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

Spring fever il merely the polite
name for laziness-
The annual Presbyterian reunion
will be held at Pen Mar o. August Al
Westminster Lodge No. Al, I. q. M.
will hold memorial services in Davis
Hall next Sunday, to which the pub
lie is invited.
Mr.. Reno s. Harp, of Frederick, has
N accepted an invitation to deliver ar
address at the memorial services tx
b. held at Winfield on May 30.
n Since May 1T the Ten-Hour Law
\ passed by the last legislature, has
been in effect, and the lady employees
in our department stores here nave
been very much relieved by it on Sat
urdays.
Mrs. George Siemonn, of Baltimore
well known here a. Miss Mabel Gar
rison, a graduate OF Western Mary
land College, j. appearing at Fords
Academy, Baltimore, this week, with
the Aborn Opera Company in Mig
non"
Mrs. Mabel Herd, nee Miss Stoffle
of Manchester, was granted an abso-
Lutte divorce from her husband, Howell
il. Heird, by the Circuit Court for
Baltimore, on May 18th. She was al
% awarded the custody of her infant
| daughter
MIR. Edward Greenholtz, was par
alyzed on his right side in his leg
and arm, at his residence on George
street, Thursday night of last week
His case is serious He was taken to
a hospital in Baltimore for treatment
this week.
Mr. James ID. Mitchell, photograph
81 of this city, has opened a photo
graph gallery in a room at the West
ern Maryland Hotel, Union Bridge,
and will be there every Wednesday
during each week from 1870 a. m.
to $50 p m.
Mr.. w. III. Staub, of Union Bridge,
has purchased through Edward W.
Case, the Frank A. Berwager farm Of
142 acres, located i'm Chesterfield
county, Virginia, 20 miles from Rich
mond Mr. Staub left Wednesday To
inspect the farm.
Mr. Wymer, a mechanical engineer
of New York, was at the Tidewater
Portland Cement Plant, Union Bridge,
on Monday for the purpose Of consid-
ering the dust proposition He has
an appliance which he thinks will give
satisfactory relief from the dust nui-
Sance.
An interesting meeting Of the
Ladies" Literary Club was held Tues
day afternoon at Mrs. George K. Math-
er's, East Main street Mrs. w. A.
Garrison, Of Schenectady, N. Y, form
er vice principal of the Preparatory
School Of Western Maryland College,
spoke about club work in New York.
The Feast Of Weeks, commemorate
ing the seven weeks eIapsing between
the departure Of the children Of israel
from Egypt and their arrival at Mount
Sinai, is being celebrated by the Jews,
The season is one for the confrma-
ton Of children, and several hundred
were confirmed Wednesday at syna-
gOgues throughout Baltimore city.
Dr. Joshua w. Herring, Of the Public
Service Commission, with Chief En-
gineer Phelps and Stenographer Bow
erman, went to Centreville Tuesday
night to hear a case growing out Of
the demand that the Philadelphia, Bal
timore and Washington and the Mary
land, Delaware and Virginia Railroads
be compelled to effect physical con-
nection of their tracks at Centreville.
With a record breaking hay crop
and, now that the rain epidemic has
been broken, with the outlook for
cereals all right, and with apples pro-
life the farms and the fields are -four
ishing. The truck garden is resplend-
ent in its early contributions to the
vegetable assortment of the table and
the prospect Of fresh vegetables at
reasonable prices j. all that could be
desired.
Thanks are due MIR. j. David CroWl,
Center street, for case of his de-
licious pop. Mr.. CroWl has just in
stalled new system to bottle pop at
a cost of nearly $4,000, and sent a
number of flavors for criticism to this
office. The employees pronounced all
delicious. 1t could not have been
otherwise as the contents Of the "a
bottles vanished like stolen hen
from chicken roost.
There will be special institute on
corn growing held in Westminster,
Saturday, June %, for the especial
benefit of the members of the Boys
Corn Club of Carroll County The
meeting will be in charge of DR..
Richard f. Hill, director of Farmers
Institutes in Maryland. He will have
several able lecturers who will talk
on how to successfully and proftably
grow corn. Farmers should take ad-
vantage Of the opportunity and come.
Everybody will be welcome.
A double contest Will be held June
at the Opera House. The first will
be a gold medal contest participated
in by the winners of the silver medals
i'm the recent w. @. IT. u. contests. The
second will be entirely composed Of
graduates of Western Maryland Col
lege The proceeds will be for the
benefit of the Westminster Free Lii
brary. Music will be furnished by
Miss Katherine Beacham, soloist, and
Mr.. Guy Williams, lviolinist. Admis-
sion will be 25 cents. Messrs. Beach
ton pictures.
Prof Edward IT, Buchner, Of Johns
Hopkins University, was in Westmin-
ster on Tuesday in the interests of
the new School of Technology to be
established at the University. There
are five scholarships offered to Car
roll county to be determined by COM
petitive examination. ALI the children
of the High School were assembled
a+ nnn O'Clock in tho auditorium and