The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-08
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

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having his residence painted.
Rud RIackston has hauled over nj
4,1,, hundred barrels of corn from the
,,oiab borhood of Union Bridge to En-
#mitsburg.
The sheds along the railroad keep
,,I FIRE department in practice. TWO
alarms this week; prompt RESPONSE
no damage.
T II Shriver, of Union Bridge, is
+be champion poultryman Of his nelgn-
borhood. Out of eighteen settings
every egg hatched
Robert E. Frizzell, East Main street.
has sold his brick yard, located Oh
Bishop street, to Harry n. Oulslel
of the Eastern Hotel.
T Ditman & Son are building for the
Carroll Oak Tanning Company large
structure in which to store park. IL
viii reouire 4,6OO square feet OF roof
ing.
Eastview public school will hold an
icn cream festival Saturday evening
. R1av % Should the weather prove
unfayorable. the first clear evening
thereafter
The Western Maryland Railroad
Company, after laying off all their sec
tion hands for two days, started out
on the first of May on full time With
an increased force.
Frank S. Myers had his hand caught
in one of the Advocate presses last
Friday. The accident was a painful
one, but we are glad to say that no
bones were crushed and the injuries
will not be permanent.
Paul Beaver, son Of John Beaver
Warffeldsburg, while coasting down
hill on his bicycle Tuesday evening,
accidentally fell off, causing fracture
Of the right collar bone, which was
SET by Dr.. NJ. L. Bott, of this city.
Frederick Glenmyer, proprietor OF
the CITY Hotel, has installed a private
exchange in his new hotel. Claude Al
gire. agent of the C. & P. telephone,
this city was given the contract. the
lctel will be opened on June by Geo.
W Eckles.
team attached to one of the Stand
ard Oil Company's wagons ran away
on Saturday and caused considerable
excitement in the neighborhood OF
Main and Liberty streets. The dam
age done will not make much of hole
il John DIS income.
Rev. Edwin NJ Randall D. D., gen
eral secretary of the Epworth League,
will preach in Centenary NJ. E. Church
Sunday next at 1870 a. M, and at the
evening service at 8 o'clock Rev.
C.. Herbert Richardson, D. D. will con-
tinue the lectures on Old Testament
characters.
E. B. Arnold, who conducts bowl
ing alley in Baltimore, will bring a
fiye-man team to Westminster next
Wednesday, May 13, to play game on
Th0mpson's alley against five men Sc
lected from this city. They will come
up in an auto, play five games, and
return to Baltimore that night.
A second meeting of the Western
Maryland Baseball Association was
held at the office of the superintendent
of car service Hillen Station, Wednes-
day evening There was a large at
tendance and much enthusiasm. The
first game will be on May 16. Later
the association may take up other
branches of athletics.
Sandymount Sunday school will hold
their ice cream and strawberry festi-
val June 13 If the weather should be
unfavorable, the following clear night
the next week. Also children's day
service June 7 at 10 a. m. II the
weather should be unfavorable it will
be held in the evening at 7.30, to which
you are all cordially invited.
The Finksburg w. G. T. U. will meet
at the home of Mrs. Frank P. Fenby
on Saturday, May 16, at 2 p. m. Mrs.
Haslup. president of Maryland w. G.
T. t., will be present and conduct a
parliamentary drill. Mrs. Haslup
will also make an address in the M.
P. Church of Finksburg on Sunday,
May II, at p. m. All are cordially
invited.
Clarence Wetzel, who resides near
this city, was held up on Saturday
night near the Westminster Gas
Works, on the railroad track, by two
men. Wetzel was told to hold up his
hands, but did not comply, supposing
it to be joke. He was knocked down,
his right eye being closed by the blow.
He saved his pocket book by slipping
1t under one of the rails when he fell
10 the ground. He cannot say whether
the men were white OF black.
A most delightful day was spent at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Eek
enrode, at Reese, on May 8. Those
present were Frank Eckenrode and
wife, William Eckenrode, wife and
daughter Angela, Miss Mamie Ecken-
rode, Herbert Harvell and wife, of
Fall River, Mass, George W. Boswell,
OF Baltimore; Frank Fowler and wife,
OF Fair Ground Hill; Guy and Corinne
FOWLER, Frank Magee and wife, John
Magee, Herbert Buckingham and wife
and Stuart Buckingham.
A number of automobiles went to
Ianeytown on Saturday last to see the
Donnets" on their contest trip. One
OF them was Raymond Senseney, of
Union Bridge, in his fifteen horsepow-
er Ford. A country woman and her
son, on their way to Taneytown, with
several cans of milk, and afraid to
venture with their team, undertook
10 carry the cans. Mr.. Senseney see
ing the predicament they were in,
LOOK the boy and milk in his auto, went
10 town and was back in time to see
al the contestants and hear praises
from several bystanders, and one
FARMER remarked, THAT is the kind
OF auto driver we want to see on our
roads,