Allegany County MD Archives News.....History From The Evening Times Files August 4, 1926
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Cumberland Evening Times   August 4, 1926   Page 34 August 4, 1926
                  THIRTY YEARS AGO
      Death of Mrs. Elizbeth Hausman 65
      Mrs. John Kelly, 94, died at her home in the Orleans District.
      The City Council at a special meeting passed ordinance to lay out and 
widen Virginia avenue and regulating the speed of bicycles to eight miles an 
hour on the streets.  Riders must carry a bell and a light at night.
      The Hazen Tanning Company, of Hazen, Md., elected M.H. Hartzell, 
president; J.H. Leasure, secretary and manager; O.D. Blair, treasurer.
      Senator-elect G.L. Wellinton was planning to do campaign work in Maine 
and other new England states.
      The Cumberland Gun Club was organized with A.S. Nicholson, president; 
John McKee, treasurer; J.J. Turner secretary.

                      TWENTY YEARS AGO
      Fred Couters entertained a number of his friends on a trip down the 
canal.  Among his guests were Jack Rickey, Harry Couter, Wallie Morgan, George 
Hoffman, William Miller, Misses Della and Rena Couter, Mary Hoffman, Bessie 
Mahoney, Margaret Wrtight, Daisy jackson and Mrs. T. Youngblood.
      Edward Malloy and members of his family were spending a vacation at 
ocean City, Md.
      Edward and Elmer Evans and R.F. Dean returned from a fishing trip on the 
James River.
      J.W. and W. H. Ridgeley purchased an old school house in Ridgelay to 
convert it into a natural icoplant.
      Miss Georgie Beck of Chaneyville, Pa., and Miss Bessie Dixon, of 
Lonaconing, were vising friends in Cumberland.

                        TEN YEARS AGO
      Mrs. Emily Duffy, 83, died in Frostburg.
      A.F. Shober, butcher, while handling cattle near Springfield, W. Va., 
was accidentally wounded by a rifle bullet in the arm.
      A heavy rain and hail storm visited Cumberland.  The streets in the 
southern portion of the city were flooded, the electric street railway was 
halted, and damage done to the telephone and electric systems.
      The body of Mrs. Laura V. Fisher, 69, was brought here for Interment 
from Berkeley Springs, W.Va.
      Victoria Pickett, aged 5, severly burned at her home at Gilmore died.
      Five cases of scarlet fever were found in one family by the Health 
Officer M.J. Colton.
      Valley Council, No. 26, Jr. O.U. A. M. Lonaconing celebrated the twenty-
fifth anniversary of its founding with a banquet.  Thos. G. Fisher presided.  
Senator F.N. Zihlman spoke.

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