The Democratic advocate., 1908-08-07

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A number of Democrats have stop
ped the Baltimore Sun and are takin.
the Philadelphia Record
George N. Hunter will open a green
grocery in the building at the corner
OF Main and Court streets.
| Charles E. Goodwin, East Mair
street, improved his pavement by Law
ing one in concrete. Case & Irwin
did the work.
George w. AlbAugh has the founda-
tion up for his two handsome build.
lngs he is having erected next to Ode
Fellows Hall.
Howe's London Show will exhibit
in this city on August II. 1t exhibited
here about 25 or 80 years ago. The
equipment of the circus requires il
cars to haul it.
On Sunday, August 16, special
train from Baltimore to Luray Caves
will be run over the W. M. r. r. The
for ten passengers.
The Church of God Sunday school
will hold an ice cream festival on the
lawn adjoining the church on Saturday
August s, commencing at p. m. A
fine silk quilt will be sold.
John Wisner, son Alexander Wis
ner, of this city, was killed while on
duty with the Baltimore Electric Com
pay, Baltimore, last week, by coming
Wilbur Buckingham, East Green
street, has been promoted to head
proof reader of the Baltimore Bar
gain House Job Office, Baltimore. Mr.
Buckingham learned his trade on the
Advocate, as a compositOr, and
thoroughly understands the printing
business.
Mrs Bette Miller, wife of Deputy
Clerk George A. Miller, was taken by
her physician, DR.. James H. Billing
slea, on Tuesday to the Maryland
University Hospital, where an opera
ton for appendicitis was performed
No complications have thus far de-
veloped, and a speedy recovery is eX-
pected
If you are going away, or have
friends or relatives coming to visit
you, don't neglect sending postal to
the editor, writing proper names dis
tinctly. Do not be deferred from doing
this by false sense of modesty. We
would willingly gather these items
ourselves, but it is impossible for us
to get them all.
Burrier l.. Cookson and C. Edgar
Myers, while repairing the barn roof
on the farm of Mr.. Cookson, near
Uniontown on Wednesday, were thrown
from the roof by the ladder breaking
distance of 20 feet. Mr.. Myers fell
on his head and Mr.. Cookson on his
back, both receiving painful but not
serious injuries.
John P. L.Frock, living on the Caylor
farm, now owned by B. F. Shriver,
about miles from town on the Union
town road, left at the Advocate office
on Thursday five white. potatoes
weighing over 4 pounds, the yield of
one stalk Mr.. Frock says the long
drouth appears to have had no serious
effect, and that he will dhi.aeye good
average crop of potatoes.
Robert Garrett will again be the
standard-bearer of the Republicans in
the Second Congressional district.
He was nominated by the convention
at Towson Wednesday, receiving the
votes of all the delegates except those
! for Hartford, who voted for Edward
| M. Allen, Jr. Before the result was
announced Hartford moved to make
the nomination unanimous, and this
was done.
The Friendship Sunday school
wishes to announce that as the wealth
er was unfavorable July 25, they will
hold their picnic on Saturday, Sep
tember 5, beginning at 9 o'clock. Mu-
sic by the Westminster Orchestra. All
wishing to hear fine music are cordi-
ally invited. A program for the oc-
casion gotten up by the Sunday school
in the evening at $3.50. A merry frolic
with the children at $50. Look for
our advertisement.
Washington I. Ridgely,of Sykesville,
planned a pleasant surprise for his
friends while in Baltimore Thursday.
By previous arrangement he met Mrs.
Alvina Stein and with Mr.. and Mrs.
Shipley went with her to the parson-
age of the Garrett Park Methodist
Episcopal Church, where they were
married by the pastor, U. S. Wright.
Mr. Ridgely, who is 81 years old, while
his wife is 63, is the father of Rev.
Vernon Ridgely, a well known clergy
man now in Ellicott City. They will
reside near Sykesville.
The tenth annual reunion of the
Reformed churches of Carroll county
will be held at Tyrone, Md, near Baust
church, Thursday, August 13, at 10
a. M and D. M. The speakers will
be Rev. c. Clever, D. D., of Hagers-
town, Md; Rev. Robert o. Boyle, OF
Sunbury, Pa, and Rev. S. Schweitzer,
of Ephrata. The address of welcome
will be delivered by DR.. Luther Kemp
and responses by all ministers of the
county All Reformed church choirs
of the county will sing anthems. The
Pleasant Valley band will furnish mu-
sic. Come one, come all.
The county commissioners awarded
the contract for the superstructure
of the bridge to be built over the
Sykesville branch, at Pilsons, to the
York Bridge Company, and for the
concrete substructure to Joseph D..
Weimert The following were the
bids: For superstructure, Canton
Bridge Co., $500; Roanoke Bridge Co.,
1865; Smith Fence & Iron Co., $693;
York Bridge Co., $619; J. S. McIlvaine
Co., $3.50; for rubelstone substructure,
N J. Walsh, $3.50; L. E. Lyons, $500;
Joseph D. Weimert, 1896; for concrete
substructure, N. J. Walsh, $549; L. E.
Lyons, $3.50; Joseph D. Weimert, 1878.