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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1893
Page
3
A fragmentary page shows shops and venues including Mulliniz Kemp Stewart's Bazar City Opera House Haller's Restaurant A L Kline D B Seaith and Smith's Temple of Fancy with various goods and notices. References to yes indeed and crack a day indicate advertising tone and mixed storefronts across unnamed locales.
A flood of coupons and orders for Parts I and II of the World’s Fair Art Portfolio arrived yesterday. On Saturday afternoon the parts will be ready for delivery. Buyers who hold coupons may send in three coupons and ten cents for one part. The 32 parts total 256 full-page illustrations.
Organists and choir masters who have arranged Christmas music are urged to send their programs immediately to confer a favor on the publication.
Purely personal items note Harry Lakin and Stewart Dean home from Westminster College. Several others return for holidays including Miss Mamie Hoke from Woman's College and Chas. Birely from Yale. Also listed are Mr. Samuel Westerman visiting friends, Mrs. Geo L Wilson improving from pneumonia, and James Dugan as Westminster guest.
The notes report several local residents improving or sick with diphtheria influenza and scarlet fever including C F Fleming Lafayette Norris Marion Warrenfeltz and Mrs Mary Thomas. A joke at Graf House room No 20 ends with blood on the moon as a man retrieves a stuck door key. Hood's Sarsaparilla is recommended as the best blood purifier.
The death warrant for William Leonard arrived for Sheriff Zimmerman who planned to read the message to the condemned man this afternoon or evening. Leonard, informed yesterday that his execution date was set, showed agitation and asked about the warrant while hoping to avoid the scaffold.
The private school run by Miss Bettle Thomas on West Third Street closed for Christmas holidays after a lively program of songs dialogues and recitations. The crowd included many parents as students led with cross bearing entries and a ringing church prayer by Rev A J Gill.
Hotel arrivals list shows guests from multiple states and cities. Names include Crrzz Horen W R Kunkles Mz Airy HI Wingert D M Buckingham Geshard Philadelphia E H Stuntz Harrisburg A K Wood Virginia C H Gardner York J B Frenes BH B Brinkerholt H Astors J a McComa Thos Burgar Baltimore C M Greinesir New York B Jamison Washington E C Churchill Boston with counts 22 and 35 from county and city respectively.
Parity Lodge 245 held a regular meeting with good attendance One candidate was initiated Jacob L Engelbrecht was elected reporter for the official organ the Good Templars Guide Temperance Sentiment Members grow more enthusiastic Crystal Spring Temple will meet tonight with an initiation planned and several business items on the agenda worth noting.
Real estate transfers listed include Jonas Urner transferring property in Frederick County to James A. Fisher for 8830 dollars. Fresh Knott and Mary Y. to John T. Martin for property in Brunswick at 1050 dollars. Wm H Smith and Sophia to Frederick Stotlemyer for an acre of land priced at 5 dollars.
Mr Zacharias opened a ten lecture series on Roman archaeology under Sr Pauls Guild at St Pauls House Baltimore. He shows Italian collected antiquities including inscriptions urns frieze pieces from Domitian palace and a tomb inscription from a Hamitan officer. He studied in Berlin and Rome and traces St Jerome life in Rome and Bethlehem.
Obituaries report Mrs Ann Hudson dying at Ellicott City aged years. Funeral of Wm T Mc Cauley at Ellicott City. Tri State Medical Association met in Cumberland. Shaw dwelling and barn burned near Cambridge. Hancock bank movement advances. A Washington boy injured after falling from a B&O train near Hancock. Funeral of sailor Wm Churchill who broke neck at Annapolis. Fern steamer supplied Naval Academy then departed for Washington. Cadet Michael J McCormack elected captain of Naval Academy Football Team. Farmer Lewis Shaseffer dies at Cranberry Valley aged 70. Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Alumni Banquet held. Northern dealers bought 160000 bushels of corn at Centreville at 38 cents. Levi Gibson arrested in Cecil County for an assault and battery. sent to Wilmington. Chief Engineer Ives to be stationed at Hancock for railroad completion. Talbot election contest: Lincoln emblem explained amid vote head placement.
The Christmas wreath in the window signals belief in the present and hope for the future. It consoles a wayward son by showing a home filled with joy and goodwill. The evergreen and red star symbolize hope, encouragement, and the angels’ message of peace on earth.
