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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-30

HOW sweet are all LHlnSS mere!
How beautiful the fields appearl
How cleanly do we feed and lie!
What good hours do we keep!
How quietly we sleep!"
Named your farm yet?
Any shade in your pasture? Why
not?
The golden. text for June is: Keep
the soil stirred"
1t you want to kill weeds, cultivate
or hoe them when the sun shines hot
The trouble with the honey-bee is
that it doesn't carry honey at both
ends.
No, lime is, not good for potatoes
it favors scab. So does too much stable
manure.
Now, please, don't let the mower
rattle all to pieces. Keep it we'll oil
ed and every nut screwed up tight
1y, and don't let the knives or guards
get dull.
Remember, brother farmer. that the
hot weather and hard work tax the
strength Of your wife, She will enjoy
going to the store with you and rid
ing slowly home in the cool Of the
evening.
TO keep moles from a bed, sink a
close-mesh wire netting a foot wide
into the soil around, allowing it to
extend about two inches above the
surface. II you have no netting, use
boards. Either will prevent the en-
trance of moles into the bed.
The harvest season is the most try
ing of the year. There is SO much to
be done, SO little time to do it in and
SO few hands to accomplish it,that we
are often at our wits end. Let us,
however have care lest we attempt
too much and lest we put too great a
burden upon the wife and daughter
The sanitariums are filled with men
from work and worry at middle life.
The utmost that we can hope to gain
Is not worth such fearful sacrifice.
Cut clover hay when about half the
blossoms are brown; cut timothy just
as the bloom Is falling. Curing clov-
err: Cut it as soon as the dew is Off In
the morning At noon shake out the
punches, rake into wfndrows before
evening dews get on 1T, and let it lie
until next day. Next day shake out
the hay as soon as the dew is OF. You
ought to be ready to haul, on a hot
day, BY eleven o'clock, or certainly af-
ter dinner. It spoils clover hay to get
too dry. 1t should never be put into
the barn when wet with rain OF dew /;
but little sap won't hurt it. Curing
timothy: If the crop IS not too heavy
and rank, cut as soon as the dew is
Off, let 1t cure few hours. rake into
windrows, and haul to the barn the
same day II crop is rank, cut It il
the afternoon; it will wilt some during
the night and dew VIII not hurt it.
Next days sun will dry it In a. few
hours, when it can he raked into
windrows;l haul it to tne barn in the
early afternoon. From June Farm
Journal. 5s . y.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-30
District Sunday School Convention.
For the Advocate.

For the Advocate.
The programs for the district Sun
day School Conventions, held under
the auspices Of the Third and First
District Associations, comprising
Taneytown, Middleburg, Union Bridge,
Uniontown, Myers, Manchester, and
Hampstead districts, is as follows:
Sunday, July 9th.-M. e. Church,
Middleburg. Morning session.-Ad-
dress, Methods on Teaching, Prof w.
]. Il. Hoover, President Blue Ridge
College, Union Bridge. Address, The
Cradle Roll, and Primary Work, Mrs.
A. U. Messler, Linwood; Address, How
is the Sunday school world being ben
Gifted by Cooperation of all denomi-
nations, G.. w. Yeiser, Pres. County
Association.
Mt. Union Lutheran Church-After-
noon Session. Address, The aim of
the Sunday School, Rev. i. B. Hafer,
Pastor Trinity Lutheran Church, Tan
eytown. Address, The need of the
Sunday School, Rev. d. B. Wolf, Pas
tor Grace Reformed Church, Taney-
town. Short addresses by Rev. Hast
ings, Rev. Bachman and others.
M z. Church, Hampstead.-Morn-
ing Session. Address, How to win
to the Sunday School, and enlist il
Bible study, the men and women of
the world, Rev. B. W. Kindley, Cen
eral Secretary Maryland Sunday
School Association.
Address, Training for Service, Jesse
p. Garner, Superintendent Teacher
Training Carroll county Sunday
School Association.
Lutheran Church, Hampstead.-Af-
ternoon session. Address, The Sun
day School the conservatory for the
church, Rev. s. @. Hoover, Pastor St.
Mary's Reformed Church, Silver Run.
Address, Rev. B. w. Kindley.
U. B. Church, Greenmount.-Eve
ing Session. Address, The greatest
need Of the church is a double number
of trained, consecrated teachers in the
Sunday School, Rev. l.. B. Lau, Pas
tor Emanuel Lutheran Church, Man
chester. Address, Do not sin against
the child, Jesse p. Garner.
Short addresses by Rev. Mckinley,
Rev. Keller, Rev. Strine, and others.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-30
WILL SEARCH FOR SON.
Mother i'm Need Hopeful That Missing
Boy Will be Found.

