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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1901
Page
3
Tun Weekly News will be a twelve page issue ready Thursday with full news and features. It has Frederick city and county circulation larger than any paper, offering unmatched advertising value. Copy for new ads due by 5 p.m. Wednesday and changes by 12 noon that day.
Purely personal items list residents visiting relatives and moving about Frederick Maryland and nearby areas. Miss Tucker spends days in Baltimore. Mr Charles Bronner accepts work at Asion Knitting Mills. A H Erziler of Woodboro eyes business in Frederick. Edward Albaugh of Liberty visits friends in Frederick. Mrs Ford of Brooklyn returns after visiting Mr and Mrs William Miller. Mrs C Waters East Church street visits Washington. Miss Sacha Arther of Baltimore returns after visiting Mrs Mary Waters. Mr and Mrs H Hedges of Washington return from visits with George Heinisin. Frank and Hamilton Cramp ton of Colfax Washington guest of Samus A Gregg in Jefferson.
Brief items on autumn themes, local events, and odd anecdotes. A painter crew works on Evangelical Reformed church towers. A walker party from Frederick to Hagerstown ended at police headquarters overnight. Farmer D. C. Kine broke both legs in a barn roof fall but is improving.
Thomas Willson, son of the late John I and Anna L P Willson, of this city, died suddenly in Chicago on Sunday October 20. He was a brother of Mrs. Howard Nelson and Mrs. Mary Clabaugh and was unmarried. The News noted the obituary.
John Hardt, chairman of the committee on correspondence, wrote to President Roosevelts to push payment of Frederick's war claim. He outlined the claim's origins linked to Bary's levy, the Confederate delay, and the debt burden on Frederick. Hardt plans to brief new and retiring lawmakers to sustain agitation for payment.
Ex-Tudge George Mitchell Rossum of Denton, a leading Maryland attorney and candidate for the State Senate from Caroline County, died suddenly of heart failure last evening while walking to a drug store. Born 1834 at Wye Mills, he studied at Strasburg College and Yale Law School, served as chief judge of the Second judicial circuit, and was a longtime senior warden in Denton's Christ Church. He had a broad Eastern Shore practice across Caroline, Talbot and Queen Annes counties and had been a past candidate for Congress and the U.S. Senate.
Governor Stone of Pennsylvania declined a requisition to return Meyer and Emanuel Spiro to Frederick County. State's Attorney Worthington to produce an affidavit proving the Spiros were once within Frederick jurisdiction. Worthington will gather a witness in Brunswick, identify them in Chambersburg, then present to Harrisburg Monday at 3. W.T. Omwake reports locating most of the Spiros stock, with 93 boxes found in New York and six in Jersey City, five in Carlisle. Goods stored under fictitious names, some in France, complicating trace efforts.
A mild diphtheria outbreak in Adamatown led to the public school closing for a week. Children of Messrs. Fenton and George W. Thomas and Mr. Ritchie are ill. Dr. Connelly oversees the affected children and fumigation will occur during the closure.
Dr Minor C Balawig of New York presented a fine organ recital at United Brethren Church to a well filled audience including notable musicians. He performed a difficult program featuring The Storm in the Mountains composed for organ, and Mrs. F. V. Staub rendered The King of Love My Shepherd Is. An entirely new program is promised for tonight with a silver collection at the door.
The Lutheran Synod finished its Boonsboro session with adoption of reports from Eastern and Western conferences and societies. It approved receiving St Pauls Pleasant Hill into the synod and set next conven tion for October 1809 in Dagerstown. Recurring items include education funds, ministerial training, and deaconess work.
Six or seven mammoth ears of corn from Western Maryland were shown in Baltimore by Mr. Henry O. Wright. The ears, from J. W. Sullivan of Monrovia in Frederick County, are reported as the largest ever seen on the Chamber of Commerce floor. Cob length about 12 inches, weight around 13 pounds, with an estimated 1100 to 1200 grains per cob.
Apple growers report about thirty thousand dollars worth shipped from Frederick County in recent weeks with most fruit going to Philadelphia and sizable totals to Baltimore and New York. The September 15 storm damaged crops nationwide, reducing final yields. Individual orchards, including Marry W. Summers, netted around two thousand dollars, while others sold for two to six hundred dollars. Agents for J W Thorn & Company and H B Williams shipped thousands of barrels at about two dollars per barrel, with remaining fruit slated for home consumption in Middletown Valley.
