The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-11-10
LUCAL AFFAIRS.

Our job PrlntlnS planL H. complete
The November term OF the Circuit
Court will open on Monday.
7 D. Foutz, has the contract to
naint the interior Of Bethel church,
At Warfeldsburg.
And now we must turn our
thoughts to Thanksgiving and the
pursuit of the turkey.
Quite a large crowd or people at
tended the love feast, held at Meadow
Branch Saturday and Sunday.
The concrete work on the new
state road from Smallwood to Cam
ber il being done by Howell Davis.
Today is the opening time to
shoot rabbits and cartridges, and
the season continues until December
70.
The hunting season IL In full swing,
and men are seen going about the
county carrying their guns and
some game.
The Bethel Church OF God near
Woodbine has just been reprinted,
interier and exterior. j. ID. Foutz
was the contractor.
The Holy Communion will be adj
ministered i'm 1t. Mary's Reformed
Church, Silver Run, Md, on Sunday,
November 18th, at 1870 a. m. and z
p. m.
James ID. Mitchell will close his
studio on November ia, ID and 16,
to attend the Eastman School OF Pho
biography In Baltimore, where he
hopes to get new ideas for Christmas
work.
Mrs. Mary T.. Mummey, OF Reese,
Md, exhibited at this Office this week
a pear that measured 4 inches in di-
ameter and 121z inches in circum-
ference. A bushel of pears about
the same size we're picked from the
tree -.-- -. a
So eager were our citizens to learn
the results of the election Tuesday
night and Wednesday morning that
hundreds of telephone calls were re
ceived at the Advocate Office. Tn
variably the questions were who il
in the lead?" How is the county go
ing?" Have you heard from the
city," The Advocate building was
full of enthusiastic Democrats al
most all night long.
Last week a forest fire, three miles
in length, was raging on the Blue
Ridge Mountain between High Rock
and Edgemont The fire was con
fined to an almost inaccessible por-
ton of the mountain by reason of
the rocky formation and was very
hard to fight The deep covering of
leaves was additional fuel for the
flames. The fire was discovered ca
Wednesday of last week.
This afternoon Mrs. Mabel Garri-
son Siemonn, a graduate of Western
Maryland College, and one Of the
best known soprano singers Of Bal
timore, will give a recital at the
Peabody Conservatory of Music. as
sisted by Bart Writ, 'cellist. Mrs.
Siemonn has a beautiful voice, which
the citizens of this city had the
pleasure Of hearing many times, sew
eral years ago at the college con-
certs
In about a month or a little longer
the Linganore Copper Company e2-
poets to again start the refining ma
chinery and will then treat about 100
tons of ore daily. While the ma
chinery installed about a year ago
was able to produce a good cOncen-
trate, yet too much OF the copper
was lost and allowed to go to the
waste heap. With the machinery
which is being installed now, it is
expected that this will be impossible,
and that practically every bit OF cop
per in the ore will be secured.
Chief Judge Thomas, of the Circuit
Court, for Carroll county on Satur-
day drew the following jurors To
fill vacancies for the November
term: John T. Dutterer, in place Of
Ezra C. MCGEE, of Uniontown dis
trict; Lester S. Patterson, in place
Of Oliver c. Uhler, Of Woolery's dis
trict; Franklin ID. Loats, in place Of
Charles Q. Weaver, OF Manchester
district; Amos H. Armacost, in
place of Francis L. Ham, of Hamp-
stead district, and Jesse Leather
wood, In place of William -. Burial.
Of Mt. Airy district.
Rev. Hugh Johnston, of Baltimore,
on Sunds = nrnached at the morning
and the evening service on the occa-
sion OF the rededication OF the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, In Liberty
The present place OF worship has
been twice renovated since it was
decided to the first congregation IN
the year 1908, it having formed a
portion OF the charge extending from
Westminster to Liberty under the
pastorate of Rev. Phillip Catch in
1774. Both the parsonage and the
church were decided to the church
membership in the same year, and
since that time they have been in
constant service with the addition
from time to time of modern improve
ments. This IL claimed to be one OF
the oldest places or worship OF thu
Methodists i'm this section OF the
state. Rev. Solomon Jerman Is the
present pastor
The first OF November report COW
ering the progress OH the construction
work on the Western Maryland eX-
tension up to October 81 states that
~ per cent.of the grading is finished,
" per cent. OF the concrete laid, out
of 37 bridges 27 are ready for the
tracks, while the masonry for the Re-
naming 10 III finished. The amount
OF steel fabricated is 81 per cent,
while the amount erected is So per
cent Of the total. There have been
z3 miles OF main line and second
track laid, exclusive OF sidings, and
1000 men are still employed on the
works. In the Big Savage tunnel,
tne difficulties in boring, which, ow-
hg to quicksand, has been The sole
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