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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1901
Page
3
A collection of brief notices about local people visiting or traveling. Many names and cities appear, noting individuals in Frederick and nearby areas spending days in Baltimore Washington Brunswick Columbia York and Atlantic City with family visits business trips and conventions.
Mayor elect Smith announces a full slate of city appointments to start after his oath at noon Monday. City Attorney Charles P. Levy Health Officer Dr. Thomas, Superintendent of Streets Aquills R. Yeakle, Waterworks Frank Tyargar, Market Master Joseph T. Haller, City Water Work official Garrett Olock Winder, Water Rents Edward C. Shepherd, Electric Plant Engineer Guy F E Wolfe, Fireman Robert Fraley, Lineman and Trimmer George W W Wallace, Tax Commissioners Oliver Young Joseph Payne John F Ereh, City Constables Charles Merhling Jerome Zellers William King George Easterly James A. Jones W Frank Cruuse. Board of Health to be named later. The mayor will be sworn in Monday noon. new sworn officers face removal if duties neglected.
City health officer reports April totals with 50 deaths, 39 in the county and 11 in the city, plus 17 births. Deaths split by sex and race. interments listed across Mt Olivet St Johns and colored grave yards. multiple burials in surrounding towns and counties. Mortality roughly mirrors March. Cemetery interments: Mt Olive 15 total. adults 13 children 2. city 6 county 6. Washington 2. Howard 1.
Mrs Mary Welsh Rhodes wife of Charles Rhodes died Monday at 4 am at 1210 John Street Baltimore after a four year illness from cancer She was 40 and daughter of Warner Welsh Montgomery County Five children survive her funeral was held yesterday at 3 pm at the house She was related to county residents Also listed is Miss N B Wallace of Frederick among passengers on the Imperial German ship Aller bound for Genoa
Mrs Jennie Grabe was arrested by Officers Cook and Six for keeping a bawdy house. Justice Eckstein found her guilty and ordered 90 days in jail in default of a $30 fine. John Tracy was arrested by Officer Simpson for malicious destruction of property and held on $100 bail for grand jury action.
The census bureau bullet in June places the nation’s population center six miles southeast of Columbus in Bartholomew county Indiana. The center of area lies in northern Kansas, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. The two centers are about three-fourths degree south and over thirteen degrees east apart.
Fire destroyed the residence of Capt Thomas Griffith near Olney in Montgomery County at noon yesterday. Most household goods were lost, except a piano and several items. The loss is about $3,000, partly insured by the Grangers Insurance Company. Officials suspect a defective flue caused the blaze.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railway plans a telescope tunnel opposite Baird Station to shorten the Bayard to Paw Paw span by about seven miles. The project, estimated at two million dollars, is reported to be undertaken after long consideration.
The Southern Grocer Company of Monroe Louisiana showcases an illustrated souvenir with portraits of employees including H. W. Colbert traveling salesman. He is linked to the Misses Williams and Shriver and has visited the city. The A. M. E. Conference adjourned after Bishop Lee announced appointments. HF. Murray was reappointed pastor of the Frederick church.
Census work begins with enumerators out early across the state. They seem to understand their tasks and aim to complete the count efficiently.
When Nature Needs assistance it may be best to render it promptly yet use remedies only when needed. The best and most simple remedy is Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
The telegraphone expands telephone service as an electric phonograph. It records messages on a magnetized wire cylinder and plays them back on the same or another line. Demonstrations in New York show it can store calls, relay notes for absent subscribers, and function as a dictating machine. Valdemar Poulsen of Denmark, the inventor, has US patent coverage.
The Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture continues experiments to produce a sweet orange that thrives in Maryland and Virginia. Botanists deem it probable, with encouraging results from five years of work. A Japanese orange parent crossed with a sweet orange yielded four year old seedlings. efforts persist with further crosses and protected blooms in the department grounds.
