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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1906
Page
3
The notice directs Taz News subscribers planning to move to send the new address to the office. It emphasizes updating residence information to ensure prompt and proper transfer.
Purely personal paragraphs list residents and visitors including Mrs Mary Hays returning to Barnesville and Miss Fiossis Nellinger visiting relatives in the city. It covers travels to Westminster Nashville Washington Baltimore and New York with many returns home and social visits among families and local schools.
Tas mayor and Aldermen met with architect Whit son to review proposed opera house alterations. Changes include lowering the main floor to street level, a new gallery, four boxes, enlarged stage with new dressing rooms, and a rebuilt market house behind the building. Estimated cost around 10,000, with financing via borrowing and rental income.
Week’s record from Circuit and Orphans’ Court through February 28 1906 shows multiple property deeds including transfers in Frederick and county real estate with prices listed across numerous parcels. Also includes marriage licenses in Point of Rocks Frederick and Brokeystown and probate filings for estates with wills and bonds.
Obituaries note Albert Riehl dead in Cumberland from a rabbit bite by a cat. Governor Warffald bans Friday execution of Isaac Wincer. Captain Charles Archivainna of Cambridge elected to the National Geographic Society, with HQ in Washington. Local sick lists and a Darnestown Baseball Club organized for the season with Griffith as manager and Gassaway as captain. The City Opera House hosts The Heart of Ireland, a well known comedy with a strong company and band. Nellis Bollman seeks absolute divorce from Charles A. Bollman, married 1904 Frederick, separated 1904.
A George Washington surprise party for Mr. and Mrs. Aldridge at East Third Street featured a floral dining room and refreshments after social games and music. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Aldridge, their guests, and local friends, with a second surprise event noted for the Kilman guest at Aquasco House on February 26.
Local brief notes report the death of Mr. Frank Mayne on East Sixth Street. A YMCA course entertainment at Woman’s College Halls on March 6 features S. J. Bannett’s Old Homestead Quartette and reader Miss Lillian Crane, previously scheduled for February 2 but postponed.
Prince E. L. Sard the well known horse from Frederick was sold at auction in Hagerstown to Mike Elmore for 525 dollars. The horse had previously traded in Frederick County for a lot of potatoes and changed hands several times at moderate prices before its true value was realized.
Mr. O. Martz Dail is named manager of the local Western Union Telegraph Company office succeeding the late Wm. M Crimmirs. Dail has fifteen years of service and his appointment recognizes his faithfulness and efficiency, pleasing many friends.
Delegates report unfavorably on Luckey’s bill to repeal Shoemaker Road Law while favoring Dr Bill’s highway project between Baltimore and Washington using inmate labor. A Frederick delegation seeks 4500 dollars for an Emergency Hospital appropriation. trials include aliases Pacbas and Fraley found not guilty, and a Brunswick liquor case verdict of not guilty.
A county correspondence item lists visits and guests across Howard County towns including James M. Rice in town, Thoms M. Waltz visiting his son, and Mrs. J W Angell returning to Baltimore. It notes Miss Nancie Reich plans a Baltimore visit, Louis Burgess breaking an arm in a fall, and Mt Osrmel Church’s formation service. Also reported are dances in Ijamsville, poultry and building projects in Sjimsville, and visits among Frederick, Araby, Pearl, Monrovia, and Sjimsville residents.
G Waring Tyson's market quotes for today show corn at 2.15 per barrel shelled 43 cents per bushel. Wheat prices listed as No 3 red 6 cents per bushel and 650 per bushel for steamer. 602 per bushel damaged Oss 30 cents per bushel.
William A Cramer of Walkersville received 150 dollars from International Harvester Company of America as first prize for doing the greatest business for 1905. Say you saw it in The News.
A historical note records an organization with capital surplus of 250000 and officers including J A Baker as president Wil Baker as vice president B O Baker as vice president W G Zimmerman and Samuel G Duvall as cashiers. Additional names such as Gro Wu Sub 4 C Bares Jouver Jxo C More U Hanger Jo an5 RaMences are listed among members.
State Entomologist Thomas B. By mona issues guidance to Maryland orchardists. He urges annual dormant lime sulfur and salt wash as the cheapest effective remedy and provides preparation steps and application timing before budbreak. The notice stresses legal duty to treat or destroy infestations and notes enhanced results with higher sulfur and lime concentrations on badly infested trees.
Advertises low prices on corsets, bust shaping garments, white batiste, bone fittings, and girdles. Promotes new umbrellas, men and women wear including silk warp fabrics, kid gloves, and white suede options. Highlights prices from 5c to 3.90 and notes spring buying for ladies and misses.
Letters from Tus News readers discuss upcoming Farmers' Institutes in Buckeystown Frederick and Myersville in March. The writer praises the events and laments the county's limited appropriation preventing six per year while urging open discussion and attentive listening.
A major blaze gutted the No.2 machine shops and general cruise building at Bethlehem Steel Company in South Bethlehem Pa damaging the four story office block 200 by 60 feet. Loss estimated near 75000 with vault contents and military designs destroyed. Fire reportedly started in a dining cafe kitchen and quickly engulfed the structure. Major Goldsboroughs son Ralston reported he moved instruments and papers before the fire. Deputy Sheriff Alexander also reported the sentencing of Aunis Butler to four years in Maryland Penitentiary for statutory breaking and larceny.
An 1906 local notice promotes Dr G W Hines eye consultations in Frederick Maryland with hours March 1 2 and 3. It also advertises Osprion Ortical Os in Washington DC and lists Osteopathy services by Dr E G Schmid in the Citizens Bank Building. It mentions a new Custom Shirt Department and orders for Osprion Ortical products.
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