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

Ing SLdT.
August has had pretty good sup
ply Or hot waves.
Open season for squirrel shooting
begins Sunday, September A.
Mr.. John Steffy, West Green street
will move his family to Baltimore in
about a week.
"A number of Westminster people
attended the farmers fair at Mount
Airy On Saturday last.
The board Of Supervisors OF Elec-
ton met on Monday to select places
for holding registration and election
A 100-pound steam sausage suffer
has been installed in the factory Of
William F Myers, Liberty and Green
streets.
The annual Sunday school picnic
of Salem Methodist Episcopal Church
will be held on Saturday, September
p, commencing at p. N.
Mr.. Walter III. Davis received this
week the first 1913 Overland automo-
bile to come to this city It is at
tracing a great deal Of attention.
Mr.. r. Herbert Koontz, secretary Of
the Redeemer's Reformed Sunday
school, Of Littlestown, Pa, was elect
ed as a delegate to the Sunday school
Convention which meets at Benders-
vile, Pa, August 20 and 30.
Timonium Fair will be held mex
week Messrs. John F.. Eckenrode &
Son and Herr q Babylon, coach build
ers, have put several classy vehicles
on exhibition there, and expect tC
bring home number Of premiums.
Tomorrow afternoon at o'clock 6
meeting in the interest Of State road
from Westminster to New Windsor
will be held in the Grange Hall al
Medford. All persons who are inter
ested i'm the matter are invited to bt
present
The Democratic advisory committee
named by the State Central Committee
yesterday in Baltimore for Carol
county were Messrs. Guy W. Steele
John B. Baker and Basil Dorsey. The
gentlemen are to assist in managing
Wilson's campaign in this county.
MIR. George Stonesifer, of Bachman'f
Valley, raised go bushels Of White
Lilly potatoes from planting of
bushels. Most of the potatoes vii
average over pound apiece. The
ones on exhibition are 8 inches il
length and ~ inches in circumfer
enCe.
The Sunday school picnic Of st
Johns Lutheran Church took place
Oh Saturday. The day was ideal anc
there was large attendance. Ad
dresses were delivered by Prof. a. r.
Wentz, Of Lineboro, Rev. William 4
Hersh, Messrs. Edward Kreidler ant
Harry r. Matthias. The receipts, were
about $3.50.
All first and second class postoffice:
will be closed on Sunday a. a result
Of one provision Of the new POsta
Appropriation bill passed by Congress
and signed by President Taft. Ever!
important city in the United States il
affected. Hereafter only special de
livery letters will pass through OF
that day and no mail will be placed il
lock boxes.
Charles w. Brown, of Brighton, hat
hearing Saturday before justice
John A. McRafferty, and was tinet
SIS and costs for exceeding the auto
mobile speed limit on the Westminste
road near Glenwood, on Tuesday
August 20, also for running into tn
buggies of Samuel Musgrove and Judg,
s. G. Matthew, demolishing the vehi
Gle of the latter and throwing it's !oc
cupantS out.
Last Monday evening the auditor
ium at Emory Grove was the scene 0
a gathering OF almost the entirt
Emory Grove colony to listen to |
program of readings by Mr.. Folge
McKinsey, the "Bentztown Bard" o
The Sun The entertainment was Civ
en- for the young people who hav,
been engaged in the tag" work dur
ing the recent campmeeting season
Many of the older folks also attended
and with the reader took pleasan
journey to Childhoodtown, where the.
visited in fancy and imagination oil
places of childhood life and met man,
of the comrades and associates o
childhood days.
In another column will be found al
advertisement of the Maryland Agri
cultural College. This institution i
Maryland's school of Technology an
trains young men i'm Agriculture
Science and Engineering. This is al
age of specialization, and there i
probably no institution of its class il
the country better qualified to pre-
pare young men for their life's worl
along some special line than il on
State Agricultural School. The Fed
eral appropriation brings the cost O
an education at this institution with
in the reach Of all. Our boys woul
do well to seriously consider tn
splendid opportunities offered at N
"a. o.
Fred Ward, of Belmont, Ohio, son Q
John IT. Ward, of this city, saved a.
S-year-old boy from drowning in tn
Miami and Erie Canal on August /;
MIR. Ward j. motorman on Traction
city car. The story as told i'm news
paper published in Belmont is a
follows "The boy, who had bee,
playing along the course for som
time, toppled headlong into the waite
from the east shore. 1t was consid
erably beyond his depth and hewas un
able to swim a stroke. There was n
one about to help him, but as the ca
hove i'm sight the motorman noted tn
bobbing head Of the youngster in tn
murky waters. He had sunk twic
and was going down for the third tim
when Ward reached his side an
dragged him to safety. Motorma
Ward didn't hesitate to discard an
Of his wearing apparel. Instead, b
leaped into the water and swan t
the boys side. When lifted to th
bank the boy was unconscious, bu
after a time revived. Motorman War
is strongly commended, both by mem
bers Of the police department and hi
employers"