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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1894
Page
3
An essay extols advertising as essential across professions. It argues that quick, powerful messaging keeps a business before the public, with newspaper ads best for broad reach at low cost. It cites an eminent Chicago artist and urges timely copy submission for Tax Ward News.
Purely personal items list social visits and arrivals including Mrs Fremont Hill of Chicago returning after a trip to Hager, Mr David Lowenstein and Mrs Rothenberger, Milas Nannie Goldsborough coming home from New York and Hartford, Miss Helen Caraln returning from Washington, Mrs Chas Rosa Jr back from visit to her mother, E S Houck and W K Key in Woortsboro, William Hammond visiting Montgomery County, and Chas BE Barfoot resigning from Frederick Fight and Lower Company with Dudley Page succeeding him.
Ex Governor Uden Howls dies at his Fairview residence in Bowie Dean. Reports say the veteran official passed away this morning as the society mourns a long career in public service. A death notice indicates the event occurred in a private home setting with immediate family present. Further details on funeral arrangements were not released.
The regular quarterly meeting of the Jmator and United Fire Companys adjourned with nine new members elected and officers named. E Koontz as president and a slate including vice presidents, a treasurer, and a secretary were proposed, along with committees and a future plan to discuss fire station telegraph needs. The United Fire Company followed with nominations for president, secretary, treasurer, and directors, detailing foremen, engineers, and various officer roles. Local hotel arrivals and town notes complete the scene, with temperance talk and community notices filling the rest of the page.
The Bulletin records a Thanksgiving week at Moepyland Institute for the Deaf with visits from G A Clark and others, Thanksgiving chapel led by C R Ely, a Yale Princeton game trip, and an afternoon of amusements including an auction sale led by W R Barry.
Largely attended meeting at Post hall West Church street last evening marked by annual inspection. Baltimore delegates Inspector Alfred Cooper and Alexander Briscoe praised Post commandant P M Bader. After the meeting, a public collation and war-song program followed with remarks by Deputy Commander M J Rose and others, Antietam Camp No 8 in attendance.
The court postponed the hearings of William Smith and Frank Bubilling on charges of taking a robe from a buggy due to a missing key witness. The hearing will resume at 2 PM on Saturday afternoon.
The Key Monument Association plans a monthly meeting at the Y.M.C.A. rooms tonight at 7 30. The fundraising operetta The Tyrolean Queen will be produced December 10 and 11 to aid the monument fund. ticket sales opened this morning and were brisk.
Fragments describe Samuel Wolf of the county being crushed while building a stone fence near Cumberland. He fell into a ditch with a plank on him, badly bruised and with a fractured right arm. His brother John Wolf and Frederick Jonctson were noted, with Wolf well known in Cumberland for years of work.
The text appears as garbled OCR about agricultural products, nutritional items, and farm supplies. It references spring wheat, medicines, and household needs with numerous misspellings and missing context, lacking clear events or names.
The parlor of the F C A was filled for the regular monthly meeting with W C Birdly presiding. Reports from religious, invitation, reception and membership committees showed progress. An evening program featured readings, music, a debate on federal ownership of railroads, and a vocal solo. Attendance at Sunday gospel services grew, and plans were made to recruit new members for January.
The annual Thanksgiving social dance in Martinsburg was postponed but finally held Friday night at the new opera house drawing a large crowd of young people. Chaperones included Mrs Boyd Faulkner and Mrs N D Baker among others. attendees named include Eliza Kemper and Mary Sefton with a long list of Martinsburg and surrounding area youths and guests. The feature also mentions a Whist Club gathering, a new Elkina Presbyterian Church costing 35000, and various social events and notices in the community.
The passage discusses December as the cold, dark month of burial and death, yet also a time of resurrection and renewal. Ward Boucher praises winter’s end bringing spring, death giving life, and life returning as winter breaks into spring. The text frames December as a period of contrast, gloom, and eventual hope.
The article lists diverse 1895 items from bonds and court plans to personal misfortunes and local politics. It covers state treasurer reports, a marriage dissolution, a garoline steamer scheme, courthouse costs, clergy changes, a bank theft trial, mutual fire insurers, and railway bond requirements. It notes a suicide at Cecil County Insane Asylum and political party debates in Harford and Annapolis areas. The piece ends with a note on the July 1895 county officers primary date.
The health report shows 18 interments and 12 deaths in November with age breakdowns and several contagious diseases reported. Railway traffic on the Haltimore and Ohio line rose as students and workers travel home after Thanksgiving. The Maryland Temperance Alliance adopted anti-prohibition resolutions and pledged opposition to violation of certain laws. Bahen, Georgetown football alumnus, died from injuries suffered in a Thanksgiving game. Salvation Army to host a musical Niagara event after an open air square gathering.
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