The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1907-05-10
May 18 is Whit Sunday.


The May term of the Circuit Court will
open next Monday.
There will be Children's Day services at
Deer Park Chapel June 9, at 2p. IN.
A $4,000 Lutheran church will be dedi.
Gated at Glen Rock, Pa, on Sunday.
The County Commissioners on Monday and
Tuesday transacted routine business only.
Ascension Day was very gloomy. Rain 10
the morning and very cloudy in the afternoon.
An application for the pardon of Hannah
G. Dougherty, Freedom district, is published
in this issue.
Mrs. ]. d. Crowl and Mr.. Milton Chew
will attend the funeral of Mrs. Anna M. Dor
ton in Baltimore tomorrow.
Mr.. Charles Michaels, Pennsylvania avenue,
lost very valuable horse this week. The
cause of its death was collie.
An illustrated lecture will be given in St.
Johns Lutheran Church, Thurmont on May
10, by Mr.. G. w. Yeiser, of Union Mills.
Subject. 1.-The Holy Land"
At 10 a. m this morning the Weather Blu.
reau sent out the following bulletin: Increas-
ing cloudiness tonight; showers in early
morning; Saturday showers and cooler.
DR.. ]. W. Herring, of this city, made an
address on Thursday evening last, before the
County Convention of the Christian Endeavor
Society," at Union Bridge, on GOOD Citizen
ship"
The Sunday school of Centenary NJ. E.
Church, this city, will hold Children's Day
services on Sunday. June 16, at 8 p. m. A
special program entitled Summer Voices, ~
will be rendered by the scholars of the school.
Julia Fisher, the little granddaughter of
Mr.. Joel Fisher, Pennsylvania avenue, while
playing at the West End schoolhouse We'd.
nesday tore her arm on a nail so severely that
several stitches had to be taken.
The Woodsboro and Double Pipe Creek
turnpike stockholders on Monday, at New
Midway, elected the following directors Ray
mond Z. Long, James M. Smith. William e..
Smith, Frank Dougherty, DR.. c. II. Diller,
NJ. D. Butt and Ralph Dorcus.
party of about thirty young people from
Union Mills and vicinity took hay ride to
the battlefield of Gettysburg on Ascension
Day. One of the B. F. Shriver Co.. s large
wagons, drawn by six mules, hauled them,
and Charles Shean was the driver.
Mr.. Benz. Dorsey, of this city, opened his
new livery stable in Thurmont last week with
horses and carriages. At present he is keep.
several more to the list Mr.. Jacob Staub,
formerly of this city. who is Mr.. Dorsey's
father. in law, has charge of the stable.
Mr.. John Sinnolt, express agent in this
city, received crate of Homing pigeons on
Wednesday from Lykens, Pa, with instruc-
tons to be left out on the first clear day. The
pigeons were sci free this morning and left in
a northwesterly direction toward Lykens, Pa.
A few of the birds lit on nearby buildings and
did not start with the balance.
The First Maryland Regiment Band is now
in prime shape for the concert to be given
under the auspices of the Western Maryland
College A. A. in Alumni Hall, Friday even
ing, May II, at s O'Clock. The band is in
full attendance, consisting of about thirty five
pieces, and promises to give the best enter
tainment it has yet given.
Mrs. Mary A. Stephan, Carroll street, who
spent the past winter with her son, Rev. ID.
Snider Stephan, Vandergrift, Pa, returned
home this week, accompanied by her son.
Rev. Stephan returned home today. While
here he met number of his friends who
were very glad TO see him and commented on
how well he looked.
Several fields of the Longwell estate have
been surveyed off into building lots and will
be sold shortly at public sale. Some lots run
out Willis street toward the old Longwell
homestead and the balance are laid off back
of Willis street. opposite Mr.. j. ID. Crowds
residence and run back to a road leading
from Westminster to Cranberry.
Parents day exercises will be held by St.
Mary's Lutheran Sunday school AT Silver
Run, Sunday. An interesting program has
been arranged. Addresses will be made by
the pastor of the church, Rev. John o. Yoder,
Jesse P. Garner, president of the Carroll
County Sunday School Association, and Geo.
w. Yeiser, president of the district associa-
ton.
DIR. Fred. Yohn Cronk, a member of this
years graduating class of Johns Hopkins
Medical School, has just been notified of his
appointment on the surgical staff of Lakeside
Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. He will begin
his new duties in November. DR.. Cronk is
"a years old. He is the son of DR.. E. D.
Cronk, of Winfield. He received his collegi
ale training at st. Johns College, where he
was gra duated in 1908.
The old landmarks along the line of the
Western Maryland Railroad have one by one
fallen prey to fire, the destruction of ware
houses during the past five or six years hav.
ing been exceptional. At Union Bridge.
Middleburg, Double Pipe Creek (Detour)
twice, Rocky Ridge, Graceham and Thur
mont fire has come within the past six or
eight years. At Logs big fire destroyed a
portion of the railroad property and new
elevator building has replaced the old struct.
ure. Between New Windsor and the top of
the mountain but three of the original ware
houses remain, viz : at York Road, Deerheld
and Sabilasville.