Pleasant Hill services postponed by rain will be held May 5 at 2 p.m. led by Rev. S. M. Hench after preparatory and confirmation on Saturday. Zion Reformed church holds regular service at 10:15 a.m. midweek Evangelical Lutheran chapel meeting at 7:30 p.m. ends with Christian Endeavor business. Dayton marriage ties two generations in a tangle as John Karch, 59, wed Susie Karch, 22, his son’s ex-wife who becomes stepmother to her own grandchildren.
At Upper Seneca Baptist church in Montgomery county on Monday night Charles Tabler of Hyattstown and Jessia Watkins of Cedar Grove were married by Rev. E K Marshall. Groomsmen were Frank Dutrow and William Watkins. bridesmaids May Williams Lysight and Woodie King. Also noted: a wagon wheel came off a wagon driven byThomas Chew at Market and Church streets. Charles Geisbert, kicked by a colt Sunday, can now be about.
The Independent Dramatic Association offered Imogene a realistic four act comedy last night before a fair sized audience. Charles Evantz entertained with songs while Percy Myers Milton Engle Charles Koontz and J Edward Shipley delivered strong performances. Ida Strawsberg and Hattle Feete impressed as key characters in this well received production.
An Appeal Tax Court ruling clarifies mortgages on out of state property are taxable. City lawmakers faced pushback, but the court ruled to tax such holdings as certificates of indebtedness at the full rate, about 1.814 per cent per hundred, versus Maryland mortgages taxed at 0.0018 per cent. The piece contrasts expected and actual tax burdens on mortgage holders.
News notes from the state report a new Catholic church planned locally and the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company extending its lines in Garrett county Maryland. Harford County tax rate fixed at 15 cents per $100 official, three cents lower than last year. Smallpox case in Cumberland now three in quarantine. A timber fire near Black Rock on South Mountain visible from Hagerstown. Marriage of Ernest Wallach and Effie Berdell Mille in Rockville on April 30. Lonaconing Republicans nominate mayor and council candidates. Elkton jury awards $1,000 damages in railroad crossing case. Lecture at Utica Mills features Rev J W Meminger with stereopticon views of Europe. Recruits Quartermaster-Sergeant H J Hamrahan to open Frederick recruiting office. he previously served in Hagerstown.
The fall Maryland election will choose four clerks of courts two in Baltimore and two in the counties. Incumbents in Baltimore are Robert Ogle and A J Schultz both Republicans. County vacancies include Beauchamp in Somerset and Parnell in Worcester. Registers of wills will be elected in Garrett Harford Prince Georges and Queen Annes. Sheriffs surveyors commissioners and clerks for various counties are listed with numbers and names. There will also be a clerk of the Court of Appeals and a Comptroller elected.
The Springtide Reception of St Marys Chapter of the Guild of All Saints Episcopal church was held last evening in the Sunday school room. Decorations featured bright geraniums and wild cherry blossoms. Guests were received by Mrs John A Markell Mrs B Brown Mrs Henry Williams and Mr Edwin Markell. Program included mandolin duos Misses Johnson and Hayden recitations Misses Alica Shriner Charlotte Baker Edna Kuhlman Grace Trail. Ices cake wafers candied peanuts and coffee were served. Potted plants and homemade candy were on sale.
The remains of Mrs Sophia Blackler who died in Oklahoma on Sunday arrived at Tuscatora this afternoon. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 10 o clock at the house. Interment follows at Mt Olivet cemetery.
The Evangelical Reformed church hosts a reception for the infant department of the Sunday school tomorrow night. The paper corrects that yesterday’s reference as a peanut hunt was a mistake.
Weekly Philomathean Literary Society gathering set for Friday at seven thirty. Ladies Auxiliary convenes at the YMCA rooms tonight at eight thirty. Various local notices include exhibitors and excursions to Washington and Hagerstown aboard special trains with fares. Lectures on Rhine to Italy by Rev James W Meminger slated for Kemp Hall May 3 at eight. Delinquent water rents collection and local business ads complete the page.
Shaina advertises a splendid assortment of china dinner tea and toilet sets in white porcelain with decorations table cutlery lamps and more. She invites housekeeping shoppers to visit and promises delivery within the city at no charge.
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