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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1894
Page
4
In Miffinburg Pennsylvania a memorial sermon by Rev SL Wilmore before the Grand Army and locals at the Reformed Church was described as patriotic and eloquent. The preacher urged devotion to country and that the sword, used rightly, aids the right. Rev Dr Ross assisted in the services.
The G B Reynolds Post G A R formed a three member committee, FE Goldeborough, M Zimmerman, and M L Firestone, to confer with A B Me Daniell, agent of the PRR, about rates and dates for a Gettysburg battlefield excursion. Fire destroys Sabillasville sawmill after tramps seen nearby. they were reportedly cooking breakfast prior to the blaze.
News from Maryland items include the death of Mrs Kate H Williams in Salisbury. two republican town commissioners elected in Crisford. seventeen year locust damage in Calvert county. body of Jacob Mansfield from a drowning at Alberton. sale authorization for Plain Point Methodist Episcopal Church. Naval Academy course extension proposal from four to six years. Mrs Mary E Smith seeks divorce from Benjamin H Smith. Smith Guards unit told their services not needed against strikers. Governor O Ferrall aims to push Maryland crabbers from Virginia waters. Naval Academy graduation day activities. Hagerstown Hegerstown Female Seminary seeks injunction over tax sale of Ree Mar College. Centreville Methodist celebrates centennial with former pastors. Easton diocese convention adjourns to Berlin next year. ministers elected to missionary council.
PURELY PERSONAL. Miss Sarah Friday of Jefferson has returned home on summer vacation from Leth erville Seminary. Mrs. Charles Earnshaw returns to Hagerstown from Rocky Ridge visit. Miss Ells Dorcus and sister of Woodsboro spent weekend in Jefferson. Elles Lela Bowers a Kee-Mar teacher in Hagerstown returned home. Rev Inc Bowers of Gettysburg Theological Seminary returned to Jefferson. Mrs. John J Derr and Mrs. Robert Porter of Baltimore visited Mrs. W. James. Jno. M. Deponal returned to Washington from city visit. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Cronke of Lewistown guests of Cenus Ramsburg. Mr. John H Groh of Breathedsville to Park Ridge tomorrow. Groh to speak at 2 pm at Paine anniversary meeting. Police Justice Eckstein returned home from Baltimore. Mr. Wm. Besant and Dr. J. F. Thomas back from three day trip to old camping grounds in Loudoun county Va. They were treated royally by old friends during the war.
A social event honored Bliss LaRue Stimmell a Lutherville Seminary graduate with a Pleasant birthday gathering at Mr and Mrs E Stimmell Woodsboro. Highlights included bagatelle prizes won by Arch Summell and Emmis Weikert and a midnight dining reception. Attendees included Saxton Show Wettert Cramer Stambaugh Stamblard Powell Lough Stimtel Stamblard and others from Woodsboro Frederick and Keysvilie. A straw ride to High Knob followed, with about thirty young people in a four horse wagon led by Clarence Hemp enjoying a picnic.
The sheriff will pay deputies two dollars per day plus horse hire for escorting Coxey's army through Frederick County. County commissioners have approved the rate. An ad for health remedy touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as aiding digestion and general vigor, warning against casual use and noting benefits for nervousness indigestion and other ailments.
The June 1 program at Unionville Academy featured morning exercises with a long list of speakers, solos, and the conferring of proficiency certificates. Evening programs included a War of the Rozen allegory, duets and recitations, a fan drill in a Japanese costume, and a final series of solos, duets, and a comic piece titled Shall Our Mothers Vote.
In Baltimore yesterday the Republican and Democratic State Central Committees outlined September conventions for the Sixth District in Hagerstown and Frederick. Reports name McKaig declining renomination, with candidates including W Viera Buum and Ferdinand Williams. The sixth district faces a heated Republican fight, while Allegany County delegates contest and Montgomery leads in candidate numbers with figures like Dawson Rutherford and Judge Viegon among others.
The Maryland Agricultural College begins a four day commencement with events at the chapel on June 13. President R W Silvester will address graduates, include essays on ornithology and citizenship, and medals will be awarded by Governor Brown. Graduates include Franklin Byers Bomberger Hezekiah Best Arthur S Brown Charles W Cairns Howard M Dent Thomas E Foran Lotheran Key Richard H Poe Melvin Tubman Sadler and Clay Holloway Welmer.
A meeting is planned in the F C M C A gymnasium tomorrow at 8 pm to discuss raising a fund for a monument to Francis Scott Key. Citizens are urged to attend and contribute as they can to support the project.
Frederick and county druggists misinformed on selling spirits of wines without the 25 tax for liquor dealers. Spirits may be sold without tax only when used in compounding medicines not as beverages. Patient remarries a remedy for bowel complaints and teething, praising Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Local ads claim various patent medicines and cures sold by Albert L. Pearre and others.
A Saturday baseball match ended with the Jefferson vicinity team defeating the Brunswick Club 10 to 8. A second game is slated for the Development Company grounds this afternoon.
Captain A P Loud of Hampden Maine recounts a 38 year career at sea and a later Alaska appointment. He describes chronic nervousness and chest pain, notes earlier doctor visits did little, and credits Dr Miles Restorative Nervine and New Heart Care with restoring health. He endorses the remedies and urges others to try them.
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