The Gettysburg Times states that
Mrs. Rebecca Dennis, OF Gettysburg
whose son disappeared about three
years ago, has determined to renew
her efforts to find something concern
ing his whereabouts.
Mrs. Dennis lived in New Windsor
Md, when her son, Thomas David
Dennis, left home. Since that tine
efforts have been made to find Kim
in Canada, Detroit, Philadelphia and
elsewhere. The newspapers have
been used but no tidings whatever
have been received of the man and
Mrs. Dennis now intends to try
through the Chicago papers to learn
something Of him.
After an absence of twenty-one
months Mrs. Dennis returned to Get
tysburg in April and mas been living
there since that time.
She is grief stricken over the dis
appearance of her son and said:
"I cannot believe that I can't find
my son. I need him SO much now for
have very little money and need his
support. My friends think that he is
dead but I don't know. I am going
to try again to find out where he may
be. My health is poor and frequent
ly am in need Of food indeed I have
eaten very little for the past two
weeks"
Mrs. Dennis, had been employed in
local homes but she IS not robust and
is able to do very little work Her
plight is most pitiable.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-30
Good Roads and Population.

"At the root OF solutions of the
rural life problems lies the question
of good roads. 1t is absolutely fun
damental The man who seeks to
persuade people to settle on farms
which are shut Off from the world for
half the year or more shows his own
lack OF sense and offers them no fav-
or.
1t requires only a little reflection
to perceive how closely the race sui
eide question is related to the road
problem. With good roads there
would be immediate distribution OF
population throughout the rural dis
tricts. Families would become econ
omically valuable. As things are, "a far
mer's boys leave him as fast as they
become old enough to earn wages in
town. They will not remain in the
country under the forIorn conditions
which prevail. What is the use or
their buying automobiles They
could not use one IL they had it ex-
cept now and then I'D midsummer.
There is no society, no access to in
teresting meetings, no life. Exis-
tence in back-country districts with
out good roads is merely a living
death. One might as well be in the
grave
1t is irritating to hear men like Mr.
Roosevelt talk about race suicide
when they ought to he talking about
good roads, since these are the fun
-damental remedy for II"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-30
Letter Carriers Meeting.

A sub meeting of the Rural Let
ter Carriers Association Of Carroll
County was held at Nelson's Hotel,
Ridgeville, June II. The meeting
was called to order by the Presi-
dent, G. G. Fftze, about s O'Clock
and the evening was spent in making
addresses and by singing, after which
elegant refreshments were served in
abundance.
The principal idea expressed by the
speakers was that the carriers should
all Join the association and make II
a success by giving to the other car
rlers their opinions as TO the methods
Of bringing about the best services
to the people, and by trying to fol
low the instructions sent out by the
department, and especially with re-
gard to the instruction lately sent
out to the effect that all patrons Of
the rural service shall hang their
boxes on posts erected for the pur-
pose with arms extended upon which
the box shall be hung; and that the
posts and boxes shall be painted
white with the name Of the head OF
the family, the number OF the route
and the number of the box all on the
box in black letters.
Addresses were made by the Presi-
dent, the secretary and BY Charles
Royston, of Hampstead, and Henry
Snyder contributed to the meeting
some very fine songs.
ALI the carriers present were de-
slrous to make speeches but the time
of adjournment came before all could
exhaust themselves, and the meeting
adjourned with a closer feeling Of
fraternity among the carriers who
we're present.
The annual meeting Of the County
Association will be held on July -,
due notice OF which will be given
each carrier by card.
WILLIAM E. STARNER,
Secretary and Treasurer.
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DEATHS
Nusbaunl.

