The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-05-06
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, LAY 6, 1910
AFFAIRS.


ALI automobillsts were kept busy on
Sunday with tieups at different places.
All farmers are busy as bees plant
Ing corn and doing other spring work.
Our farmers are wearing smile.
The growing grain and grass Is the
cause.
DR.. Bear and Or. Woodward re-
eeived their Overland automobiles
this week.
The May term OF the Circuit Court
for Carroll county will open on Mon
day next at 10 a. m.
Mr. Jesse Albaugh. East Main
street. has improved his residence by
adding a large and comfortable YER
anda.
A force of men are kept busy tear
Ing out partitions and doing other
work on the Albion Hotel. preparing 1t
for Doyle & Magee'g furniture and I'M
plement business.
A surprise party communication
was received at this Office this week
without the writer's name signed. No
article viii be published without the
writer Is made known.
The month of May will certainly be
a lively one for Carroll Manchester
celebration on the 10Th, big Eagle
convention on IL. Is and 10, and
Memorial day on the both.
The spraying exhibition given Mt
Almshouse farm on April IS, was very
largely attended by our county farm
ers who were all satisfied with the i'm
structlons explained by Prof Symons.
DR.. George p. Yost. Glen Rocks old
est medical practitioner. has left that
place, where he has been In business
for over > years. DR.. Yost.a health
Is impaired, and he will reside In Bal
timore.
Dir. Jesse T. Goranch. WaYnesboro.
Pa, IN renewing hts subscription
writes Enclosed find money order
for the Advocate for three years, ~ II
would be next to impossible to do
without IT,"
The public local laws for Carroll
county passed By the last General As
sembly of Maryland will be found pub
lished n this issue. Read them, 30 as
10 become acquainted with the laws OF
our county.
An attractive illustrated pamphlet
descriptive OF the historic Gettysburg
battlefield. has been issued by the
Western Maryland Railroad Company
The booklet contains a vivid deserip-
ton o. the famous battle fought there,
and forms an excellent guidebook to
visitors.
Father Samuel J. Kavanaugh. pastor
of st. Peters Catholic Church. Liberty.
and director Of the new Libertytown
Bank presented each Of his fifteen
altar boys with sum Of money and
went With them 10 the bank, where
they deposited It. The gifts we're
starters for savings accounts.
John effert Is the first to decorate
for the Eagle convention. He has
three strings Of red, white and blue
electric lights running from the roof
to the first story with a large electric
sign across the front Welcome F. o.
E." which makes an attractive ap-
pearanee. Harry Ryand did the
electrical work.
All owners Who conduct billiard
tables after MAY Is without license
are In danger of being prosecuted,
Following Is a section Of the Law .
Section of Article 5B of the Code pro-
Yides that any person keeping a BILL
lard table without first obtaining a
license therefor shall for each table so
kept forfeit and pay the sum Of 500.
one-half TO the informer and the other
half 10 the State.
During a thunder storm on April 90
lightning struck the barn Of John
Stair near Silver Run. Mr. Stair
WAS standing on the porch of his
house. and saw the bolt had struck I'm
chat bin. from which smoke soon
issued. Mrs. Stair hnrriedly gave an
alarm by ringing a large dinner bell.
Soon number OF neighbors eongre-
gated, and with buckets Of water ex-
tingulshed the fire, which was burn
ing slowly In the char. ! COW. stand
Ing In the stable. was knocked down
b. the bolt. but sustained no serious
injury.
The dwelling occupied BY Wilbur II
Otto, at keymar, vas destroyed by fire
on April 26, together with some of the
contents. The fire broke out about s
o'clock somewhere about the roof and
Is thought BY some to have originated
from a5spark of an engine that passed
shortly before 1t was discovered The
neighbors gathered promptly and as
sisted IN saving good portion of the
furniture. The house was Insured In
the Dug Hill Company for $1,000. and
the furniture, meats. &C. of Mr.. Otto's
parents In the same company for 500
Mr.. Otto expects to rebuild at once.
A fire which broke out IN the summer
kitchen of the lwo-atory frame cot
tage Owned and occupied BY the family
OF Mra August Wolfring. near North
Branch. about 10o'clock Sunday morn
ing. destroyed the structure. Because
of the distance between the cottage and
the nearest house, help arrived too
late TO be Of much assistance to Mrs.
Wolfring in saving her effects, and
most of the furnishings we're destroy
ed. The damage Is estimated at not
less than $4,000. Both the son, Mr.
William Still. and daughter, Miss Ida
Still, we're 1t Sunday school when the
fire occurred. The origin Of the blaze
was traced 70 q defective flue.