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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1911
Page
3
Local notes report visits across multiple towns including Harpers Ferry Walkersville and Woodsboro. Families such as the Angleberger Holtz and Barrick clans figure, with church services planned at Zion Reformed and St Luke's Lutheran. A future move to Marion Alabama and a shooting match at Broomfield are also mentioned alongside illness recoveries.
Madame Sherry the musical comedy sensation from New York brings its hit at the City Opera House for one performance tonight. The show, after long Chicago success and New York acclaim, draws eager crowds amid the appeal of its lively score and chorus numbers led by the popular My Latte Movement.
A long list of local residents and relatives share visits and travels. Mrs Archie Thomas visits Bruns wick with her father Mr C N Trundle. Mr and Mrs John Zimmerman visit Chestnut Grove. Nora Hargett returns from Boyds. Families from Frederick, Pearl, Waynesboro and Emmitsburg are noted with Sunday gatherings and trips to see relatives. Minor health updates include Bernice Myers improving and Ruth Shook improving from a cough. A teen cat named Ben dies. A postponed church event is rescheduled for February.
The State Board of Public Works sold $1,000,000 in road bonds dated February 7 1911 to Rhoades & Co of New York at 3.5 percent. All or nothing bids from several bidders were recorded but the successful sale wrote checks to the state in under 15 minutes. Bonds redeemable after February 1 1923 and due by February 1 1928. Other bids included White & Co Baltimore Trust Co and J Wilton & Co among others, with varied totals.
The national Daughters of the American Revolution board met in Washington at Continental Memorial Hall. President General Mrs Scott said the Continental Memorial Hall project is in flourishing condition and nearly $300,000 mortgage is secured. The Riggs National Bank’s Charles C. Glover aided negotiations with Norcroes Dros of Norfolk Virginia. A memorial hall committee was formed with a subcommittee to assess the project.
A Paris audience near the Fote Conde heard accounts from Lourdes pilgrims claiming cures from heart trouble cancer and other ailments after water baths and prayers. Speakers described numerous recoveries among men and women with doctors testifying to several cases while many attendees lined the aisles to share their experiences.
A crew member, Adaie Clatchier, mate of the Ooster bugese Trovealh, was injured in a mutiny on the vessel last Saturday. He lies in serious condition at Mravideie TloRoadsel in Washington after an operation. He is the son of Mrs. Mary Chinehier and suffered a skull depression and a deep head wound, with paralysis on his left side. A New York syndicate outbid Baltimoreans for stale read bonds.
Maryland state items report politicians clashing over council seats in Hagerstown, and Cardinal Gibbons traveling to Philadelphia. Cumberland volunteers dispute a gas theory, while Maryland College for Women plans classes in cottages after a fire. A hotel mortgage is recorded, and Joseph Merrick faces trial for his wife’s murder at Brown’s country home last year. Groundhog Day observations noted. high officials urged to obtain Maryland licenses. Two railroad workers injured in a Blaine WV collision.
From November 3 to 12, 1911, the world’s largest land and irrigation exposition will be held at Madison Square Garden to educate farmers, home seekers, investors, and students about land opportunities in the Middle West, Pacific slope, and South. Milwaukee’s Gustave Pabst donates a $1500 prize cup for best barley crop, aiming to raise quality. St Paul’s James J Hill donates a similar cup for the best wheat bushel.
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