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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1906
Page
3
The Weekly News will be ready Thursday as a handsome twelve page edition. It claims the largest bonus circulation in Frederick city and county and advertises its value as a medium. Copy for new ads due by 5 p.m. Wednesday. changes by 12 noon that day.
Budget items note repainting at Mrs. S. A. Toma residence by Mitchatiss A. Welty and crew. Frank F. Tyergar repairs cementing at Worth Blarket Street fountain basin. North Market arrest area repainted by Michael Kennedy and team. Sister Bernard injured at Visitatorn Con vent after slipping on stairs. Dr. Johnson reports injury not serious.
Tyson and Nicodemus publish buying quotes for today with corn at 2.50 per barrel and 0.51 per bushel, wheat No 2 red at 0.73 per bushel, No 3 0.66 per bushel, damaged 6.00 per bushel, and oats 0.30 per bushel.
The Y M C A campaign in Frederick is organized into four committees of twenty five under chairmen D John Markey Glenn O Garber Benny H Abbots and Edgar Moore. They meet at Hemp Hall at 7 pm to organize and plan with Armory listed as temporary HQ. O Neil from Washington attends to aid in directing the drive. For men of the Foreman's Committee of 100 a meeting is set at Keap Hill at 7 tonight.
The funerals of Mrs Harries M McDonald Mrs Sarah Umbarger Mrs Benjamin Hotelier are listed with dates and locations. Services were conducted by local pastors pallbearers named and interments at Mt Olives cemetery Pleasant Hill Urbana M E cemetery and Buckeystown are noted. Funeral director Geo W Peters is named.
A Baldwich Specialty Company representative from Baltimore was arrested by Gustave Oster for hawking without state and county license. He appeared before Justice O H Eckstein, who seized the gear and ordered a hearing at 7 pm.
Richard McHenry formerly of Frederick and Dorsey Tait were fined 25 and costs by Justice Hoffman for assaulting William Boswell an automobile rider in Hagerstown. Boswell’s car frightened McHenry’s horse and destroyed the buggy on the Osstown pike a mile from the city.
Frederick county strawberry crop suffers from drought with early berries scarce and small. Despite size they taste better than berries from Anne Arundel county and fetch higher prices.
Six men killed and about fifty injured after a boiler explosion at the New York Glass Company plant in N J. The building was wrecked with over a hundred workers inside. Sailors from warships on the Hudson River aided in rescue efforts.
The article notes Joan W. Walker won the Gaithersburg mayoral race. It mentions Reverend Higgins delivering a fiscal message and a case in Towson where Earnest Lylea, a Black man, pleaded guilty to a murder in Green Spring Valley. Other items include a court transport to Hagerstown and a Rockville church service prayed for rain led by Rev. Philip McGeire.
A small ceremony at the McDonald home north of the city witnessed the marriage of Delmar Streett and Mary McDonald. Rev. J. W. Etraoofe officiated in front of invited guests. The couple departed for Darang, Colorado, where the groom has secured a position, as friends offer best wishes.
Frederick residents can view moving pictures of the San Francisco earthquake and fires on May 23 at the Opera House. The program shows key sites, refugees in parks, and wealth evacuees fleeing in autos, with a two hour program of vaudeville turns by a well known company.
The Maryland Classis of the Reformed Church adjourned after reporting the death of Rev. Harry F. Dittmar of Jefferson Maryland. Minutes will print the resolution. Calls to Ker. O. H. Sangree and Mr. Guy Bready were confirmed. Clergy appointments and ordinations were announced, with Pas tor of Lisbon Iowa and Bosuab δ or o listed among promotions.
Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte addressed the Civil Service Reform Association of Maryland as Secretary Taft attended. Bonaparte urged reformers to serve the public good, avoid spoils systems, and balance cabinet roles without conflicting duties.
A partial OCR fragment lists several names and initials such as Avpex Jag and Jupaxino C Mortres among others, with scattered initials like D EB Keraover and Haxcerr. The text appears as a worn newspaper snippet offering limited readable detail.
Attend the Tricity church festival on Monday and Tuesday evenings. See the Iscge Mic-Sum mer display in Tharsisy on May 23. Herrera Millisery Parlozs and Second Az0r Etchison Ballaing are noted in the text.
Mr. Garroli Feete of Middletown telephoned to the News to claim the Saturday baseball game against the Ressbads of Frederick was played by Middletown Sophomores, not the High School team. The final score was 6 to 5 with the Sophomores scoring the winning run in the ninth and leaving the bases loaded with one out.
A small blaze occurred at the home of Mr. Charles M. Ehoads on East Patrick Street this morning around 7:30. The fire started in a second floor clothes pressing room and burned briskly before neighbors, using water buckets, extinguished it. A large quantity of clothing was lost and the room’s woodwork suffered heavy damage. No alarm was reported.
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hilleary died at their Keptown home on Friday May 13 aged 3 days. Interment followed at Provideres cemetery with services by Kay John A. Weight. Funeral director W T Liwle of Keptown assisted.
Arrangements completed for Frederick Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution pilgrimage tomorrow. Members meet at Miss Ritchie’s home at Court Square at 9:58 a. m. and proceed to Rock Hall, the home of Miss Julia Beit.
Preparations for a Grace Reformed Sunday School library book reception feature a first class program with Elinor Markey Katharine Slagle Jennie Ensminger O Neil and Dr and Ef ra Hoopes. A good orchestra will provide selections and refreshments will be served inviting attendance and book donations. The Board of County Commissioners plans a survey for a new public road in Att Pleasant district beginning near Charles H Masser and ending at Linganore road. It will be 1 3 6 miles long to be surveyed on a May day. The will of Lydia A Lidle of Thurmont has been filed for probate directing 100 to Dreselda Gaugh and division of real estate among four heirs with executor Marshall A Gaugh.
Wellington and Pearre theater a contest over Frederick county control. A Washington conference and Porter’s visit are cited as exposing Wellington’s hand. Also notes social events, excursions, and a spring display at Braddock Heights with upcoming races and a school function at City Opera House.
The Lawn Crier is out of date and Tax News ads reach business publics and households. Live merchants advertise and use more space than competitors with the right talk to fill needs for employers buyers sellers and job finders.
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