The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-05-03

} Every little backyard needs a clean
linz I'll its own
! Everybody's doing it-doing what:
-Swatting the fly.
,l Memorial Day, May 3Oth, will fall
on Thursday this year.
7 Why not start a building boom in
+ Westminster? Houses are in de-
mand
J, Mr.. Earle Thomson has accepted
2 the position as clerk at the Westmfn-
ster Hotel
Public schools will close May oath.
The High School commencement will
b. held Monday evening, May 9th.
Primaries, Monday, May 9Th CO to
, the polls andl express your preference
for President This is a great oppor-
tunity.
Reverdy Snader is erecting a large
brick stack at his laundry on West
Main street. IT, has also installed a
large boiler.
The postoffice department recon-
mended the establishment of postal
Savings Banks ait Manchester and
Libertytown.
Bethesda Methodist Episcopal
Church, at Gist, will hold an ice
cream and strawberry festival On the
evening Of June Is.
A very attractive entertainment
will b. given by the children OH It.
Johns Parochial School on Wednes-
day evening, May 18th.
The lecture by Rev. M T. Foley,
which was announced to take place
early in May in St.John's Parish Hall,
has been indefinitely postponed.
The children and also many grown
ups, were entertained last Friday by
two performing bears which were led
through Main street by foreigners.
Mrs James Leahy, of East Green
street, this city, was taken to Bal
timore hospital on Thursday in a
. serious condition, to be operated upon.
All persons having bills against the
Board of Supervisors of Election are
requested to present the same not
later than Wednesday, May Sth, 1912.
Peach, pear, apple and plum trees
are in full bloom and the indications
are that there will b. a large yield OF
each, Notwithstanding the frosts Of
last week.
New families are coming to town
Already there ID demand FOR houses
and the number Of idle houses has
decreased considerably within the
past few weeks.
|, Ida A Whiting, assignee Of Mort
gage, sold at public sale on Friday
last the residence Of Elias W. Ours
Ter, East Main street, to Harry K.
Oursler, this city. -
Mr.. William a. Rothenhoefer, Of
. Frederick, j. looking for hi runaway
! son at. Union Bridge and this city. 1t
is supposed that he is hiding some
where in this county.
John f. Robinson, founder OF Rob-
inson's Circus, made voluntary as
signment in bankruptcy at Cincinnati
, Thursday. Liabilities and assets are
scheduled as unknown" The circus
has shown in this city several times.
The Western Maryland baseball
nine are having bad luck this season.
They were defeated again on We'd
nesday afternoon by Mount St. Mary's
fri game played on the W. WI col
lege field by the score Of to 2. To-
morrow afternoon at Irvington west
ern Maryland will try conclusions
with Mount 1t. Joseph.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Anderson, col
ored, of MT. Airy, were victims Of a
Runaway accident Sunday. They were
in light wagon taking rough box
to the cemetery there when the mar
| ness broke. The horse frightened
and ran away throwing both out OF
the wagon and injuring them some
what. The wagon was broken to
some extent.
An accident occurred last Friday
afternoon about o'clock at the
!, junction of Main street and the Wash
ington road, when the automobile of
Mr.. George E. Benson, of near Gam
Der, ran into buggy, taking off one
of the buggy wheels. The two men
in the buggy had been drinking and
their reckless driving was the cause
of the accident
The following members of the
knights of Columbus attended the or
ganization of brother lodge in Fred
! erick on Sunday: Joseph ID. BOyAe,
Michael Doyle, James Leahy, Hampton
Baumgartner, Charles Eckenrode,
Edward Case, Harry Owings, Martin
Leahy, John, Harry and Thomas Case,
Joseph Matthias and wife, David
Walsh, R. V. Lewis, and others.
Mr.. Charles IT. Kolb of the West
I minister High School, left Thursday
evening for Philadelphia, to attend
the annual meeting of the Classical
n Association of the Atlantic States of
! which he il a member. The sessions
of the association, which is an or
ganization of teachers of Latin and
Greek, will be held at the University
Of Pennsylvania, Friday, and Satur-
: day.
J. w. Lockard & Son report the
!, following sales of automobiles last
= week: Frank Orendorff, Westmin-
:. ster, 1912 Buick 30; n. D. Sellers,
Baltimore county, Maxwell &c. Jacob
Brehm, Westminster, Maxwell 30; r.
" Lewis, Westminster, Buick 80;
Rev. A. Null, Frederick county, Max
!. well %; George Stair, Maxwell
IA; Roger Paynter, Smallwood, End
:. hand Ford.
The grand jury of Anne Arundel
county returned an indictment against
: Thomas L. Parks, Republican mem
7 Der of the Baltimore cit. delegation
in the House of Delegates, on Che
charge Of offering Delegate Calvin r
t Chew, of Carroll, $500 to absent MIN.