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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1900
Page
3
The weekly edition to appear Thursday will be a twelve page issue with many features. It claims Frederick city and county’s largest bona fide circulation and urges advertisers to submit new and changed copy by specified Wednesday deadlines.
Purely personal notices list residents visiting relatives and traveling. Mary Feik visits Baltimore. Charles Collins and son visit Mt Airy. W M Douglass from the Park Hotel spends the day in Mt Airy on business. D C Winebrewer visits in Washington and Upperville. Judge Motter and son visit Washington. Grace Simmons Houck visits New Brunswick New Jersey. L Stoner of Union Bridge visits Frederick. Dr Moore and daughter travel to Cumberland. Mrs E R Bachbach travels from West Church Street. Wm Benen returns from Shburg. B E Kepner returns after years in New Brunswick. Meredith Smith, son of Dr. Francis Fenwick Smith, to graduate Georgetown University next week. Mrs Thomas Schley and Miss Ann Schley visit Mrs Thomas Chiswell in Montgomery County. Holmes D Baker at Westminster College exercises. Bertha T Trendie returns from Danville and Richmond. Austin Haffmer visits Buckeystown. Bertha Albert visits Hagerstown. Rev Charles Brosins and Rev L F B Myers visit and return to Pa. Mrs A S McDaniel, Miss Lilly Gilbert, and Miss Edith D Titz attend Western Maryland College contest and return. Gerlach learns wife and daughter sailed to Germany, arriving Bremen. Gerlach's wife visits old country after 10 years.
A meeting of the Independent Hoss Company will be held this evening at Bodock. The financial plan for the trip to Baltimore will be made. Full attendance is requested. The Fourth at Braddock Height features extensive preparations for a celebration. Attractions will be sanctioned later.
A letter from Admiral Schley, commanding the South Atlantic Squadron, reaches Washington revealing his firm decision against any political office. He states he will not permit his name at the Kansas City convention or accept a vice presidential nomination with Bryan. He wants to retire to private life, with no political ambitions, and will insist his name not be brought before the convention.
Obituaries for George Blessing Anne Cotnail Tobias Zimmerman and Eugene Weedon mark a Martinsburg page with funeral details and survivors. Market notes report fresh county produce prices and a Flag Day observance mention amid local crime report of a street robbery on Patrick Street.
Commencement exercises, deaths, and public notices across Maryland regions. Accounts include a Wakefete death of a two year old, a rapa charge against James C Myabe near Queen Aate’s, a telemiocs charge against a 30-year-old man, and ship cadets aboard the Chesapeake and Newport on summer cruises. Also reported are school board resignations, bank appointments, drownings at Curtis Bay and Spring Gardens, illness of Mrs. Barnes Compton, guard inspections, a Potomac death suspected foul play, a man at Washington County almshouse ending a fast, marriage invitations at Oakland, and an electrical strike in Baltimore with boycott petitions and a court injunction.
A Maryland postmaster sent a vivid letter to First Postmaster-General Heath describing an ancient dilapidated typing machine, likening its sight to a runaway wagon and its clattering to bells after idle typing. The writer asks for a modern instrument to replace the antiquated device.
Commencement exercises proceed with Visitation Academy on Wednesday morning June 20 at 9 30 oclock including diplomas and musical performances. Female School graduates listed include Enos Agnes Taomaes Elizabeth White Mercier Elia Agnes Reich and others. annual reunion and banquet follow with benediction to end the day. Frederick College graduation continues Friday morning with Edward Odell Richard Ely Carlton Mumford Edward Herman and J Alfred Ritter Jr in the graduating class.
June dispatches from Lorenzo Marques claim Boer forces announced a strategic setback at Biormfonten with allied troops retaking the town. A Great Northern passenger train was wrecked today near Moor with twenty passengers injured.
John Hendrickson is listed as an outfitter within a 24 hour day notice. The fragmentary text references Day and Savet Your QuZart and a sir, but specifics are unclear. Further readable details are needed to confirm entities, actions, and dates.
