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

Local news of interest will be found
on every page
Our stores will all close at noon Oh
Decoration Day, May 30.
Monday, May p, j. Whit-Monday
which is Manchester's red letter day
Go over there if you're looking for {
good time.
The four principal corn growing
countries are the United States, Ar
gentine, Hungary, and Italy.
Mr. Harry Weller mas resigned Iii
position with the Sentinel to accept
one with the Emerson Hotel, Balti-
more.
Local weather prophets say that an
unusually cool spring such as this is
always followed by an unusually hot
summer.
Mr. Grant Matthias, of Bachman's
Valley, sold to Mr. Harry F. Cover
drover, this city, steers that aver
aged 495 pounds gain each, from the
time he purchased them.
Howard Reinhardt has resigned his
position with D. S. Gehr, hardware
man on the corner, in order to accept
one with the Westminster Metal and
Foundry 90.
The Oranges entertained the
''Purples" in the lecture room of the
Methodist Protestant Church, this city,
last night. An enjoyable program
was rendered, and refreshments fol-
lowed.
Benjamin Spencer, of Patapsco,
playing rightfeld on the Petersburg
ball team in the Virginia League,
drove the pill for the circuit on Mon
day, which was one Of the redeeming
| features
| a mail box will be placed On the
| front door of the court house by or
der of the county commission
ers, in which newspapers for all the
Offices in the court house may be de-
posted. This will be great conven-
fence.
Mr. Charles IT. Kolb, who will be
principal of the Westminster High
School next year, will probably at
tend the John Hopkins summer
school. He will spend most of the
summer with relatives in Howard
county.
Mrs. c. H. Croft, of Green Spring
Valley, who underwent a surgical OPP
Grafton on May /, at St Joseph's
Hospital, Baltimore, was taken to her
home last Tuesday, May 21st, much
improved and is still improving, under
the care OF her physician, DR.. T.. M.
Jones, of Pikesville, Md.
The Lutheran congregation at Sill
yer Run Thursday of last week elect
ed the following officers for a term
Of two years: Elders, Jacob Mes
singer, Harry N. Croft; deacons, Har-
~ Strevig, Murray Masenheimer. The
election at the Reformed church was
postponed until Sunday, June 2.
At a special meeting Of the West
minister Fire Department on Wednes
day night it was decided to attend the
Annual Firemen's Convention to De-
held at Hagerstown, on June II, Is
and IA, and take part in the exercises.
q full company will 60 consisting of
30 members, headed by the First Reg
iment Band Of over 40 pieces.
The General Conferences Of the
Methodist Protestant churches are
still in session. Reports have been
heard by the Commission on Church I'M
ion, and delegates will hear frater-
nal greetings. DR.. Lyman E. Davis, of
Sharpsburg, Pa, was elected presi-
dent of the Methodist Protestant Con-
ference to succeed Dr. It. 1T. Lewis.
After lying in state Of coma for
nearly week, James 1T. Brown, a
farmer of Brighton, died Wednesday
morning at o'clock, at the Maryland
General Hospital, Baltimore. His
death was due to a fractured skull,
the result of a runaway accident at
Della, Md, last Tuesday. Mr.. Brown
was about to step into his carriage
when the pair ran away and he was
thrown heavily to the ground.
The High School Commencement ex-
erciSes will be held in the assembly
room of the school, Monday evening,
May 81, at o'clock The graduates
this year are: Mabel Albert, Velma
Fleming, Rubie Yeiser, Mary Weagly,
Jessie Knadler, Grace Gunther, Irene
Lippy, Paul Englar, Charles Arnold,
James Marsh, John Magee, LaMotte
Smith and Clarence Aldridge. The adj
dress to the graduating class will be
delivered by DR.. t. II. Lewis.
The will of Mr.. George Hale, of the
Fifth district of Baltimore county,
was probated yesterday by the Or
phans' Court at Towson. Mr.. Hale
leaves 500 to each of his grandchild-
rem, Thomas Stanley Hale, William
Hale, Annie Hale and Lula B. Roy
ston, $1,000 and furniture to his
daughter, Mrs Georgianna Morfoot,
and the residue to Joseph t. Hale,
Elijah Hale, Mary Elizabeth Wlsner,
Angelina Wilhelm and Georgianna
Morfoot equally Mr.. Elijah Hale and
Mr.. Lewis E. Morfoot are named exc
cutors without bond. The will is dat
ed October 16, 1906.
| Tony AIMING, an Italian, was shot
and seriously injured Sunday evening,
on the Western Maryland railway,
near Wakefield. The man who did
the shooting gave the name Of Robert
Jones, but is also foreigner. One
bullet passed from right to left en-
tirely through Awnings stomach, and
one lodged in his right arm. DR.. H.
nj. Fitzhugh, extracted the bullet from
the arm and dressed Awnings wounds.
He does not consider them necessarily
fatal. States Attorney Weant states
that both the men consider the shoot
| ing accidental The only charge
against Jones is that Of carrying a
weapon.
The Western Maryland Railway
Company has just issued it's new sum-
mar hook for 1912 entitled Summer