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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1938
Page
3
The Maryland Daily News presents a policy note disclaiming unauthorized replication and stressing that content is from the Associated Press and credited sources only. It explains editors will not publish unverified opinions without real names and confirms postal record as a second class Frederick Maryland matter.
A 1938 editorial lamenting that civilization rests on fire control, praising advances in firefighting and prevention, while warning that many homes still harbor hazards. It notes repeated losses from improper storage, waste, careless smoking, and amateur electrical tampering, urging public education and safer practices.
The article notes some Federal housing sites build homes without doorbells to deter beggars and pedl ers. It questions public reaction to reduced neighborly contact and declining calls from visitors. It also mentions Japanese taxpayers bearing heavy losses in the ongoing war on China.
Bank sues Good Food Grocery to recover $20 after Ronald Smythe passed a forged Henry Fure check for $20 and fled. Fure’s signature was forged on the check. bank reimbursed the account and canceled the check. The store received $14.76 change and later kept $20, leading to dispute about bank liability.
Howard W. Blakeslee explains a Georgia folk trick where a stick vibrated in the ground stirs earthworms to surface. A Los Angeles broadcaster claimed novelty, but Osborn notes similar methods were publicized in Texas over two decades ago. The method involves a rock or wood pressed against a stick to shock the soil, prompting worms to emerge.
A reader teaches English usage and pronunciation with notes on misused phrases. It cites examples for correct forms like lighted gas, explains a difficult word expostulate, and notes foreign demand for American bicycles with export values led by Mexico in the last year.
Local items reflect on historical whipping posts once near the courthouse square and railings removed after the War of 1812. The column notes calls for a new whipping post and comments on a proposed water bond issue with a $15,000 reservoir plan as a temporary relief, suggesting broader water supply concerns.
Twenty years of notes from The News columns report Smileage Books offered in local stores. Purchasers may send them to Camp Meade and Camp McClellan for admission tokens to camp theaters. The piece also notes proposed constitutional amendment reducing county Orphans Court to one judge by Senator Kaufman, a merged City Register and Water Rent Collector office debated by Alderman David Lowen Stein, county road work approval from Middletown Valley Wolfsville to Petersville, and a $500 donated electric clock for Middletown to the Lutheran steeple.
Plans for the Community Chest were discussed at a February meeting of the Board of Managers of the Children’s Aid Society of Frederick County held at Winchester Hall. No formal action was taken. Reports covered February activity in the Children's and Family Departments, including cases accepted, visits, examinations, and court actions.
A reflective piece by A. Lufburrow argues success is not just money but useful living. It praises viewing a man’s vocation with admiration and finds true success in happiness, generosity, and steady striving that renews interest and faith.
Amos Flohr and Ellen Adamstown Woman's Club member Ellen Eckenrode, both of Rocky Ridge, wed in Adams County with Rev. K P Hemmer officiating. Reception hosted by Walter Myers. Eleven club members attended as guests. music and readings featured during the ceremony and reception.
Miss Virginia Lee Thomas and A Grover Fraley wed in a ring ceremony at the Adamsmun Reformed parsonage in Washington Grove in front of family and close friends. The gown featured royal pique crepe with navy accessories, and a bouquet of sweetheart roses and forget me nots. The couple reside in Washington Grove and Ga rthersburg communities. W C T K Holds Meeting S: The monthly WCTU meeting at Mrs Spencer Stull city address included devotions from Ephesians, program topics on alcohol and education, a nominating committee for officers, and plans for an Evangelistic meeting at Mrs Grace E Poole’s home with Mizpah benediction.
Thomas J Frailey of Emmitsburg has been appointed Lieutenant Colonel United States Army Officers Reserve Corps in the Quartermaster Corps by President Roosevelt. The promotion follows service in World War I and includes legal work with the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and a consulting role with the Board of Veterans Appeals U S Veterans Administration in Washington. He is a Mount St Marys College and Dickinson College graduate and serves as a bank director in Emmitsburg.
Arrangements made for a dance tonight at Brunswick to accompany the testimonial dinner honoring John B Funk. About 200 attendees from across the county expected. dinner patrons may join the dance at no charge with Al Danners Orchestra providing music starting at 9 30. Speakers Howard Marvin Jones and Joseph E Chew Bruns wick, delegates A Lamar Barrick Woodsboro and Charles S Houck Jr Walkersville, and former Secretary of State David C Wineprenner 3rd. John S Foster chairs the Brunswick District Democratic Committee event planning.
A birthday party Monday evening at 200 West South Street honored the eleventh birthday of Charles E Hargett. Attendees included Charles Hargett Constance Welty Scott Welty Louise Hahn William Williams Grace and Margaret Waters Gioria Harrison Bernard Esworthy Henry Wilson Miadine Titlow John Ebberts Eugene Engle Hammond Welty Virginia Welty Anthony Comegna Harmmond Philip Welty Jr Charles Wilbur Burras visiting from Jacksonville Florida at 105 East Fifth Street.
Dr Sorgis Fishez in outlines that sore throats during season may stem from many causes. He stresses diphtheria risk requires throat swab and culture for antitoxin timing, while most cases improve with bed rest, proper diet, and infection control. He warns sore throats can precede scarlet fever measles or whooping cough, especially in children.
The text compiles remarks from figures like Frank Knox and Jd. B. Priestly on taxation, war, and peaceful exchange. It includes Rev. Theodore Frederking describing deaf church services and Dr. Alexander G. Ruthven criticizing campus radicalism. Cheong ing declares unity against Japan.
A didactic NEA Service piece asks about proper dance etiquette. It presents five Qs and concise answers: yes for asking a dance, no to refusing a caller, yes about using breaking for calling in, no to heavy topics, and yes to including at home on invitations when held at a hotel or club. It suggests practical improvements like wearing better clothes or learning to dance, with a brief best solution.
A folio of historical anniversaries lists Simon Cameron, Samuel Downer, Charles L. Flint, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lee, Homer C. Davenport, Henry Knox and other notables with birth and death notes. Birthdays include Katharine Lenroot, Clyde Wildma, Arthur Bostwick, Frederic Goudy, Edgar Mowrer, George Gibbs, and Stuart Chase. Also notes on a 1862 battle between the Merrimac and Monitor and a 1898 war funding bill. Horoscope warns romance and health cautions.
John Lee son of Thomas Sim Lee, born January 30 1788 at Needwood near Frederick Maryland, educated by private tutors and Harvard University. In early life he was a member of the Maryland legislature and later served as a Representative from Maryland in Congress, with a career marked by ongoing public service and steadfast loyalty to his state.
New York March 8 The piece portrays Lupe Vélez Libby Holman Clifton Webb Rex O Malley and others rehearsing a Shubert play in a lower theater foyer. The director pushes for action as Holman wears smoked glasses and jokes about a letter scene before the cast heads to the Shubert office for an 8 pm rehearsal and the limousine departure.
Paris studied law but did not practice, managed the Needwood estate, served as a Democrat in the Eighteenth Congress from 1823 to 1825, chaired the escort committee for the Marquis de Laffortte in 1825, sat in the Maryland House of Delegates and State Senate, championed the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, died May 1871 in New York City while visiting his son, interred at New Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore once called Bennie Brae.
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