The Democratic advocate., 1907-06-07

Grain and grass are looking we'll throughou
the county.
The cornerstone of Baust Church, near Ty
rome, will he laid OH Sunday, June 16. a
| 10 a. III.
At 10 a. m this morning the Weather Blu
reau sent out the following bulletin: Shower
tonight aud Saturday
j. +. Harley, of Unionville, has been ap
pointed railway mail clerk by the Postoffict
Department at Washington
DR.. Jacob Rinehart left at this Office yes
!! terday jug of boiled off cider that was made
last fall. The cider is as sweet as if Just made
Thanks.
Mr.. Frank 7. Shaeffer, Pennsy ylvania Ave.
is laid up with a sprained ankle which he re-
ceived on Monday in stepping from his wagon
to the ground
Mr.. b. F. Shriver and family, of Union
| Mills. who left this country several months
ago for tour through Europe, returned safely
| yesterday evening.
During the month of May 81 deeds, 25
mortgages and bills of sale were recorded
| and l6 marriage licenses were issued by the
Clerk of the Court.
The citizens, as well as the firemen. of An.
napolis are making great preparations for the
tlremen's Convention which takes place at
that place next week.
Mr.. r. Abner Parke, assistant secretary of
the B. f. Shriver Co., this city. is at the
Jamestown Exposition this week looking after
the interest of the company.
The Westminster Fire Company, accom-
panied by the First Regiment Band, will leave
on Thursday morning on the 7.15 train to at
tend the State Firemen's Convention at An
napolis.
Teachers examinations were held in this
city at the High School Wednesday and
Thursday of this week. Today, Friday is
association day. when the teachers will receive
their pay for the summer term.
Fred. C. Barwager, of Wentz, this county,
who was recently graduated from the Luther
an Theological Seminary, Gettysburg. has ac-
cepted call to mission charge at Bayonne,
N. j., and has already taken up his work in
the congregation.
While standing in the mill of King & Smith,
Lttlestown. Wednesday, Jacob Rifle, an
aged resident of that place, was stricken with
apoplexy and fell to the floor unconscious.
He taken to his home where he lies in
very precarious condition.
Charles R. Favour, former well known
resident of Sykesvile, who has been danger
ously i'll with pneumonia at his residence in
st. Dennis, Baltimore county. is now recov-
ering, and will soon be able to resume his
duties in the Baltimore postoffice.
The thirty seventh annual commencement
of Western Maryland College will begin this
evening with the Preparatory School exercises
in Alumni Hall, and will close with the grad
uation exercises of the College, Wednesday
morning, June II. The program for the week
given in our last weeks issue.
On Wednesday the special committee of the
Springfield Asyu Sykesvile, met and went
over the bids submitted for building the pro-
posed electric road from the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad at Sykesvile to the asylum.
After all of the bids were thoroughly exam
ined and found to be in excess of the amount
of money available, the committee decided to
reject the bids aud advertise for new ones.
The ninety ninth annual commencement at
Mount St. Mary's College. near Emmtsburg,
Frederick county, will be held on June 49,
On Monday. June II, solemn requiem mass
will be said at 8 O'Clock in the morning for
deceased students and benefactors and at
o'clock Tuesday morning Rt. Rev. DR.. Edw.
Allen. Bishop of Mobile, Ala. will ordain
number of young men to the priesthood.
Jesse Robinson, residing near this city, who
WAS arrested last week on the charges of as
sauiing his wife with intent 10 murder. 10 keep
the peace aud attempt to commit suicide. had
hearing before Police Justice Edwin Shriver
yesterday morning After hearing the evidence
Justice Shriver dismissed the charge of intent
to murder his wife and held him under 500
bail for the next grand jury and 500 to keep
the peace In default OF bail he was returned
to Jail.
The heavy storm that passed over this city
on Wednesday afternoon wrought havoc
throughout the county. In this city trees were
uprooied and other damage done by the high
wind. AT Finksburg many acres OF corn were
washed out and will have to be repanted.
Hailstones were as large as hickory nuts and
many window panes demolished. At Hoods
Mill and vicinity wheat fields were moved
down by the hail as though moving machine
had passed through them.
Mr. Charles Gorsuch will leave tomorrow
morning on the I. l5 a. IN. train for Mt. Yer
non with those children who. by their work
in history and general studiousness during the
past school year, have won the promised trip.
Those composing the party will be Henrietta
Roop and James Crawford from the High
School, Jeanette Wire and George Bartlett
from St. Johns School, and Grace King and
Preston Kaufman from the West End School.
The party will return to this city in the even
ing.
Milton o. Myers, Waynesboro. Pa. for
merly IA resident of this city, but later of near
New Windsor, was painfully injured on Friday
last while at work in the hardware store of
Beck & Benedict, Wayne Building. Mr..
Myers was waiting on a customer when he
ascended to the top of Is foot ladder to get
the required article. His foot slipped off the
face striking the edge of the counter, inhict-
I'M, N nolv fracb in hic pppar lin and othpr.
wise injuring him.
The Cecil National Bank, at Port Deposit,
of which Mr.. George W. Albaugh, this city. is
vice president. moved into its handsome new
building this week. The front of the new
building is of Indiana limestone, and the
foundation and side walls of Port Deposit
granite. The structure is sufficiently elevated
to prevent inundation in time of flood or ice
gorge. The interior includes the directors
room, waitingrooms for ladies and gentlemen,
offices for-the officials. rooms for the clerical
force and a vault of impenetrabe steel in re-
intorced concrete casing.
A very destructive freight wreck occurred
on the B. & H. Division of the Western Mary.
land Railroad at Fowblesburg. on Monday
evening about o'clock The train consisted
of about 35 loaded cars and was drawn by two
of the companys largest engines, when fifteen
cars JuhiPeu 'he iaoh, we've io'ilhS uo"u
80 foot embankment, breaking the cars to
pieces and strewng the contents over the
ground. The cause of the wreck is supposed
to have been IA broken axle on a refrig
orator car. which was about the middle of the
train. No one was in jured The wreckng
crew from Union Bridge passed through this
city about $50 p. m, gathering up the section
men to help clean up the debris.
The Hampstead and Manchester Railroad
of Carroll County was granted an order by
the County Commissioners on Monday for the |
right to use the Hanover and Baltimore road
from the Baltimore county line to the Penn.
sylvariia line, under conditions that the com.
pany complete its organization, and in pursu-
ance thereof the incorporators of the railroad
have inserted a notice complying with the |
Public General Laws of Maryland, which re.
uuire that nj Ieast tbrtv dave pot;oa bo o;vo,,