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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1899
Page
3
The Saturday News announces its eight page edition with illustrated local features and household housekeeping content. Readers can expect unusual local stories, engaging illustrations, and a varied lineup designed to inform and entertain tomorrow.
The News previews tomorrow issue with The Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment memoir by Captain Kilmer recounting Col Hawkins and his son leading a heroic uphill charge in the Philippines. Other features include brief stories, Sunday School analysis, and regular Saturday sections plus local and foreign news. Copies offered for two cents to mail or deliver.
Seventeen persons will be baptized into the Winebrewarian faith at the Creagerstown bridge over the Monocacy at 11 30 next Sunday morning. Also this evening St John’s Catholic church will hold a Sacred Heart service and Rev C W Stinespring will preach to Antietam Lodge No 197 A F A M in Keedrys ville Lutheran church next Sunday. A street railway policeman appointment for Charles Danner in Washington is anticipated soon following a thorough examiner’s result and Judge Motter’s support.
Wheat was quoted in Frederick today at four cents per bushel. Corn shelled at SS cents per bushel and corn on the cob at two dollars per barrel. Unclear text references merchandise and pricing for hats.
City attorney and partners file two denials asserting they may appropriate part of Fishing Creek as a water supply for Frederick. They argue taking the water will leave ample flow for riparian users and mill owners. Contracts exist with creek mill owners and for pipeline construction to convey water to Frederick reservoirs.
Charles Heard, arrested by Constables Lowe and Brust, is held by Magistrate White for the next grand jury on assault and battery against Edward Gittinger. Mary Isaacs and William J. Stanley were found guilty at a hearing before Magistrate White, Isaacs fined three dollars and jailed fifteen days for inability to pay. Stanley paid a four dollar fine. William Hearn jailed twenty days for disorderly conduct. Warrants issued for Frank Smith known as Black Diamond and Thes. Potts, who fled town after a recent fight. In Cockeysville near Frederick, Sarah Barker, Bessie Allison and George W Stroup held on peace warrants for Emma Ebert. Stroup countersued for peace protections. All held at one hundred dollars bail. Kate Geisinger adjudged insane and committed to Montevue Hospital.
Notre Dame Academy will hold its seventh annual commencement on June 21 and 22 with a different program each night. The honors for graduates will be conferred on the evening of June 22 as the school and class grow larger this year.
The funeral of Thomas G. Strickler was held at his home on B. & O. avenue at pm Thursday. Rev. Milburn officiated. Pallbearers were six members of Reynolds Post G. A. R. Interment followed at Mt. Olivet cemetery. F. Schroeder was the undertaker.
Jacob Stitely sues H Clayton Trendie of Liberty for trespass alleging a wire fence was placed on land claimed by the plaintiff. Magistrate I M Biser heard the case and ruled for the defendant with plaintiff costs.
Marriage notice announces Miss Mary Virginia Browning of Baltimore to Dr. Victor Bell Beach with the ceremony set for Wednesday evening June 21 at Emory M. E. church in Baltimore. Browning is described as daughter of Rev. D. M. Browning and well known in the county. The piece also includes an unrelated health ad for Syrup of Figs.
The Prohibitionists of Maryland met yesterday at Leptasoph Hall Baltimore with 107 male delegates and two female delegates present representing 21 of 3 counties. They nominated James Swany for Governor and I C Jenarickson for Attorney General, with Ball for Comptroller. A platform pledges total liquor prohibition and condemns bribery and canteen practices while urging coalition with good citizens. Mr F B Sappington serves as Frederick county representative on the State Central Committee.
Fragments note harvest readiness and weather events from Monocacy Junction to Riehl s Mills, plus market and social quips. A nearby corn stalk tassel tale, hat mishaps, and a line about punctuation pepper the thrift of the item.
Local society page records several departures and visits. Mrs A Rosenour travels to Baltimore to visit her parents. Rev T J Cross and family visit son Charles in Whaleyville Virginia. Esther Seigel returns from Baltimore to home. Myrtle Hayes Rhoderick stays with Nettye Norwood in Mt Airy. Octavia Sneadner visits Liberty town relatives. first in seventeen years. Other moves include visits to Laurel and Shepherdstown with family details noted.
Edgar 8 McCardell, a Hagerstown confectioner, was taken to Washington Hospital for neuralgia of the head. He has been critically ill for several days. He was accompanied by his wife and father and a nurse. his uncles will run the business in his absence.
Athletic Park reopened with modern improvements including arc and incandescent lighting, a rebuilt race course, shade trees, a dancing pavilion, eating booths, and a shooting gallery. About 600 spectators watched bicycle racing led by Ramsburg, Burke, and Schmidt in three events, with Ramsburg winning the two mile handicap in 4.59. The Frederick City Orchestra provided music for dancing as crowds stayed late and weekly Thursday events were announced.
Woodland flowers cherished in bygone days reappear in markets as bouquets. Elder, pink laurel, crimson poppy, yellow snapdragon, pink wild locust, Jane roses, white lily, Sphrarae, pansies, geraniums, verbenas, alyssum, daisies, bluebells, and sweet briar appear along country roads and farmyards in simple, fragrant profusion.
The state reports strikers refuse to return to work until demands are met at the Vuk Lick plant. A Cumberland builder, Fred Lindor, has morphine issues. Baltimore deaths include Albert Bloor, 36, who shot himself. John Jones killed John D. McIntosh. Augustus Gasanway, a Manchester factory engineer, killed in machinery. The Primo cruiser arrives for militia drills. rail and transit updates include Baltimore City line resumes regular runs and Seaboard Line offices consolidate. Naturalization grants and political talks on census supervisors round out the brief.
Auction style prose advertises cheap small items and linen bindings and a summer stock sale. Includes a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad special excursion to Washington and Marshall Hall on Sunday June 38 with round trip fares and schedules. Mentions steamboat trip on Potomac with meals and docking details. Also notes classified want ads offering help and situations at 15 cents for fifteen words.
An assortment of goods for sale including organ and stool, seafood such as soft and hard crabs crab meat clams and various fish from Norfolk spots mackerel blue butter rock perch trout cat sheepshead and taylors. Also advertises axle grease sample offers and carpet house sales with remnants priced to clear.
The Presbyterian reunion committee reports near completion for the July 25 event at Pen Mar. Speaker roster includes Rev. R G Ferguson D D president of New Wilmington College and former United Presbyterian moderator, with other prominent clergy to follow. Harrisburg singers will assure high quality music. Mizpah Chapter No 9 C B S holds a 7 o'clock meeting and plans a Braddock Heights picnic before September.
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