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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1898
Page
3
The Wersiy News will be a handsome twelve page issue ready Thursday with news and special features. It boasts the largest bona fide circulation in Frederick city and county as an advertising medium. Copy for ads is due by 6 p.m. Wednesday, with changes by 12 noon that day.
Purely personal items list numerous residents and visitors in Frederick and nearby. names include Rev. Dr. E R Eschbach and others traveling to Philadelphia for the Peace Jubilee. several residents from Washington Baltimore and Virginia discuss visits, departures, and court notices. Orphans Court sales and estate actions are noted along with local visitors to Frederick.
The Maryland Synod heard the Gettysburg Seminary report noting satisfactory operations but a weak contingent fund. Twenty four graduates, all but one entering the ministry, and resolutions to fund General and Maryland Synod expenses were adopted. Trustees report orphans at Loysville and new buildings including a nursery. The synod elected four directors and approved debt collection and apportionment plans. The eighty convention will meet October in Westminster Grace Church.
Citizens in Allegany county seek court injunction to stop county commissioners paying further costs in the Piedmont Pulp Mail case. An effort aims to have the current grand jury indict West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company linked to Potomac pollution. the old indictment targets Piedmont Pulp and Paper Company.
The fifteenth annual reunion of infantry artillery and cavalry veterans of the Purnell Legion Maryland Volunteers was held in Baltimore. Colonel William H. Purnell, former city resident and first colonel of the Legion, attended as the brigade’s namesake and speaker.
Enoch Royal Arch Chapter held its election last night electing officers. High Priest Elias B Ramsburg. King Charles C Waters. Scribe Daniel T F Orde man. Treasurer W Nash Year. Secretary F T Rhodes. Sentinel Chas F Goodell.
During the service on October 23 the superintendent and his wife shared treats at Mountain Dale Sunday School but two pounds of their candy were stolen. No suspects are named.
More raspberries from Mr Robert Thomas of South Market Street were brought to the office. The second crop is described as perfectly matured and genuine Haver. Frost touched only some unperfected buds. Health note urges Hood's Sarsaparilla to keep well.
The Potomac Development and Improvement Company seeks a broad charter to develop land, lay out towns, build railroads and utilities, and attract Northwestern state immigrants. Gov Frank Brown named as president in a move boosting state immigration and investment with aims to form settlements and enhance Maryland’s forest and coal resources.
The funeral for Lawrence Bentz was held yesterday at 3 pm from his East street home with services by Rev. L F P Meyers and Rev. Cyrus Thomas. Interment followed at Mount Olivet Cemetery with pallbearers named. A. T. Rice & Sons were directors. Separately, Wm L Irwin editor of the Boonsboro Times was buried in Boonsboro Lutheran Church with interment in Boonsboro cemetery. The service drew a large crowd and featured floral tributes.
Market notes show abundant vegetables and fruits with eggs scarce. Prices: Lima beans five cents a quart, apples 30 to 50 cents per peck, chestnuts five cents per quart. Dressed fowls available from spring chicken to old goose. Col Geo A Pearce to speak at Clear Spring this evening with stops in KeeduskVille Williamsport Hagerstown and Boonsboro. The Republican mass meeting in Boonsboro is postponed due to W L Irvin’s death.
Hagerstown silk weaver and social labor candidate Mr John A Bonner protests after 236 of 305 petition signers meet requirements for the sixth district congressional ballot. The state secretary deemed 200 valid signatures sufficient. The notice urges use of Hood's Sarsaparilla to ease rheumatism.
The article describes a carnival crowd at a fair where a disabled performer nicknamed the half man half horse attracts attention. Ida Webster, a distraught woman, kisses him onstage as a manager gives her money and sends her away. Thurston explains locals see the Cuban wild girl as dangerous and unpredictable in matters of love.
Prof Lewis C Horn of Baltimore, a noted medical teacher and author, died in Aiken Washington County, after health retreat. Funeral in Baltimore. horn once professor at Baltimore University School of Medicine. Also notices Silas A Konnty aged 71 died at Mapleville from heart disease after love feast. Mrs Mary E Harwetel dies in Baltimore. William Sheeler dies at 2016 East Pratt. Charlotte Carter, a respected colored woman, dies in Battletown with funeral held today.
Mr and Mrs John Gassman celebrate their twenty fifth wedding anniversary at North Potomac street Hagerstown with a dinner and many friends. They wed in Middletown and are linked to Rev J L Smith of Pittsboro. Mary Head, P B Runkel, Mrs John Eisenhauer and Allen Gosnell are noted as ill or recovering. The Ladies Mite Society of St James Lutheran plans a sociable at 241 South Market Street. A pigeon exhibition is announced by the Maryland Colebagi Association in November.
A historic business in Muncy marks 6001 days of progress since its founding by David I Smith. The store moved across several buildings, later renamed Awmiths Temple of Muncy, offering groceries and confections. It is a local landmark amid town history and commerce. The piece also notes society items and upcoming millinery openings in town.
Blamenaner & Co at 64 and 86 West Patrick street advertise the Wes Fall and winter opening with new and original hat and bonnet designs. Dr Wm C Botcher permanently located here offers eye ear nose and throat care with free spectacles examinations and convenient offices at 28 N Market Street. C E Cline's Carpet Store invites shoppers to see the largest carpet stock in the region and promises to handle the rest.
A long time family business in Frederick, Maryland, marks fifty years since its founding. The note from Davin H. Smith thanks customers for support, pledges fair dealing, and invites continued patronage alongside ongoing sales and local notices about community events and openings.
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