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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1922
Page
7
The Daily News presents policy on correspondence and notices. Real names required for letters and opinions, no phone submissions, free notices treated as advertising, and mailed to the office for publication consideration.
President Harding praises the patience of the needy in a War Cry message urging sympathy and acts of friendship and aid. Berlin notes rising marriage rates from short skirts, while other quips touch on politics and society. A chorus of light items closes with a joke about 12,000 school superintendents in Chicago.
Belfast March 15 Fermanagh Assizes sentenced three men described as leaders to ten years penal servitude for taking part in Sinn Fein raids into Ulster. Eight others received five to eight years in prison.
The Inquiring Reporter asks residents if their income tax return was mailed on time. Answers vary: Joseph V. Wilt near Frederick says yes he did. Raymond Edcard of Monrovia Route 1 says yes. Thomas Baumgardner of North Market Street says he didn’t have any to file. a Crees near Lime Kiln says yes. Dr J Bernard McClellan of North Market Street says yes.
The Frederick City Hospital Board of Managers met at the Nurses Home with Mrs. Farnda H. Markell presiding. February data show 114 patients treated, 72 admitted, 79 discharged, 35 remaining, with 32 pay, 36 part pay, and 46 free. Three deaths and seven births occurred. Officers elected include Mrs. A C McCardell honorary president and Mrs. C B Cline president. Also listed are vice-presidents, secretaries, and executive, house committees. Also noted: magician Harry Kellar died in Los Angeles at 73 after illness. he was born in Erie, Pa in 1849 and lived in LA. Upperville bank sale: Fauquier-Loudoun Bank acquired by Peoples National Bank of Leesburg to operate as a Leesburg branch.
In Brockton Massachusetts and the Old Colony district a price reduction on men s shoes was announced by city and regional manufacturers. The cut is reported to be 25 to 50 cents a pair wholesale, following a 10 percent wage reduction ordered by the state board of conciliation and arbitration.
Twenty years ago in Frederick items note Frederick County Farmers Exchange directors elected D Columbus Kemp president J Franklin Thomas vice president R Rush Lewis secretary James H Gambrill Jr treasurer and manager C H Smith named postmaster at Jamshire. A birthday party for Miss Amy Stone is recounted plus attendees. Postmaster DeGrange said an extra Frederick carrier would be appointed. Rev George L Staley, 79, injured by a horse and wagon driven by a Black man near his home in Baltimore. Will of George Elias Smith filed for probate. Girls High School pupils entertained raising about 156 for the library fund.
J Roger Fisher of Ohio praises the News-Poet, noting the new press marks an epoch for Frederick. He credits the edition with progress and community pride, hoping the public advertiser and readers recognize the investment as a boost to Frederick’s forward march.
The Potomac River option, costing about 1 780 100 dollars, would supply Hagerstown with 10 million gallons of soft water daily after filtration. Current sources for 4 250 000 daily need, including Antietam Creek, require chemical treatment, making them inadequate. The water commission, led by Dr J McPherson Scott, Col William P Lane, and Livvy K Hoffman, endorses the Potomac plan.
Washington March 15 a soldiers bonus bill with a bank loan provision won favorable reporting from the house ways and means committee by a nineteen to five vote. Democrats Kitchin Garner and Collier and Republicans Treadway Tilson opposed the measure while the committee rejected an amendment funding the bonus by a sales tax. Treasury Secretary Melton testified that banks should lend on service certificates only as authorized and that regional federal reserve banks could rediscount such notes.
William Dakosky, a soft coal miner, was killed in a dynamite explosion that wrecked a house in Clarence near Snow Shoe. Two other miners were injured as they slept inside. Authorities suspect strike tensions may have triggered the blast.
A compact notice from a 1922 newspaper feature labeled The Boys and Girls News. Includes attribution to the Associated Editor and signals a youth oriented section.
Maurine, a self described tomboy, resists sliding with her brother but joins in then nearly collides with Professor Stinson during a snowy afternoon. The professor later invites Maurine to see his Arctic expedition collection at his house Sunday afternoon, noting he previously doubted her interest.
The Governor is the commander in chief of the state's land and naval forces and can call out the militia to repel invasions or suppress insurrections and enforce laws, but cannot personally command without legislative consent per Section 8 Article 2.
Chronology of notable March 15 events includes Columbus’s return to Spain in 1793 the Guilford Court House battle in 1781 Maine’s 1820 admission to the Union Philadelphia’s paid fire department in 1871 Bishop McC'osky becoming America’s first Cardinal in 1879.
Business in the courts lists marriages and property transfers. Gilbert Summers 34 of Port Deposit and Vida Hilton 25 of Buckeystown, deeded property. Real estate transactions include William Ray and wife to Raymond P Adams and wife in the county for 1 dollar, Ida May Baer widow in the city for 5 dollars, Jeremiah Gaver et al to D Albert Bussard in the county for 3048.50 dollars, and reverse transfer D Albert Bussard to Jeremiah Gaver and wife in the county for 10 dollars.
Mahanoy City March 15 Thames Stauffer, merchant, applied a chemical to remove waste from his hand. Blood welled, and he lost a hand while at the State Hospital at Fountain Springs.
A colloquial vignette contrasts the owl’s rumored wisdom with a boy’s doubts about cleverness. It riffles on appearances versus brains, jokes about freckles and red hair, schoolyard mischief, and a father son moment with a birthday gun.
A Canadian Pacific Railway traveler learns the Bow River and Gleichen meet where Crowfoot, the Blackfeet chief, once ruled. He kept peace with the British, signed the 1877 treaty, and cooperated with the North-West Mounted Police, earning lasting memory among settlers.
A concise entry lists Jacob Roharack Lewis A. Rice and Gratson Bl Bowars in an itemized total of 39 045 37 and 186 603 55. The note appears to be an accounting fragment with names and numbers.
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