Special dispatch states Schreinbe will resign from the tax office tomorrow amid ongoing departmental shifts. The notice notes a forthcoming transition and names no successor.
Sachsl Dispatch to Tua Naw from Lospex on June 13 states General Baker reports continued fighting and that troops have suffered several losses, with the line held at a hundred.
Special Dispatch to The News reports Commandant Oliver killed in Maseru region. Dispatch notes Oliver's death amid ongoing hostilities with local forces. Further details unavailable.
One of the graduates at Western Maryland College in Westminster this week will be Roy Z. Thomas son of Zach G. Thomas of this city. He has been prominent in the institution during his course of study.
Chester Young, son of C B Young, suffered severe burns to his left side and right hand after he and his brother Alvey poured coal oil on a caterpillar nest in an orchard near Mooreville. The oil ignited and exploded, burning him before nearby carpenters could extinguish the flames.
An advertising notice for Neidig Miller highlights wash goods, shirts waists, linens, table linens, towels, and napkins with emphasis on new styles and reduced prices. The copy touts fabrics as superior and urges customers to visit for fits and fashion, noting daily discounts and accessories like parasols. Clinton E. Main promotes cough cure with quick relief claims.
Funeral services for Enoch T. Joy, aged man, were conducted at his home in Mountville and in the Lutheran church at Jefferson on June 9 with Ray Hedges officiating. Pallbearers were John H. Zimmerman Washington Remnaberg William Kenp Franklin Zimmerman. Interment followed in the Lutheran cemetery. M R Etchison served as funeral director.
Inquiries rise on Thomas A Poffenberger eligibility as a Democratic presidential elector candidate while state s attorney of Waahi county. Officials deem him eligible, with Porter Whyte and others affirming he lacks constitutional or Maryland bill of rights inhibitions. Also lists advertised letters at Frederick city post office dated Saturday June 3 1900 and two new justices of the peace appointments for Catoctin and Linganore districts.
News of churches reports the Mite Society meeting at Kemp Hall at 7.20, All Saints services suspended, Asbury M E Sunday school observances, and a Lutheran Woman's Missionary Society gathering at 1.30. At Athletic Park a band concert followed two half mile races won by Burks and Waters, with dancing later. wheat exhibits in Baltimore signal a strong Frederick county yield.
In loving remembrance of my dear husband Thomas Strickler who died a year ago today. A recital by Miss Eisenhower and Miss Lucy Eisenhower, with Mr Ralph Bowers and Mr O Will Fout, at Opers House Thursday evening June 14. Lawn fete by Hospital Association at Woman's Campus June 14 15. Dance at Braddock Heights tonight with hourly departures from Square Corner. Vocal and instrumental concert June 19 for the new organ at Episcopal Sunday school rooms led by Georges Ed. Smith and Miss Steckel with local and visiting artists. Tickets 35 cents. sale at Williamson’s drugstore A O McCardell R S J Dutrow. Optician QO U S Highbarger at Park Hotel June 13 free eye examination. Engagements arranged for local residents unable to call. 0 5 Hicne and R.
L. E. Mullinix announces now is the time to buy carpets, mattings, and wallpapers with new stock on sale. The ad emphasizes low prices, wide selection, and being the exclusive carpet, wall paper and curtain house. It claims better quality and popular favor, inviting customers to visit and judge for themselves.
Notice to the public declares B E Wilcoxon as sole agent for Enabe piano in Frederick and surrounding territory since February 1900. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad advertises low first class round trip fares east of the Ohio and June 15 to 19 tickets with return by June 26 1900 plus side trips to Atlantic City Cape May Ocean City Sea Isle City and New York City. Dr Herman optician opens in Frederick with eye care and operations for strabismus cataract and trachoma and spectacle exams at 28 Market Street.
Fragmentary local market note lists prices and commodities including wheat at 72 cents per unit and hay at 13.9 dollars per ton. Mentions apples and a price of 14 dollars per ton for a specific commodity, with unclear dates and packaging.
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