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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1900
Page
4
Personal notices list daily movements of local residents and visitors. Reverends Eschbach and Stinespring travel and stay in several cities, with many Frederick residents visiting or hosting relatives in Baltimore Washington Pittsburg and other towns.
John Hill and Taylor Butler colored were arrested for disorderly conduct and fined ten dollars each with jail 20 days for nonpayment. Mora M. Snook heard on adultery, held $100 for next term. James Ogle heard on assault and battery, held $100 for grand jury action. Thomas Hood colored charged with stealing chickens, to have hearing before Justice Smith. Odds and Ends in Verse volume by Alten B. Carty, inspired by Frederick, now in Washington, D. C., for sale by D. H. Smith.
Today’s market quotes from J B W Hargett list corn at 2.15 per barrel, shelled corn at 28 cents per bushel, wheat at 5 cents per bushel, hay 12 to 14 dollars per ton. O Connell’s Grave notes A B Yeakle received from Mrs Nellie B Eyster, traveling in Ireland, a grasses set from Daniel O Connell’s grave in Dublin. The column also promotes beauty tips and California Fig Syrup as a cleansing laxative.
A letter from Ahmedab ad dated May 26 1900 reports a vast Indian famine affecting millions. It details suffering in a faminePoor-house near Dobad with crowded wards and dying inmates, a request for relief, and praise for American aid efforts including plow distribution and a shipload of corn.
The funeral of Mrs B A Hogg, died in Baltimore, held from the B&O depot with graveside rites by Rev Dr Williams. Pallbearers listed, Mt Olivet interment, Escinson funeral director. Reminiscences by Rev Robert H Williams recall Maryland visit and the charitable women who aided soldiers, noting Mrs Hogg’s broad service to church and public life. Also notices of Mrs Kemp, Mr Emory Harper, Captain Taylor Bevans, Mrs Susanna Haugh, and a blood purifier advertisement.
Sunday services and calls mark a busy religious day with sermons at Saints Episcopal, Evangelical Reformed, United Brethren by Rev. Stivespring, and the Lutheran church accepting Rev. J. Yellott for Grand Rapids duties. Catholic masses, Epworth League, Masons, and Sunday school awards highlight a day of worship, community events, and preparations for Children’s Day next Sunday.
A garbled text segment discusses weathered friendships and personal standards. It touches on avoiding “Fair weather friends,” aging, and time as the healer, ending with a reflection on setting one’s own moral compass and judging others accordingly.
Local notices tout the National Building Association of Baltimore City with instalment stock at 60 cents a share and $100 par value, promising near doubling of money. Also advertised are Baltimore & Ohio Railroad seashore excursions to Atlantic City and nearby resorts at low rates, with multiple dates and 16 day tickets, plus a July 4th look toplant at fireworks and a Grand picnic from Frederick to Braddock.
A fragmented notice lists various real estate offerings and sales including suburban and farm properties in California. Items mention brick dwellings, parcels of land, and lots with improvements, along with multiple addresses and public sale cues.
The Shanghai Consulate general telegraphs that the Chinese Minister of Telegraph reports foreign ministers and foreigners at Pekin said last Tuesday they were preparing to depart with authority from the government.
Special dispatch reports the Czar ordering immediate mobilization of the army in Eastern Siberia. Meantime, Mt. Pleasant resident Luther Lease brings sixty one heads of wheat from a single grain, with stalks five feet tall and strong grains. Levi Morgan offers two wheat samples from Col. Dennis’s Urbana farm and his own New Market plot, both with plump grains and tall heads. Dennis’s farm is estimated to yield about thirty five bushels per acre, Morgan’s about thirty.
Twenty five dollars reward will be paid for the arrest and conviction of any person or persons raising false alarm of fire. W. F. Currey, Mayor. awa Yai LAMPS, ETC. We call your situation to our stock of China consisting of DINNER TEA AND TOILET
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