The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-01-05
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

AMH days are gradually growing
longer
THAIH week the annual process Of
brushing ND old resolutions is going
dA Very few are kept.
@MM good way to start the New Year
is wv have your subscription to The
Advocate paid Zip and ahead
New Years evening our streets
wHNA alive with masqueraders. Young
and nid alike enjoyed themselves.
IUs public schools and the college
nnaMhh on Wednesday. It. Johns
parish school opened on Tuesday.
Vincent WV. Power, Jr., has accepted
a nn6ikion as engineer for the new
MWMUHt road, with headquarters in
Dover. Del
UTKmen have been engaged in
pmttAm@ np the second tier Of book
CaHHE In the Western Maryland Col
la@a library
The present year came in On Sun
dAV MHd will 20 out on Sunday, max
ing 81 Sundays. This will not occur
a@MAm until 1916.
A mHmber of young people gathered
at tuH home OF Judge and Mrs. Will
imtA M. Thomas, Court Place, Sunday
nIghE md watched the departure OF
tha old year.
Monday, January /, being the feast
0N tMH circumcision was appropriately
observed by special services in st.
.TWhmAM Catholic church and Ascension
Episcopal Church.
TMB foreigners employed on the
Mtath road which il being built
through SmallWood to Gambler have
Rnnsa to Union Bridge to work at the
Cement Plant until spring.
Dn. H IT, Feeman, Bond street, has
gotten together number OF young
hnNM nnd has organized company
called the Blue Ridge Scouts" They
tMMa hike few afternoons each
week
Westminster ushered In the New
Yer hT the ringing OF bells and the
HrInE Of guns. "a number OF citizens
were nm the streets and gave Mr.. 1912
MN rpWHIng welcome with tin horns and
cnM-hail6.
Jacob r.. Holmes, was well remem-
haMAM hy his employer, Walter I'll
Davis John street, at Christmas time
HiH Eift was fine pair of buckskin
gloves with a ten dollar bill in each
hmE6r nf the glove.
Earl Wagner, of Avondale, was tax
eM VAIN the Maryland University Hospit-
Al, Baltimore, this week, for an opera
tiom. FIig sister, Miss Wag-
ner returned home last week from the
same hospital after an operation fol-
appendieitis.
publishing the Election Notice OF
thA Manners Fertilizer and Feed Com
pany III last weeks issue, mistake
MmM made in the date of the cleo
ton, which will take place at the
ComnmmT'S office on Tuesday after
noon, January 8, instead OF January
l9.
Ernest w Rigler, of West Falls, Nd.
haB made a deed OIL trust for the
benefit nf his creditors. The deed
WaB executed To Id. Princeton Buckley
who haR been appointed trustee by
th4 Court To take charge Oh and sell
tha estate Mr.. Buckley gave bond in
the sum on $4,000.
ThA following directors were elect
ed by the Westminster Ice and Cold
Storage Company on Tuesday: Geo
wv. AIbaugh, F. Thomas Babylon, Fred
D. Miller, Geo. r. Gehr, Denton .
GehT, Charles u. Fink, J. M. Reifsntd-
erl Jna. W. Smith, Ezra wi. Bish, Jno
u. Bowers, and Charles Hesson.
Albaugh- Babylon Grocery Company
elected the following directors on
Tuesday: Geo. WV. Albaugh, Il. Thos
Babylon, Carroll Albaugh, Lawrence
Chilean and I'D. Snyder Babylon. The
officers are Geo. w. Albaugh, presi-
aamt; Carroll Albaugh, vice presi-
dent; and r. Thomas Babylon, secre-
taTy and treasurer.
Three young men of Westminster
left during the holidays for trip
through Pennsylvania They first
went WI Baltimore, from there they
Look a Pennsylvania Railroad train
W Is nOt known what kind, we sup
n1Ha tMa side door palace land landed
Columbia, Pa. After taking in the
Witt at Columbia and living or OF
W " TtInch Oh onions, the young men
l@M back for home, arriving here
WV New Years day. They are now
Nj M MinM life easy on Pennsylvania ave-