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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1905
Page
2
Community notice item listing various trades and services with scattered names and phrases. Includes phrases like Carpeta Cleaned Optician clearance sale and reminders to subscribers to report irregularities in receipt of papers, indicating a noisy OCR fragment of a local newspaper column.
The Weekly News declares an upcoming twelve page issue to be ready Thursday morning with broad news and features. It boasts Frederick city and county circulation as the largest bona fide paper and highlights advertising advantages. Copy for new ads is due by 5 p.m. Wednesday and changes by 1 p.m. that day.
Purely personal items report Joseph L Houff traveling this morning to Harrisburg Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Miss Nettie Haffner of Carlisle has returned after visiting the Rowe family on South Market Street. Miss Mabel Ridgate of Washington DC, former student of the Visits von Academy, is visiting friends in the city.
Conrad King aged 93 died May 6 at his son's Ridgeville home. Born in Germany, he came to Frederick County and settled near Ridgeville about thirty years ago. Survived by children. wife died five years since. Funeral held May 8 at Pine Grove Church St Airy at 2 p.m. Rev. Wm Norwood officiated. bearers included Charles Smith and others. LT Lewis directed funeral rites.
Mina Helen Parrett of Washington Courthouse Ohio announces engagement to Lewis Syester of Hagerstown Maryland a Maryland legislator and U D G member A Confederate Decoration will be held Saturday with a procession to the cemetery The sixth annual recital of Mrs Masonic School of Elocution opens tonight at City Opera House Shakespeare's Much Ado is staged tomorrow The chimney fire at Mrs Charles W Rosas residence in Square was quickly contained A Twenty Second International Christian Endeavor Convention information and Baltimore rail fares for July 4 5 6 1905 provided by B and O officials Local merchants advertise seeking space and customers
Memorial Day was observed in Frederick with graves decorated in Mount Olivet cemetery. Reynolds Post G A B led the exercises, a parade formed on North Market and marched to Mount Olivet with veterans and cadets. Col William P Maulsby delivered the address at the Key monument before the procession returned to Red Men s Hall. Banks and post office closed for the holiday.
Rhode Island Appellate Division, over 250 years old, ends at the close of its session on Friday May 26. The Superior Court will take its place in Providence. Judge Blodgett notes Newport’s long history as the site of the colony and state’s highest court since 1647, and recalls the 1776 Declaration of Independence announced in Newport.
Friday evening May 26 at the residence of Mr and Mrs Edward Bader Zsigleraville the twenty fifth anniversary was celebrated with a surprise serenade. Guests from Baltimore and Washington attended and many handsome and useful presents were given to the couple.
Nimrod UO Kot funeral held at 2 pm yesterday from sister Misa Margaret Kolb’s residence on South Market Street. Rev T Freeman Diron conducted the service. Pallbearers listed. Interment in Olivet cemetery. Funeral director Or Carty.
Market notes list corn at $2.50 per barrel shelled and 60 cents per bushel for corn, No 2 red wheat at $1.00, No 3 red at 960, and various prices for oats, wheat and wheat by products. Free Kindergarten closing exercises scheduled for tomorrow.
The piece traces exploration by Livingstone and Stanley and notes a two page Wall Street Journal ad for a rail link from Capetown to Victoria Falls. It highlights rapid modernization opening Darkest Africa to commerce and tourism with electric lighting and travel to major cities. A 25 cent News want ad invites readers to place notices of jobs or needs.
An independent Hose Company held a meeting and selected a large slate of officers. A contract for a chemical and hose wagon was signed, with delivery about August 26. A five member charter committee was named to meet in June. The company will not attend the Hagerstown meet as a unit, but will send delegates to the convention.
A cost of $1 000 loan is stated for the MBs es eAce sal with 1 166 shares available through secretary J W L Carty at the Frederick County National Bank. Directors listed include Thos H Hiller Geo H Zimmerman president. F B Sappington D G Carty J H Lampe vice president. A J D Hagan J W L Carty Harry W Bowers Bea Treasurer A Landauer B Reloh Atty. 405 North Market Street.
Barry J Sherman died of apoplexy in York county jail while awaiting burglary sentence. Once wealthy, he squandered his fortune via extravagant spending and reckless deals, later losing his farm on the Baltimore turnpike near the Maryland line. Survived by a widow, four daughters, four sisters, and other Maryland relatives. He lived in Hanover after his estate was seized.
Florense Bambridge and Mary Lewin, both colored, were fined six dollars each for disorderly conduct after an attempt to paint Ostroll street red but making the air blue with profane language. Mary served thirty days in jail while Florence paid her fine. Grayson Willlame, colored, was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon and jailed in default of bail after firing a pistol on the street. Isaac F. Bowers posted $600 bail for Justice Millard F. Shorf of Emmitsburg on a daughter’s charge. vistation Academy alumni party at St Johns Library hosted this evening with a card party. The fifty ninth sonar distributions and ninth alumni reunion follow tomorrow including two graduates and a banquet with benediction to close the day.
The will of Ezra M Zimmerman of Emmitsburg was filed in Orphans Court yesterday. He leaves his house and lot with furniture to his wife Emma E Zimmer man. To Luther M and Thaddeus K Zimmerman he bequeaths a warehouse stock and his one fifth farm interest. He names his wife as executor. Merchants must obtain licenses by tomorrow per Sheriff O T Young. Eighteen saloon and fourteen store licenses have been issued under the city license law, netting $1 227 50. A correction notes June 21 closing date for the Maryland School for the Deaf and Dumb. Decoration Day services drew automobibles from the city to Gettysburg.
A collage of local items lists antics of imaginary tribes and figures mixing with ads for paint carpet cleaning and eye care. It notes a 1904 residence painting job, a Freder ick carpet cleaning pitch, an eye exam service, a School of Elocution event at City Opera House with may 30 dates, and a public dance at Braddock Heights on Decoration Day with music by Frederick Select Orchestra.
Local notice announces a sale by Grace Reformed Sewing Bocisty featuring osker biconits and candy at City Hotel salesroom on Saturday June 34 from 2 to 5 p.m.
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