The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-09-16
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

st. Johns Parochial school opened on
Monday last
The public schools of this county
will open on Monday.
Pen-Mar will close on Sunday after
a most successful season.
Last Monday was Defenders Day,
and was a legal holiday Tor the banks
and Court House.
Wednesday evening and yesterday
morning the temperature made some
extra wraps necessary.
NJ. E. Campbell, butcher, East Main
street, has installed an up-tO-date 5
horsepower meat cutter.
Denton Warehime, Bachman's VAL
ley, has installed an acetyline~ lighting
plant H. P. d. Garrett was the con-
tractor.
William Helm, who was operated on
at the Union Protestant Infirmary,
Baltimore, last week for hernia, is
improving, after a successful opera
ton.
Ephraim T. Myers, e. Green street,
Has d vi ANOdN
T. Wantz, near Union Mills. Mr..
Myers will move shortly to his new
home.
In a game of ball between Fort
Wayne and Dayton last Friday, when
the score was 2 to l against Dayton,
Ray Spencer hit the Dall out of the
lot for a home run, turning the defeat
to a tie game, which was called in
the 18th inning.
Two hundred and sixty boxes were
made at the Western Maryland Rail-
way carshops at Union Bridge last
week These boxes are for the ship
nient of coal samples to foreign coun-.
tries. Each box Is to hold " ton and
they are to cost 1920 each.
Mrs. Henry Warner, of Lineboro,
was taken to the Union Protestant In
Urinary, Baltimore, where she under
went serious operation for strangu-
lated hernia this week. The Oper-
alton was success, and Mrs. Warner
is recovering from the effects of the
ordeal through which she passed.
The spirit of improvement which is
animating the citizens of Westmins-
ter is being demonstrated in con-
crete pavements and cutters along the
new street. At the East end of town
new pavement and gutter has been
laid at the M. P. Church Home, and
one is being laid at MIR. Mackley's and
Dr. Hitchcock's.
William Johnson, colored, who was
employed at the cement works at
Union Bridge, was brought to this
city on Monday for hearing before
Justice Shriver, by Officer Helwig.
After the Judge heard the prisoners
story he said You have lied; take six
months in the House Of Correction.
How do you like that?"
Mr.. Harry T. Quicker sued the
Western Maryland Railway Company
Wednesday in the Circuit Court, at
Towson, for $4,000 damages for injury
to his property, caused, it is alleged,
by fire from a passing engine. The
hre occurred, it is stated, on April IA,
near Emory Grove, and burned a
quantity of growing timber and cut
wood and fences. .
Mrs. Orlando Reese has a chicken
OF which she can we'll feel proud.
Ihls hen has manifested her superior
Ivy by laying a doublet egg, different
from the ordinary kind. After break
ing the shell, the white of an egg was
found, and inside of the white, another
egg with a shell. Mrs. Reese unfor-
tunately does not know which hen
lald this odd and curious egg.
A survey has been completed for the
purpose of building a low grade line
lor the Western Maryland railroad to
SKIP the Blue mountains, thus elimi-
natlng the climb directly over them.
rms would result in lengthening the
route about ten miles, but would give
lne road lower average grade to
FlttsDurg, making a shorter haul than
mat OF the Baltimore & Ohio. This eX-
tension is roughly estimated to cost
about $10,OO0,OOO
The Western Maryland Railroad
company has paid $2,075 to survivors
vi tnree Of the victims Of the 'head-on
4felght wreck at the Raven Rock
brldge, near Edgemont, the night Of
august %. Of this amount $4,000
was paid to the wife and children of
Jonn E. Fox, the fireman who jumped
rom his engine and fell through the
nlgn bridge, sustaining injuries from
- AACu IWO uuyS UnLACG
+. Fouke, father of David Fouke, the
young brakeman who was instantly
Niied BY falling from the bridge, was
PAID SITS. Jasper ~ Gigous, father
OF Fireman Harry N. Gigous, whose
Skull was crushed, was paid $780,
An event OF interest to society OF
66alumore, this city and the Marine
corps circle will BE- the wedding OF
MISS Mariana Reifsnider, daughter
vi MT. and Mrs. John Milton Reifsnid-
e. 81, thls city, to Lieut.. Thomas Stanley
clarke, United States Marine Corps
winch winch will take place at Ascension
Snurch, this city, Saturday afternoon
september "a, at o'clock. Miss Flea
nor Foote Reifsnider will be her sis
tefs maid of honor while another sis
yer OF the bride, Miss Josephine Reif-
snloer, will act as flower girl Owing
70 the illness of Miss Reifsnider's
mother there will be no reception, a.
vas originally intended. Miss Reif-
snlder IL well known and very popular
in This city and Baltimore.