Mrs. Jennie a., wife Of Marshall N,
Nusbaum, Of Sans Creek, Nd, lied
at the Maryland University Hospital
In Baltimore, on Wednesday morning.
June 2S, about $50 o'clock. Mrs Nus
baum became quite III on last Sunday
evening, and on Tuesday evening she
was taken by her physician to the
hospital ID Baltimore, where an oper-
alton was performed almost immedi-
ately, by DR.. Frank Martin, of the hos
pital staff.
The funeral VII take place from the
house at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon.
Rev. Mr.. Gill, assisted by Rev. Mr..
Bennett and Rev. Mr.. Marsh will con-
duct the services. Interment will be
in the cemetery of the Methodist Epis-
copal church at Bethel. of which
church the deceased was a member.
The following gentlemen will be the
pallbearers,: Walter Engle, Edgar
Carlisle, John Gait, Arthur Albert,
VIM. Boiland, Morgan Nicodemus. Jos.
Roberts and Leonard Elgin.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-30
Wanted a Supply.

Politics." remarked Washington
official, Is science as well as a cir
Gus One OF the funniest things / ever
heard in that connection was about
the cowboy delegate to the constitu-
tional convention Of Nevada when that
territory was about to become state,
In the constitution was the stereotyp-
ed paragraph about the new state
having two senators TO represent itin
Washington. When Il was read to the
convention the cowboy delegate rose
and yelled out: Whats the use Of
limiting II to two?' We're Uverwhelm-
ingly Republican. and We can elect as
many as we want. washington
Star. lt t aaA
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-30
COURT HOUSE news.
THEO. STREVIG APPOINTED TAX
COLLECTOR FOR MANCHESTER
DISTRICT.
Contract Given Out for Bridge Over
Mumma'S Ford Court House
Closed Monday and Tuesday.
Transfers Of Real Estate.

VIM. J. Martin and wife to D. &
n Railroad, convey property, for
Albert f. Arlington and wife to
Wade H. D. Warfeld, convey lot in
svkesville. for 81.
J. Wesley Matthias and wife to Jos.
D. Weimert, convey 12A acres, for
$3.50.
Jacob w. Brown and wife to Jos.
=. Wefmert, convey . acres, for $500.
VIM. 3. Thomas ct al. to Clinton
n Myers, convey 65A acres and is
perches, for $4,000.
Emily J. Lambert ct al. to Albert
l.. Haines, convey u acre, for $500.
Albert l.. Haines to Margaretta
Lambert and husband, convey ~ acre,
for $500.
Mary E. Sapp and husband to Geo.
w. Armacost, convey lot in Hamp-
stead, for s..
Albert F. Arlington and wife to Sy-
kesville Realty and Investment Co.,
convey lots in Westminster, for $1750.
Caleb n. Wolfe and wife to Peter
D. Rooms and wife, convey 2 roods
and q perches, for $3.50.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-30
WEDDINGS
Brennick

An event of unusual interest to
many people in this city and in the
state took place yesterday afternoon,
July 70, at 3 O'Clock when Miss Lii
liam Key Fink, eldest daughter of
Charles e. Fink, East Main street, this
city, became the bride OF Henry Ed
ward Brennick, Of Dorchester, Mass.
The wedding was solemnized in
the Cathedral, Baltimore, Nd, by Rev.
J. G. Mallon, pastor OF st. Johns Cath
olic church, of this city No invita-
t1ons were issued, owing to the re-
cent death Of the brides mother, and
only members Of the family and six
of the brides intimate friends-Misses
Lottie Lee Billingslea, Eugenia and
Eleanor Fouke, Caroline and Sue Bill
lingslea and Marie Shriver, were pres
ent at the wedding.
The bride was married in a white
serge tailored suit and wore a large
white panama hat.
This morning the newly married
couple left for Camp Wildwood, Lake
Asquam, Holderness, n. H., where
they will have a bungalow for the
summer.
Although no invitations were sent,
the bride received some very hand
some presents Of silver, cut glass,
brass, etc.
The groom graduated from Harvard
in 1906, and since then has been in
structor in the Boys Latin School,
Baltimore, Nd During the summer,
from July 1 to September, Mr.. Bren-
nick and Prof. Sidney Curtis, instruc-
tor Of English at Harvard, are man
ayers of Camp Wildwood, where
about 80 boys spend the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs Brennick will return
to Baltimore about the middle OF Sep
tember.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-30

Penn.

