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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1897
Page
3
The Weekly News will be a handsome twelve page issue with all the news and special features. It boasts Frederick city and county’s largest bona fide circulation for advertising and calls for ad copy by six a.m. Wednesday and changes by noon that day.
A compact column of assorted notes covers social trends, weather, industry, and smalltown happenings. It mentions November chills, blooms, a Del Mare birth with teething, elder cures, theater goers, and a Thanksgiving proclamation. Also notes mills running at night, brick dates, a Babylonian discovery, and quips on fashion and public life.
Voters flocked to polls across Frederick with no trouble reported by noon. Precinct tallies showed 1619 votes so far, while Democratic and Republican chairs predicted majorities in the General Assembly and state offices, citing strong county and city turnout and cautious optimism.
Secretary-Treasurer Bail proposes statewide weekly road condition reports with a view to broader adoption. President Potter backs the idea for other states. Benefits noted from Greater New York rider feedback. A League official urges new members to oppose the current administration. A cycle show promises a varied display with fifty makers and multiple gear configurations. A leading wheel maker touts a new diamond hardness device a pivoting plate to improve chain guard.
The rural report lists school opening near, religious meetings scheduled for November, and community news. It notes Mrs C A Bharets and Mrs Kate Swank returning from Baltimore with millinery goods, farm tasks like husking corn and deepening wells, several visits among residents, and a recent fatality in Rockville Cemetery with funeral arrangements led by T P Groomes. Ongoing weather and crop conditions, bicycle accident, and numerous social visits between families are recorded.
William Molesworth aged 78 of Woodrside died after brief illness at 2 a m on the 34th instant. Rev Polly Marsh conducted a service at Sydney church with Klenda relatives. interment at Pros pesterist. Pallbearers named. Jeremiah Martin, father of Mrs Irry E Kiise, died at his Le y s home aged 64. He is survived by a wife and three children and was buried at Cresgerstown.
While Josiah Kline and family attend the love feast at Grossnickie's meeting house, their spring house is ransacked of a quantity of blackberry wine and victuals. The pantry of James A Grave on Wolfs Pike is robbed of flour. John J. Senzenbacga digs the quandalion for his new ree dance at Good ore.
The Frederick County Floriculture Society opened its annual Chrysanthemum Show with rich displays, decorated halls, and lanterns. Notable blooms include deep crimson, pure white, bright yellow, and pink varieties. Judges led by Henry Fischer of Baltimore will crown premiums as listed in tomorrow's News.
The article explains the term Creole as used in American contexts, noting its root in Spanish crello and criados and its Franco Latin usage in the Gulf states. It describes Creoles as high-caste natives in Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida, with mixed-blood individuals often labeled as mulatto or Daygo, and portrays Creole women as languid and graceful with a tradition of social separation from American society.
Reports from Wolfsville cover church activities and society members across denominations. Notes include Bedeavor Society size, chimney updates at United Brethren Church, a rescheduled Reformed Missionary Society meeting, All Saints and Souls Day services, and Baltimore presbytery motions concerning Rev D B Greig. Also announced are an eighth annual convention of a Maryland union in Hagerstown, round trip ticket deals, featured speakers, and a reopened Freedom M E Church with a large congregational response.
The All Saints Episcopal Church Guild marked its eleventh anniversary with Rev. Oedoree Eagle remarks and a reported 310 workers in the church's ministries. The Pastors Aid logged 240 sick visits and 201 clothing items. St Mary’s Chapter finished parish house debt and funded rectory repairs. the China Mission aided J Addison Ingle. The rector noted 1935.80 spent, 18 baptisms, 10 marriages, 21 burials, 210 public services, 190 sermons, 271 communicants, and 18 deaths among communicants.
Purely personal items report residents traveling for health visiting friends and returning from Frederick. Rev Dr Rice at Cumberland denounces Prohibition party. some parishioners object. A team frightens a wagon causing a wreck near Wolfeville. Local mill schedule change being considered between Wolfsyne and Elierton. Local advertising touts new Derby and Chenille portieres curtains and carpet room stock with low prices.
A Wednesday noon parade sponsored by Losy Bros Pawnee Bil sod Bisy Lillle will pass the main thoroughfare. Star Madeline Fitz Allan, famed with Alexander Salvini Co, stars in a dramatic production scheduled for the evening with dashing acts, humor, music, and animal acts. Tickets available at Yeakle's. crowds urged to buy early. Apples and potatoes being shipped from Wolfsville to Philadelphia.
Blumenauer's 160 N Market address advertises carpet cleaning, relaying, remodeling and carpet laying services. Special prices on large lots. Pointer to Housekeepers item mentions cleaning and remodeling as a trade name.
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