The Democratic advocate., 1908-07-31


ed Church occupied the grove OF
Thursday. stss
A farmers sons tournament will b.
held on the old jubilee ground, neal
Mt. Airy, on Friday. August IA. There
will be music, dancing, and other at
fractions. See large bills.
. Our young men are making some
headway in organizing a baseball
team. They have not yet secured 6
field on which to play. Efforts are
being made to arrange a game fol
Saturday, August 8, in Westminster
Several hundred persons were pres.
ent at the annual reunion of present
and former students of the Maryland
Collegiate Institute, Union Bridge
at Pen Mar Park, Tuesday afternoon
Exercises were conducted in the Audi
torium.
At meeting of the State Board OF
Education in Baltimore on Wednesday
$1,000 was appropriated to each OF
twenty high schools in the State for
the maintenance of business course
The Westminster high school was
among those selected.
An excursion to Baltimore will be
road on Thursday, August 6, in the
ment Company, leaving Westminster
the return trip. Round-trip tickets,
80 cents.
The drawings for the addition to
DR.. J. S. Myers residence on E. Main
street, having been completed by w.
Leon Clark, of Alexandria, Va, ground
has been broken and J. Webster
Ebaugh, the contractor, expects to
have it finished by November 1, when
DR.. Myers will move his Office there.
An effort will be made to have the
alley running past the Maulsby prop
erty opened up to the full width of a
city street. Council will be asked to
condemn a strip of this lot 80 feet in
width at the price paid for it by the
recent purchasers in order that a
regular full-width thorougfare may
be constructed from Main to Willis
street.
The two young men who left this
city about two weeks ago to seek en-
ployment at Pittsburg, Pa, returned
home on Saturday last very much dis
They stated that in Pitts
burg, where they were to work in a
large machine shop, about thousand
people stood around the office to Sc
cure situations, so they started for
Chicago, where it was even worse
than in Pittsburg, so they concluded
to start for home. They will not leave
home again. ~
Our city council is improving the
appearance of Main street by putting
in concrete cutters and curbing on the
south side in front of properties whose
owners are willing to pay cost OF
same. 1t will be much more cleanly
than the cobblestone cutters in that
it will permit water to run freely and
will prevent the growth of weeds. This
form of gutter will grow in favor when
it's superior advantages are fully dem
onstrated, and the whole town will
probably be thus equipped at no dis
tant day.
The Carroll County Reformed
Church reunion will be held in grove
near Baust Church, Tyrone, Md,
Thursday, August 13. There will be
an all-day program. DR.. G. Clever, OF
DR.. Robert o. Boyle, of
Sunbury, and Rev. S. Schwitzer, OF
Ephrata, Pa, will speak during the
day. The different Reformed church
choirs will sing. The Pleasant Valley
band will furnish the music. Bring
your basket, or lunch can be bought
on the grounds. A large crowd is an
ticipated.
The large bank barn of c. V. Wood
en-, 1 mile south of Hampstead, was
totally destroyed by fire yesterday
afternoon about 2 o'clock, with con-
tents, which consisted of hay, grain
separator, some farm machinery and
two calves. A wagon shed and corn
crib and a machine shop which was
close to the barn, were also destroyed.
No grain was burned, as it was in a
barrack some distance from the barn.
A traction engine was damaged from
the heat. The cause of the fire is not
known, but supposed to have started
from spontaneous combustion. The
loss will be considerable with but lit
tie insurance.
The sale of building lots of the G.
w. Albaugh Real Estate and Broker
age Company took place Thursday at
10 a. M, and the ground sold at bar
gain prices. Eleven lots were sold
for an aggregate of $177S.50, and the
lots brought from SOL to $500 each
The purchasers were J.Fred Rinehart
3: David N. Myers, 1; VIM. Rosen-
berger, 1; S. Simpson, l.; J. Stone
sifer, 2; A. F. Campbell, 2; Mrs. Kate
Small, 1. There will be another sale
later on in the season, about October
1, and in the meantime any one wish
ing to purchase any of the lots can dc
so privately by calling upon the Geo
w. Albaugh Real Estate e Brokerage
Company, Westminster, Md.
William Staup,of Union Bridge, made
a most successful dynamite blast by
setting it off by electricity at the quar-,
ries on the premises of Mrs. Logue
Spring Mills, on Friday afternoon last
i'm which tons of rock were moved
Mr.. Staup had 16 holes 16 feet deep
drilled by a steam drill by James Sin
not, Union Bridge. He placed dyna
mite in the 16 holes and attached {
wire, at the end of which he had
battery connected. When the/ bias
went off the stone seemed to lift ant
crumble, with but little report. The
stone was blasted for Ezra G. Brown
this city, who is superintendent of thu
Westminster and Meadow Brancf
Turnpike Company, and who has leas
ed the Stevenson quarry for the pur
pose of supplying crushed stone To-