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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1893
Page
3
Three engines built for the Pittsburg division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at McKeesport Pa, by the Baldwin plant in Philadelphia, already prove popular on the line by pulling thirty two loads on grades where others haul twenty.
Frederick prepares for the Independent Hose Company 75th anniversary with visiting firemen welcomed and a city banquet at the Rink. A grand parade, evening exercises at City Hall, and a Thursday program including a State Firemen's Association meeting precede departures. Decorations adorn many buildings as hundreds of fire units arrive.
The forecast notes Hicks predicts warm weather with a rising high and storms today then a cooler wave from the 7th to 9th. The Hagerstown prophet 3 W Gouff claims hot weather from the 7th to 10th. Readers are advised to watch these dates and see which prognosticator is correct.
The Sabbath school service at the U S church began at 9am with Rev M L Mayables preaching from 2nd Timothy 2 15 on a workman that need not be ashamed. Evening children's service followed at 7 30. Various ushers assisted. the program featured choirs, recitations, songs about rainbows, and prayers. the Rainbow of Promise readings highlighted the day's worship. The Singanore school House, a white Baptist church in Frederick county, under repair, adjoins several landowners on the road from New London to Frederick City. The pastor is Rev Dr Lodge from Gafthersburg. A Y P S C E convention is planned for June 20 in Snoxville to organize a county union. Delegates to Lutheran Church Y P S C E include Rev Luther Kuhbiman and wife Nanvie Routzabn, Walter Rice, Henry Fox. All Saints Episcopal Sunday School children will have a Fourth of July feast at the parish house. The Reformed Missionary Society monthly meeting is set for this evening in the chapel.
Letters from the people report a Paine death anniversary ceremony at Park Ridge on January Sth 1993 with Aaron Davis hosting. The event will feature discussions on immortality and the afterlife with a skeptical view of supernaturalism. The public is invited. The piece also notes the Field Judson wedding and a discussion on insect diversity led by P L Simmonds.
The Frederick Female Seminary held commencement with annual recitations and musical numbers led by Miss Sweisfort the instructor. Seven graduates received diplomas including Helen Marr Shipley Alarian Smith Mastie Sunderland Pope Bertha Belle Gill Sydney Louise Clingan Angie V Huffer Myrtie Rowley Davis. The afternoon program featured invocations essays and musical selections with diplomas conferred by Dr Purnell and benediction by Rev A J Gil. The evening concert followed under Miss Marie Diebls direction.
Purported social notes list Mrs. Connor and son Frank of Philadelphia returning home for health, plus visits from Miss Mamie Gambrill of Washington, D.C., Miss Blanche Shriner, Miss Jennie Woods, Eliiot of Washington, Mrs. Maddox of Baltimore, and many others. Several locals and out of town guests are noted visiting relatives on North Market Street and East Church Street, with trips to Baltimore, New York, Cumberland, Hagerstown, Harper's Ferry, Walkersville, and Fo untain Mills.
George Galther infant son of Anna Stuart died at home near Urbana Thursday. Funeral was Friday at Eben Ezra church at 11 a.m. Bearers named. Interment in adjacent graveyard. Meg Suman widow of Isaac P Suman died at son Frank Suman's residence on South Market Street at 120 yesterday afternoon, aged 64. Funeral tomorrow at 11 o'clock a.m. Interment Blount Olivet cemetery.
A fragment lists names of guests and origins from various places including Montgomery county Union Bridge Miss Jane Bear Washington D C York Pa Baltimore San Francisco and Charlestown W Va. The notes mention twelve from the county and two from the city at Grorr House and Deniel Hofman Arlington Baltimore county E J Willard.
The Board meets at Monterue Hospital with business on the monthly report. Inmates total 249 with 150 insane and 12 tramps. An inspection found the hospital in good condition. The Ker Monument Association plans street sales by boys of framed flags from Francis Scott Key's grave for five cents each to finance a monument.
John L Nicodemus of Hagerstown arranged transfers of property at Boonsboro to his daughter May Davis wife of Dr S Davis and to Cora Wilson wife of Dr S E Wilson plus the Commercial Hotel to his daughters jointly the Junior Steam Fire Engine Company held a meeting with parade plans made and adjourned until next Monday. no business transacted.
Carroll County notes report Reuben F Bittle was found guilty by the Westminster Circuit Court of attempting to poison Miss Ida Angell with Paris green and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. The article also covers a conspiracy to defraud case involving David Booz and George Huff, a shingle cutter accident near Westminster, and a freshet in Freedom district washing fences bridges and fields.
Captain Jennie Coleman and Lieutenant Mamie Croaby of the Frederick Salvation Army were jailed for drum beating on Church and Market streets after a mayoral complaint. Convicted at Eckstein, they were fined five dollars and costs, appeal filed, released on bond. The case tests mayoral authority to permit drum parades. The town buzzed. crowds gathered outside city hall.
W. W. Lease of The Gem Store notes that rain ruined much yardage of baniting, yet every yard of bunting they sold resisted the weather. The store advertises fast colors and invites customers to call for more bunting.
A.M. advertisement notes a large assortment of new neckwear and related items including suspenders hosiery cuffs collars shirts underwear and more. Also promotes ladies and children's hose in tan and black and declares Bantings under regular prices at headquarters with a call to visit.
A fragmentary advertisement lists fabrics and fibers including solid white ribbed hosiery in lisle and pure silk, with mentions of briSnt lisle and gauze and india silk fabrics, implying a merchant catalog style. The text highlights luxury materials and woven goods in period textile language.
Real estate transfers listed include Joseph M. Ridgeway and wife to George S. Wenner for a parcel in Brunswick, Fannie R. Sappington and others to Wm. A. Sappington for 7 acres, and Benjamin B. Phebus to D. Gibbon for 11 acres with a stated amount of $150.
An old medical advertisement promotes Syrup of g8 as a gentle cleansing remedy. It claims to cleanse the system, relieve costiveness or bilious conditions, purify the blood, awaken kidneys and liver, dispel headaches, colds, and fevers, and permanently cure habitual constipation.
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