The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

Watch the ancient city of Annapolis
,,row II now has AZ trains in and
out every day.
Prof. Douglass will preach and
conduct the services in the Reformed
Church on Sunday morning.
number of automobile parties were
in Westminster Sunday and took din
nar at the Hotel Westminster.
Company H left this city on Monday
morning on the 7:15 train for Glen
Rurnie for rifle practice. The COM
nanv took their full quota.
Miss Elizabeth Slagle will give an
organ recital at Grace Lutheran
church Tuesday evening, May 26
silver offering at the door.
Mrs. William E. Rinehart, who pur-
chased the residence of the heirs OF
late Grove Shipley, West Main street
is remodeling it throughout.
DR.. D. F. Shipley attended the meet
ing of the State Homeopathic Medical
Association in Baltimore this week
and read a paper on diphtheria.
Charles C. Gorsuch desn't propose
that our firemen shall have any more
practice on his shed near the railroad
He is having a metal roof put on it.
Dr.. Adams, presiding elder of the
New York East Conference, preached
a very able sermon in the M. e
Church of this place last Sunday
morning.
The case of Andrew G. Ege an6
others vs.. Joshua w. Herring, executor
and others, appealed from the Circuit
Court for Carroll county, was argued
in the Supreme Court last week.
Our prosperous young farmer, Chas
Rupert has just completed a new
hen house His mother, Mrs. Gather
lie Rupert, is spending a fortnight
with her children in Baltimore.
Salem Lodge No. 80, /. o. o. F., ot
this city, will initiate several candi'
dates Wednesday night, May 27,
team from New Windsor conducting
the floor work. A collation. will fol
low.
H. F. Cratin and family, who moved
away from this section seventeen
years ago, returned last week and
have settled down in Taneytown. The
family has been residing at Oneanta
n. Y, for some years.
The forty-first annual meeting of the
Maryland State Teachers Association
will be held at Ocean City, June "a
2 and &c. Governor Crothers anC
Senator John Walter Smith are among
those who will make addresses.
Carroll county schools close mex
Friday, and the commencement eXer
cises will be held on the following
Monday. Examinations in the tenth
grade were held this week, and those
OF the lower grades will take place
next week.
The Westminster Fire Department
VIII leave on the morning of June Il
to attend the sixteenth annual con
Yention of the Maryland State Fire
mems Association at Frostburg. The
parade will be on the above date, which
IS on Thursday, at 2.30 pm. The fare
Tor the round trip will be $400 fol
everybody, whether members of the
nre company or not.
Charles E. Fink, Jr., son of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Charles E. Fink, East Main street
won first medal at the twentieth an
nual May sports of Rock Hill College
last Saturday. He was first in the
10V-yard dash and the 220-yard hurdle
race and second in the running higf
Jump. He also won the running broad
Jump, was second in the running higl
Jump, and third in the standing broad
jump.
"A leafet has been issued by the
MARYLAND Geological Survey which
can be obtained by dropping line tt
che Survey or to Engineer w. W
Cfosby setting forth at length the con
sITuctlon, nature, merits and how tt
use the famous King log drag. A
series OF interesting facts and sugges
!IohS are set forth in the pamphlet an(
1t would pay every practical man tc
secure and read the same; he viii
undoubtedly acquire much usefu.
hNoWledge on the subject of handling
iOtiu puI pOStS.
W., An unusual sight was witnessed il
.MeSlmlnster on Monday, when one o1
t.e old-style bicycles, those with {
rnsn 'front.' wheel and low rear whee
ffoaSeu through town. In this case the
sioAt wheel looked to be about eight
aeet nigh, and it's rider had the appear
io I,ee OF the mythical Rip Van Winkle
tons gray hair and whiskers, and the
eeneral aspect of man who had just
bbm.dhened bn.ed from a twenty years nap
bIiilnslng ~ with him the old machine ol
Us earlier years. From the Westmin-
Ster Hotel register we learn that his
S@ S"nie was Karl Kron, of Washington
SQUARE, New York.
r. subscriber writes as follows from
oe teuha IN Park, New York: "The copy
ens '4e Advocate came this morning
inn Hnu I thank you for sending it. Com
to from Westminster, it looks good
no, me. This is very pretty country
wbo buulalns on both sides of the cottage
m nele 81. am stopping. The cottage is
10 .ne shore of Lake Kenka, and there
2 e sood fishing-trout weighing from
nl.o ~ - pounds are caught. Also good
piaee plaoe ior swimming and boating. This
~" TSe is about miles from Penn Yam.
~. He is cottage here and yacht club.
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