The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-06-21

Mrs. William MCGEE, Of Mexico, fell
broke her wrist.
Rev. J. O.. Walden will preach at
st. Benjamin's Lutheran Church (Kri-
dersD OF Sunday morning at 1O
O'Clock.
-Patapsco Methodist Episcopal Sun
day School will hold its Children's
Day service Sunday evening, June
23rd, at 7.30 o'clock.
On account of rain on Wednesday
the Westminster base ball team did
not 20 to Hanover, Pa, to have con-
test with that team.
MIR. David Miller, son of MIR. Samuel
Miller, Of near UniontoWn, fell from a
cherry tree last Sunday, breaking his
wrist and dislocating his ankle.
a map of the wv. M. r. r. and its
connections, including the one to
Pittsburgh, il contained i'm the new
schedule pamphlet issued by the COM
pany.
Mrs. Ida Byers, OF Washington, d.
c., fell out of a cherry tree at the
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ellburg on Thursday and fractured
her collar bone.
Fifty-twO children received their
first communion at early mass Sunday
morning at St.John's Catholic church.
In the afternoon they renewed their
baptismal vows and were invested
with scapula.
Miss Mamie n CIaon of RaItinoora
died at st. Agnes Hospital, on Tues
day following an operation for ap-
pendicitis She was sister of Mrs.
Charles B. Roberts, 703 ST. Paul
street, Baltimore.
President Taft has reappointed
Samuel :. Yingling al postmaster at
Reisterstown. Mr. Yingling has held
the Office since 1897, and since then
it has been raised from a fourth class
to third class office.
Don't forget the corn institute to be
held at the Grange Hall, Medford,
Saturday, June %, at 100 p. m.
DIR. Richard r.. Hill, director of Farm
ers Institutes, will have several very
able lecturers with him on this occa-
sion.
Mr.. Leslie Perry, of Union Bridge,
has accepted position in the office
of the clerk of the circuit court, in
place of MIR. wv. Wiley Jenkins, who
resigned in order to become assistant
principal of the Westminster High
School.
The store me- Hingeman and Brun-
dige, at Stevenson, Green Spring Val
ley, was recently entered at night
through the Office window by thieves
who helped themselves to whatever
they wanted from the store. The
guilty ones have not yet been captur-
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The Children's Day services of
Sandy Mount Methodist Protestant
Church, Sandyville, were postponed
from last Sunday till Sunday evening
next, June 23rd, at 8 o'clock. Should
the weather be inclement then, they
will be held the following Tuesday
evening.
During a storm on last Sunday
morning a bolt of lightning entered
the kitchen OF w. Clayton Jean, at
Harrisonville, and passed out through
a window, smashing the glass. The
bolt then ran along barbed wire,
tearing the posts from the ground.
Mr. and Mrs. Jean, who were recently
married, were startled, but escaped
injury.
The following vice presidents from
this county were selected by the Sec
rotary of the Maryland State Fire
mems Association: ID. G. Martin,
Hampstead; Paul T.. Leese,. Manches-
ter; 8. r.. DoWriel, Taneytown; III. III.
Bond, Union Bridge, and William
Helm, Westminster. All are mem
bers of fire companies from their re-
spective towns.
During the severe storm Sunday
evening, Mr.. Patrick Hayes, who lives
on the Washington road, near this
city, was knocked down and stunned
by an electric light wire which had
blown down on East Main street.
also the residence Of Clarence Muir
ray, in Mt Airy was struck, and Mr.
Murray knocked from the chair in
which he was sitting. In the same
storm the residence of >. w. Stack
house was struck by lightning, tear
ing a large hole in the roof.
On Thursday of last week Mr.Jacot
Myerly, of Detour, was driving bull
past the home of Mr.. Charles Car
baugh, when the animal entered the
kitchen where Mrs. Carbaugh and lit
tie son and Miss Sarah Carbaugh
were. They ran in the adjoining
room and it was with great difficulty
the bull was prevented from following
them. After being driven out of the
kitchen he tried to gain an entrance
at the front door.
MIR. Bennett Garretson, formerly Oh
near Finksburg, and well known in
this county, died i'm KentOn, Ohio, or
June 3rd, after an illness of few
days. He had not been very well fol
nearly year. He is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. Charles ClaypooI, Of
Virginia, and one sister, Mrs. Edward
N. Buckingham, of Baltimore, whose
husband died last Sunday evening Mr.
Garretson was an uncle of Mrs. Will
liam ID. Reese, of this city.
The State Roads Commission has
instructed the patrol to take the mum
Der of every machine exceeding the
legal speed limit of 25 miles an hour
These numbers will be forwarded tt
State Motor Vehicle Commissioner
Roe, who has ample authority to pros
ecute all offenders. He can impose
a fine, a jail sentence, or he can re
woke license. The patrol are thu
men employed by the State Commits
sioner to keep the roads in repair.
"A womans institute will be held il
the Grange Hall at Medford, Saturday