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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1919
Page
6
A terse court bearing on a local manufacturing firm is recorded in the Independent Daily News. Details are limited due to fragmented OCR text but indicate a legal action or inquiry involving the company and city authorities. The report underscores ongoing proceedings within the local judiciary.
On December 2 1019 observers note shoppers spend freely while prices rise. Businesses push higher prices when demand remains strong though bargains exist for test grade goods. Some households curb luxury but many suddenly have money and chase diamonds and fine fabrics, fueling a costly shift in living costs.
The Hood College Junior class plans a Christmas bazaar at the old Blue Ribbon Grocery on Went Second Street. It runs Friday Saturday and Monday from 1 pm to 10 pm featuring gifts, candies, cakes, sundaes, sandwiches and cocoa to support the college building fund.
A vintage advertisement touts Pape’s Diapepsin as a quick fix for indigestion and upset stomach. It describes relief from belching, acidity, heartburn, and pains after meals, promising fast action, no disappointment, and low cost.
Snook and Fawcet wed at bride’s mother home on November 22 in Lowstown with reception later. Irene Wivell and Maurice Orndorff wed in Emmitsburg church. Boone Harris and Nellig Harris marry quietly at Mt. Pleasant. Ray and Welty marry at Evangelical Reformed parsonage in Frederick.
Maryland Public Service Commission rules for motor bus operation are contested in circuit court after Stewart A Golsbert and Berkely He Haines were fined five dollars for carrying more than one passenger on the front seat. The defendants argue the commission order is not a legislative act but a mere rule and seek to overturn it. The case recalls a Frederick County thresherman’s similar challenge to the old State Roads Commission over wheel smoothness and notes a later legislative replacement of the order.
William Proctor a colored boy about one year old was arrested by Officer Alexander yesterday on a charge of stealing eggs near Zentz's mill. He confessed his guilt, pleaded to be let off, but Justice Wood remanded him to jail for the criminal court with $250 bail as the grand jury considers the case. He was found in bed at 2 30 in the afternoon by Officer Alexander after Zentz pursued him to Klinehart Alley.
Personal notices report Aa G Preston Whipp visiting relatives in Frederick while K E B Delaplaine and others return from trips. Marriages noted include J Sidney Cates and C L Haller Rhoads. licensing activity at Hagerstown. a Union Bridge hold up. juror drawings for December term. bathing beauties attract crowds at Empire Theatre with Mack Sennett’s Yankee Doodle in Berlin.
Chief Judge James McSherry drew jurors James Harbaugh Bernard Jenkins W Hiteshes for Samuel Dixon Millard Cutler for Joseph Souder Professor G R Sturtevant Kentucky State A and M College son by law of Cyrus G Thomas Frederick had a new wireless system tested in Louisville The Boys High School football team lost 5 to 0 to the Young Americans The Ancient Order of United Workmen met at Alfred Ritters office and named officers Felka Hersh berger Brown Ritter Rice Sappington Chilton Duvail Parsons Sappington Hendrickson Edward Adams returned from a hunting trip with 46 rabbits
The Union Bridge lodge of Masons weighs building a temple if a suitable site is secured. Charles Fox and James Cohen of Frederick along with Charles Wiles of Middletown were each fined $1 for parking on the wrong side of Court Street. A News Help Want Ad will bring results.
A Woodsboro and Frederick Turnpike Company meeting authorized selling $12 per share to Frederick County for the road. County ownership will leave only one toll gate after January 1, the North Market street pike from Frederick to Ceresville with one toll gate. The seven mile road passes through Glade Valley and towns Walkersville and Woodsboro. Officers include P. L. Feiser president and Noah E. Cramer secretary.
Butchering dinner enjoyed by Roy Crum and guests including friends and neighbors from multiple families. Other items note a Baltimore fire destroying McCoy Hall records for Public Athletic League, a lost coat returned in a Woodshoro road incident, and CW Lidle buying a Grace ham Creagerstown area farm from Mrs. John Fisher.
Grayson H. Staley announces the sale of the 147 acre farm near Fulmer's Station, part of Andrew J. Kine estate, to Eldred Smith. The price was not disclosed publicly but is understood to be 16000 dollars.
The Grade Reformed Church Walkersville hosts a song story recital on Tuesday evening at 7 30 by the Women's Bible Class. Maury the Doubter's daughter is the production to be rendered with Miriam Apple of Hood College as reader.
A damaged OCR fragment shows Frederick Maryland banking figures for November 17, 1918 including Loans and Discounts 100140.02, U S Government War Loan Bonds 382446.00, Gold Coin 0.00, Deposits 92707.28, and Liabilities totals with weekly deposits 90000.00 and savings 691664.50. The text lists assets such as stocks securities and reserves and liabilities like undivided profits and contingent interest with partial lines and corrupted words.
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