The Reformed church at Adeanstown in this county under Rev. L M Motter was consecrated with services last Sunday. Rev. H F Dittmar preached the sermon and former pastors Revs S Miller NM H Skyies and A J Heller participated. Daily services were held all week with visiting pastors and the Church Aid and Missionary Society met Sunday night with remarks by Heller Skyles and Waisler. The church is a credit to the congregation and its former pastors.
A reporter on West Paste Street observes a crowd gathered before the Gem. Inside, Old Santa Claus appears to have chosen the right place for his headquarters as he beckons to onlookers outside.
Mr. Noah E. Cramer sold the Mil ton and McDaniel farm in Mt. Pleasant district to David K. Cramer for 13000 dollars.
The new reservoir leaks badly with water running into a field owned by Mr Stoner and flooding his cellar and surrounding areas. The article notes Rochester lamps reduced to 36 with silk shades at Jobo Eisenhauer's.
The Board of Aldermen met Wednesday night and tallied monthly finances with hay scales 28 dollars cattle scales 8 dollars market collections 1605 dollars stands and stalls 15 dollars and total 7505 dollars. Bills were referred to the claims committee and others approved for payment including Brengle Lerch Groshon and Price. A resolution granted free use of the City Opera House to St John’s Sunday School on December 27 1893.
A double wedding feature opens with Miss Elmira Coblentz and John C Renn tying vows at the Coblentz home near Middletown with Rev Beard officiating. About 100 guests attend a 2 PM ceremony and reception, followed by a honeymoon trip to Washington and Philadelphia. A second quiet ceremony unites Grayson M Crumbaugh and Alice C Higgs at 2:20 PM with immediate friends present, then travels by train to Baltimore and Washington. Upcoming nuptials include Lillie M Everhart and David Lowry on December 26 at the bride’s home, and Henry T Remsburg and Bertie Koogie to wed the following Wednesday with a reception planned.
The proposed Farce Finnigan’s Bail by Geo. B. Emerick is presented by Cane dians Murray and Mack with a plot of Finnigan and Casey lovers, mistaken letters, and elopement rumble culminating at the depot. A Christmas afternoon and night engagement promises fine audiences with the Bentztown Bard and dancers. The Juniors Fire Company also reports death notice resolutions for John Lewis Holmes and notes many recent memberships. Syrup of Figs is recommended as a family laxative.
Mrs Gen Tom Thumb and her Liliputian company visit for a two day engagement at the Opera House on December 28 and 29 with a new musical show The Rivals and Gulliver Among the Lilipatians. The 14 member cast includes Count Magri and Baron Magri and admission is 10 20 and 2 cents with nightly program changes. Also listed are road supervisors who qualified as rad supervisors since yesterday.
The late Baker Johnson died in Louisiana on Sunday last. He was a Middletown valley native, born on the Johnson homestead now owned by P. Hanson Bussard, Esq. Johnson left the county years ago and lived near New Orleans for about 40 years. He was a great uncle of Baker J. Lamar of Urbana and Thomas Thrasher of Jefferson, an uncle of Robert Ridgely of Harmony, and brother of Mrs. Cornelia Darrow of East Second Street.
Judge William Pinkney Maulsby of Westminster, a Freder ick former citizen, visited New York to attend Columbia College Alumni Banquet where he formerly graduated. He also joined a reception honoring historian Professor Fiske, with Maulsby as a central figure.
The News thanks Afr. Wm M. Crimmins recording secretary of the Maryland State Firemen’s Association for a copy of the Proceedings of the First Annual Convention of the M. F. A. held at Frederick June 7 and 8 1893. The pamphlet summarizes the association’s work to date.
At Jobo W Morris Diamonds crowds fill the store from morning till night boasting the largest stock yet seen in Frederick. Diamonds range from 500 to 200 with many other diamond items and novelties. The ad notes 25 cent tool chests to 78 cent, touts sales, and urges early attendance before a planned grand receiving Saturday.
Local notices touts bargain prices at various shops including Temple of Fancy and Brunswick delegations. Advertisements highlight organs at low prices, early oyster stock, dressed poultry orders for before December 22, and solid gold jewelry sales at sacrifice. Stores named include 18 South Market Street and 173 West Patrick Street.
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