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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1896
Page
4
The Weekly News will be a handsome twelve page issue ready Thursday with news and features. It claims the largest circulation in Frederick city and county and offers advertising advantages. Copy for new advertisements and changes are due by deadlines this week.
Purely personal items list residents and visitors in Frederick and nearby areas. Names include Danenhauver Washington. J Knight McDonald in Secere and Springfield. Charles C Cromwell Springfield Illinois visiting Mrs. Carty South Market. Wm F Compher and son Clarence guests of Wyand House Heedysville. travel plans to Antietam Sharpaburg and Hagerstown. Several Frederick residents visit relatives in Lancaster and Washington. trips to Asbury Park and Europe planned by Heys. other locals visiting or returning from Baltimore Ohio New York and Philadelphia. notes on employment and residences of family and friends.
An assortment of local baseball results is reported. Sykerville’s Berrett team fell to Sykesville 12 to 11 with Fout Nicklas and Molesworth on winning battery. Cricket Juniors defeated Crickets 6 to 0 thanks to Guy Numars pitching and Koeter hitting. Frederick may visit Rockville for a return game on the 18th. A July 4 match saw Y O C versus Nooilis with Nooilis winning. Nonpareils featured Simonson Johnson with notable fielding by Boyd Davia and Roberta.
On West Patrick Street, 50 to 80 workers under President Smith and Mr. Getzendanner advanced the track lay by opening cobbles and using a plow. By last evening the trace had reached Market and Patrick, with grading from the hardware store to the bridge nearly finished and rail laying imminent. The Pennsylvania Railroad funded a siding across East Patrick Street to connect with the electric road.
The Elkridge Lodge No 88 officers were installed with Charles L Thomas as Past noble grand and Thome A Gross as noble grand. Voters face registration confusion causing many unregistered residents to miss the municipal election. Brunswick Park improvements proceed with a $2,500 funding, and Fourth of July celebration plans are upbeat as funds to wipe out fire engine debt are raised. Committee members and reception details are listed.
A girl named Bessie Hasskari, daughter of Rev. Dr. Hasskari, injured her eye during Saturday’s Fourth of July celebration. A second girl, daughter of Mr. Eugene Gotzendamer of West Patrick Street, sustained an armcar accident with facial burns from powder. Weather dampened spirits and the injuries are expected to heal long before next year’s festivities.
Mr J A Hedge of Lewistown sent a load of cats to Tax News office yesterday describing a five feet batch. The grain was large and healthy and the cats were the finest seen this season.
A young man named King near Mt Carmel Church was bitten on the right cheek by a shepherd dog yesterday and sustained painful injuries. Dr F F Smith of the city supplied medical aid. Rich red blood is the foundation of hearth. Hood's Sarsaparilla claims to purify blood.
A new Methodist Protestant church to be built in Buckeystown along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will feature Port Deposit granite walls and gleaming belfry, a combined auditorium and Sunday school, 3000-book library, and steam heating. Architect C. G. Gott of Baltimore designed the project, with W. L. Davall & Son of Frederick as contractors.
Letter from Frederick citizens argues city ordinance bars tracks until bonds are posted. They say their actions to stop the P R R were to enforce rules, not to obstruct progress. They claim they will monitor future activity to protect taxpayers and city interests.
At Frederick market, a full morning turnout left stands piled high with fruits and vegetables. Prices remain affordable with tomatoes at 20–25 cents, corn steady, eggs 10–12 cents, butter 12 cents, raspberries 5–7 cents per box, and pineapples and watermelons in good supply. The writeup praises Frederick market as unrivaled in every respect.
In New York City and Baltimore Sun, streets mix Belgian blocks and asphalt. A proposal would add a several feet wide bicycle path atop asphalt along stone-paved streets, near the gutter. The plan aims to relieve both asphalt streets and bicycles, but could prove wet on cobblestone pavements.
George Hoffman and Edward Schell outlined the catch of an eel weighing six and a half pounds caught in the Monocacy near Bennett's Creek mouth. It is described as the largest seen by Frederick fishermen in a long time. James W Liam Nuéz and son William H Nuss completed work on Mr. Battack's West Eighth Street property.
In Mt Airy and nearby areas excitement centers on a case of mistaken identity after a Baltimore death disturbance. A white man’s body was buried as Zack Dodson, a former Mt Airy resident, but the coffin opened revealed a different man with signs of violence. Investigations traced the error to Baltimore and New Windsor shipments, stirring debate as both white and colored communities discuss the mix up amid broader local rumor mill.
The tenth annual Lutheran Reunion at Pen-Mar will be held Thursday July 9 1896. Prof Zelgier’s Bee Hive Orchestra York Mozart Quartets York and other groups will perform. The program includes choral music sermons addresses by Rev D and others with multiple York and Chambersburg participants. An excursion on the Western Maryland Railroad is planned.
Isidor Baka advertises optician services at B Roasnegr Sons in Frederick offering free vision defect consultations. Other notices promote Drop head Domestic Sewing Machines, Binmenauer's Vienna Bakery potato buns and Grandma's Ginger Bread. The Key Monument Association plans a July fete on East Patrick Street with games, meals, and music by Frederick's Select Orchestra.
A fragment claims a fig based laxative offers gentle action and clear relief for constipated parents and children, calling it the best family remedy and urging every household to keep a bottle for use.
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