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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1911
Page
3
Letters from readers recap local social rounds in Libertytown Maryland with arrivals, visits, weddings, illnesses, and church events. Highlights include Dr. C A Norwood traveling to Waynesboro PA and numerous residents hosting relatives from Baltimore Washington and York with church services and a community musicale.
New fall shoes arrive showcasing high toe models in multiple variations. Styles include straight and swing lasts with short vamps offering diverse shaping.
A sequence of short social items mentions Mrs. Marshal Bell hosting and visiting friends in Keymar, Waynesboro and Thurmont. Mr George Hartsock and daughter Julia return from Waynesboro Pa, Dessie Strine visits from Frederick, P A Richardson and family tour with Marie Stough to Rocky Ridge, and many other local visits and gatherings around Frederick County.
Mrs Paul Slifer of Hagerstown visits her uncle Mr and Mrs William Hightman. Mrs Hilen Sikearn and Master Charles Haydon spend Thursday in Frederick. Mrs Mary Gaver visits Middletown and Jefferson. Miss Edith Uightmain and Miss Falna Uightmain return from Tiroad to Fun. William Hightman and daughter in Angerstown. Millard Arnold visits Needwood with Luther Pry family. George and Pearl Wo R visit Florence Luts near Middletown. Elizabeth Magaha of Point of Rocks visits aunt Mrs Fred Barger. Lutheran service scheduled next Sunday at 10 30 AM.
Mr and Mrs Howard Collistoner have returned from a Pennsylvania visit and expressed pleasure with the trip Miss Rena Smith has returned home near Frederick after a stay with her brother WE Smith Miss Alleene Grove of Waynesboro is visiting her cousin Miss Esther Firor Mr Howard Colliflower of Wood- completes the snippet with social notes from Graceham residents
An advertisement promotes a scalp treatment claiming baldness is a scalp disease and that existing remedies only offer temporary relief. It details ZEMO and ZEMO SOAP as Germ-killing cleansers, with Williamson Drug Store in Frederick listed as the local agent via J. A. Williamson on North Market Street.
Fredericksonian J Paul Brown, son of James Brown of Longanore Hills, details a Penn State forestry student's summer in Montana near Anaconda. He describes snow, cold, and rugged work marking and sealing timber, handling logs by scale, and traveling via an unusual 20 mile flume to the Pacific. He notes abundant wildlife and the dangers of the high mountain environment.
Purely personal notes list visitors and travelers in Frederick and nearby towns. Names include Mrs A M Landauer visiting, Mr W N Jolliffe away on business, Fred Yount of Newton NC traveling to Frederick, George M Gittiger on a Newark trip, Johns Abbott and Henry Abbott visiting Middletown, and many others visiting or returning home from Baltimore Washington Clarksville and Atlantic City trips with family ties noted on West South and East Second streets.
A charity fete hosted by Mrs J H Markey at Braddock Heights last night supported Frederick City Hospital. Rain moved the event indoors from a planned lawn setting. Ice cream cake and candy were served while grab bag profits were poor. A large local crowd attended though inclement weather kept many Frederick residents away. Funds will fund a new hospital laundry and nurses home.
The article notes martins have begun their southward flight early signaling an early winter. Forecasters compare their behavior to groundhog predictions and say snow could arrive in October. Previous patterns showed snow around mid October, with a light snowfall late October.
Rev Dr Charles W Windigler of Washington proposes a brick $15,000 clinic on Jefferson Boulevard Braddock Heights near Dean Place to treat nervous disorders using osteopathic and Emmanuel movement methods. The project aims to aid patients through suggestion and physical therapy, with no tuberculosis sanatorium planned per land deed. Windigler, a former pastor of a large Capital church, is well known in the area and anticipates attracting many city patients for treatment in the new sanatorium-style facility.
A vintage advertisement claims deafness from inflammation of the Eustachian tubes can be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It offers $100 for cases not helped, cites the product from Cheney Co of Toledo and urges readers to try the remedy and accompanying pills.
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