The two children in the right of the front row are Ellen Golden, and Danny Keyes. Gayle Bowie is standing behind Danny. The young boy pictured inside the hula-hoop is Marcellus Wells. Shelly Peck is shown on the right of Ellen.
City of Cumberland and Allegany County Directory, 1895-96 published by Bell Publishers of Baltimore lists the names, occupations and residences of heads of households in Allegany County, Maryland in 1895.
The list of abbreviations notes Names of Colored Persons marked with an Asterisk, thus, *. In the transcription of the text, the asterisk has been replaced by '(Colored)' to make searching for African-Americans easier.
Local Youths Win Awards
Two local youths were among 720 youngsters who have been selected as the nation's best craftsmen in Ford Motor Company's 10th annual Industrial Arts Award and Student Craftsman's Fair competition.
They are Thomas W. Keech, 15, of RFD 1, an Allegany High School student, and Gary E. Stephens, 13, of 530 Greene Street, who attends Carver School.
Keech received a $20 honorable mention award for a single impression in the graphic arts division, and Stephens received a like award for his foot stool entry in the open division.
During the Civil War (1861-1865), it was a Mary Esther Townsend who suggested that the Clarysville Inn, located just east of Frostburg, be used as a United States Government Hospital. Her husband, Dr. Morris Miller Townsend, was instrumental in having this accomplished and served as the first hospital superintendent.
After the war Dr. Townsend became somewhat wealthy selling a medicinal tonic. Dr. Townsend's elixir was prepared in Frostburg, trademarked 1880, and sold as a cure for Hay Fever, Asthma, and Autumnal Catarrh.
Canal's history rewritten
Researchers say blacks left out
By TERRY HEADLEE
Staff Writer
Even though it's been 70 some years, J.P. Mose can still vividly remember watching Henry Williams steer his canal boat filled with coal down the winding Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
"He was one of the finest men to ever walk on the towpath. He had a kind word for everybody," said Mose, 91, who worked on the waterway as a boatman in the years before it closed in 1924. He now lives in Beaver Creek.
CITY BRIEFS
A truck load of paper collected by William Shepard for delivery today to Carver High School, Frederick street, as a donation to help purchase uniforms for a colored Boy Scout troop, had to be disposed of at a dump because no one will buy paper in the present glutted market.
The Cumberland Evening Times, Friday, June 12, 1942
COLORED HOUSING PROJECT GETS ROOF
LEGION MAKES DINNER FOR SENIORS, SAYING THANKS
From right: Treasurer of the Fulton Myers American Legion Post 153 Ladies Auxiliary Vieda Page serves Geraldine Smith and Ethel Yates Saturday evening as the post's members, ladies auxiliary and the Sons of the American Legion prepare dinner for nearly 70 seniors as a way of saying thank you for the past years of service and honor them for the wisdom they've handed down.
Jean Beckward celebrates 30 years
27-year member of Historic Highlands Association of Realtors Million Dollar Club
June 5, 2004
CUMBERLAND –
City Playground Royalty
Miss Donna Stumbaugh (center), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stumbaugh, Reynolds Street, last night was named City Playground Queen for 1956. Runners-up were Miss Carol Jean Decker, of Ridgedale play lot, left, and Miss Tanya Darr, of Carver play lot.
Tanya Ley Darr graduated from Allegany High School in 1960 in the Commercial course of study.