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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1904
Page
2
The Weekly News will be ready Thursday and be a handsome twelve page edition with numerous features. It claims the largest quota of circulation in Frederick city and county and offers special advertising advantages. Copy for ads is due by 5 p m Wednesday and changes by noon that day.
News of the State item notes a Methodist Episcopal church dedicated at Waldorf Charles County. It also reports John B. Byrd a 75-year-old Montgomery County farmer died at Dansville. Other items mention a theft case, jail transfer, severe mountain snow, and a banker convention set in Annapolis.
The item notes October home life with lines about Thanksgiving turkey lingering months and a campaign speech. It comments on heating prep as households start using furnaces and urges thorough cleaning before winter cold sets in. It mentions political activity and a speech left unfinished.
Mrs Elizabeth R B Ford, aged 70, died Saturday afternoon at 5 30 near Njamaville of cancer. She is survived by husband Isaac Ford and three children Mrs William Mahrling of this city Mrs O A Campbell of St Elmo Va and Charles W Ford of Njamaville. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 10 am with service at the home and burial at Mt Olivet Cemetery.
A Nashua notice by Sisters of Holy Cross endorses Father John's Medicine as a tonic and treatment for bronchial troubles and weak patients. They claim it strengthens blood, treats throat and lung issues, skin diseases, rheumatism, and other ailments. The endorsement cites fifty years of use and a claim of safety and efficacy.
A special meeting of the Mayor and Aldermen discussed legality of ordinances, street grading from Norwood's addition to West Third street, and transferring right of way. Norwood offered a road over a sewer pipe in exchange for a wider road, city accepted. Paving plans include Patrick and Market streets with vitrified brick. Water rent for Crystal Plate Inn and Storage Co set at 250 annually. License collection and enforcement discussed. bar association may test constitutionality in Court of Appeals. Liverymen license payments questioned. butchers petition noted. wall along Carroll creek deferred pending flood risk assessment.
PURELY PERSONAL items list residents and visitors in Carroll county and nearby areas. Includes Mr A A Lough and Mrs A A Lough visiting, Mr A R Adsmegon from Germantown visiting friends, D Princston Bookey in Baltimore on business, Col George Vernon and Miss Vernon from Baltimore returning, Miss Mary E Ardi visiting Miss Mary Bouttinger then leaving for Lancaster, George A Sigler visiting family, Thomas Morrison Jr of the State Department returning, Mrs W T Deasgre and Mina Louise Denegre visiting from Philadelphia then returning, Mrs A S Byler and Mrs Phebe Harrie spending a week with Mrs Ahacnu, Charles M Gramer hosts guests during fair week, Ruth Kornmann family leaving Fredericok for Washington then home to Baltimore, etc.
The will filed in Frederick County Orphans Court details bequests to cousins William Gittinger Kate W Martin and her daughter May Breagle Martin among many others. It names executors William C Birely and George K Rodock and notes prior deeded property on North Market Street to Mr. and Mrs Roger E Young.
The Young Men's Christian Association commissions on religious work announce George F. Tibbitts of Washington will speak at the YMCA rooms next Sunday at 3:30 p.m. The event marks the start of the season for men's religious work with plans for occasional Sunday services and Bible classes. Tibbitts will also address a boys meeting at 9 a.m. Sunday in hopes of drawing about one hundred attendees.
In Louisiana a physician from North Market street learned his son William Sylkirk is in critical condition at a Shreveport hospital after a fall in Logansport on Saturday. He was with Gentry Broad of the Dog and Pony Show. the nature and cause of injuries remain unclear. Officers Elected at Enoch Royal Arch Chapter No 23. RB A M: Ira Miller M K H, O O Warehime E K, David King E S D, T Ordemac treasurer, W Nath Young secretary, F T Rhodes sentinel.
The notice touts fine appetizers including Babes and Blue Points on the half shell at the Raw Box and other seasonal delicacies. Minn's Brag Store remains open on North Market Street with phone connections and graduate pharmaceutical items in view.
Mr Wa H 1110K8 transferred from Fred erick Council No 1196 Royal Arcanum received a 3000 dollar draft for the late Samuel M Birely. It will go to Dr Morris A Biraly guardian to Victor M and Laster M Biraly beneficiaries. The total benefits from Frederick Conclave amount to 20000 dollars. Co O Ausharman treasurer of Frederick Conclave No 731 Improved Order of Heptasophs received a 1000 dollar check for the Birely beneficiaries.
The will of John Joseph Jefferson Hoanter of Freedom township Adama county Pa has been filed for probate. It appoints his wife as sole executrix and leaves all property to her as the last will and testament.
The funeral of Theodore P Lowe will be held tomorrow in the German Baptist Brethren church with interment at Olivet cemetery. Barry L Hagan announces a football game with Carroll Athletic Club of Westminster Md to be played Friday November 1 at Athletic Park. Local market quotes show corn 2.75 a bushel and wheat around 1.10 to 1.13. A marriage between Mize Marie Violet Norris and Charles Rudolph Arthur is postponed from October 24 to December due to the bride’s illness. A subscription note says G Breighner in Emmittaburg cannot do without Tue News. Daniel S Shall sells 47 acres timber land in Monnotville, Bhig county.
The local note condemns Johnston for supporting a law that excludes Frederick County voters from political protection while praising Montgomery and Baltimore areas. It cites a House Journal page, urges Republican meeting turnout for November 4, and notes a local coal agent appointment in Somerset County with Quemahoning coal offered by Merchants Coal Company.
The paper’s column asks the Democratic congressional candidate to answer four questions about the 1904 ballot law and its effects, including party designation removal and Montgomery county exemption. It argues Johnston’s home county was exempt and cites local notices, an auction in Momozinn, and a memorial poem for a father.
Local notices announce opening of fall and winter millinery with pattern hats and banners at 104 Mrs Payne North Market Street on November 2 and 3. Other items invite attendance at Blumenauer Co fall event at 22 West Patrick Street opposite City Hotel and request railroad coupons be left at the secretary’s office or Jaman E. Walker & Co. store.
Walter A. Johnston Democratic nominee for Congress in the Sixth district, former Judge William J. Witxanbacher, Harvey Spossard of Hageestown, and Mr Doraney Etchison of Frederick spoke at a large Democratic meeting in Boonsboro Washington county last night.
Samuel Hooper of Baltimore plans move to property of Marcus R. Williams near Brad dock in a county. Hooper has practically purchased the property but the deed is not signed as Williams has not been found.
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