The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-17
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

Tho Carroll County Medical Society
will meet in Taneytown Wednesday,
July 22.
odd Fellows Hall is having fire es-
&c erected upon 1t. A great i'm
provement.
r;ftv-four tickets were sold to Pen
Nor Yesterday from this station to
the the Reformed Reunion.
o,r county commissioners adver-
..,o in this issue for proposals for the
um;,ding of three bridges.
r. &c reported that the mint gave out
Don Mar last week during the ses-
zion of the Bar Association.
,,out 40 members of the Mystic
circle of this city attended the reunion
Of Of the order at Pen Mar on Tuesday.
Tho Methodist Protestant Sunday
.hoo1 of Westminster held picnic
~ tho grove at the pool on Thursday.
ryftv-seven persons went from this
..a.ion to the Odd Fellows convention
1bich was held in Hagerstown on
Wednesday.
Tho Westminster Savings Bank is
having a concrete pavement laid IN
front of the bank and residence. Ed.
uoff is doing the work.
Several Westminster young men are
n,anning to walk to Gettysburg during
tbo pncampment there OF the Penn
svlvania National Guard.
uooistrate ]. William Earhart, OF
Union Mills, who had been In bad
bealth is much improved and is again
ahp to attend to business.
Harry Fowble, East Green street,
ronorts having used tomatoes from nls
Garden, These are the first known 10
Hs to be used in this city.
A ministerial and Sunday school
meeting of the eastern district OF
Maryland will be held in the Beaver
nam Church August and 5.
1obn A. Zepp, aged 80 years, 9
months and 5 days, died at his nome,
G9S Scott street, Baltimore, June ~.
Ta leaves a widow, Mrs. Maggie ID.
zepp.
Frank A. Myers, this city, was In
pbiadelphia. Pa, last week and pur-
chased some of the equipment lot the
New Windsor Water Works which are
being built.
Magistrate Rinker has a bush or
white blackberries, which he is cul-
tiyating as an experiment. He says
thew are in no way superior to the
oldfashoined kind. .sr
The Sandymount Sunday school will
hold its annual picnic August 3, be-
ginning at | D. m. If weather should
be unfavorable, it will be held the first
clear day the following week.
~. Edward Bruce Elliott, of Taney-
town who was thrown from his horse
on Liberty street and received in
iuries to his head, continues to i'm
prove, and will be out in short time.
Rev. ]. D. Kinzer, pastor OF the
Methodist Protestant Church at union
Bridge, has been given lease OF aD-
sence because of i'll health. He will
20 to Atlantic City and Delaware
Water Gap.
The Manchester Fishing Club are
quartered at Dreschler's mill dam,
near Carollton, and are having the
time of their life Fishing is reported
very good and some fine ones have
been caught.
Speaking of big loads of hay, F. H.
Casper, who lives southeast OF Hamp-
stead, thinks he ought to have the
medal A few days ago,with horses,
he hauled to Baltimore tons and
1910 pounds. Next!
Citizens Of Westminster who are in
arrears in paying their taxes and
those who have not secured their IL
censes for private carriages, &C., due
the 1st of May, 1908, are requested to
attend to the matter at once.
The Westminster Fire Department
mas asked the county commissioners
lor an appropriation toward the in
stallation of an automatic f1re-alarm
system The commissioners will an
Aounce their decision next week.
II all the stores in town would close
st o'clock these hot summer even
lnss, nobody would be the loser, and
mercnants and employers would en-
IVY respite from duty. You will gain
Ill nealth more than you lose in wealth
sundays storm caused the deaths
IL persons in Baltimore. They
we're all young persons who went out
N small boats from the different river
,r|s ,ssor|s and got caught in the squall
''auy others had narrwOow escapes.
Ihe st. Luke's (Winter's) Sunday
ssI. asnooi picnic will be held in the pa
W,l rMilon near the church, near New
,%ialasor, Saturday afternoon and
T;n slt, August 20. A band Of music
sa snl De present to enliven the occa-
vac child of John T. Shaffer, Pennsyl-
nm 1s Es avenue, was run over by a buggy
friday VT evening of last week ai q ir
cyoIas ,ns TO get out of the way of bi.
v.,e, SSae,, walked directly under the
to tels s or buggy which passed over
b.a aanGreW Currens, John street, who
dsu..n Me fingers of his left hand acci.
sSosaiiy sawed off at Union Bridge
yo.p ps Dy circular saw about two
bosn;s bs ago, returned home from the
" ;plal ;p IN Baltimore this week great.
Ratbs, annual all-day celebration oi
Ion sunday school, near Carroll
JuIv sssaauon, ia will be held Saturday
10 90, commencing at a. m. A,
cert olock t there will be a musical con.
and Wy the Carrollton Cornet band
raS,d d choir. A program will also he