at Frederick City Hospital.
John Slaughter and Alberta Wallace of Washington DC wed just before midnight Tuesday in the M C A building, Rev Charles D Shaffer officiating. The couple traveled to Washington DC by car after the ceremony. Earlier, Corman Ray Eucker and Levere K Flohr of Dillsburg PA married in the same building with Rev Shaffer officiating.
A playful reminiscence recalls a garden strawberry caper at Eton where a pupil fled to the road and called Mr. Austen Leigh a beast before being brought to the headmaster. The tale nods to Lord Randolph Churchill and hints at similar youthful incidents involving Gladstone and Morley.
Colonel Sherri, who served as military aide to the late President Harding, is reappointed to the same role and will continue in that capacity for President Coolidge.
County Agent McGill reports rising wheat moth sightings matching last year's severity and expanding into new areas. He urges early threshing, notes moths multiply in straw, and advises carbon bisulfide fumigation in bin or tight rooms with strict fire safety.
Miss Catherine Painter returns from her grandparents in York. Mrs Violet Poole Angerine visits her sick sister Bessie Painter. Miss Virginia Flautt back from Washington DC. Miss Catherine Stull returns from Point Pleasant NJ. her mother stays with Mrs Swink. Families travel to Harrisburg, Detroit, Norfolk, Chambersburg. Miss Motter visits Washington. Miss Wickless visits Emmitsburg. Wickless family visits Frederick. Ostrich run myth debunked by South Africa farmer. neck steadies head for wide view. John Miller, ex major league star and Seals manager, retires for health in New Jersey.
The American Legion and Auxiliary schedule Friday events with General Hanson E. Ely and Dr. A. F. Woods to address delegates. A luncheon in Memorial Hall, a tour to Middletown’s Memorial Hall, and speeches by John Thomas Taylor and Syd Husted are planned. Saturday features General Frank T. Hines, an air meet, and a pilgrimage to Francis Scott Key’s grave. The Leeton Auxiliary meets to set plans, with talks by General Hines and others.
Local shopper notices highlight Happy Home Apron Dresses priced at 96 cents. Dresses use fast color Amoskeag gingham and standard stout percale fabrics in sixteen season styles. Also advertised are life insurance options with a bold prompt about value of life and yearly salary figures.
A state soil improvement train offers free lime for soil tests to farmers. County Agent John McGill Jr urges participation as the B&Os lime train, in cooperation with the University of Maryland and County Farm Bureau, visits Adamstown Friday and Frederick Saturday with test crews and lime loads for those with soil samples.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for kindness during illness and death of husband and father with thanks for flowers and use of cars. Also ads selling items: Ford touring car, lumber, posts, wood, sawmill house, typewriter, driving mare, wagons, carriages, gas machine, and other farm goods. Includes notices for festivals, real estate, optics, monuments, peaches, taxi service, crackers, rug works, and eggs butter prices. Local businesses: G. W. Grocery, Edward D. Shriners Jr., Frederick County Bank, Grayson H. Mercer, Frank M. Shapro, Howard G. Taylor, A. R. Routzahn, McCain Orchard Co., Levy's Market.
A 63 acre farm on the Daysville pike offers a dwelling with large store room, bank barn, grain shed, hog pens, dairy in house, cisterns and good well water. Includes fruit trees and all belonging to a comfortable home. possession soon, cheap. Walkersville Maryland. Contact 1074.
The Cracker Shop in the Markey Mathis building carries crackers and cakes from the G L Baking Company. Now open at 238 North Mark Street. Also advertising poultry purchases at top prices.
A highlighted roster shows Joseph D Baker as chairman with Holmes D Baker president Joan I Baker and Joseph McDivitt as vice presidents. Ledger includes WM G Zimmerman cashier and Samuel G Duvall assistant cashier with other officers and a real estate manager. Located at 23 W Patrick St Frederick Maryland.
A local firm notes that buyers in College Park once purchased many lots with optimistic forecasts. They acknowledge their enthusiasm may have overstated futures, yet report substantial value growth in those same eastern and middle sections today. POTTS GRIFFIN. 27 COURT ST. PHONE 600.
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