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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1919
Page
6
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The Boonsboro report cites nine thousand five hundred crates of Frederick county raspberries gathered as a bumper harvest. Yet most have already been bought by distant canners and commission men, leaving local households berryless while canning fuels winter sales. The piece contrasts old door to door pie culture with modern farm commerce and notes Frederick still imports foods like California prunes and Southern rice.
The article argues wartime by-products include improved health and morale among veterans. It cites tests showing 64 percent of returning soldiers became better workers, 32 percent unchanged, and 4 percent below former levels, with most gains in long-service men. It notes re-enlistment in the American Legion as proof of patriotic influence and civic purpose.
County Agent P A Hauver presided at Brad dock Heights as Bradford Knapp of Washington D C spoke on labor and optimistic forecasts for food production and distribution. Mrs Catherine Slagle Ramsey of Baltimore sang The Day is Ended and audience joined in Maryland My Maryland. The Braddock Heights Concert Band followed with Solitude trombone solo by C T Stull. Humoreske and Federal Guards were cut for time. Attendance was large as the Western Maryland Baptist Educational Conference opens next Sunday with Rev J J Wicker of Richmond as speaker.
Frederick community hears Baltimore artists featured with violinist Coburn and pianist Rebecca Heidelberger. Miss Anna G Baugher contralto joins, recitals include Wagner Evening Star Liszt Brahms Hungarian Dance No 7 and songs by Loewe Foster and others.
Stull and Miss Wachter of Co A were quietly married at the First Baptist parsonage by Rev W C Royal. Calvin McCarthy and Miss Matilda Landis were also married by Rev Robert Lee Bair at his East Third street home. The couple will reside in Harrisburg Pa. Charles Opel Sr to entertain his dancing class at Braddock Heights pavilion tonight starting at 15. The Novelty Orchestra will provide music for about 60 couples. Flora Bender returns from Mechanicaburg and Reading Pa. Bolivia holds coal deposit at 18 000 feet altitude.
A crowded list of visits and travels across towns and states. U S Marines Captain Harry LeGore spends a fifteen day furlough at home in LeGore Mississippi. Various relatives and friends including Miss Burch Leesburg Virginia Miss Grace Ward East Second Street and Mr William King of Waynesboro Pa are mentioned with weekends visits vacations and personal travel notes.
Dr Kefauver Thurmont physician and three youths ages about six suffer bruises after a Hagerstown and Frederick Railway trolley rear-ends their old roadster at a crossing half a mile south of Thurmont around 7 15 am Thursday. The auto overturns and occupants are thrown clear. Dr Kefauver remains at home with injuries though condition improved last night.
The Frederick column recalls a Monocacy fishing party with Lola Matte Price Young Mary Howard Hattie Myers Virgie Mamie Palmer and others enjoying a day along the river. E L Boblitz presided over State Teachers Association meetings in Ocean City in place of ill president J T White. Mrs F B Evans and Miss Miriam Evans visit Charleston West Virginia. Mrs James P Noell returns from Whodlawn with Miss Stella Smith.
Private Brightwell, back from France, recalls near misses in battles of Chateau Thierry St Mihiel Meuse and Argonne Forest. He used beer bottles to fend off pursuers during an abandoned camp ambush and witnessed a dispatch rider lose both legs after a shell strike. Brightwell praised French soldiers, describing strong camaraderie and shared rations. He served from Nov 1917, sailed Dec 7 1917 landed Dec 24, 1917, in Toul, fought at Chateau Thierry, returned July 6 1919, discharged July 12 1919, bringing home a bullet vase souvenir presented to his wife.
The Fredericks County Branch of the Maryland Children’s Aid Society held a bi-monthly meeting on July 10 in the home of the president EO L Coblentz. Reports from committees were adopted and plans discussed for future growth. A Dodge roadster was procured for the resident worker and probation officer to expand outreach to about 150 children in Frederick County. Mary J Munn, resident worker, left for Columbia University to attend lectures, granted a leave of absence. Lieut. Smith Inc. The Smith family learned that First Lieutenant F Lester Smith has arrived in New York and is at Camp Dix awaiting muster out.
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