The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-07-26

Grove Camp grounds will b. o.
August q.
Rev. Dr. Henry c. Cassard, chap
lain on The New Hampshire, U. >. ~,
preached on Sunday morning in As
cension Episcopal Church.
The Chesapeake Motor Cycle Club,
which had planned run to this city
On Sunday did not come OF account
Of the bad weather.
More storms are promised by the
Weather Bureau, but Carroll coun-
tians will not complain should the
promises be broken.
Mr.. %. Levine BillingsIea, East
Main street, has accepted . position
with the National Lettergraph Com
pany in Baltimore, and entered upon
his duties on Monday.
Mr.. William Herd, Green street,
has accepted a position with the
Western Maryland Railway as tele-
graph operator Oh the Connellsville
extension He entered upon his
duties on July Is.
The new fast freight line which
the Western Maryland Railway Com
pany il to establish between this city
and the West after the opening of it,
new Connellsville extension, on
August /, will be known as the Pitts
burg Dispatch.
The Western Maryland Railroad
has been collecting old cars at its
yards in Hgaerstown. The parts that
can b. OF use will b. removed and
the refuse dumped along the road
and burned In all there will be p
900 cars destroyed.
During the storm of Sunday after
noon the barn of Joseph Wertmlller,
near Mount Zion, was struck by
lightning and burned to the ground.
The barn was full of grain, which
was a total loss. Mr.. Wertmiller al
so lost wagon and surrey, lumber
and shingles, harness, and also his
hog pen. He had about $500 insur-
ance on the building
The State Board of Health has
notified farmers in the lower section
of Baltimore county that night soil
will only be allowed in growing veg
etables when it is mixed with at least
eAAA
vegetables grown to the contrary will
be declared to be unwholesome and
will b. condemned and destroyed by
an agent of the State Board.
Just a little more than month
and the Chautauqua will be with US.
There are to be 80 events in alien
PERTAINING, instructive and amusing.
Tit will be- fine thing for Westmlns-
ter and without doubt many people
throughout the county will take ad-
vantage Of the opportunity and come
into the big chautauqua tent. Sea-
son tickets will be sold for $500.
Owing to the recent death of Rev.
w. :. Phillips at Newark, N. n, the
Western Maryland College authori-
ties have consented not to vacate the
pulpit of Denton Methodist Protest
ant Church by requiring Rev. A. Nor
man Ward to take up the vice-presi-
dency of the college this fall. He
will remain in the active ministry
until the close of the conference year,
next April
Two Chaldeans, one an ordained
minister of the Gospel and the other
deacon, were in this city on Sun
day last soliciting funds for school
| for orphan children which they are
conducting in Egypt. They spoke and
sang in Chaldean, Greek, COptic, and
Egyptian. In the morning one of
them spoke in Grace Lutheran
Church, and in the evening both
spoke in the Methodist Protestant
Church Their names were David
Zadoc and Paul Joseph.
The next meeting Of the Carroll
County Medical Society will be held
at Springfield State Hospital on We'd
nesday, July 81. Dinner will be
served at l o'clock, after which the
following papers will be read :
Huntingdon's Chorea with Exhibition
Of Cases, by Dr. Charles J. Carey;
Mysophobic Obscession with Exhibl-
ton of Cases, by DR.. H. D. Purdum
Re-Education of the Insane, by DR.
A. P. Herring Automobiles will
leave Westminster at $50 a. m, or
Wednesday next for Springfield
The new postoffice building at Mt
Airy, erected by Postmaster Walter
r. Rudy, about twenty yards from
The building is two stories high ant
il divided into two parts-one occu'
pied by Selby and Spurrier, hard
ware and machinery dealers, and the
other the postofice, the high schoo
being on the second floor. The facade
is of pressed brick. The postoff1ce
room is 26 by 60 feet in size, having
an open space in the shape Of an L
the corner being cut off for the
clerks.
F. H. Rife and Z. M. Ripple, two
railroad men, of Hagerstown, Md.
sustained serious injury on July Il
when caboose of a Western Mary
land Railway train broke loose, anC
| later collided with the train. Rife
had his left arm broken and bOtt
men were badly cut about the head
r. U. Glen, fireman on the Western
Maryland Railway, was badly injur'
ed by being Jared from his engine
near Thurmont, July IS. He was as.
sisting in getting water to the tender
when his train was bumped by {
draft OF empty passenger coaches
the jar throwing him from the en-
CINE, badly cutting his head and face
and wrenching his back.
Residents of Thurmont have called
upon State Sanitary Engineer Rob
ert wv. Morse for some relief from
polluted wells, which they allege are
caused by some persons turning theil
wells into cesspools. Thurmont sew
eral years ago had a system Of water
works put in. The man with water