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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1897
Page
3
The Weesly News will be ready Thursday as a handsome twelve page issue replete with news and special features. It boasts Frederick City and county’s largest bona fide circulation as an advertising medium, with many advantages highlighted. Copy for new advertisements and changes is due midweek by specified times.
Brief Bits surveys brighten the day with varied notes from weddings to weather and oddities. It mentions many light items from farm life to inventions and jokes, includes humor about elections, education, and curious tidbits on animals, bodies, and technology.
Annual love feast draws about 150 members from Frederick district congregations in the West Fourth Street church. Elders from Union Bridge Burkittsville and others participate as services begin with Elder Storer, followed by Elder Ausherman sermon on Church Doctrine. Feet washing and Lord's Supper occur amid attendees from the recent Joness settlement convention and ongoing sacred observance tonight.
Rev John Woods Eliott accepted St Andrew's P E Church in Baltimore. Luther Euhlman to speak at Union Bridge Lutheran meeting. Maryland anniversary events, Orthodox Friends report, and Woman's Auxiliary in Baltimore Grace Church. Maryland Christian Endeavor Union begins its eighth annual convention at Central Presbyterian Baltimore with 500 delegates expected. Lutheran Maryland Synod Western Conference convened at Zion Lutheran Hagerstown with clergy from Funkstown Smithsburg Waynesboro and Martinsburg, among others.
Local reports celebrate a busy season for small game in Maryland and Virginia. Hunters like Harry Robinette of Pratt and John Eteaganions of Hancock claim record pheasant and bear hauls, while others bag wild turkeys, coons, squirrels, and rabbits across Allegany, Bedford, and Garrett counties. Wild turkey numbers rise after new game laws, with several large deer shots noted.
Oliver Pearre of Howard county dies at 28 from consumption near Glenwood. He struggled with illness after contesting a brother-in-law’s business in South Market Street, then moved to the country hoping for recovery. Survived by wife Lula Dorsey and a young daughter laid to rest. Funeral at Longwood chapel. interment Oak Grove. Also notices: Herman L Lewis 25 killed by engine near Washington. John F Seton 27 dies in Emmitsburg after hemorrhage. others ill, funeral details, and community condolences.
A large Brunswick social ball at Hotel Elgin drew many guests, dancing to Berbert's Orchestra from 8 30 p m until 2 a m. The event featured a lively waltz, social exchange, and a long list of attendees from Brunswick and surrounding towns, with chaperons Mira James and Mrs Wm L Clark.
Mr. Wm. W. Doub of Middletown states he is not an applicant for any clerkship or public office, refuting earlier mentions linking his name to the Republican political plume.
Arthur H Warthan armed with a musket shot Lewis Phillips at close range outside Phillips home after a dispute over a woman. Phillips sustained multiple wounds to the arm and side and was taken home bleeding. Warthan was jailed for a hearing set Friday afternoon. Phillips, once jailed himself for an attempted killing in 1895, is a local resident known as Dean Phillips.
Bir Harry E Wilcoxon, a North Africa street musical instrument dealer, presented a gramophone concert at the Tax News office this morning. He demonstrated the instrument’s clearer volume and simple operation, noting indestructible discs and a wide range of reproduced voices from famous singers and speakers. The dealer touts the gramophone’s low price and home furniture value, predicting broad local adoption.
Washington correspondent for the Baltimore Banner reports that traders no longer offer trading stamps as a customer incentive. Prosecuting Attorney Pugh believes the scheme falls under an 1871 District gift enterprise license. He thinks proprietors face up to a $1,000 fine and six to twelve months confinement under a 1873 Congress act.
The November term of Montgomery County Circuit Court opened in Rockville with Judges McSherry and Henderson. Foreman William A. Gassaway led the grand jury. McSherry charged the grand jurors to tackle numerous local option law violations and to actively close open saloons and illicit Aquor sales in the county.
W I Parsons and M G Urners trustees convey 200 acres to Andrew C McBride for 10700 dollars. Manassas J Grove and wife transfer real estate in Frederick County to Calvin E Ramsburg for 150 dollars. Thorss H Haler and wife deed a lot in the county to Frederick E Wes and wife for 45 dollars. Meyer and Council of Brunswick transfer Brunswick real estate to Samuel J Bratt for 35 dollars.
A renowned lawyer urged Frederick to expand polling to six venues to improve accuracy and reduce error. Another citizen argued against lowering the mayoral salary, proposing added duties instead. The notice promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a health aid.
The chrysanthemum, indigenous to China and Japan, has a long history of admiration and cultivation. By 1689 it was grown in Europe, American introduction came in 1886, and rapid variety development followed in many forms including Chinese, Japanese, anemone flowered, pompous, and hairy types. Continuous propagation, cross breeding, and a Chrysanthemum Society of America committee determine merit for official recognition.
A Baerlin newspaper recounts a young German man attempting a kissing record with his sweetheart, agreeing to take 10 000 kisses from her lips in hours with brief rests. Umpires watched as he reached 3000 kisses in hour one and 1600 in hour two, hitting 750 in hour three before his lips failed and he collapsed.
A fragment from Braine argues persistent self promotion using the newspaper as a friend and community builder. A quirky note mentions a Tucker county Virginia champion farmer named Spencer who shuns social norms and even his wife revealing an odd tale linked to a gold watch.
The article recalls the first Thanksgiving Dinner celebrated in Plymouth Mass 276 years ago. The assembly included twenty members of the American army and featured Priscilla the back ward river of Priscilla and Miles Blandish. Indians and whites shared a feast with roast turkey, beechra’s, clam chowder, fish, salad, cakes and fruit. The dinner marks the first oysters being served.
Clarlen Broadway Reuss published a letter and enclosed seven letters from local residents in one day. The writers presume Mr. Rouse’s generosity is boundless and expect him to aid everyone, with some asking for dollars as casually as discussing the weather.
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