Pair Held on Abduction and Carnal Knowledge Charge
A 20-year-old man, Edgar M. Welty, was arrested with Dorothy E. Wastler, 13, near Creagerstown. Welty is jailed in Frederick County on $5,000 bail awaiting the September grand jury after abduction and unlawful carnal knowledge charges filed by the girl’s father. Police say she will be 14 in October. Welty’s age is listed as 20.
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Dorothy E. Wastler
Charles C. Wastler
Creagerstown
Edgar M. Welty
Frederick County
Welty
Ward
Loss Station
Horace Radcliffe
Charles W. Crum
Er Perents
Wantler
Wastler
Sherman P. Bowers
J. W
Creagerstown-Loy Station
Frederick
Storm
Health conference results show many unfixed health issues
A Frederick county health department report notes satisfactory overall results from seven child health conferences for pre schoolers. 181 children slated for public school entry in September were examined, with findings of incomplete vaccinations, dental problems, and underweight. June and July clinics covered Frederick city and Brunswick areas, with plans for six more clinics in Middletown New Market Moereville Lewistown Buckeystown and Knoxville. physicians from Urbana Baltimore contributed.
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Frederick County
County Health Department
Frederick
Tyne
Frederdeck City
North Market Street
Church Street
Washington Street
Brunswick
Urbana
Woodsboro
Thurmont
Middletown
New Market
Moereville
Lewistown
Buckeystown
Knoxville
RO OW Baer
W. R. Cadle
E. C. Kefaaver
C. Clift
WW. Howell
Baltimore
Governor Ritchie to Attend Ball Game on Governor's Day
Governor Albert C. Ritchie and Vincent Jamison Jr will visit McCurdy Field on Wednesday for a Hustlers versus Waynesboro Villagers game. The 3:30 start is delayed from the usual hour with a decorated box for the governor and band music throughout the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCurdy Field
Waynesboro
Albert C. Ritchie
Barney Cleveland
Annapolis
Vincent Jamison, Jr
Whl
Hagerstown
Ritchie
Frederick
Jamison
David Cramer
Lana
Congress Adjourns Today After Five Hour Windup
Washington July 3 Congress fixed three oclock this afternoon as the adjournment hour for the summer session. The Senate and House met at 10 a m to wind up five hours of speeches and bills as the deficiency appropriation bill passed and Coolidge prepared to sign or veto pending measures. Senator Norris resigned as agriculture committee chair and the House conducted heated debate as lawmakers hurried through final measures and acknowledgments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
White House
Coolidge
Inter
Capitol
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Anti Saloon League
Thuy
Norris
Nebraska
General Electric Company
Minora
Coolidge Signs Omnibus Pension Measure Today
President Coolidge signed the omnibus pension bill to address pensions owed to Civil War veterans, boosting benefits for 100 or more claimants and adjusting compensation for others. In Maryland, Dr J H Mason Knox notes state child welfare efforts push medical supervision for children and involve family physicians for guidance.
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Washington
Coolidge Malay
J. H Mason Knox
State Child Welfare Department
Baltimore
Russell Scott Sentenced to Hang Oct 1 in City Hall Pharmacy Murder
Chicago July 3 AP Russell Scott, who escaped the gallows several times, was sentenced to be hanged on October 1 after Superior Judge Marcus Kavanaugh overruled his motion for a new trial. Scott and his brother Robert were charged in the murder of Joseph Maurer, a drug clerk at the city hall pharmacy. Robert faces trial July 9.
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Chicago
Russell Scott
Marcus Kavanaugh
Scott
Joseph Maurer
Pastoral Anniversary Marks Sixteen Years at Local Church
In celebration of Rev. Dr. Ulysses S. G. Rupp entering sixteenth year as pastor, the Evangelical Lutheran church plans a special Sunday service with music. Dr. Rupp will preach on Divine Leadership for the Individual and for the Nation and reflect on his years with the congregation. He arrived July 1, 1910, after serving the Church of the Reformation in Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ulysses
G. Rupp
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Rupp
Church of the Reformation
Baltimore
Frederick
Margaret Rupp
The
Soots Lutheran Home
J. Marshall Miller
George H. Zimmerman
Horace ©. Zacharias
John T. Green
C. Carty
Jolders
Henry A. Hahn
Geo. If. Zimmerman
Tt. M. Stone
Willam G. Zimmerman
J. M. Cronenburg
Jesse J Michael
Fabley
T. Arnold Whitmore
Herbert S Schroeder
James W.falk
A. V. Renn
Alton C Whitmore
Didward Rentz
Wilbur Kolb
Weather outlook for early next week in Washington
The forecast covers Monday through the end of the week with generally fair and moderate temperatures early, a warmer midweek stretch, and showers. By week’s end conditions are expected to improve to generally fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Water System Inspection and Parking Site Upgrades
Annual city inspection of the water system underway with teams visiting the Tuscarora receiver and Fishing Creek storage dam. Pressure reports show 20 pounds at City Mall as crews plan later work. Clearing at the Bantz property on West Patrick Street advances for a future auto parking site with plans to widen Brewer's alley and replace a collapsed bridge over Carroll Creek.
