Allegany County MD Archives News.....History From The Evening Times Files, August 4, 1926
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Cumberland Evening Times, Cumberland, Md. August 4, 1926  Pg. 4 August 4, 1926
Thirty Years Ago: (1896) 
   Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Hausman, 85 
   Mrs. John Kelly, 94, died at the 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 B. L. Wellington 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 (1906)
   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 Delia and Rena Couter, Mary Hoffman, Bessie 
Mahnney, Margaret Wright, 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 Ridgeley to 
convert into a natural icoplant.
   Miss Georgie Beck, of Chaneysville, Pa., and Miss Bessie Dixon of 
Lonaconing, were visiting friends in Cumberland.

Ten Years Ago  (1916)
   Mrs. Fmily Duffy, 53, 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, severely 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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