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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1902
Page
5
Fragmented ad item lists a house for rent and mentions a public sale. Names and details are unreadable, but the readable phrase references a lecture and miscellaneous items linked to an old notice. No clear date, location, or full entities can be extracted.
County correspondence notes Fr. McDonald delivered a very interesting sermon on February 16 using Matthew 4 1 11. Several locals visit relatives in Baltimore Washington and Frederick with family gatherings and illness updates. Loy family medical travel and improvements also mentioned.
Miss Helen Shipley of West Third Street traveled to Washington this morning. Miss Addie Brookey of Washington, who had been visiting relatives in Frederick, has returned. Rev W M McKenney, presiding elder of the Frederick district, is spending a few days in Frederick city and county. Dr William G Boteler returned from Baltimore where he attended Johns Hopkins University anniversary exercises and the inauguration of Professor Remsen. Boteler was among the first class at Johns Hopkins Masonic Temple. Ornamental galvanized iron cornices for the Masonic Temple building have arrived and will be installed when weather allows. The top cornice, about 12 feet high, bears the inscription Masonic Temple. Alphonso Dean, Gay Johnson, Charles Foussine and Frank Brown, sentenced to years in the Maryland penitentiary for statutory breaking and larceny, were taken to the penitentiary by Sheriff Lease this morning.
The funeral of Mrs Catherine Devilbiss who died in Carroll County on Wednesday was held this morning. Interment followed at Lirganore Cemetery in Unionville.
Local market items list prices for corn and wheat with per bushel quotes and a note on discontinuing daily advertising. A tangential remark warns readers that the best time to prepare an advertising campaign is now and to be ready.
Rev James Addison Ingle will be consecrated bishop of Hankow next Monday. Numerous churches announce services and Sunday schools with times, confirmations, revival meetings, and guild events. Notable names include Rev B V Switzer Rev E L McLean Rev Dr Esch bach Rev Dr Lether Euhlmsan and Rev Dr W S McKenrey. The revival at Backeys town M P church continues with several conversions and a Lord's Supper observance tomorrow.
Mr. John Baumgardner visited Hanover on Thursday to press Frederick’s Page foundry venture for the IX-L Water Wheel Works. The Hanover Record notes strong offers including plant enlargement, site for expansion, and financial support. Frederick favors Hanover but will decide after weighing options in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Hanover. Payroll exceeds $1,000 monthly with demand outpacing current labor. Large orders come from Texas, New Mexico, South Dakota, and the Far West.
Isabella Koontz widow of Edward Koontz died at her West Fifth street home yesterday evening from heart failure aged about 70. Survived by four daughters in Virginia and West Virginia and Maryland. Funeral at 3 o clock tomorrow from home with interment at Mt Olivet cemetery.
A long letter from J F Rabardy of Manchester by the Sea praises Frederick city Maryland and its Union loyalists for wartime kindness to a wounded Confederate Army claim. The writer recounts acts at Antietam and Sealedrick, notes Maryland frontier perils, and urges government repayment of war ransom for Frederick’s loyalty.
News from Cestersburg and nearby areas reports local opposition to rural free delivery. A post office opens at Quince Orchard with Newton Rice as postmaster. Flags gifted to Hagerstown public schools by the Junior Order of American Mechanics. Johns Hopkins University marks its 25th anniversary at Music Hall in Baltimore. Smallpox quarantine issued for a South Baltimore woman named Mary Leon. Bishop James A. Latane, former Reformed Episcopal Church leader, dies in Baltimore. Washington Camp Jacob L. Engelbrecht travels to Baltimore for the Maryland Death Benefit Association meeting.
Ice coated wires and fallen branches crippled communications and power. Snow and rain turned streets to slush with ankle deep water in many blocks. Flooding filled basements, a storm damaged a house roof, and trains ran late awaiting telegraph orders. City crews worked to clear debris and restore light after a thaw began to relieve the glice burden.
After adjournment of the Maryland House of Delegates E Lyon Painter and Isaac Lobe Strang clashed near the Speaker's desk with Painter slapping Strang and Strang swinging an umbrella before bystanders separated them. The dispute followed sharp remarks over an Elections Committee report. A Frederick County appeals bill and a Frederick and Jefferson Railway Company incorporation were reported. a Senate bill to ban feeding cattle on a Feagaville Way turnpike passed.
Des Moines Worker notes Dr Sweeney a leading American orator known for lucid witty rhetoric and broad popular appeal. He will speak at the City Opera House Friday evening February 28 as the third BM CO entertainment. A chimney fire at Nicholas Brengle’s house on West Patrick Street caused minor damage of 50 to 55 dollars insured by Frederick County Mutual. Foreman George Wallsee slipped on the roof but injured none.
Washington's Birthday observances were held at the Woman's College chapel with an address by Rev. John K. White on Washington: an Estimate. Miss Fauntleroy read a commemorative ode and musical selections included The Star Spangled Banner and America.
A horse attached to the Adama Express wagon was narrowly injured this morning when Rice and Healler’s truck blocked the space on Market Street. The two horses faced across the street as Dr Winbrener’s truck tried to pass. The end of the truck shaft caught the wagon shaft and the horse was thrown. After effort the animal was extricated.
Auctioneer M D Clabaugh sold at the Court House door at 11 o clock for Jacob Rohrback as signee of mortgagee a house and lot on one street to Rohrback for 50. Charles B Fout with suctioneer sold at the Court House door at 11 16 o clock for C O Keedy and Glenn H Worthington assignees of mortgagee a farm in Urbana district containing 346 acres at 80 56 per acre to James B Dixon.
Notice to property owners to keep gutters open and not shove snow into them. The mayor and city hotel section remind residents of the rule and that streets are impaired, with a postponed birthday party and a lively night planned at the City Hotel with oysters and chicken soup offerings.
A vivid ad style notice advertises a rare muslin bargain in Frederick with 4 thousand yards of New York Mine 44 bleached muslin offered at 9 cents per yard or by the piece, claiming superior quality and urging quick purchase as cotton prices are expected to rise. The piece also promotes shirts, union suits, blankets, veils, and other goods, plus a travel notice and local services.
A meeting at the company office reported improvements in Frederick county and Baltimore work. Frederick and Ballinger Creek Fikes Company directors elected George W. Smith Charles E Zimmerman Albert Zimmerman George E Smith Howard L. Smith. Also notes on Mr George W Malhorn and a progress update for long distance lines to Baltimore Wilmington Westminster and other points reaching over 15 700 phones.
A fragmented weather verse links St Matthias Day to cold and ice with couplet rhymes about Saint Meddex and ice, hinting at a stern winter. The text muddily references plans, home life, dialing a county phone line, and casual social exhortations amid garbled phrases.
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