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Tuscarora
Finshing Creek
Fishing Creek
Clarke Place
Bantz
George B. Culler
Worth
West Patrick Street
Brewer's Alley
Carroll Creek
Apartments Added After Storm & Shipley Sale
Announcement today that Columbia Lodge sold the Ma song property at North Market Street to Robert L. Shipley and C Leonard Storm for 35000. Deed recorded Friday. Storm & Shipley to regain ownership July 1 with lease to April 1927. Future plans include four apartments in the second story and a larger front, while current upper front houses developing films and Kodak supplies. Storm & Shipley, formed April 1 1916, previously operated at the Woolworth site and expanded after buying Lewis R Mertzbaugh’s business in November 2018.
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Columbia Lodge of
Masong
Frm
Storm & Shipley
North Market Street
Robert L. Shipley
Columbia Lodge
Kodak
Woolworth Five
Ten Cent
Tewis R. Mertzbaugh
Kodake
Police Force Changes In Montgomery County Officials Appointed
Former Sheriff Alvis A. Moxley appointed chief of police for Montgomery County for two years with an annual salary of 1800 dollars plus expenses. Aud, a Democratic sheriff candidate, exits. Reappointed officers include Windham Bodmer Phillips Oldfield Burdine Jones Snyder. Cooley, convicted for DUI, not reappointed sergeant. Orme becomes deputy sheriff replacing Cringell who resigned. Gott resigns. Rockville's Trujean H. And to serve two months as Police Court clerk, then return to teaching. Hemstone gets reelected tax assessor. Thurmont Go. Inc. granted articles of incorporation by the State Tax Commission to develop timber around Thurmont. capital 5000. Incorporators Samuel B. McCrond, James V. Warnick, Charles N. Cooks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvis A. Moxley
Montgomery County
William L. Aud
Aud
George T. Windham
Roy Bodmer
Andrew Phillips
Joseph Oldfield
Earl H Burdine
Guy Jones
D. LeRoy Snyder Omombergs
Charles T
Police Court
Montgomery Commastoners
A. Hemnstone
Thurmont Go. Incorporated
West Virginia
Maryland
Shooting follows slur knicker wearing women in Bronx
Floyd Jordan 21 from Tennessee shot Joseph Rousch 23 in the Bronx after a slur about knickerbockers. Five shots fired four hit. Jordan, who fled but was captured by two chauffeurs, reportedly confessed. Police say the incident followed a remark about his sister wearing knickers.
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New York
Bronx
Floyh Jordan
Tennessee
Joseph Rousch
Jordan
Sail
Rousch
Gas Well Explosion Hurts Three Workers Near Cambridge
A gas well blasting at Ohio Fuel Supply Company Ford lease three miles west of Cambridge, Ohio, sent flames 30 feet high and injured three workers, with their conditions not yet determined as fatally hurt. The cause of the explosion remained under investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Ohio Fuel Supply Company
Ford
Catching Bass and Catfish on the Potomac
Local fishermen on the Potomac Friday reported 50 bass and several catfish caught by multiple crews. Warey Teher and Allen Grumbine netted nine bass, Troxell Crouse Paine and Nranb landed 20 bass and two catfish, Shiples Sanders and Young took 17 bass and three catfish, a three‑pound bass was caught by Shipley, and Bowers landed seven bass before the string broke. four more were later caught.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potomac
Warey Teher
Allen Grumbine
Charles Troxell
Rudolph Crouse
Frank Veo Paine
FOV Nranb
Tlaris F. Shiples
Harre Sanders
Stanley Young
Shipley
Hubert Bowers
No Paper Monday In Observance Of Independence Day
The News will not publish on Monday July 5 due to Independence Day with the editorial office closed all day. The business office will reopen after five in the evening.
Bible Class Conference Draws Nearly 500 to College
Nearly 500 attendees gathered in Frederick for the Organized Bible Class conference of Christian Workers of the District of Columbia, meeting at Hoot College from Friday to Monday. Notables included Dr J H Apple and Mrs J M Dawson from Waco Texas. Rev J M Dawson spoke, workshops ran for women and men, and a Sunday program featured morning worship by Rev J M Dawson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Christian Workers of the Histrict of Columbia
Hoot Colege
Theaa
Washington Group
Reformed Church
Theas
J. H. Apple
Mra. J. M. Dawson
Waco Texan
J. M. Dawson
Emma L. Turner
Washington
J. R. Duffield
Alsa
A. C. Christhe
John S&s. Bennett
Robert Hicks
South Whitley, Ind
EBH
VanFossen
Church of the Covenant
Sermoon
J. M. Dawnon
D. D
H. W. C. Millington
Columbian Aassociation of Baptist Churches
W. H. H Smith
B.D
Waco
Texas
Arthur P. Black
Springfeld
Ohio
Wheat Values Grow Tighter and Reunion Plans Form
Wheat prices narrow with July delivery slips while a weak spring outlook grows. Severe drought and heat in the northwest press prices up and raise concerns for 1926 spring yields. contrasts appear as winter wheat advances to market in the southwest. Separately, a Reynolds county assembly of the Reformed Sunday Schools organizes plans for the 22nd annual session at Braddock Heights with committees named for speaker, music, grounds, advertising, and program across multiple towns.