On the morning of June 26, at 5: 80,
Alvin, beloved son of Lorenzo H. and
Pearl NJ. Penn, Of this city, died at
the age of four years, eleven months
and ten days
Alvin was the youngest and only
son living Of his parents. Two years
ago, they lost boy aged five years,
and since then a baby girl of eight
months.
Mrs. Penn went to visit her sister,
Mrs. H. II. Gosnell, of Mt Olive, about
three weeks ago with her daughter,
eleven years Of age, and little Alvin,
but after they had been there for a
week the boy became ill with brain
fever. His death has caused wide
spread sympathy. On Tuesday after
noon, June "a, his body was taken to
Bethel Church of God, near Winfield,
and inferred in the cemetery there
Rev. v. R Belts was the officiating
clergyman.
Funeral director-James Pickett.
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About Tidewater Portland Cement Co

From Manufacturers Record.
A leading official OF the Tidewater
Portland Cement Company, whose
large, modern cement plant at Union
Bridge, Md, is one of the South's new
est and most progressive industrial
establishments, recently announced
that they propose to manufacture a
waterproof Portland cement.
This product is the outcome of
years Of scientific investigation on the
part of Mr.. Richard X. Meade, general
manager of the Company, who is also
chemist of international reputation
in the cement industry, as well as the
author of the first American book
treating exclusively of the manufac-
ture Of Portland Cement. DIR. Edgar
A. Slagle, a Westminster boy and a
graduate of the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, has also lately worked on the
new product and has assisted materi-
ally in it's development. The new
Waterproof Portland Cement is used
just as Is ordinary Portland cement
and in the same proportions. Concrete
made from it, however, Is absolutely
watertight and hence cellar walls,
concrete blocks, etc, made with it will
not show dampness.
The new product has been thorough
~ tested out in practical work as well
as in the laboratory. Its compo-
sition is based on purely scientific
principles. 1t contains NO organic
matter and nothing which can in any
manner injure concrete In which II
| is used. Moreover, the materials used
are not volatile and hence remain per-
manent, whereas most waterproof
compounds now used consist Of oils,
soaps or wakes, which are more or
less volatile and less likely to be per-
manent waterproofers. These wax
and oil compounds are all OF them
devoid of cementing properties them
selves and SO usually detract from the
strength and grinding properties OF
the cement.
The new Tidewater Waterproof
Portland Cement is obtained partly by
special treatment of the cement cllnk-
er and partly by addition of suitable
chemicals, which possess in them
selves marked binding properties and
which do not injure the cement, but
instead add to it's good qualities
Among those who have tested the
new product are the well-knoWn
southern chemists, ,Messrs. Froehling &
Robertson, OF Richmond, Va, whose
tests follow
Fineness: Residue On the 100 mesh
sieve, IA per cent, residue On the
200 mesh seive, 1873 per cent.
Setting Time:-Initial, 2 hours and
80 minutes. Complete 4 hours.
Constancy of Volume Test:-Accel-
Grated (5 hours in steam) Good
| Tensile Strength.-Neat, ! day-246
lbs. Neat days-571 lbs Sandd
-7 days-2S9 lbs.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-30

1t is the custom OF the German
emperor to commemorate his achieve
ments as a hunter by the erection OF
monuments. One or these stones six
feet high, has been put up in royal
forest some miles to the north of
Berlin. tt bears the following In
scription. His majesty the emperor,
King William H shot here on Janu-
tary 8, 1911.ia big "a pointer,in num-
ber OF points the fnestsstag ever kill
-ed by iHohenzoliern prince il the
.SchOrlheide.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-30
County Commissioners.

Theo. Strevig was appointed tax col
lector for Manchester district by the
Board on Monday.
The bids for the erection of steel
bridge 224 feet 10 inches, over Num-
mas Ford, Monocacy River, between
Frederick and Carroll counties, were
opened at Frederick on Wednesday.
The successful bidder was the York
Bridge Company whose bid was $32S0.
The contract for concrete piers and
abutments was given to H.S.Wachtel
at $3.50 per cubic yard. Stone mas
onry was also included in the bids,
but the concrete being more modern
the commissioners accepted the con-
crete bid.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-30
Tregelas.

Mrs. Mary Rogers Tregelas died
Friday afternoon at o'clock at her
home, Union Bridge, Md. She is sur
vived by four children-John N.Treg-
elias, OF Grafton, Va; Mrs. Edward
Barley, Mrs. Roland Haitman, both OF
Baltimore, and Miss Ella Tregelas, of
Union Bridge. The funeral took place
Sunday, at II o'clock, at Frederick.
Services and interment were at MT.
Olivet cemetery.
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Starr Hindsley.

