The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-08-30

j The cucumber crop in this county
ill., a large one
Mr.. Eli Butler, West Main street
is having his residence painted.
Fifty-one tickets were sold yester-
day from this station to Luray Cav
erns.
III Charles M Matthias was named a.
trustee by the creditors of Il. r. Grove,
of townsville.
Mr. Hard Ward, Of Baltimore, il the
new American Express agent, who
succeeds Mr.. Ohler.
Miss Helen Reindollar, Taneytown,
has been granted scholarship to the
Woman's College, Frederick.
The county roads have a coat Of
about three inches of dust, which
makes travelling very disagreeable.
Misses Miriam Bergman, Manchester,
and Nora D. Haines, Dennings, re
ceived scholarships to the State Nor
nal School.
Mr.. J. R. Engle, Grantsville, Md,
has been awarded a scholarship to
Western Maryland College, by the
School Board Of Garrett county.
John G.. Hoffman, executor of Nancy
Arnold, deceased, has sold her home
farm Of 244 acres and improvements
to Franklin Arnold and others, for
$4,000
Smith Yingling Co. has installed a
corn husker, patented by the Fred. ID.
Knapp Co., this city. The machine
| dnnc oil tho vuorH n jc n1arniod RI do
with satisfaction.
Mr.. Milton Swartzbaugh, Webster
street, this city, has the largest crop
of tomatoes that has been seen for
some time. He has a number that
weigh from 2 to 27z pounds.
George r. Wilhide sold his valuable
farm, known in recent years as the
Shipley Farm, situated at the south
edge of Thurmont, to Keefer Brand
enburg, Of near Wolfsville, at SIS per
acre.
Westminster after being without a
circus for several years will again
have the pleasure of seeing show.
Nebraska Bills Wild West show will
come to this city on Friday, Septem-
Der 20.
BY proclamation of Governor Colds
borough next Monday will be Labor
Day in commemoration of the work
ing people of this State. Many
events have been scheduled for it,
celebration.
Mr.. George Wege, of Hanover, Pa,
who pitched ball for the Westminster
Base Ball Club in 1908, came out vic
torious in game at Hanover, Pa, on
1 Saturday last against the Keystone
team Of that city.
Frederick Crawford, who resides
near Graceham, sustained the loss of
three good mich cows recently. The
COWS were found dead in the pasture
field all lying close together. The
presumption is that they bloated.
If the lady who bought a round trip
ticket from Westminster to Emory
Grove last Sunday, and who lost her
pocketbook on that day, will call on
MIR. i'd. IT.. Farrar, this city, she will
receive some information in regard
to the pocketbook.
Alfred 5. Luttgerding, well-known
dairyman Of North Branch, and lead
ing member of the Roslyn Grange, has
been appointed by Governor Colds
borough as the Maryland delegate to
the Farmers National Congress, which
meets in New Orleans November X
to ~.
Some of the merchants in town, ap-
Ipreciating the importance of the
Chautauqua in our city, have offered
to close their stores next week at
7.3O D. ~, 80 they and their clerks
may attend, and an effort Is being
made to have all the merchants agree
to close.
The tender Of extra freight engine
625 was off of the track on the
switch of Smith & Reifsnider yester-
day afternoon, delaying the train
about hours. The cause of the &C
cident was the spreading of rails. The
tender was put back on the track by
an extra engine.
i Mr. Frank X. Herr, West Main
street, to his surprise on Sunday
morning found fine turkey gobbler
in his stable. He is at sea as to how
stable was closed. Mr.. Herr thinks
it likely that some one put it there
to hide theft. He il willing to turn
it over to the owner.
e. T. Crawford, of Smallwood, last
week purchased of Mr.G. Albert Mays
of Glencoe, Baltimore county, the
standard bred stallion registered as
!; Thomas Mack; sired by Beausant,r rec
ord 205A; dam by McKinsey 2.11A
Thomas Mack is seal brown, years
old, perfect in manners and breeding
and should sire extreme speed from
his blood lines.
a young man of Harmony Grove
Md, was arrested on the charge OF
violating the ordinance which pro-
hibits persons from allowing corn
husks to drop from wagons upon the
streets. He was fined $500. Corn
husks are scattered all over our
streets during the season for con-
ming corn, but our officer has never
arrested anyone who was hauling the
husks.
i Westminster's canning factories are
i'm full operation, and the indications
are that the canning industry will
eclipse that of last year in both quail
ity and output The run on corn is
now in full swing, and large wagon
loads of corn have been going to the
} factories every day this week. The
: consuming public has come to know
! that there is a great variation in
; quality of canned foods as in other
foods, and there il an increasing de-
mand each year for Carroll county
canned goods.
Pickpockets were numerous at the
} Taneytown fair grounds and on ex-
. cursion trains to the Changers Fai1
! held recently, and three Thurmont
J people were relieved of various sums