The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-05-17

! a sure way to become a pessimist
ig to think about the weather.
MIR. Carroll Albaugh, has become "a
member OF the Maryland Automobile
Club.
The Westminster Candy Kitchen in
EstaIled one of the latest improved
soda fountains this week.
The photographs Of our recently
elected mayor and two councilmen,
appeared in Mondays Sun
John D. Bowers, East Main street,
lis having the front OF his store re-
painted Lippy g. Cassell are doing
the work.
The frame work Of Harry II. Har-
baugh's residence Is receiving fresh
coat of paint. Charles 2. Bowers il
doing the work.
"A strawberry and ice-cream festival
will be held on the lawn of F1nks-
burg Methodist Protestant Church, on
the afternoon and evening, OF Satur-
day, May p.
At meeting Wednesday of the
board OF directors OF the Springfield
Hospital for the Insane at Sykesville.
Or. 7. Clement Clark was reelected
superintendent.
The new board OF Supervisors OF
Election met and organized On Sarur-
day last, and elected Andrew p. Fritz
zell, president; and William Paynter,
clerk No counsel was chosen.
Messrs. J. W. Lockard & Son, Lib
erty street, have sold 80 horsepower
1912 Bucks to Messrs. ]. Ezra Stem
and George ". Hunter, this city, and
a Maxwell, % horsepower to MIR. o.
car Lockard, near here
There will be a strawberry and ice
cream festival at Messiah Lutheran
Church near Berrett on Saturday aft
ernoon and evening, June LIST. Child
ren's Day Services will be on the eve
ming of June 9Th. The new minister,
Rev. B. ID. Becker, has arrived and
taken charge of Freedom Lutheran
congregation.
Arthur Bowers, an employe at Jos.
IT.. Matthias Granite Works, East Main
street, had about an inch of his thumb
cut Off by getting it caught between
a crOW-bar and 2-ton granite monu-
ment, while at work last Monday aft
ernoon, about 1:30 o'clock. Or. Stew
art dressed the wound, and Mr.. Bow
ers is getting along as well as can
be expected.
a false report was circulated the
first of the week to the effect that
some n.ea had been killed on the rail-
Traa OF Prid In Cf #
urday night by the train. A colored
man who was lying in an intoxicated
condition on the track was injured
Saturday night by the train, the top
of his scalp being grazed, but that
was the extent of the accident.
Mr. Milton Chew, near Reese, was
taken to the Union Protestant Infirm-
airy, Baltimore, on Saturday by Drs.
Charles r. Foutz and NJ. L. Bott, in
DIR. Foutz's automobile His daugh-
ter, Mrs. J. D. Crowl, accompanied
him Mr. Chew was successfully
operated on the same evening for
hernia He has improved so rapidly
that he is now able to sit up In bed.
He was taken sick while working
in a field.
Rev. B. w. Kindley, general secre-
tary of the Maryland Sunday School
Association, was in Frederick on Mon
day in conference with the ministers
and Sunday school superintendent of
the town in reference 20 forming plans
for the annual convention of the Sun
day schools of the state, to be held in
Frederick, September IL, 12 and Is.
Special committees we're named, and
it was decided to hold the sessions in
Grace Reformed Church.
Thomas Little, son of Mr. G. Plus
Little, John street, was severely in
jured at the Tidewater Portland Ce-
ment Plant, Union Bridge, on Fri
day afternoon last, when his left foot
was mashed by being run over by an
empty car used to haul stone from
the quarry to the plant. He was
coupling the car and had only been
working about one hour when the &C
cident happened. He was brought
here on the 1.35 train and taken to
his home, and he has been suffering a
good deal.
"a meeting Of the Grand Lodge OF
Masons was held at Easton, Md, on
Tuesday, and the following members
of Door-to-Virtue Lodge, this city, at
tended: DR.. Charles r. FoutZ, DR.. T..
*. Woodward, D. Snider Babylon, Geo.
wv. Babylon, ii. I'D. Fowble, George r..
Gehr, Thos. <. Shaw, Chas. Hesson, Fl.
p. Gorsuch, DR.. Jesse s. Myers, Or. S.
Luther Bare and J.Walter Skunk They
went to Baltimore and returned in
automobiles. This is the first time in
40 years that the meeting has been
| held outside Of baltimore
"A letter to the editor from Mr.. G. G.
Gorsuch, who has been abroad for
several weeks reads "A line from
beautiful Sorrento on the Mediter-
ranean Sea-and you may recall 7
said I would thus impose on you. This
is tropical Italy,the flowers are palms
and all vegetation is most beautiful
Tomorrow we spend in the ruins Of
Pompei and see the original wonders
that have been exhumed from Pompei
after being buried two thousand
years. I miss reading the Advocate
and one would look good to me forty
five hundred miles from where it il
published"
| Seven houses in Reisterstow6, three
of them stores, were threatened with
Instruction by fire and two stables
were burned to the ground Saturday
afternoon. From 3.15 o'clock to after
nightfall every available man and
many women and boys worked to save
the buildings from the flames. Water
was scarce, the wind was blowing a
gale and assistance was far away,
and unavailable when it arrived On