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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1920
Page
5
Special Dispatch from Washington reports showers this afternoon and tonight in Maryland, followed by colder weather later. Wednesday should be fair with no precipitation. temperatures expected to drop into lower ranges as a cold front moves through the region.
The Maryland State Sunday School Convention began at 1 30 pm with a half hour song service in the Evangelical Lutheran Church East Second Street. Delegates from across the state arrived for registration as Rev Charles D Shaffer presided and Prof J Lincoln Hall led convention music.
Obituary items report the death of a Brandenburg family member from cerebral hemorrhage and a separate note on a 83 year old Benjamin F. Stewart passing at his niece’s home. Additional items include a child’s death from rheumatic disease, a surprise home visit for Rev. Derr, a pending church debt clearance, a Grayson H. Staley real estate sale, and Maryland prison leadership changes as Col. Claude Sweezey is named warden.
Public auction conducted by Edward Sutely will sell Mrs Herbert estate items including live stock and farming implements at the Palmer farm one mile south of Creagerstown on the Creagerstown to Woolsboro road on Thursday March 3 1921. American Legion Dance at the Armory on Armistice Day at 9 PM.
Loyal Order of Moose summons members to meet Thursday at 1 30 for the Armistice Day parade. Notes and business notices span Madam Stanley palmist readings to local store closings and hunting permits, with Knights of Pythias and Chippewa Tribe meeting details and farm sale and dancing academy notices.
In memoriam for William O H Creager dated November 9 1919 notes his death as sudden and expected. A list of local events includes an American Legion dance Armory on Armistice Day and a state Sunday School convention program. Various advertisements offer millinery reduction sales hats real estate 16 acres in Frederick Maryland and expert automobile painting services plus freight train and passenger car schedules and poultry pricing by Gittinger’s Grocery.
Local notice lists many names forbidding hunting and trapping on lands, with undersigned hardware stores closing on Armistice Day November 11 1920, at noon. Card of thanks expressing gratitude for sympathy and flowers follows. Community events include a city opera house program and Armistice parade preparations.
Citizens' National Bank of Frederick Maryland lists capital funds 100000 and 300000 with officers including J D Baker president WM G Baker vice president H D Baker vice president WM Zimmerman cashier Samuel Duvall assistant cashier Joseph Medivit assistant cashier Directors include J B Ramsburg WM Baker D E Kefauver J D Baker Thos T Haller Daniel Baker C H Gonley MD P L Hargett J S Newman.
An advertisement touts Terry Croth Drapery including couch covers portieres window hangings and table covers with $1.65 yard specials. It praises hand crafted glass bead strands and makes a case for gift items and money bags handmade with ivory shell tortoise and rope tops priced from $6.60 to $25.00 by John D. Aendrickson.
Grayson H Sta ley Real Estate offers numerous Maryland sites along the I and K T rail line. Properties include 6 acres with a 13 room brick house, 94 acres near Lewistown, 46 acres near Middletown, 58 acres with brick house near Bethel, and 130 acres with improved buildings near Liberty. Also listed are 147 acres with 120 acres marble and a bank barn, 20 acres by Petersville, 88 acres near Utica, 146 acres with a mansion and outbuildings near Urbana, plus 12 to 180 acre tracts with various outbuildings and good roads.
John N. Clary and Narrell H. Nelson Real Estate advertise numerous modern brick dwellings on multiple streets including East Second Church and North Market. Listings include six to nine room homes with garages, large lots, possessions offered soon, prices ranging from $1600 to $6500, and a line about general insurance and investment services.
Noah B Cramer & Co offer numerous city homes for sale in West Church area with prices from 1,260 to 5,000 dollars. Listings include brick dwellings on Second Street East and North Bonitz Street with various entrances and modern features, plus two modern homes on Third Street and Fourth Street. Also advertised are building lots in Roacmont and other areas, railroad-adjacent factory sites, and a complete farm and suburban property list.
Property catalog lists 0 to 192 acre parcels near Frederick with fruit orchards, improvements, water, and bank barns. Prices range from 2 500 to 20 000 with features like six room houses, bank barns, and proximity to roads and rail. Markwood and Harp Realty advertises insured, reliable options in Frederick County.
A fragmented notice describes a large dairy stock farm of about 700 to 12 miles from Union Bridge near Frederick, with 25 acres and a brick stone site along a hard road. For details call phone 2094.
A fragmented ad page lists property for rent and sale including 180 acres of land, 4 and 65 acre tracts, well watered and timbered parcels, modern brick and frame dwellings, and rental opportunities. It notes insurance agents for Frederick County, Remington typewriters, and a 10,000 dollar New York Life policy tied to a family estate.
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