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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1914
Page
7
Mary Jane reports starting winter schedule amid light snow and lingering autumn warmth. She laments Hagerstown fire losses, praises neighborly friendship with Frederick, and notes Society resumes, gatherings, and charity events across many local groups. She forecasts a busy season of fairs, education, and social functions, ending with October’s memories and plans for November events.
Finkle H. Birely of Ladiesburg sues Mrs Ida Kolb for 100 damages alleging assault and battering false arrest and malicious prosecution. Case heard by Justice Fabian Posey with hearings set for Monday. Earlier Oct 19 Kolb arrested Birely for hunting on Sunday and cruelty to animals. Birely fined 7.50 total. Attorneys Buckey Willard for plaintiff Stoner for defendant. Also John Weston jailed five days for theft pending further action. Victoria V Wiles held on bond 250 for grand jury after Weddle accused of writin g a 1000 check. Weddle denies writing it. Jesse Wiles dismissed on charge of stealing a gold watch.
Frederick residents will see Emerick's Jardin De Danse performed by 18 professional dancers at the City Opera House next Wednesday evening. Miss Grace Honemann and Ira Emerich headline the cast with an amateur contest to follow, trophies on display in local shop windows.
Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal Church held a Mobilization Social last evening with over two hundred attendees. The hall featured fall fruits and vegetables as decoration. Miss Edith Radcliff led a program of music and games. A quartet of Hahn, McBride, Morgan, and Sappington Jr. performed, Mary Filler sang a role, refreshments followed, and Knights of Pythias Uniform Rank officers received commission certificates from the Major General.
A fair sized crowd attended the weekly dance held in the Company A armory last evening. Mr. Harling E. Sponnectier of the University of Maryland is spending a few days at his home in Frederick. Advertising activity spurs business activity.
A Daily Telegraph dispatch from the Sessian frontier reports German troops withdrawing from Belgium as they move wounded to Brussels and fortify retreat lines. Descriptions of ruined Dixmunde and surrounding villages follow, with German demoralization and deserters noted amid allied pressure. The bulletins note Belgian and French artillery driving retreat, British advances north of Lens, and gains along the Aisne and Meuse while overall conditions remain fluid.
Tokio Oct 31 two Japanese cruisers set out from Penang in pursuit of the German cruiser Emden which sank the Russian cruiser Jemtchug and a French destroyer in the harbor there Thursday. Emden has more than a two days' start over her pursuers. Also reports from Grimsby and Ramsgate warn of mines sinking the trawler Rosella and the fishing boat Curiam. A German submarine is said sunk after attack on the battleship Venerable. Crown Prince thought wounded at Verdun. A smallpox case near Cavetown Virginia leads to vaccination of the Wright family.
News items record visits and family gatherings across multiple towns. Names include Spurrier, Spurrier family members in Mio Airy Baltim ore and Damascus connections. Mrs George Spurrier visiting daughter Mrs Howard Burgee of Baltimore. Miss Lillian Renn with Pearl Spurrier. Master George Burgee visiting grandparents. Mrs Minnie Searlet and grandson in Charles Town W Va. others mark dinners and suppers with various relatives and travel notes across Pittsburgh Cumberland and Wearington region.
Mer George Trail of Washington spent Sunday with his mother Mrs Bertie Trath Camp Philadelphia Mr Charles Smith of Camp Hill spent Tuesday in Washington Miss Corrine Rogers of Shepherstown spent days at Mrs Sperry Camp Hill Mr William Wentzell of Camp Hill spends weeks with daughter Mrs Grove in Pennsylvania Numerous locals from Camp Hill Bolivar Frederick and Cumberland visit relatives in surrounding towns including Pittsburgh Wheeling Lexington and Lovettsville with family gatherings and travel noted throughout the region
London reports a broad German and Austrian retreat from Russian territory. About 27 army corps or roughly 1,080,000 troops withdraw from the Baltic to Galicia, with German forces falling back west of Thorn Kalysz and Czenstuchowa as Russians press eastward toward Cracow. The Polish center yields near Lowicz and Radom to Kiev’s pursuing army.
A British hospital ship Rohilla, 7000 tons, with about 200 aboard, is believed to have sunk after breaking in two near Whitby. Lifeboat efforts met with no shore contact as huge waves swept the wreck, four sailors found among debris, and the vessel’s name Rohilla of Glasgow. The Rohilla had been transporting wounded from France via Queenstown to Belgium.
Ward B. Shear a fifty five year old unmarried vice president of Standard Milling Company lay in the public morgue after being struck by a trolley car. He was one of the country’s largest flour milling executives and resided in New York Ort. 31. Awaiting a claimant.
A Cape Town dispatch reports that Colonel Belt leading forces against the revolt in the northwest Cape provinces has broken the invasion led by Lieutenant Colonel Marity. The insurgents appear suppressed as of October.
A Minnesota farm wife reports relief after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs. Ciara Franks, of Maplecrest Farm, credits the remedy with restoring strength and easing pains, urging others to try it. The ad notes testimonials and offers confidential advice from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Roofing Papers described including 2 ply tarred roofing paper 104 square feet per roll and 8 roll. Best Grade Rubber Roofing 108 square feet per roll 2 ply. Red Roof Paint and Brown Roof Paint sold by the gallon. Graphite Roof Paint priced at $1.10 a gallon. English Venetian Red Bam Paint and white leads oils advertised with guarantees and varying years of wear.
A vintage advertisement for Ebert Hardware Co promoting carpets and rugs. It highlights safe dyeing methods to harmonize color schemes, claiming to revive fabrics without damage and offering rug cleaning services.
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