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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1900
Page
4
The Saturday News promises a larger edition with local and general news plus features. Highlights include A Mexican Tragedy, Captive of Indians, The Soldier of Today, special illustrated articles, and sections for ladies farmers and Sunday school lessons. Also notes regular letters, trade reviews, and a local market update.
Georgia and Tennessee branches endorse Mrs Donald McLean of New York for the national DAR president general post. A Georgia meeting adopted a resolution praising her services and urging unity among chapters to secure unanimous nomination, with similar support rising in other states.
Dr B Merril Hopkinson, a bass baritone, performed with violinist Edwin L Turnbull at the Woman's College. Robert L Haslup accompanied at the Brown Memorial Church. The program featured dramatic pieces including Von Fielitz’s Eliland de picting and Pagliacci prologue, with strong praise for Hopkinson’s interpretation and for Turnbull and Haslup’s contributions.
The First Reformed Church on Calvert Street Baltimore marks its 150th anniversary with a jubilee sermon by Rev. Dr. E R Eschbach. The piece details the church’s historical locations from 1750 to its present site since 1865 and notes Rev. Dr. Joel T. Rossiter’s 26 years of leadership. Westminster House seeks a modern postoffice building due to increased postal business from wagon delivery in Carroll County. The Black Diamond Express at City Opera House features Devere and Victor in a sensational rail drama with strong performances, and OC N Hauer of The Buffalo reports receiving a shipment of wild game from West Virginia.
On December 3 the Yasan M El church in Washington DC hosted a reception for Rev Page Milburn and wife celebrating twenty years of marriage. The event featured a decorated dining room, greetings from congregants, and the aged父 of the bride William R Woodward attending after a period of illness.
Tonight Mr Alexander Ashley a recording steward presented the pastor and his wife with a purse of 20 dollars in gold. Milburn family attended the reception from Dickinson College and the Woman's College of Baltimore. Out of town guests included Miss May Bell McIntyre and Miss Annie Harding.
Congressman Pearre pledges support for the Groat Bill to protect farmers and dairymen from oleomargarine fraud. John E Price reports a letter from Geo. A. Peanns noting prior enforcement of Maryland's 1888 act, convictions in Allegany County, and ongoing commitment to passage of the bill against oleomargarine trading.
Grand Lodge of Maryland held its annual session at Kemptown with large audiences. Officers elected include Rev. B. P. Treitt G O T R and Anna Russell G S Juvenile Templar. Delegates were entertained by Remptown Lodge. County Commissioners ratified a Fisher Hill road exam and planned a new Emmitsburg road with a Wednesday site visit. Modern Mother advert promotes Syrup of Figs as the laxative from California Fig Syrup Co.
A Maryland meeting featured papers on school examiners and rural school consolidation. Speakers argued a resident examiner benefits boards, while consolidation could cut costs, transport students, and improve efficiency with limited travel distances.
Highlights include Boonsboro tax fixed at 50 cents per $100, winter draw-off of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal around December 13, and deaths of Union veteran John Michael Carver in Hancock and Charles O’Carroll, longtime B&O ticket agent at College Park. Cecil county circuit court term begins Monday, with a brief note on Harford county debating manual training, and a fatal train strike in Westport. Other items: death of Oliver S. Horsey, school reforms, a Baltimore City resolution on the old customs house dome, a fatal beating of Elizabeth Simpson, and a bigamy arrest of Robert Harrison Wilson in Westminster Baltimore.
Services preparatory to communion will be held in the Presbyterian church this evening and tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and a Feast of Obligation. mass will be said at St John's at 5 45, 7 and a.m. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal will be drained about the 15th, closing the canal for the season. Many repairs will be made after water is drawn off. G M D Clabaugh, auctioneer, will sell at the Court House door the rest estate of Mrs Clara E Chew, including a double brick dwelling and horse on Carroll street extended.
A marriage is announced between McClintock Yi of Frederick City Maryland and Ragliah of New York City. The couple’s union formalizes a cross city connection reflecting social ties of the era.
Diplomatic relations between Holland and Portugal are severed amid protests and minister resignations. The text notes possible revocation and a property sale related to Jesse Krieg in bankruptcy, with details to be announced later in Adams town on an upcoming Friday in December.
Local items advertise social dances at Junior Hailey Hall on December 2, a Dr Wm c Boteler eye clinic, wearing spectacles by the Hendersonwood Antidep Hot Air method for throat and ear diseases, and a window display at Doll's. Christmas openings, tailoring services, jewelry sales, and holiday railroad fare to Washington with limited return, plus a Grand Celebration tied to the Capitol.
Early Christmas shopping saves money and pleasure. The Carpet Room advertises holiday displays with Lambrequins for pianos or chantels in Japanese silk, embroidered options, tassel fringe, and silks by the yard. New rugs in every kind and size are offered, promising unique assortments and careful presentation.
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