The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-10-18
Chestnuts are opening fast.

\ Chestnuts are opening fast
Halloween is approaching due
Thursday, the 31st.
There were heavy frosts on We'd
nesday and Thursday mornings
Revival services are being held at
New Freedom Methodist Episcopal
Church.
MIR. and Mrs. II. q. Diffendal and
three children, who have been visit
| ing relatives and friends here, re-
turned on Monday to their home in
McKeesport, Pa.
| The following gentlemen Of this
county are among those who contribu-
ted to the Wilson compaign fund
Joseph B. Boyle, $40; Charles Bril-
hart, $40, and DR. ]. w. Herring, SIS.
Judge J. A. c. Bond has purchased
from Elias d. Arnold his dwelling,
store and other outbuildings at
Smallwood, Carroll county, and pro-
poses to rearrange and improve the
! village of Smallwood.
A card received from Rev. r. W.
Doty, former pastor of Salem Luth-
eran Charge, this county, and now
pastor of Lutheran charge in Cam
bridge, Ohio, states that $605O, has
been raised toward the new church
he is building in that locality.
! The Western Maryland College
foot ball team was defeated by Wash
ington College at Chestertown on
The teams in the lineup were well
matched in regard to weight, though
it developed that Washington had a
little the better of the argument in
speed.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. 0. Runkles, of near
Mt. Airy, announce the engagement
of their daughter, Miss Mabel Vir-
ginia, to Mr.. William Edward Rim
hey, son of Mr.. and Mrs. N. M Rim
hey, of near Mount Airy. The we'd
ding will take place Wednesday, Oc-
tober 8, at the home of the brides
parents.
The Western Maryland Props de-
feated the Westminster High School
team in the first game of the season
on College Field Saturday, Ia to z.
The features of the game were the
defensive work Of Coe, Riggin and
l.. Smith; the line plunging of Ward,
run for a touchdown.
What shall we do for chestnuts ?
There is a fear that by and by we
shall have no more to roast Every
where the trees are dying, and our
wise men do not know what to do
about it. The very thought Of a
Thanksgiving without chestnuts, and
from our own woods, lon our own
farm, would rob the festival of big
part Of its joys.
The Western Maryland Railway
west of HagerstoWn was blocked
with a freight wreck which occurred |
late Sunday afternoon mile from
Hagerstown. Eight loaded cars of |
an eastbound train were derailed and |
thrown down a 30-foot embankment, |
the track torn up the length of the
train and the roadbed badly damaged. !
Several of the derailed cars were de-
molished and others damaged.
= head-on collision took place on
the Western Maryland Railroad at 2
o'clock Sunday morning near Mill |
Switch, two miles east Of Hagers-
town, between an extra freight train
bound for Baltimore and engine 204,
running west. Engine 312, attached |
to the freight, had the cab and pilot
torn off. Engine 204, which was
running light, was slightly damaged
No one was hurt. Several OF the I
trainmen jmped .
At the annual stockholders meet
ing Of the Western Maryland Railroad |
in New York Wednesday, the bylaws
were amended, increasing the board
from nine to twelve. J. Nj. Fitzger .
aid, John T. Hendricks and l.. F.
Zimmerman were elected directors TO
fill the additional places. The exec "
utive organization, with MIR. Adams
as chairman and Mr. Robertson as
president, remains the same, except
that Mr. Fitzgerald was elected vice /
president, With headquarters at Bal
timore. and Mr.. Hendricks, the pres
ent freight traffic manager, was made
vice-president in charge Of traffic.