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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1894
Page
3
New ads appear featuring L. M. Hildebrand G. V. Levy L. W. Mehming and Prof A. B. Boyd promoting offerings at The Gem Store. The small classified-like notices list vendors and associates in a compact local ad block.
Brief items note insolvency discharge for Josiah A Ramsburg, counties seeing pest issues in Kent pear orchards, Maryland receiving 191 Interior Department appointments, and a Brooklyn deacon's penny sorter. Other items mention Wheeler League leadership, Fourth Class post offices, Coxey movement critique, and florists seeking long lasting cut flowers with early spring bloom potential including spicewood shrubs.
City Board of Aldermen holds regular meeting in City Hall with all members present. Market master and police justice reports approved showing fines $87.20 and market receipts $1 746 plus expenses. Various bills from districts and vendors approved or referred for payment. Reservoir work estimate and electric light service proposal noted. Schools and literary institution thank the board for hall use.
The Home for the Aged receives a cabinet donated by the Bishop Whitingham class of All Saints Episcopal Sunday School. Funds came from the class and the gift is recorded with pride in the institution minutes. The note expresses prayers for the students’ future blessings and Christian reward.
Miss Florence Trail visits Mor rissown N. D. Relatives and friends send reports of travel and guests include Miss Bertha Tralibas returning from New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Miss May Trenholm visiting Miss Mame McSherry in Frederick.
A pair of farm yard accidents are noted with injuries. Constable D Myers injured his left hand by a pitch fork while loading wheat on Henry Boyle's farm near Libertytown Mir. Joseph Boyle and Myers both moved to push a sheaf that caused a fork prong to injure Myers' hand. John Webster of taddoca fell from a load of unthreshed cheat near Harmony Grove and bruised his hip, worsened by long foot problems. Wheat and corn price reports follow with daily exchanges and year over year comparisons.
A Mohave belief holds that those not cremated after death become owls and haunt the forest at night until their throats wear away. After about four hundred years they blink and are reincarnated.
Weather summarizer notes a brief hot spell likely on the 25th and 26th with cooler air expected afterward. The text mentions a hot period from late July into early August and predicts continued high temperatures.
The fifth annual reunion of the Re-Tormed church Po tomac Synod drew about ten thousand visitors from Maryland Virginia West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Trains carried attendees from Baltimore Harrisburg York Gettysburg and other towns as leaders and ministers attended the event at Pen-Mar.
Charles Roberts twelve is seriously burned on the face yesterday when a powder can ignited by a misused match. The boy filled a pipe with tobacco from the can and a burning match fell in, causing a blast that blistered his face though his vision remained. The powder had been kept in the can for some time.
The Board of Charities and Correction at Montevue Hospital examined charges against Superintendent F Tobias Main for cruel treatment of inmates. Testimony disputed choking and sun exposure. hobbling and bread and water Diet for Brooks were admitted. The board planned a report likely exonerating Main while dismissing some staff. Dr Lovith defended the institution’s condition amid funding issues.
News of the State reports Nelson G. Read resigning from the Cumberland City Council and notes other regional events. Chas Heizer dies at Williamsport aged 66. Job Haines dies in Omaha. water works expansion proposals for Annapolis. deaths of Nicholas Larzalere 87 and Mrs Hester Entwistle 82 at Elkton. John Hammond injured by a horse. independ ent politics convention called in fifth district. Republicans in Caroline endorse George M. Russom for Congress. Carl Browne speaks in Havre de Grace en route to Wall Street. General Corey visits Hyattsville camp. army short of provisions. Prohibitionists nominate Ames T Anthony and Bennett E Miles for congressional terms. Governor Brown discusses Pi kensville electric extension with Westminster and Littlestown. Key Monument Association meets tonight at 8. Hood’s Sarsaparilla advertised as a cure.
The Pota mac Synod of the Reformed Church in Chambersburg Pa elected Rev W C Cremer as president Rev J D Miller as secretary and Rev Dr W M Deatrich as treasurer The board favorably acted on twenty six applicants for the ministry and amended rules requiring college students under care to join a literary society and theological students to join the society of inquiry.
The president of the French Meteorological Society says Europe experiences more thunder storms than equatorial regions. In France some areas see daily storms, with 328 counted in seven months of 1892. Sumatra has monsoon storms six months but no thunder, Pern records only one or two in 8 centuries, the 1977 event being the sole since 1803.
John Williams colored and Wai Haller white newsboys clashed while awaiting papers. Williams knocked Haller down, causing a head injury. Williams was arrested and fined 1.85, paid later. Also reports a Pen-Mar bicycle trip by Frederick Bicycle Club and church leadership changes.
A letter from an E. Hedgestile reader in Hedgesville dated July 9 1804 asks MR B D Shriner to send one barrel of a patent product described as Superlative Without It. The missive notes that unsolicited letters show people recognize a good thing and claims the product yields more bread from a barrel.
A Graceham barn owned by Joshua Martin was struck by lightning and burned completely. About 2 100 bushels of wheat 50 to 00 tons of hay 900 bushels of unthreshed grain a farm wagon a jagger wagon several plows a windmill a reaper and other farm implements were lost. Martin and helper Frederick Crawford escaped with the horses still harnessed. Insurance covers most of the estimated 2 200 loss. A bay barracks owned by John J Ogle was struck but suffered no damage.
Astonville reports James Appleby, son of Rufus Appleby, was seriously injured when a heavily loaded wagon ran away on a county road. The wagon toppled onto his left leg, breaking it in two places, and lacerated his arm. Two bystanders helped control the team as one horse fell, leaving Appleby bedridden for weeks.
Forest fires burn in a dozen Blue Ridge locations over the past week. The worst blaze is north of Tomstown near Wayneboro four miles away, threatening a lumbermen's cabin as flames widen daily. A second large fire extends near the Buens Vistas Hotel, covering much of the mountain with sky lit at night while no cabins or reports of injuries have been received.
Local notice states Frank G. Lambert plans to leave Frederick and sell his barber shop on South Market Street. It notes good trade and a cheap price. asks interested buyers to apply at the shop. A separate memory exhibition advertised for Kemp Hall features Prof A. Boyd and a class of forty. The July 22 event promises tests on dates, historical facts and memory training.
Bargain circular for textile deals lists SAE Garns and elegant lawns at 40, 32 yard challies at the same price, blue pique with colored fig prints, wash silk promises comfort, and prenca ginghams at astonishingly low prices. Notes of Ceylon tea quality and a North Market Street contact with telephone 127.
Mosey Lost. L. W. Mebrit gyte Grocer advertises high grade flour at 2.80 per barrel delivered to homes in fine coko. Orders by mail promptly attended. Trustee's Sale of W. W. Lease & Co. stock to close out at forced sale invites cheap purchases in books stationery fancy goods tinware glass china linen and more at the Gem store with early visits urged.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railway offers a full line of tourist excursion tickets from offices east of the Ohio River to eastern and northern resorts. Tickets are valid for return until October. Check the B and O Book of Routes and Rates for Summer Tours. agents at principal points will mail postpaid upon ten cent payment.
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