The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-03
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

Il will soon be the last rose of sum-
mer.
The NJ E. parsonage is receiving a
coat of paint and being otherwise I'M
proved.
Tho Westminster Free Library will
10 closed on the afternoon of Satur-
day, July a.
The season for the summer board
or has opened, and Westminster is get
ting its share. 49, 81
What's the use of going away for the
GUNNER? Stay home and let the
summer come to you. s5s-
A concrete gutter is being laid from
Rond street to Murphy's green goods
ctore ON West Main street.
The hay harvest gives every indica-
tion of being one of the largest in
wears. and the quality is fine.
Harry Owings, Liberty street, is
having his residence painted. Lippy
and Cassell are doing the work.
Carroll county has gone dry all
right. If we don't have rain pretty
soon, everything will dry up and blow
away. ..
The property occupied by Louis
Sachs, E. Main street, is being re-
painted. Samuel Yingling is doing the
painting.
Joseph D. Brooks, Jr., has enlisted
for three years in the coast artillery,
and is at present stationed at Fort
Socum, N. Y. --... .-..e
Friendship Sunday school will hold
picnic Saturday, July 4, beginning at
| o'clock. Westminster orchestra will
furnish music. Everybody invited.
Mighty poor notion some advertis-
ers harbor to the effect that the great
public buys only in spurts. Staples
round. That's the public buys all the
time.
The banks, dry goods and hardware
stores, warehouses and barber shops
will all be closed tomorrow (Satur-
day.. The grocery stores will all re-
main open. ---e.... --. .....-.
The Westminster postoffice will close
Saturday, July 4, at 9 a. m. City car
rers will make the early morning de-
livery and the evening collection. The
rural carriers will not go out.
At meeting of Charity Lodge No
IS, Knights of Pythias, this week, the
master of finance reported that $565.97
had been paid out in the past 6 months
for nurse hire and sick benefits.
DR.. Geo. Fundenburg, wife anC
three children, Pittsburg, Pa, ano
Frank E. Cunningham and son, Of
Washington, are visiting VIM. A
Cunningham and family, this city.
The Grace Lutheran Sunday school
held their annual picnic in Theodore
F. Englars grove, near this city, yes
terday. A good time was had. Base
ball seemed to be the principal
amusement
Some of the taxpayers living in the
west end of this city are complaining
because the school commissioners are
building an annex to the Westminster
High School and neglecting the west
end school, which, they say, is in need
of repairs.
A. Weaver Wagner, who formerly
lived at Roop's Mill, and Miss Rina
Lee Bloom, of New Windsor, were
married in Washington on Saturday al
the parsonage of the Hamline MethO-
dlst Church by Rev. Charles E. Guth-
RE, pastor.
In renewing his subscription, Jes-
sian hump, now of Hanover, Pa, says:
nave been a subscriber to the Ad-
Iocate since the spring of 1865, and at
mat time | had to go the distance OF
lour miles for my mail. Have been
democrat since I was born, and love
10 read the Advocate.
Good schools, good churches and
sood roads are grand thing to have
IN community. In order to have
ulese things people must be educated
10 take pride in all these. Your
nome paper can and will do more to
encourage all Of these things than any
other agency. The school children
i !edu with pleasure the home happen
tngs' and as they grow up become in
~. i0SIeu and make useful citizens
1--WE the children the home paper to
Eau Eau 1t costs you but the trifie OF
TWO cents week.
3D. j. Pearre Wantz, of this city, has
been appointed one of the five mem
S OeIs OF the executive committee of the
state Volunteer Firemen's Associa-
r uon' The first meeting of the COM
p llItee will be held at the Club Hotel,
fn ga July 16, to name the place
III El holding the next biennial conven-
I'll ,on, George E. Linton, Sykesville !;
r Ctank 1. Shaeffer, Westminster, and
I Lnalies Motter, Manchester, are on the
fs sislatlve committee. H. H. Bond,
M nnlon Bridge, and Robert S. McKin-
10y !, Ianeytown, are on the transpor-
HUI Io.on committee. Edward G. Upton,
ittolnpstead, is member of the exhib-