July 8 — 100 years ago
July 8, 1923
This date was a Sunday. The Frederick News-Post does not currently publish a Sunday edition.
50 years ago
July 8, 1973
This date was a Sunday. The Frederick News-Post does not currently publish a Sunday edition.
25 years ago
July 8, 1998
In a surprise move Tuesday night, Frederick County commissioners rejected Planning Commission Chairman Richard Floyd’s candidacy for another term. Instead, they appointed Frederick farmer J. Denham Crum and Monrovia resident Joan McIntyre, who has a background in construction, to five-year terms. Mr Floyd said on Tuesday night that the commissioners were “stacking the commission with the developers” and that is why he was sacked for a new term. Mr. Floyd is an environmental engineer.
When Mark Hoke turned off the lights and closed the door to his third-floor office in Winchester Hall in December, he said he wouldn’t regret not renewing his term as Frederick County Commissioner. Mr Hoke, who has been chairman of the commissioners for the past four years, said he was tired of politics.
Six Frederick County firefighters boarded a US Air flight to Orlando, Florida on Tuesday night for a two-week stay, helping the state beleaguered by stubborn wildfires. Wildfires have destroyed nearly half a million acres in drought-stricken Florida since Memorial Day, with damage concentrated in Flagler, Volusia and Brevard counties.
(Editor’s Note: The News-Post does not have access to the 20 Years Ago archive for the period April 16-December 2003. The “20 Years Ago” summary will return January 1, 2024. )
100 years ago
July 9, 1923
A new Nash automobile, owned by Page Webber, Knoxville, was stolen around midnight Saturday night and early Sunday morning. On Sunday afternoon, Deputy Sheriff Joseph E. Chew and Morgan Runkles found the car destroyed by fire a short distance this side of Martinsburg. It is not known who stole the machine.
Accused of violating Frederick County law that prohibits fortune telling, a group of approximately 35 gypsies were arrested Friday evening near New Market by Deputy Sheriff Allen Bartgis and brought before Judge Falconer, of New Market, which fined them $20 and costs.
To escape the frenzy of her husband, crazed with bootleg liquor and armed with a knife and razor, Mrs. John Gittinger jumped from the house of his sister, Mrs. Lewis Esterly, West Fourth Street, on Saturday evening and she is believed to be seriously injured. . On her descent, about 20 feet, she hit an iron cellar door, which gave way, throwing her into the cellar, another five or six feet.
50 years ago
July 9, 1973
A 19-year-old Myersville man and a 14-year-old Highland youth were charged Sunday in a shooting that occurred early Friday morning near Mountaindale. TFC. VE Wolfe reported Sunday that a Frederick man informed the firehouse early Friday morning that while parked near Fishing Creek and Five Forks Road near the Frederick City watershed, a vehicle approached and the occupants started shooting. Two bullet holes were found in the vehicle, Tfc. Wolfe said.
Frederick made seven errors in a 5-1 loss to Mt. Airy on Saturday, was stopped dead for the second time this season by Brunswick’s Don Care as the locals fell to third in the Legion baseball standings of District II.
25 years ago
July 9, 1998
An ice rink that has received more than $2 million in loans from local banks, local and state governments and the US Small Business Administration has decided to declare bankruptcy. “We’re not closing,” said Frederick Sport and Ice Arena general manager Byron Dyke. “It’s a reorganization. The Md. 26 ice rink near Trading Lane opened in 1994.
A 38-year-old father was sent to jail on Wednesday for selling his infant son for $100 in cash and a used car. ‘This is a tough case,’ Frederick County Circuit Court Judge G. Edward Dwyer said before sentencing the man to a two-year suspended sentence but 90 days in the adult detention center. of Frederick County.
A 16-year-old Brunswick girl, dressed in black with a ski mask and hat, robbed a Frederick liquor store on Tuesday night, according to Frederick police. Carrying a caulking gun wrapped in a red towel, she pointed it at the man behind the counter and said ‘Give me your money or I’ll blow your head off’, the first class officer wrote Dennis Dudley in court. papers. The teenager has been charged with numerous offenses including attempted armed robbery and two counts of second-degree assault, Sgt. Thomas Ledwell.
(Editor’s Note: The News-Post does not have access to the 20 Years Ago archive for the period April 16-December 2003. The “20 Years Ago” summary will return January 1, 2024. )