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Chicago
Northwest
South Dakota
North Dakota
Trederick County
H. K. de Lauter
Leslie N. Cob- Jentz
Adamstown
G. W. Kerstetter
Genevieve Thomas
Ruth Krelg
Nevin Waskey
Brunswick
Hey
I. F. Main
John N. Louder
Clayton Orrigan
George Swank
Burkittsville
W. B. Werner
Rosell House
Charles M. Hutter
Ridgeley Willard
Emmitsburg
EB. T. Aighee
Henry M. Warrenfeltz
Hig- Dee
Frederick
Katherine Dutrow
Mildred Thomas
Maud Ditmar
A. le Roy McCardell
Elizabeth DeLashmutt
Grace
Pravis Thomas
Chalmers W. Walck
Mary Motter
Samuel Long
John Weddle
Charlotte Troxell
Utivea
M. DeChant
S. Fenton Harris
Ralph Zimmerman
Grace Ramsburg
Walkersville
Ikev. W. RR
Flattwell
Harvey Crukcer
Zelma Smith
Eduqa Smith
Hancock School Board Quits Over Sunday Baseball Controversy
In Hagerstown on July 3, AP reports two of Hancock School's three board trustees resigned over the fight surrounding Sunday baseball on school grounds. Dr. J. H Tobias and Dr. T. Pyles stepped down after refusing to permit Sunday games. The town was evenly split on Sunday baseball until last week when Hancock’s team manager was told not to use the grounds.
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Hagerstown
Hancock School
J. H Tobias
T. Pyles
Hancock
Blue Ridge Transport employee arrested on warrant
Charles Webbs an employee of the Blue Ridge Transportation Company was arrested on a warrant sworn by Jarry Lease charging he sought fast hauling without proper license. The hearing was postponed to Wednesday at 7. The company has faced prior charges for hauling passengers between the city and Baltimore. the case before Justice Bowers was dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Webbs
Blue Ridge Transportation Company
Sherif Crum
Jarry Lease
Finchlea
Baltimore
Justice Bowers
Civic Club to join Sesquicentennial parade and events
At a special meeting the Civic Club voted to be represented in the Sesquicentennial parade on July 4 and to host a lawn fete and sale July 16 on the lawn of Mrs. Albert Brown in College Park. Mrs. H D Hicchison was named chairman and Miss Garner’s charity appeal prompted a club gift to Mrs. Kindley. The club accepted an invitation from the Northern District Federation of Women’s Clubs Maryland to hold its October meeting in this city with plans to be announced. Proceeds fund a scholarship. September reconvenes for active work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civic Club
H. D Hicchison
Miss Garner
Kindley
Northern District Federation of Women’s Clubs
Maryland
Albert Brown
College Park
Frederick Se-sesqui centennial plans loom large
A heavy three day traffic surge begins as Frederick outlines the Sesqui centennial celebrations. Plans include a Monday parade and a Carson of the Declaration, with offices and banks closed. Weather favors Monday with showers tonight and Sunday clouds, then warmer Monday.
Winners Banqueted by Rail Company at Wayside
The Reds won the trainmen's accident prevent contest of the Hagerstown Frederick Railway during the Winter season and were honored by the company at Wayside I Friday evening. Two teams, Reds and Blues, competed as remarks were delivered by President Paul Smith General Superintendent F J M and Roland F Long. Members of the winning team included H Cutler Arthur Baker BE Beler J M Hanh F L Heftmer D Herine C FE Jones A W Jauver E M Mantz HA Mi Charles Montgomery Charles Jow A L Wise L M Horkee Fred Stockman. Band concert Saturday by the Band of Middletown at 8 o clock was held at the location of the Middletown section under Prof Lyon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown ’ Frederick
Wayside
Reds
Blues
Paul Smith
Transation
Roland F. Long
Railways
Ing
Johnworthy
H. Cutler
Arthur Baker
BE. Beler
J. M. Hanh
F. L. Heftmer
D. Herine
C FE Jones
A. W. Jauver
E. M. Mantz
Mi Charles Montgomery
Charles Jow
A. L. Wise
L. M. Horkee
Fred Stockman
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C. GC. Wastler
Governor
Shipley Bay
Columbia Lodge Seivers. of
Masons
Big Dam
Montgomery County Constabulary
Committee For
BOARD
Eastman
Postolfice
City
Wington Weather Bureau
Band of
Trof
Lyon
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