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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1891
Page
4
An OCR fragment presents moon phase notes alongside multiple advertisements including Gise Bros The Model and for sale items such as Bank Stock and Franklin Bank Stock. The readable elements emphasize periodical notices and commerce.
A digest of town news lists bridge work at Bancock and new rail matters, farm yields, and local industry. Highlights include Hancock merchants shipping apples to Dato, McNair taking on horses as signee, and plans for fairs in Charlesville. Fire company, partridges and opossums hunted, and new engines for the Frederick division. Church schedules cover Shiloh and Trinity revivals, Thanksgiving services, and German Baptist gathering with communal rites.
Obituary items report George Grossnickle a 60 year German Baptist Church member, father of twelve, funeral held at midland area. Also O C Shier, principal of Bird City school, died as graveyard services held. Catherine Fisher died of pneumonia in Bartonsville. Elizabeth Biser obituary notes her Madison County death. Clarence McBride buried after Lutheran service. Daniel Dikes, 55, dies of blood poisoning. three Bidel children lose kin in seven months. Maud Thomas death in Brooklyn. William Nichols, 35, dies of consumption in Middletown area.
The Church Sale run by the Ladies Sewing Society at the Evangelical Reformed Church basement ended last night with strong turnout. Major Font sold the final “gel over” items at a closing auction, grossing about 435 dollars. The event, praised for its organization, benefited the church ladies in charge. A pantomime by Miss Mary Alvey and Miss Nannie McSherry, with other city performers, is set for tomorrow at the Maryland School for the Deaf.
The Board of County School Commissioners met for a second day at the Court House. Ten dollars was set for the Entonville school belfry and Beg Pond library funds, with district repairs at Mount Tabor No. 1 authorized. Teachers contracts were confirmed. bills and accounts passed. A hotel coat theft and a clock winder resignation were also reported, with aldermen appointing James Doli to fill the vacancy.
Reports from New York describe the birth of John Jacob Astor VI, the heir to an estate valued at 150 million dollars. The newborn, born to John Jacob Astor and Ava Willing, weighs ten pounds and is expected to inherit vast wealth if he lives long. The father remains ill, unaware of the arrival.
A Brunswick Herald item reports pension gains for John W. Dero, a death in Usionville wreathed by relatives from Johnson City and Rosnoke, and ongoing Typhoid struggles for Albert Spits. Montgomery County notes cover court activity, jail conditions, a new court house completion, county offices, and upcoming religious and civic events across Rockville and Linganore.
A hall is being built by The Pen-Mar Council Jr. U. A. M. on the public road to Sabillasville on Mrs. Edward J. Wade’s property. Wade donated half an acre. Foundation dug, most masonry done, contractor Hess of Scotland, Pa. Hall 40 by 24 two stories. First door to a church for Sunday school. Dedicated by Christmas with invitees from neighboring Councils including Resolute Council of Hagerstown.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company is building a high and long trestle to support the Metropolitan Southern Road over Rock Creek in Montgomery county. The structure reaches 65 feet at its peak, spans about 1,400 feet, and uses 700,000 feet of Georgia pine lumber. The line will connect from the Metropolitan Branch near Shiden Station to a point on the Richmond and Danville near Fairfax Station, with a single track and a 15 foot roadway for workers along the sides. Construction is near completion, with trains expected by December under the supervision of Col H T. Douglas and engineer Sir George B. Wade.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is painting stations along the line including Cleggetts Quicksburg Ingles and Washington Junction. Brunswick houses have been treated similarly and the Frederick station is to receive both exterior and interior paint next week with Gray and Freitief handling the work.
Professor Brennan, W. T. Severr, George I. Wilson, A. H. Ely, W. Tut ter, G. Brenner, St. Crimmins and fF. v. Staub have been appointed by the Young Men's Catholic Union to arrange visitors for Christmas festivity.
Mullinix & Kemp advertise a large display of dress goods at two cents per yard, promising the largest, prettiest assortment in town. They claim the latest patterns in velvets and tapestries, plus a wide range of comforts and blankets, and note odorless goat skin regs in several colors. Entrepce: Paraick or Market Streets.
A Brunswick town growth report by Turner, Matera and three others notes 133 new residences and a population rise from about 400 to an estimated 1,500–1,800 as several yards and moves under the Lee B. & C. RB R. Company advance. It lists 4 hotels, 18 stores, 2 barber shops, 3 butcher shops, 2 bakeries, 2 furniture stores, 1 jewelry shop, 1 newspaper, 1 lumber yard, and professional services as the town expands ahead of rail and transfer developments expected next year.
County correspondence lists visitors from Harmony Grove to Mrs Eudora Gardner, including Miss Emma Houck, Miss Hallie Darrow, and Mr Lovelace and others. Also notes Lain Uroes visiting Green Valley, John Bast and wife at Araby, Squire Wolfe in Poolesville, and Chas Gittinger on business. A local weather prophet predicts a mild winter based on bullfrog activity. Real estate transfers include Richard P. Davis mortgage deed, Dorothea Gerlach lot purchase, and a county read of premises by John M. Sharer et al.
Kent county residents sue Chesapeake bridge keeper over alleged false arrest of bicyclists. Maryland Masons convene in Baltimore electing and installing officers at the Grand Lodge annual communications. Water scarcity shuts Kent County mills, while B&O plans coal transport showing limited railroad profit and job support. Obscure court actions include orphans court accounts and marriages in Port Tobacco and Aberdeen.
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