The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-04-26
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

The spring has been fearful, cold
and repellant
While the men are talking politics
the women are talking flies.
Why any more interest in the poll
teal campaign? The base ball sea-
son ia on
Last Saturday morning an interest
ing teachers meeting was held in
Manchester conducted by Mrs. 4. P.
Stabler, Supervisor.
Last Sunday i'm almost every pull
bit in this city and county the Tit
anic disaster was referred to and
lessons drawn from it.
In another column will BE- found
the notice of the Supervisors of Elec-
ton giving the date and places
OF registration for the primary cleo
ton.
The Western Maryland Railway
Company is fencing off the road that
runs from the station to Green street
bridge. q lawn will be substituted
for the road.
Mr. Thomas Barnhart, Sandyville,
has accepted a position with the
Tidewater Portland Cement Co., at
Union Bridge. He will also play
ball with the Union Bridge base pail
club.
The House of Representative last
week adopted an amendment to the
Post Office Appropriation bill pro-
hibiting hereafter the opening of any
,fET1 - 7.
pose of distributing mail.
Early peas are two To three inches
out of the ground. Soup beans and
lima beans are lying on top. Turn
ips, beets, raddishes and lettuce will
soon be ready for transplanting.
The white potato is sprouting.
This IL Arbor Day. Appropriate
exercises are being held in our
schools. tn addition to tree planting
and the literary exercises, a portion
of the day is to be devoted to gen
eral cleaning UP of the school prem
ises.
A festival will be held at Friend
ship School House, on Saturday eve
ming and night, May 4th, beginning at
six o'clock Music furnished during
the evening, Proceeds will be for a
large clock for the school house and,
other useful articles.
Dealers anticipate a decrease in
the price Of potatoes in few weeks.
All of the rubbish has now been
hauled off of our alleys by the city's
cleaning up force, and Westminster
starts the summer in fairly good
condition Let our hOuseholders
keep it up.
Washington /. Ridgely, of Elders
burg, the father of Rev.Vernon Ridg-
ely. is at the Baltimore Ear, Eye and
Throat Hospital, on Franklin street
Baltimore suffering with injuries re-
ceived by being struck in the eye
with nail 1t is feared that the
sight Of the eye will b. destroyed.
IN another week shade trees will
be laden with bright green leaves
and already many of the earlier ma
turing ones are filed to overfowing
Pasture lands throughout the county
are also in good condition and the
spring rains have everywhere caused
vegetation to spring up like magic
Gardens are In excellent condition.
A large photograph of Miss Mar
jorie Sterling daughter of Mrs. H. N
Farber, 1913 st. Paul street, Balti-
more, and granddaughter OF the
late Judge O. A. Reifsnider, of this
city, appeared in the Baltimore
American of last Sunday. Miss
Sterling is noted for her beauty ant
has many friends in this city where
she spends much time.
The Evening Sun says: ''It is un
derstood on good authority that the
Western Maryland Railway Company
has in mind the extension of it, Inns
from near Frederick to Po+~----
Yards, few miles below Washing
ton, where connection will BE- made
with the Atlantic Coast Line, the
sSeaboard Air Line, the Southern
Railway and the Chesapeake ant
Ohio"
A largely attended meeting of rep
resentative citizens of Glyndon ant
Reisterstown was held Tuesday eve
ming at the Glyndon Volunteer Fire
Company's building for the purpose
Of urging the Maryland State Norma
School building commission to take
favorable action upon the petition d
the Mems Club to inspect and accep
the Neal property as being the idea
site for the location of the new Nor
NAL School.
There will be an entertainment
given i'm the Red Mems Hall at Pa
tapsco on Tuesday evening, April 80
under the auspices of the Ladies' All
Society of the Methodist Episcopa
church. The program will consist o
a comedy in two acts, dialogues, rec
itations, vocal and instrumental mus
ic. An admission fee Of 10 cents vii
be taken at the door. Should tn
weather be- unfavorable it will b. he'll
the first clear evening.
Willard Stout, who said he hat
been boarding lin Baltimore, was ar
rested Sunday by Patrolman Smith
of Reisterstown, on the charge Q
breaking open box car OF tn
Western Maryland at Glen Morri
and stealing some carpenter tools
When given a hearing Monday nlurn
ing before Justice Bevan at Arlington
he denied having taken the tools
stating that man whom Tx did TO
know handed them to him to kee
for a few minutes. He was commit