The dedication of the new Methodist Episcopal Church at Havre de Grace will take place today as a donation from Mr. and Mrs. Seneca. In Anne Arundel county Judge Revell addressed the October term jury warning of possible legal violations in the Brooklyn area. Charles Clark, a minor, asked the Republican State Central Committee to seek 5000 dollars in damages for injuries from a fall of a speakers stand October 26 at McNinloh and Occh ard Streets in Baltimore. Nicholas Robinson, colored, stood trial in Towson Circuit Court for the murder of Joseph L. Peck during a dispute over a crap game near the Baltimore County Fair Grounds in Timonium.
An Italian man, tall and well built with a foreign appearance, walked along West Pasrigk Street this morning carrying a large grip. He asked directions to Rook Wood, Pa, aiming for the B and O depot, was guided to the station, and boarded a train. He spoke neither English nor wrote it. a paper with his name and destination was found in his pocket.
A back window and the partition window were forced at the Woodside postoffice and railroad station in Montgomery County yesterday morning. About 400 cent stamps were stolen. A woman's handkerchief with block trimming was left behind and a wire hairpin used to pick the lock was found. Two letters were opened but railroad tickets remained untouched.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad offers special Sunday trips to Washington and Luray Virginia. Washington departures at 8:00 a.m. with return at 6:30 p.m. Luray departures at 7:30 a.m. with return at 6:00 p.m. Fares are 1.00 to Washington and 2.50 to Luray for the round trip.
Miss Napole Johnson hosted a euchre wedding party at her Court Square residence. Guests enjoyed decorated parlors, drinks, and a raffled gift for the winners. Notables included Miss Rogers, Miss Clapp of Plainfield, and Mr. J Francis Smith among attendees.
Public school teachers of Hrader 1ok organize a reading circle with Prof. Amon Burgee of Male High School as president and Miss Pearl A Eader of Female High School as secretary treasurer. Meetings set for Mondays at 7 pm in the Female High School. The winter course follows State Board recommendations.
The Department of Agriculture announced the annual seed distribution begins December 1. Plans are ahead of previous years with double the usual quantity, totaling 47,000,000 packets of seeds for vegetables and flowers to be sent nationwide.
Wild hogs are appearing in considerable numbers in Warlin mountain Pocahontas county West Virginia. Wellington rats killed one last week weighing 300 pounds with tusks six inches long. Very few wild hogs seen in the area since the hard winter of 1890 91.
John H. Robboson of Baltimore, whose shoulder was crushed at Riehl's Mall on the B and O Railroad September 19, has been taken home very much improved. He was accompanied to Baltimore by Mrs. Elmer Hull of East Fourth Street.
Grace Reformed Church supper hosted by Mrs R Thomas at the Conservatory of Music East Church Street October 24 from 5 to 9 pm. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad offers Oct 27 trip Frederick to Washington returning 4:30 pm same day, $1 round trip, tickets valid only on issue and special train. Luray Caverns excursion Oct 27 from Frederick 8 am, return 6 pm, $2.60 round trip including cavern admission. Fall and Winter Opening October 23 24 pattern bonnets hats and millinery, Mantz 16 South Market Street. Republican Campaign Club meets Oct 22 8 pm at No 14 West Patrick Street Speaker William C Smith. Eye ear nose throat practitioner advertises cataract removal nose throat care and glasses. Dressmaking new system at Baner 85 East Church Street. Help wanted ads claim many positions via Taz News. Carpet room advertizes Axminster carpets at Frederick Exclusive Carpet House Mullinix.
A vintage catalog style ad highlights John Hendrickson’s department store offering domestic goods and textiles. It touts low profit margins, big ranges in flannel, prints, ginghams, blankets, curtains, portieres, and carpets. Retailers like Jon Hesoniostox, Sappington, and Atlee Radolify appear with addresses in Frederick and Baltimore, plus carpet styles and floor coverings.
A Republican mass meeting will be held at headquarters Fox building East Patrick street tonight at 8 o clock. Hon William C G Smith of Baltimore and other speakers will address the meeting.
A freight wreck at Oella near Ellicotts City caused delays on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad main line this morning. The accident was caused by a defective rail.
At yesterday afternoon’s Board of County Commissioners session the board decided to build an eight foot span and fourteen foot roadway wooden bridge in Liberty district.
One of Hooper's wagons loaded with gand broke down this morning due to a defective axle on South Market street. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs A S Consol at 161 East Patrick street on Sunday October 20. Miss Bertha Schmidt of East Third street extended is somewhat better after illness.
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