The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-09-15

I1@0 0nyueTp Ibis city, has &C
Icepted position as bookkeeper at
McGinnis' Distillery, Carrollton.
Guy Q. Williams has accepted a
position as clerk at the Farmers ana
Mechanics National Bank, Of this
city.
Thomas 3 CO. have sold the farm
OF Harry w. Little, near this city, to
Helen :. Gallagher. for the sum OF
$3.50.
John Wagner, OF Washington ave
nue., was taken to st. Joseph's Hos
pttal, Baltimore, Tuesday, for an Cd
Grafton.
The Girls Club OF East Main Street
gave an afternoon tea yesterday AT
the club rooms from three to five
o'clock
q number of base ball fans in this
city witnessed the game OF ball be
tween Detroit and Baltimore yester-
day afternoon.
Our county Jail has Is boarders en-
rolled. Some are serving sentences
while others are held for the Novem-
Der grand jury. -.
| Miss Virginia Hunter, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. George ~ Hunter, East
Green street, who had been extreme
~ III, is improving.
The Mather Printing Company has
moved its printing plant and business
to the new building recently erected
by them on East Main street.
The B. f. Shriver Company Is con
sidering the advisability Of canning
pumpkins. The crop of pumpkins Is
unusually large and fine this year.
The excursion season at Pen-Mar
will close ON Sunday, when last op-
portunity to visit the pretty noun
tain resort at low excursion rates will
be afforded.
Sykesville and New Windsor post
Offices have been designated by Post
master General Hitchcock as postal
savings banks. They will commence
business on October -.
Official announcement has been
made that work on the new $75, 900
station to be erected in HagerstoWn
4 by the Western Maryland Railway
Company will be started about Oc-
tober 1.
Manchester will have a colt show
for the best double and single teams
Charles w. Murray, Lawrence Ben
ford and Benjamin Dorsey.
During a display OF fireworks at
Pen-Mar Park at the conclusion of the
anniversary festivities sparks fell up
on the roof OF the dancing Pavilion,
starting a fire,and a hole was burned
in the roof before the flames were ex-
tinguished.
Hyattsville must be made UP Of 2
bunch OF knockers. They have been
lighting the Washington, Westminster
G Gettysburg Railroad to keep it
from crossing the town. Now they
are up against the gas company. Why
not fence the town in?
Wade II. ID. Warfield and Guy W.
Steele, OF this county, have been ap-
pointed members of the committee
who will notify the Democratic State
candidates next Tuesday at Fairview.
Howard county, the home OF Senator
Arthur r.. German. Arrangements
for the notification were completed
yesterday
Y The residence on West Main street
of the late Benjamin z. Grouse. was
sold yesterday at public sale
to DR.. Charles r. Foutz, for the
sum OF $500. The brick dwelling
house adjoining was withdrawn on a
bid of $171O. Guy w. Steele y at
torney for the estate and Mrs. Frank
Grouse and Ira E.Crouse are admins
traitors.
The Reisterstown Baptist Church,
which recently has been completed,
will be dedicated at o'clock Sunday
afternoon. Rev. III. w. Kemp, pastor
of the church, will be in charge OF
the exercises. He will be assisted
by Rev. o. G. Wallace, or the First
Baptist Church, and Rev. II. M.
IGriesemer, of Franklin Square Bap-
fist Church.
On a charge of assault and battery
preferred by Charles g. Mossburg,
foreman on the farm of Edward J.
Stellwagen, near Bethesda, on Satur-
day, William e. Bahr, Of Washington,
has been committed to Jail to await
trial before Justice Reading. Ac-
cording to Mossburg, Bahr was en-
ployed as an engineer on the Stell-
wagon farm, and after working sever
al days, he was paid off and notified
that his services were no longer need
ed. The morning following, however,
Bahr appeared at the farm and pro
ceeded to fire up the engine, which
Inecessitated Mossburg again telling
him that his services were no longer
desired. Mossburg says Bahr then
flew into a passion and attacked him
with redhot poker, striking him on
the head, inflicting an ugly cash and
rubbing the hot iron up and down one
of his bare arms, painfully burning
him
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