The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-04-12
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

LULhL hEEhlhOs
The paint brush, garden hoe and
spade are on the job.
These spring days are so uncertain
that one doesn't know whether tn
order coal or ice.
When the baseball season is fairly
launched the presidential candidates
won't receive quite 10 much attention.
At his own expense Sheriff Elias
M Davis, presented each convict with
Easter eggs on Easter Sunday. He
has eleven on his board bill.
"A mortgage for $5O,OOo,OOO was Civ
en- to the Bankers Trust Co., by the
Western Maryland Railway Company,
on the premises, estates, ETC., of the
Company.
The Holy Communion will be adj
miniStered in St Mary'S Reformed
Church, Silver Run, Nd, on Sunday,
April 18th, at TO o'clock q. IT,, and
7.3O O'Clock, D. 10.
The following bills were signed by
Governor Goldsborough this week,
pertaining to Carroll county: Amend
ing the charter of the Union Mills
Savings Bank; providing for police at
Springfield hospital.
The Tidewater Portland Cement
Company loaded and shipped on
Wednesday, and Thursday OF last
week, Al carloads of cement Ii re-
quired two extra freights with two
engines to each train to haul it.
"a petition, signed by more than 200
citizens of Frederick city and county,
was received by Representative Lewis
last week, in which Congress is ask
cd to construct a boulevard from
Washington to Gettysburg, as mem
orial to Abraham Lincoln.
Governor Goldsborough has fixed
April 10Th to be celebrated as Arbor
Day throughout the State This il a
week later than usual, but experience
has taught that the middle of April j.
frequently too early for open air ex-
ercises incident to the occasion.
Tomorrow the Western Maryland
College baseball team will play the
Navy at Annapolis. This will be the
second game of the season for the
W. M. q. boys, the first having been
played on the college grounds, March
Goth, when the University of Mary
land won over the local collegiates
by. the score of to 4.
Dr. r.. w. Sylvester, president Of the
Maryland Agricultural College, it was
announced Wednesday, j. at Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, where
H. il undergoing treatment for a
nervous breakdown Dr. Sylvester
has been in i'll health for some time,
and while his condition l. not regard
ed as serious his physicians have or
dered him to take complete rest
Paul Warner, about 10 years of age,
son of Rev. IT, IT, Warner, of Buck
eystown, Frederick county, formerly
pastor of the Methodist Protestant
Church this city, was bitten Oh the
left leg by dog, while he was rid
ing along the road on his bicycle. The
wound was Immediately cauteriZed
and no serious results are feared, as
the dog has shown no suspicious
signs to indicate that it may be af-
fected with rabies.
q verdict OF ESQ against the West
ern Marylari Railway Company was
obtained in the Baltimore City Court
Wednesday by Andrew U. Bivans, col
ored, years old, for having a foot
cut Off by train at Gettysburg, IA.
While attempting to board the train
with the boy inlhis arms On Septem-
Der IN, 1911, the father of the boy fell
and the boy went under the wheels.
Since then the father has died and the
suit was continued by the boys moth
er. 1t was alleged that the train was
prematurely started.
The cleaning UP Of the town has
been going on all the week, and il Il
gratifying to find that our household
ers seem to be realizing the import
ance Of it, and that the street cleaners
are finding a much larger amount a
refuse, filth and rubbish deposited il
the alleys than ever before. The
work il under the supervision Of
Captain WeigIe, and three 2-horse
wagons are being used to haul away
the trash. The West-end Of the towT
has been partially covered by the
street-cleaners, but it will be some
time next week before the East end is
reached
According to a dispatch from the
Postof1ce Department, Washington, D
O., Maryland is not supporting posta
savings banks as in other States
Compared with the number Of de-
positors and amounts on deposit il
other States, Maryland ranks thirty
seventh in number Of accounts re,
naming open January 81 last and
forty-third in total amount remaining
on deposit, which shows that as com
pared with other states the average
amount to the credit of each depos-
itor is much lower in Maryland thar
in the rest OF the country. The pres
emit policy of the Postoffice Depart
ment il to take the postal savings
bank into rural communities where
banks are not in easy reach of tbs
people.