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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1901
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR listing business names including City Hotel Grill City Hotel Buffet Doll Brothers Thos H Haller Thos Kemp E Walker Co Rodock Co Opline and others offering a snapshot of a historic commerce scene with mixed punctuation and incomplete lines.
Purely personal items noting Horace Clarke visiting the city, Mrs Pampel traveling in Emmitsburg, the Abbott couple returning from a wedding tour, the Traviss family staying in New York, A M Pattison on Frederick business, William DeLishmutt visiting Washington relatives, Sophie Schiey moving addresses, Florence Little returning from visits, Elizabeth Hilleary returning to Fredericksburg, McCrarys visiting Washington, Mrs Williams and son returning from the Boteler country seat, and A S Biggs and Ida visiting a sick brother in Ohio who shows slow improvement.
The Democratic county central committee met at Democratic headquarters at 11 this morning to finalize election plans. Chairman Jacob M. Newman reported encouraging district results and hoped to carry the county amid strong Black voters. The Republican committee convened at the courthouse with endorsements of a united ticket and predicted a 500 vote majority to defeat the Democratic ring in state and county races.
Judge Motter ruled that most Mt St Marys registration appeals were dismissed while three were sustained. The decision cited seminarians and college students who lived at the campus as lacking a distinct legal residence.
The Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore sent a laurel wreath to Frederick to place on the Francia Scott Key monument. The club marks its tradition of decorating graves, noted as All Saints Day approached.
A crowded City Opera House hosted Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte and Col. George R. Pearce in a Republican rally. Bonaparte denounced Democratic leaders in Maryland and attacked the 1899 election law, while Pearce praised the Republican administration and criticized Democratic efforts. The event, opened by Arthur D. Willard and with Milton G. Urner as chair, featured musical interludes from the Frederick Select Orchestra.
The funeral of Jacob Leach was held yesterday from Montevue Hospital with Rev. Thomas Freaman Dixon officiating and burial at Mt Olivet. John Albert Dean’s service was today at 2 from his Harmony Grove home with pallbearers named and interment at Mt Olivet. Mrs. Neilie Chipley’s funeral is set for tomorrow at 2 from her East Sixth Street home with interment at Mt Olivet. A T Rice & Sons were the directors for the first two services.
The Frederick district redraws eight precincts with detailed boundary lines and voting places. Precincts 1 and 2 split by a line from All Saints to Bentz. Precincts 3 and 4 defined by Market intersections and rivers. Precincts 5 and 6 split near Shookstown Pike and Braddock. Precinct 7 and 8 along East Fifth Street to Monocacy bridge. Voting sites listed at various city locations with map markers.
Democratic candidate Eugene Lu Derr emerges as a prominent Frederick county figure, living in a stone mansion north of Frederick with deep family roots. The note references Mr Carr and his mother Elizabeth Lagenbael, daughter of farmer Peter Lagenbael near Unionville, Maryland.
Mr Derr, a Frederick College graduate who studied law with Joseph M Palmer but never practiced, took charge of his late father's estate at age twenty two. He served as county commissioner in 1583 during the flood, led Frederick County Agricultural Society roles, and was a Waoner married to Fannie Groverman of Baltimore. she died about thirteen years ago. Business may come and business may go, but the shrewd advertiser's business fled on forever.
Congressman Pearce in conversation with Mr John C Hardt promises to push passage of Frederick’s war claim payment bill at the upcoming congressional session. The claim is described as thoroughly fast and should be paid. Dr William C Bofeler completes extensive improvements at Fine Stock Farm, now Patersville Maryland, claiming it to be among the best watered and improved farms in the county.
Local notices advertise an Art Club auction Thursday November 7 at 7 80 p m with decorated items and snacks on sale. A special car will leave Republican headquarters for Middletown at 6 43 p m after the meeting.
A collage of small notices from a local paper: offers on shorthand and type writing for young women, Kane's Celebrity Hotel Grill, free oyster samples for patrons, Gibson Pictures, St Marys Episcopal Guild event at Mrs Manulsbys with admission, doll’s shells and chrysanthemums for sale, eye and ear doctor D Grorr with cataract removal services, London Hospital catarrh treatment, dressmaking with new gown development system, carpet room showings featuring Axmeters and carpet designs at Frederick Exclusive Carpet House.
A terse item notes an attractive table layout referenced as Janadawly with location described as one door north of City Hell. It reads like a brief classifieds or notices snippet with minimal context and no further details.
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