The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-05-24
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

In season-straw hats and straw
votes and strawberries.
A leap year play Brass Buttons
will be given in Taneytown tonight at
the Opera House.
The small boy is wondering what he
will do between the close of school
and the coming Of circus.
Mr. Harry Devine, who conducted
the Devine Hotel, 1T Harvey, Nd.
moved to Hanover, Pa, last week
Plans are being made for Decora-
ton Day. No grave of a soldier will
be forgotten or should be forgotten.
The wood work on the residence OF
Charles ". Wantz, East Main street,
j. receiving coat Of paint Charles
Stouch iF doing the work.
The store and residence occupied
by Messrs. Frank s. Stewart and W.
II. Davis Is being painted. Charles
E. Bowers has the contract.
Mr.. Frank Howard, of Warren, fell
is feet from ladder on which he was
painting, at Ashland, Saturday and
was severely injured on the body.
The annual examination Tor teach
ers' will BE- held in tho hts.A school
building at Westminster on Thursday
and Friday, June 9Th aud 7th, Begin
Eine at 800 a. m.
Rev. Dr. w. B. Duttera, of Sails
bury, N. O., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Amos
Duttera, Taneytown, has been elect
"a President of the Reformed Chassis
of North Carolina.
Friday, June IA, Il Flag Day The
flag should he everywhere displayed,
and when possible, the day should be
celebrated by appropriate services in
churches, schools and lodges.
T. Milton Reifsnider has been elect
ed delegate from Ascension Episcopal
Church Ito the arch deaconry of Tow
son which meets at Emmanuel
Church, bel Air, Wednesday, June ).
Mr.. M. Il. McNeal, for the last three
years clerk in the Office of F. NJ.
Howell, general passenger agent of
the Western Maryland Railroad has
been appointed travelling passenger
agent. The appointment becomes eff
fective June I.
The all-day meeting Of Primitive
Baptists at Butler, Md, was largely
attended Sunday. Vehicles lined the
roadways and grove about the church.
Elder Sylvester Hassell, of William
son, N. c., preached in the morning
and afternoon.
The shipment of bituminous coal
over the West Virginia division Of the
Western Maryland during March,
amounted to 235,851 gross tons and
those over the Georges Creek and
Cumberland line were 36,529, making
a total Of 272,380 tons for the entire
Western Maryland system.
The interesting story of the Arch
diocese of Baltimore, the first colony
in the New World where religious toll
Grafton was established,is graphically
narrated in The Catholic Encyclo-
pedia. we are in receipt of manu-
script containing excerpts which give
the most salient points Of this arch
diocese.
Messrs. William A Shriver, Jr
Avondale, on 6-horsepower Flying
Merkle and Edward Baker and Thos
Bennett, New Windsor, on 7-horse-
power Indians, made 200 mile trip
on Sunday. They visited Frederick
Braddock Heights, Hagerstown, Pen
Mar, Emmitsburg, Gettysburg Battle
field, Gettysburg and then returned
to Westminster A perfect score was
made.
A very beautiful and interesting
automobile trip will be made by Mr.
and Mrs. r. V. Lewis, Miss Ethel
Steele. this city; and MIR. and Mrs
Charles Hawkins, of Woodield, to
New York OH Tuesday next. They
will leave early in the morning and
20 by way of Littlestown, Hanover
York, and Lancaster to Philadelphia
then from Trenton, Newark and Jer-
sey City to New York.
Mr.. Clarence Seabrook, chief of the
Engineering corps of Syracuse On
Y) Water Bureau writes Us as fol
lows: "I cannot do without the
weekly letter from home # receive
through the Advocate Tit Il a Whit
carrying me to the homeland, it tells
me Of old scenes, old friends, old ia
ulIIdL pldC0S. i COuIu nOL uO Will
out it. 1 congratulate you on the ex-
cellent journal you are issuing"
William F. Derr, of 71S East North
avenue, Baltimore, formerly Of this
city, reported to the Detective Depart
ment that thieves had entered his
home late Friday night or early Sat
urday morning, and, after ransackins
practically every room on the second
floor, took from the bureau drawer Of
the rear room $40 in money. Mr.. ant
Mrs. Derr had left the house about
o'clock, and it was upon their return
about 1:15 A. M, that the robbery waf
discovered.
q large turkey buzzard was founc
lying exhausted on the ground neal
Carrollton a few days ago by school
boy named Morrill, Greene, who found
a sleighbell attached to one of its
wings. 1t must have carried the bel
for some time, as it's sound had beer
heard in the neighborhood during
several days. Young Greene, how
ever, was the first to discover the
cause of it, ringing. After the boy
detached 1T the buzzard, freed from
the burden, was able to resume its
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