The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-10-14

Mr. David j.. Stem, Sans Creek, 4.
reported to be sick at his home.
The First Regiment Band attended
the Hagerstown fair on Wednesday
Wednesday was a legal holiday, anC
all banks and the court house wer,
closed.
The street improvement on Yves
. Main street is being pushed, and will
. be completed next week.
. The sale of the Redding propert,
: TO have taken place on Wednesday wal
! Withdrawn and the sale stopped.
. The public schools in this plac,
= opened yesterday morning after be
ing closed for about two weeks.
Demetrious, bay gelding owned b,
Q. H. Young, Union Bridge, finished
: second in running race at Hagers
. town fair on Wednesday.
. Howell Davis, of Smallwood, hal
charge Of the mason work on the
) residence of Charles Swindermar
which is being erected in this city.
Edward w. Case moved into the
Await property, East Main street
which he purchased recently, on
Wednesday. He has opened his office
there also.
Clifton v. Dell, OF the U. S. S.
Franklin, Norfolk, Va, is building a
house on Webster street j. Webster
Ebaugh is doing the carpenter work
| and Howell Davis the mason.
An electric light system has been
placed in the Odd Fellows Hall to
take the place of the out-of-date gas
appliance that has been used for
years. A good Improvement
Members of the School Board went
to Sykesville on Saturday to inspect
the addition to the school house The
work has been well done, and the
teachers opened the school on Tues
day
The Maryland Sunday School Con-
ventiOn will be held at Harlem Park
NJ. L. Church, Baltimore, on October
| 20 and 81 An elaborate program has
been arranged for the two days meet
ing.
VIM. B. Nelson and Edward o.
| Weant, Trustees, sold to John H.
! % dCISo anu AO pS1SAC5
of woodland near Smallwood, at $S1
per acre. 1t belonged to the estate
of John W. Nelson, deceased.
The Advocate will run in it's COL
umns this week the serial story en-
titled The Guest Of Quesnay." This
| is a very good and interesting story,
and should be read by every one re-
ceiving a copy of this paper.
John II. Derr, East Green street,was
taken to the Union Protestant In
Urinary, Baltimore, on Wednesday
to be operated on for appendicitis, but
his condition made 1t impossible and
the operation was not performed.
The removal of the railroad gates
from the railroad on Main street
makes big improvement but is dan
gerous to pedestrians. The gates
were taken to Hagerstown to be
,, overhauled, after which they will be
replaced.
The Advocate received copy of
the Los Angeles Times from Lauman
Sellman, of Ontario, Cal, giving
good account and pictures of the de-
struction of the Times building after
being blown up by dynamite, in
which p employees were killed.
On Sunday the twenty-second an
niversary of the passionate of Rev.
Dr. A. . Weber, formerly pastor OF
st Paul's Reformed Church, this
city, and the commemoration of the
reopening of Faith Reformed Church,
of Baltimore, was held in Baltimore.
Jacob Fowble, of Sykesville, has
been awarded the contract for the
erection of building at Springfield
hospital there at cost of
100000 The building is to be 214
stories high, of brick and stone, and
contains rest rooms, library, kitchen
and dormitories.
At the 18th annual convention of
the Woman's Home and Foreign Mis-
sionary Society, of Maryland Lutheran
Synod, which met at Boonsboro, Md,
last week, Mrs. G.. w. Baughman, of
Uniontown, was elected one of the
vice-presidents and Mrs. Sarah G.
Trump, of Manchester, historian
Mrs Fred. Reinhart, West Main
street, painfully injured herself on
Sunday by jumping from the buggy
when the horse became frightened at
a passing automobile. The accident
occurred near the residence of VIM.
Stansbury, on the pike, where she
was taken in, and later brought to
her home in an automobile. She is
suffering from bruises and a sprain-
ed wrist.
John w. Taylor, coIored, aged Is
years, shot and seriously wounded
VIM. Unglehee, white hoy, near
Lisbon, October 8, shotgun being
the weapon used. The shooting took
place on the farm Of Mr.. John S.
Tracey, by whom the wounded man
was employed. The white and color
ed boys quarreled Saturday over
chestnuts. Sunday morning Taylor
went to the disputed chestnut tree,
which wcs On Mr. Tracey's farm, and
told Tnglebee II he picked any more
chestnuts he would kill him. He
Immediately fired 1t him, the shot
entering the right side Of Unglebee"s
head, just above the ear, nearly tear
ing away the whole right side Of his
scalp. Taylor is held for Court.
NJ. S. Campbell, OF Ellicott City,
and A W. W ampler, of this city, had
hearing Saturday before Justice
Joseph w Shanklin, Towson, on the