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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1911
Page
3
A dense community roundup records visits and family gatherings among the Ogle, Stull, Stull, Whitmore, and Culler clans across Littlestown Woodsboro and Arlington. It lists relatives, travels to Baltimore Frederick Lancaster Pen-Mar and confirms Harvest Home services at St Luke's Lutheran with Cardinal Gibbons at Mt. St. Marys College.
A Frederick hat shop announces the fall hat selection from leading makers. It invites customers to choose soft hats in greys, browns and black derbies, with new fall styles for young men and conservative options for older customers. Prices range from one to six dollars.
The column records numerous visits and family gatherings across Thurmont Walkersville and surrounding towns. Names include Mrs Daisy Smid Mere Mrs Mary Rice Mr Charles Mort Mrs Catherine Geasey and many others visiting relatives and friends in Altoona Lewistown Walkersville and near Loys Station. A funeral note records Mrs James Grashen’s passing at age 62 with services by Revs Reinerke and Heubener.
The Maryland School for the Deal opened today with sixty to seventy pupils enrolled and more expected. Local students arrived from Baltimore and nearby areas, guided by Prof. Chas. Wig and Miss Katherine Stuarty. The building was renovated over the summer. the faculty remains at ten, with Cora M. Whitcher replacing Bowles and Harry Creager named superintendent of the boys after G. Noy Hess resigned.
George Diges a colored driver for the Arlington Hotel bus was thrown from his team and sustained a back injury while stopping to prevent the horse from stepping on water mains across East Church street near the 7.35 North Carolina train bound. He saved the team from a serious mishap but suffered minor injuries.
Workmen digging for a sewer at Evangelical Reformed Chapel on W Church Street uncovered part of a human skeleton buried three to four feet underground. Remains were located near the rear of the chapel between the building and the Independent Fire Company lot. It is believed the bones mark a long buried corpse from years past.
A carrier pigeon marked with a silver band on one leg numbered 10,264 and a copper band numbered 300 on the other fell exhausted at Mrs. JEL Prict home in Mont Biant several days ago. It has been cared for and will be liberated tomorrow. Advertising begets success via this paper.
An advertisement touts Diapepsin to relieve indigestion and dyspepsia within five minutes, promising renewed appetite and comfort. A separate line mentions the Wicomico County Republican convention meeting in Salisbury and adjourning to September 26 for nominating a county ticket.
Conductor and motorman face orders to quell disturbances on the Frederik Railway trolley line. Magistrate McGill warns offenders after Barton Ramsburg, from Middletown, curses the crew and is jailed, fined 25 dollars, and warned against future arrests. Railway president Coblents cites stringent public conveyance statutes to deter disorder.
A series of two man hold ups around Pen-Mar over ten days prompts police to suspect a single team. Last week two men stole a hand car and robbed a Charmian store, then a warehouse at Fairfield. Friday night a Pen-Mar holdup occurred, and Saturday John Rickrode was held at Bitlinger. A Ballimore woman received notes from her husband and son describing the attack near the Blue Mountain House, with no injuries.
The Washington County Commissioners grant L N Downs and Hugh L Kirby and their assigns the right to lay an electric railway from the northern suburbs of Hagerstown to the Pennsylvania line through Maugansville. The venture plans a trolley line from Hagerstown to Mercersburg via Maugansville Middlebury Greencastle and Upton with necessary turnouts and switches.
Rumors circulate that the Hagerstown and Clearspring street railway promoters plan a line to Waynesboro. A local Hagerstown gentleman, familiar with the situation, predicts the move but offers no further details.
In the Courts daily record, property deeds appear from John J. Davidson and others, with parcels in county and city totaling thousands. trustees and real estate transactions, personal property inventories for Steiner Schley estate, court orders to sell stocks, and accounts for administrators and guardians including Lydia A. Hoke and May Carty. Names include How ard Marvin Jones, George D. Gaver, Nellie Wirts, Ada May Stade, and Hannah Hartwetel among others.
The Urbana Methodist and Episcopal church under Rev. Wilson T. Jarboe will resume services this Sunday morning September 24 at 10 o'clock after several weeks of repairs. The sermon will be delivered by Rev. Wilson Thomas, pastor of Appeld MK church in Bar Limore.
A Philadelphia rupture specialist, Mr J W Countryman, will visit the New City Hotel on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday September 18 1920. He markets a mechanical ring pad used to treat rupture endorsed by reading physicians and surgeons. He will be available each evening until 9 o'clock with home office listed at 2502 N 20th Street Philadelphia Pa.
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