Mr.. and Mrs. @. w. Baynard an
nounced the marriage OF their niece,
Miss Mary Ann Hindsley, to Francis
A Starr, both of Philadelphia. The
bride IS a graduate or Goucher Col
lege, formerly the Woman's College,
Baltimore, and is well-known Ia So
cial circles in Baltimore and the
south. Mr.. Starr Is son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. w. F. Starr, Of Littlestown, and
IL in business in North Philadelphia
Mr. and Mrs. Starr will reside at their
newly furnished home in Tioga
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Stermer--YOst.

George Fl. Stermer, of Hanover, son
of Jacob Stermer, of this county, and
Miss Margaret E. Yost, daughter of
Mrs. Mary Yost, Of Hanover, were
married at $50 D. m, Sunday, June
25, by Rev. A. NJ Heilman, at the par
sonage on Frederick street in that
city.
The young couple will for the pres
ent make their home with the brides
mother.
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Townsend.

On June 27, Maria Farnam Town
send, widow of the late Trevelyan
Townsend, Of Washington, d. O., died
at Mount Pelerin, Switzerland She
was a niece of Miss Ada Hobbie, who
spends the summer months in this
city, and had visited Miss Hobbie sew
eral times here. The deceased was a
daughter of the late Captain Charles
Farnam and Ellen Gillet CHobbie)
Rockwell, and granddaughter OF the
late Major Selah R. Hobbie.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-30

According to a local newspaper a
resident of Amsterdam has discovered
a method OF chemical treatment
whereby cheap, black, bitter cigars
are given an exquisite flavor, equal
to that of cigars sold at tenfold
greater prices. IT il said that expert
judges Of fine cigars, during y re-
cent experiment i'm Amsterdam, could
detect no difference! between cheap
cigars thus treated and the most
expensive brands. a Sa Es
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-30
Progressive Dinner.

A very pretty and enjoyable pro-
gressive dinner of 10 covers was CIV
en- by seven members OF Westminster's
younger set, on Wednesday evening,
Misses Elizabeth BillingsIea, Mary
Cunningham, Mary Billingslea, Cath
crime Thomas, Mary Austin Fouke,
Rosalie Tubman and Mr.. Norman
Boyle.
At s o'clock the young people as
sembled at the home OF Miss Elizabeth
Billingslea where the first course OF
grapefruit was served. From there
they went to Miss Mary Austin
Fouke's, for soup; to Miss Mary Cum
ningham's for croquettes and peas; to
Miss Catherine Thomas for the din
ner course; Miss Rosalie Tubman
was hostess for the salad course; froz-
en- custard and cake were served at
Miss Mary Billingslea's and ice cream
and cake at Norman Boyle's. Finally
the party returned to Miss Mary Cum
ningham's for cheese and coffee and
then went to see the moving pictures.
Those present besides the hostesses
and the host were Misses Ethel Ia
marche, Emily Frazier, DorotheaPen-
nington, and Messrs. Levine and Leeds
Billingslea, Carbery Boyle, Alexander
Tubman and Stuart Gibson.
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Boyer.

Mrs. Catherine e. Boyer, wife of
VIM. Fl. Boyer, died at ner home near
Libertytown, on June %, at o'clock,
a. m, aged 65 years. She leaves a
husband and five children The fun
eral took place Sunday. Rev. B. r.
Carnahan officiated.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-30
Diggs.

Harriet Diggs, (coloreO, died at
the home Of her grandson, Thomas
Somers, Charles street, this city, Mon
day LACED 1G4 years she was buried at
Uniontown yesterday.
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90 6 27 8 8
Score by innings:

score by innings.
M. a. C.......O O % o / O / 0 Is
Westminster 30 00 0 0 ks
Runs scored by Munroe ~, Will
Jams, Gehr, Fogle, Chrest, G. Arnold,
and Boyle. Time of game 3 o'clock.
Umpires Cover and Zepp.
Edwin Gehr is manager OF the West
minister Club and any teams desiring
games will please address all commun-
icationsi to him. Next Saturday after
noon the club will play Union Bridge
team in Union Bridge.
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An editor suggests that the school
children of the country might well
contribute their pennies for the erec-
tion OF national memorial to Francis
Scott Key. On September 13, 1914,
"The Star-Spangled Banner" will be
one hundred years old. But why
should not the adult citizens OF the
country raise this memorial?
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Gumption On The Farm.

How sweet are all things here!
How beautiful the fields appearl
How cleanly do we feed and lie!
What good hours do we keep!
How quietly we sleep!"