The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-16
NEWS OF THE STATE.

Nellie e. Barley, OF Cumberland, adj
ministratrix of the estate OF AlphoHsus
E. Barley, through Albert a. Doub and
Frank A. Perdew, attorneys, has enter
ed suit in the United States Court for
$4,000 damages against the Western
Maryland Railway. Alphonsus z. Bar
ley was killed in an accident in the
yards at Ridgeley, w. Va, opposite
Cumberland, and the declaration states
that the accident was due to a VIOLA
ton of the safety appliance act.
Frederick has been selected for the
State militia encampment June IL to
%, and the citizens are looking for
ward with delight to the coming Of the
soldiers. Capt. John Marley and res
idents of the town will begin at once
to prepare for the event.
There are two sites proposed, but
the one most favored Is the farm of
Greenbury Putnam on the Thurmont
road, about two miles from the foot of
Catoctin mountain and in country
well-adapted for maneuvering and
scouting.
Three important church reunions
will be held this summer at Pen-Mar.
That Of the Reformed churches of
Maryland, Pennsylvania, the Virginias
and the District Of Columbia will be
held on Thursday, July 20.
The Lutherans of the same States
will hold a reunion on the following
Thursday, July p. The Presbyteri-
ans of the same localities will meet
on August 8.
Former United States Senator Geo.
T. Wellington will be the orator at
the Lutheran reunion, and Rev. John
E. Title, pastor of the First Presby-
terrain Church, York, Pa, will deliver
the Grafton Of the Presbyterian gath
ering.
At a meeting in Baltimore, Tues
day night OF last week the $500 first
prize for the best essay on: What IT
costs the people of Baltimore, "a
morally, ~ physically, 90 mentally,
(4) financially, 81 industrially to Sc
cure the million dollars year which
the city now receives from the liquor
traffic under the High License Law"
was awarded to Rev. John Roach
Straton, ID. d., pastor Of the Seventh
Baptist Church Of Baltimore. He
reaches the conclusion that, in ad-
dition to the moral blight and mental
anguish caused by the liquor traffic,
it costs Baltimore City each year $780,
100000 to obtain little over one mil
lion dollars of high license revenue.
a report from Washington says
that falling in their efforts to effect a
reciprocity agreement with the
Maryland authorities in regard
to an exchange of license privileges
the District Commissioners have pass
ed a regulation requiring all Mary
land autoists to secure a District Ii
cense before entering the city.
The Commissioners say that Wash
tiles about $4,000 a year for licenses.
On May Is, joint meeting of the
Maryland Psychiatric Society, the
State Lunacy Commission and the
board of managers OF the state hos
pitfalls for the insane was held at
Springfield State Hospital The COM
mittee on founding an epileptic colony
reported that it was getting al emu
meration of the epIIeptfcs in the
state Several important matters in
regard to State Institutions and Hos
pitfalls were discussed and a committee
was appointed to secure the services
of a man who shall be director, Or
teacher, of occupation, his salary to
be paid by private subscription. 1t is
the intention to demonstrate to the
state the importance and usefulness
of such an Office, with the view Of in
ducing the legislature to make it a
state Office