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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1959
Page
2
Beallsville Mies and G. Beat Linthicom clash in a decisive past ae Pred-Ml match. The second-class meatier event unfolds with steady play and a clear result.
Obituary of Mr Thomas Schley 57 west second street Frederick former News co founder and VP of Great Southern Printing. Notices cover Petersburg Poolesville and Barnesville events with social visits school PTA meetings and community gatherings across Frederick Montgomery and surrounding areas.
A Baltimore couple seeks specific enforcement of a nonperforming sale agreement. William and Mary Smith sue Rex Sorrells of Thurmont and Ray Boggs to force conveyance of land tied to a Chesapeake Conference Association sale. The defendants admit title issues and seek cloud removal.
At the Starch meeting the Yellow Springs PTA heard Dr James Sensenbaugh, Frederick County Schools superintendent, discuss public education in Maryland. He said private schools surpass public in only English and language arts, while public students lead in science and social studies.
The article discusses factors behind city growth including geography, native industries, and citizen enterprise. It notes growth is not automatic and that citizen obligations rise with population, highlighting a city headed for a considerably larger population and capable of substantial growth.
Inflation drives bride prices from cattle to cash and cloth, pushing marriage out of reach for Nigerian youths. Parents set fees as high as 1000 dollars with clothing, leaving many untrained for work and wandering villages, provoking official concern. A local ruler in one district set a 30 dollar price plus 20 pieces of cloth, risking mandatory marriages and quick divorces.
Summary of 1909 notices includes the death of Wildads B.A ATNON, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad agent, at Emergency Hospital Washington. A shed fire in Middle alley endangers nearby structures, damaging an automobile owned by Walter Wirts. The county’s financial audit ruling faces objections, and Governor O Cosar signs the budget audit bill. A barn fire on Ralph Wu linkx’s Old Annapolis road farm destroys a shed and grass, atop Mrs Calf Ki. Schadteght property, near Mt Airy.
Area electrical contractors builders and bank representatives met Tuesday night at the Eagles Club in Frederick for the 14th annual Contractors Meeting sponsored by Potomac Edison Company. The agenda covered last year’s Certified Wiring Promotion activities policy on standby generators and progress in residential electric heating plus a new Medallion Home brochure and revised specs for Certified Wiring and Full 4 Horsepower. E A Roof and J H Reddig spoke as program participants, with J W Morgan presiding as district manager.
Among the sick and others named enter Frederick Memorial Hospital for surgery or were hospitalized. Individuals include Cuares, Chester Stine Sr, Homer J. Harvey, W Jarhoe Greve, Mrs W. Jarhoe Greve, Grayson R. Bowers, Geivendanner, and Charles Walter. One patient recoveries noted. another patient recently returned from Johns Hopkins.
Personal notices include Mrs. Nannie Rice to celebrate her 7th birthday Thursday at Vindobona Convalescent Home Braddock Heights. Mrs. Virginia Leslie, formerly of Frederick, moves in with her daughter. Dorothea Leslie Walk lists 229 East Spring St Alexandria Va. plus local misc notes.
Middletown High School students Dana Henson and Samuel Huffer, of Broad Run, perform as Teen Tapers and win first prize a $25 savings bond at the Western Maryland Regional District Talent Show held at South Hagerstown High School. Judges from Hagerstown and area names praised their tap routine among nineteen acts from four western Maryland counties.
Funeral services were held Tuesday for Willard Honeycutt of Damascus who died in a single vehicle crash and for passenger Stanley D King of Damascus. Rev Clyde Reed officiated Honeycutt rites at Gharon Baptist Church with interment in the church cemetery. Rev Charles W Adame led King rites at the Upper Seneca Baptist Church with interment in its cemetery.
Obituary notices for Addie Addison and several others describe deaths in Maryland and Virginia. Included are Melvin R. Dixon of Baltimore. Charles B. Esterly formerly of Frederick. William Walter Hackett of Dundalk. Clinton Edward Smith Sr. of Doubs and Old Braddock area. funeral details and burial plans, with firm reference to family relations and local funeral homes.
A Braddock Heights man received 30 days in jail for drunk and disorderly conduct after a March 9 court appearance. Howard Corum of Mt Zion road allegedly taunted a neighbor and threatened violence, while onlookers testified to his intoxicated condition.
John S Herrick, after arriving at Fort Detrick, studied a research division using Work Sampling. The article notes the technique's wide applicability and Herrick's civic involvement from Boy Scouts to Chamber of Commerce. He chaired committees, spoke to clubs and schools, and led PTA efforts at Elm Street and Frederick High School.
Khrushchev keeps proposing new moves on Berlin while Western powers hold firm. He floated allowing small West Berlin garrisons to remain if the city stays a free city, contrasting a prior demilitarization line. Officials eye an early foreign ministers conference and possible summit with Eisenhower Macmillan and de Gaulle this year.
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