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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1926
Page
2
Black dominates summer evening wear with chic gowns in black satin and chiffon. Worth’s gown features a dragonfly motif with orchid rose and silver bead detailing, while Chanel frock uses black chiffon with metal sequins and rhine stones. Low back and bolero lines are highlighted, with grooming urged to avoid dull black.
State Treasurer John M. Dennis keeps Pegasus a cast iron hobby horse at Riderwood, claiming it is the best form of exercise. He explains the toy horse, with saddle and bridle, has three gaits and has not once let him down, while he declines to name friends who tried it, noting many prominent Democrats among them.
The Interstate convention of the Y M C A of Maryland Delaware and Washington held in Baltimore on May 14 featured a banquet and an address by Wirt Wiley on the National committee. Wiley praised the Y movement and noted large expenditures on building construction. Rev Charles D Shaffer, local General Secretary, attended both the convention and committee meeting. The session covered the Interstate committee and a keynote for the eighteenth biennial convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs opening in Atlantic City May 34 for ten days, expected to be the largest in the organization’s history.
Deeds recorded shows transfers among residents: Juch to Kieffer Delauter, Wickless to Layman, Flannigan to Beard, Groshon to Groshon, and Wills to Wills, with various city and county valuations. Marriage licenses list numerous couples with ages and hometowns across Dillsburg, Prince William, Cedar Grove, York and nearby towns, plus a divorce action: Gibbs v Gibbs.
The fourth annual Lutheran Sunday School Association of the Middle Conference Maryland Synod convention met in Walkersville in three sessions at the Lutheran church. More than 200 delegates and about 100 visitors attended with new officers elected for the coming year.
Gutenberg printed 300 copies of the Bible the first book made from movable type but only four complete copies exist today. A Muskegon Michigan high school scholarship fund named 387215 provides aid to graduates pursuing further education.
Four bids were opened at the State Roads Commission in Baltimore for a one mile concrete Section from Phleegers Mill toward Point of Rocks on the Rallenger pike. Lowest bid came from M J Grove Lime Company at 24520 56 with other bids ranging to 28841. Plans call for award soon and start of improvements on the macadam and dirt sections. A new botanist at the Smithsonian collected 1300 orchid species in Central America.
The Woolworth Building rises 792 feet in New York, the nation’s tallest. Ads praise Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with letters from Mrs Daugherty and Mrs Carr claiming health relief and renewed vigor after using the remedy.
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