The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-04-15

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NO church notices will b. received
Az this Office Ga Friday morning here
after.
Governor Crothers has issued a
proclamation designating Friday, April
~, a. Arbor Day.
Thomson's bowling team. this CITY
will shoot pins at Littlestown On
Tuesday night next.
James r. Johnston will preach at
War1eldsburg on Sunday at 23O d.
100. Sunday school at 100 D. ~.
The twenty-seventh commencement
exercises Of the Westminster Theo-
logical Seminary will be held on May
4, ? and 3.
The Western Maryland Railroad
Company began operation over the en-
tire donble-track from Emory Grove
to Baltimore On Wednesday.
Two linemen are busily engaged i'm
repairing the fire alarm system in
stalled i'm this city which was dam
aged by the wires being cut.
John IT. Cunningham took a party
TO Winchester, Va, on Sunday last.
The ride was delightful and took but
hours to make the 50 miles.
a concert will be given at Frizell-
burg, i'm the hall, on April %. Disher
Bros. of Baltimore, will furnish music
Performance to commence at ID. m
The fifteenth annual convention of
the Maryland Bankers Association
will be held at the Blue Mountain
House, Blue Mountain, Md, on June
p, 22 and 20.
Harry J.. Gorsuch, the newly ap-
pointed postmaster, took charge of his
duties i'm the Westminster Office on
Monday. Theodore Kaufman was re
appointed assistant postmaster.
a mad dog was killed at the resi-
dence OF Rev. James B. Stonesifer,
near this city, yesterday morning. The
dog was killed by two colored men
sent from this city by our officers.
Ray Spencer, OF this city, who
signed up to play ball with the Cleve-
land base ball team, has been sold to
the New Orleans Club, strong minor
league team, where he will play this
season. .:..-.
William IT. Harig, of Baltimore, who
was acquitted of the murder of Will
lam ]. Mahon at this court, asked for
protection before Justice Grammar, OF
yesterday from man who
was about to do him up.
Claude Tilden Smith, son OF MIR. and
nP
l. practicing law i'm Beaver, Beaver
county, Oklahoma, IL a candidate for
county attorney. From returns re
Beaver County Democrat MIR. Smiths
will be. unanimous.
Mrs. Margaret u. Records, by her at
torney, Edwin R. Stringer, filed "a suit
Tuesday at TowSOn for. an absolute
divorce from her husband, Cleveland
Records. The plaintiff states that she
was married I'm 1897, Is a resident of
ReisterstOWn, and does not know the
present residence of her husband.
Mrs. G. A. Spencer, of Smallwood,
wishes to thank her many friends for
their kind remembrance OF her on
April 2, Ii being her 72nd birthday, by
sending her SO many handsome cards.
She received 1873 from different places:
Trenton, NJ. r., Washington, Baltimore,
Carroll and y, Baltimore
county. .~.. ......-. 4 ".:'=' --.--r+. "-'T
Rev. w. T.. Seabrook, William Helm,
0. ID. Gilbert, Harry Fowble and
Walter Skunk, members of the Mason
lodge of this city, attended meeting
Of their brother lodge at Union Bridge
ON Tuesday night last to witness a
special initiation given. Refreshments
were served at the conclusion. Three
of the gentlemen returned on the 1
a. m, side door palace train.
The cottage prayer-meeting that IL
held monthly at the Home for the
Aged of the M. u. Church, this city, by
the Christian Endeavor Society OF the
church of that denomination, was held
night, and the attendance
and the service was among the best
ever held. The service was conducted
by Rev. James r.. Johnston, of Phila-
delphia, i'm his usually attractive
manner, and number of his favorite
hymns were sung. The choir OF the
M p Church also rendered an anthem.
BY pluck and good judgment Ross
Bell, OF near this city, saved his life
and also the life OF the horse on Sun
day morning when he turned his run
away horse into Liberty street, to
avoid running into a moving freight
train which was crossing Main street
at the same time. by turning i'm
Liberty street he threw the horse, but
it swiftly jumped up and started to
run until it came I'm contact with a
telephone pole, throwing the horse,
and at the same time MIR. Bell jump
ing from the buggy and grabbing the
horse by the head, stopping 1t. The
horse was scratched and cut and the
buggy damaged but little from the ex-
perience. The runaway attracted
quite a crowd Of citizens who wit
messed the wild flight of the horse.
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