Y M C A Campaign Set for Week January 17
Frederick aims to double Y M C A membership with a week long campaign led by J D Vanscoten from Washington. Secretary Harris returns to supervise, plans include 15 teams of ten, a supper opening the drive, and fixed territories to avoid duplication while the building closes to the public during the effort. Also notes civil suits and Ox Fibre Brush Works resuming after stock taking.
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Washington
C. K. Harris
J. D. Vanscoten
Frederick
Vanscoten
Regimental league sets basketball games next week
Final plans outline a regimental basketball league with teams from First Regiment firms. Major Markey reports Major Hugh A. Riley has supplied the rules. Groups of three teams play in armories, with a board of governors led by Major Markey guiding the competition.
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Markey
Hugh A. Riley
Annapolis
Frederick
Hagerstown
Silver Spring
Granville J. Roderick Dies After Breakfast at Montevue
Granville J. Roderick of near Brunswick died at Montevue after an apparent heart attack. He had eaten breakfast, was walking about, then sat on a bed edge and collapsed. Survived by a son in Cumberland a brother in the West another in West Virginia and relatives in Frederick. Funeral set for Thursday at ten with burial at Montevue.
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Granville J. Roderick
Montevue
Mr. Roderick
Brunswick
Cumberland
West
West Virginia
Frederick
Funeral Services Report From Frederick Hospital Tragedy
The day’s notices list Arrabelle Lear dying from burns suffered while playing with fire on Monday. Her funeral is set for tomorrow, with interment in Greencastle. Also noted are the funerals of Maria Hammond Johnson, Abram P. Castle, Fannie F. Gladhill, and details of arrangements led by Thomas P. Rice and M. R. Etchison.
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Arrabelle Lear
Frederick City Hospital
Greencastle
Josephine Frank
Willam Lear
East Seventh Street
Thomas P. Rice
Maria Hammond Johnson
East Second Street
Douglass Hoof
All Saints Church
William Crawford Johnson
Hammond Urner
Glenn H. Worthington
Richard Potts
Mt. Olivet
Abram P. Castle
Jefferson
W.S. Gerhard
Reformed Church
George Abler
Lutheran Church
Axa B. Renn
Lee Ranneberger
Millard F. McBride
Roy W. Zimmerman
Harry N. Zimmerman
John T. Bussard
Fannie FE. Gladhill
Jacob F. Gladhill
Union Bridge
Northern Central
Charles Rhoads
Schaeffer Rhoads
Oscar Rhoads
Vernon Rhoads
Chas. Wertheimer
William C. Neidig
C. C. Carty
Fraud claims surge in Washington County election contest
Democratic Sheriff candidate David Gossard and County Tax Collector hopeful Worthington P. Wachter filed a contest as Republicans Isaac S. Long and John B. Flemting seek to discard Boonsboro district ballots. Republicans accuse exhausted election judges of summoning replacements to finish the count. Wachter, a native of Walkersville, Frederick County, formerly resided in Frederick.
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David Gossard
Worthington P. Wachter
Washington County
Isaac S. Long
John B. Flemting
Boonsboro
Gossard
Wachter
Mr. Wachter
Frederick County
Walkersville
Pennsylvania Railroad reports third year without passenger fatality
The Pennsylvania Railroad announced that 361 572 114 passengers were carried over two years with no passenger deaths from train accidents east of Pittsburgh. About 2 500 000 passenger trains operated in that period. Pillow Day planned for January 6 1916 with Red Cross campaign to collect pillows and feather beds to send to the European War Hospital via Mrs John W Garrett of Paris and Mrs T Harrison Garrett of Baltimore. Westminster mayor David E Walsh resigns to join BuPont Powder Company in Hopewell Va as superintendent. Councillor Howard F E Koontz acts as mayor until May.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pittsburgh
Maryland Red Cross Auxiliary
John W. Garrett
Paris
War Hospitale
Europe
T. Harrison Garrett
Arundel Club
Charles Street
Baltimore
Westminster
David E. Walsh
Bu Pont Powder Company
Hopewell
Howard FE. Koontz
Walsh
New Sons Muster in at Hagerstown Camp
Rena Post Sons of Union Veterans is mustered in by Division Commander R H Miller and staff in Hagerstown. Also an advertisement for Walls Catarrh Cure claims to cure catarrh, with sensational testimonials and a Toledo Ohio ad notice.
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Rena Post
Sons of Union Veterans
Hagerstown
R. H. Miller
Hall
Cree Food
Cheney & CO. Toleda
Obie
Drvegieta
Changes in Force of B and C Announce Major Promotions
Important changes are announced in the operating staff of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad effective this week. Averett becomes general manager in charge of New York properties. Keegan moves to Chicago division. Jackespan transfers to Chicago. Stevens named Newark division superintendent. Lechilder becomes River Terminal manager in Cleveland. Grern and Hoot receive promotions in Wheeling division.
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Cfective
Wol Averet
Wheeling
W. Va
New York
Mr. Averell
J. F. Keegan
Chicago
Garrett
Ind
Ohio
Stevens
Monongahela
Grafton
Newark
Hugh Wilson
Baltimore
W. OT. Lechilder
Cleveland
H. T. Grern
J. W. Hoot
Plant At Niagara Falls Closes For Visitor Ban
Fear of pro-German plotters to destroy upriver power plants leads to visitor ban at the Niagara Falls facility. Walter H. McDaniel, once of Frederick, now works for the company. Order tied to grand jury findings in New York about plots to blow plants on both sides of the river. duration depends on circumstances. McDaniel works on the Canadian side.
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Niagara Falls
Walter H. MecDaniel
Frederick
Federal Grand Jury
New York
Plata
Niagara River
McDannel
Commencement Exercises Held at Boonsboro Sunday
The Teachers' Training Class of the Lutheran Sunday school at Boonsboro held commencement exercises Sunday night. Leo Weinberg of the Frederick bar delivered the address, stressing the home and Sunday school role in shaping child morals and spiritual truths. The speech was described as masterful and one of the most impressive in the community.
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Lutheran Sunday School
Boonsboro
Leo Weimberg
Therederick Bar I
Lijerstown Herald
Leo Weinberg
Frederick
Middletown Tax Rate Reduced to 35 Cents
At the regular Middletown mayor and commissioners meeting last night the tax rate was cut from forty to thirty five cents, likely the lowest in Frederick county. A $200 sinking fund was added, and a $325 waterworks superintendent salary was replaced by on demand services. The town's taxable basis is about $390,000 with an estimated income around $12,650. Officials listed include Mayor George L. Doub and commissioners Leslie W. Gaver George C. Rhoderick Dr. R. V. Hauver S. Leslie Shafer and Rev J. R. Ridenour.
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Mit- Meetown
Frederick County
Middletown
George L. Doub
Leslie W. Gaver
George C. Rhoderick
R. V. Hauver
Leslie Shafer
J. R. Ridenour
George Huffer
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