The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-06-26
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

through town daily.
cuv Cookson, near Uniontown, lost
ono of his best horses on Friday last.
IF Won want nice cool promenade,
+r1 the sidewalk of lawyers row any
day about II m. -,ye-a.. -. ~
The having of Baughman avenue,
onnosite the Union National Bank, is
about completed. -f,.@'''.'
Most of our Westminster stores
have announced that they Will be
closed on Saturday, July 4.
Already the days are growing short
or Six months of leap year gone, and
lots of EN- not married yet.
Mrs, J. D. Diffendal won the coal
and u, L. Reaver the -four rafled on
This week by the Westminster reel
team. -
John Wolfe, Sr., near Uniontown,
was thrown from load of hay last
week and fractured his shoulder
blade.
While there is considerable prohi-
hilton sentiment in Westminster, there
is really only one man on the water
wagon.
Marshal Senseney and wife, living
near Woodside Creamery thrown
from their buggy by the horse fright
ening at an automobile.
William Utz, Liberty street, is
identifying his residence by having
0f int III
and Cassell are the artists.
E. L. Crawford will go to the Han
over race track the first of July with
a string of trotters and PAGERS to
train for the fall races. We wish him
good luck.
Thomas ]. Stouffer, of New Wind
sOr, travelling salesman for Daniel
Miller & Co., started Tuesday on his
Southern trip through North Carolina
and Tennessee.
The last meeting for the. summer
of the L. T. L., of this city, will be
held at Carroll Hall this Saturday af-
ternoon, and the members are earn
estly requested to be present.
Fifty-four foreigners arrived in
this city last Saturday on the 1856 p.
m. train to pick string beans for B.
F. Shriver Co., Gamers, this city.
They are quartered in the bottling
house on John street.
A number of our young people are
enjoying themselves on the tennis
court on Court street. The grounds
are in fine condition, and it is pleas
Ure TO play on them, if such siren
u0US exercise can be considered a
pleasure this hot weather.
Mosquitoes have made their appear
ance, and our city council should lose
no time in having oil placed on the
ponds and standing water about town.
A little money invested in this way
VIII pay big return IN the comfort en-
JCIed through reflex from these pests.
Potato bugs were thought to have
Practically disappeared, owing to a
parasite which commenced to feed
upon them. This year, however, ac-
toI0lng to general report, there is no
trace OF the parasite, and the potato
Dug threatens to become as numerous
ana destructive as ever.
Mrs. Edward Bowersox of North
1bFancn, Baltimore county, is the
happy possessor of a Cape Jessamine,
sent TO her by her brother, Brooke
stevenson, of Bryan, Texas, which is
HOW 1ull of buds. These flowers are
HS,ohaertully fragrant, and their odor
nus the air to considerable dis
lance.
Why not get two or three barrels of
S Sip OIL and sprinkle one square of
;s"!A street as an experiment to see
II 1t Will keep down the dust? The
teApense would not be great, and if
~ ~ worked all right, we could use more
VI ~ 1t. 1t might In the end prove
SSIIedper than sprinkling the streets.
.IHEesugate all things, and hold fast
10 the good"
Charles Herzog who signed for the
Jason with the New York National
Trpasue Baseball Club quit the team
p;eSesuay and is now at his home at
ruuseiy, Md. He says McGraw the
ii ~ insulted him, and that he
v through with baseball. The New
i i'm papers say he gave every prom
tb e VI being one of the great stars of
VIC game. He played shortstop.
providence NJ. P. Sunday school, at
o oaI will hold an all-day picnic
c "nu celebration Saturday, July IL,
eeIImilmeencing at 10 o'clock, in the grove
NIL GiISolnlng the church. The occasion
r ~tlt pe enlivened by music by the Car
to4 Cornet Band, Carrollton quar-
sand o ana by speeches by prominent
stteahers. Everybody is invited to
NJ C Il nen's day services at Centenary
sd Z; Church Sunday evening attract
SO H large audience to hear the young
the ftels speak their pieces and to enjoy
inc tne music The pulpit and surround
lI5s were banked with flowers. The
WHY vairuren showed that they had been
Al AL trained and had good memories.
sue Srsef the ponderous theses and .es-
tb Hss OF the college boys and girls,
tor rSe exercises were particularly in
teiesting as an exhibition in minia-