The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1913-04-25

q dance will be given i'm Masonic
temple, Mt. Airy, this evening BY the
MT. Airy Country Club.
The members of Prosperity Lodge
| Oh Odd Fellows or Mount Airy. viii
give minstrel show in their hall at
Mt Airy next month.
MIR. Frank c. Dorsey, OF Mt. Airy.
was elected on Tuesday Grand Master
OF the Maryland Odd Fellows. He
succeeded Fred q. Groom, OF Balti-
more
The Condor Farm" near Woodville.
containing LOT acres, has been sold to
c. G. SCHNEIDER, Of Baltimore, who will
move there with his family in the near
future
Miss Margaret Herring, of Camden,
n. J., and formerly of this city, took
part in large musicale given at st.
Mary's Academy in Camden on We'd
nesday evening.
MIR. joint. Koontz, OF Littlestown,
Pa, was drawn to serve on the petit
jury at the next term of court of
Adams county, which convenes at
Gettysburg, Pa.
The Anchor Hotel is being dis
mantled by Mr. Howard Koontz, who
will erect a residence on its site. 1t
is another old land mark of this
city which will soon be forgotten.
Western Maryland defeated the
College Of Physicians and Surgeons,
Of Baltimore, by score Of to on
the local field last Saturday. Errors
were frequent and sometimes costly
The pitchers did good work.
If you have not paid your subscrip-
ton, please do SO at once. We are
not allowed to send your paper through
the mails if you owe us more than
one dollar on subscription. The United
States Government has made this rul-
ing and we must abide by it.
The Friendship Sunday school re-
organized Sunday, April 90, and the
following officers were elected:
Superintendent, Andrew Spencer; as
sistant, John Coppersmith; secretary,
Henry Fowler; treasurer, George A.
Shipley; librarian, Ray Hook; organ
list, Miss Mary Hook Sunday school
next Sunday at 2 o'clock
A citizen of Hanover in going to
Union Mills, Carroll county, Md, on
Friday, observed a field of about ten
acres of corn yet to husk in the vicin-
ity of Humbert's schoolhouse. The
crop seemed to be a good one, and
from indications the crows held daily
feasts in the corn field during the past
winter.-Hanover Record.
An entertainment was given Sun
day afternoon in Mount Pleasant
Sanatorium, near Reisterstown, for
the benefit of the Jewish Home for
Consumptives of Baltimore. The tai
ent consisted of Miss Rhea Sinsheim-
er, Wade and Love, Eli Adelstein,
Miss Dorothy Schilling, Charles
Rothstein, Miss Elsie Zeigler and Miss
Annette Stein.
A lecture will be given in the Opera
House on Sunday afternoon, May 4th,
at O'Clock, under the auspices Of
the Mems Adult Bible Glasses of this
city, who have secured the services Of
DR.. Howard A. Kelly, of Baltimore
His subject will be, The Fight for a
Morally Clean City,-Whose duty is
it," The lecture is for men and no
admission fee will be charged.
DR.. H. M. Fftzhugh has purchased
from Mr.. Frank Yellowneck the resi-
dence and farm of 40 acres, off the
Baltimore pike about mile and half
from Westminster, adjoining Carroll
Orchards, the property of Mr.. Austin
Gallagher. DR.. Fitzhugh will imme-
diately begin making improvements to
the house and property, and with his
family will occupy it during the sum-
mer months.
The distressing news comes from
certain sections Of the county to the
effect that, owing to the cold April,
much of the fruit il spoiled. Mr.. J.
M. Myers, of Bachman's Valley, who
was expecting a fine yield of apples,
says that 80 per cent of his fruit liz
spoiled. 1t Is said that in Mt. Airy
and also in the neighborhood Of
Kee's Mill the apples, cherries,
peaches and plums are all spoiled.
Charity Lodge No. So, Knights Of
Pythias, has been busy with initiatory
work and is pushing ahead with two
most worthy objects in view, that
of securing their share of the in
crease in membership requested by
the supreme chancellor and that they
may be entitled to two representa-
tives to the next convention Of the
81 cAd 4OO6C. AAo 1Ou5O 10 OuO VI LuS
finest organizations Of the town OF
Westminster, and numbers among it's
members many Of the most influential
and enterprising citizens.
The annual May festival and car
nival Of the Sunday school of Ebergs
Methodist Episcopal Church, at
Ebergs, will be held Thursday, May l.,
beginning at 1 o'clock. The Alesia
Band will be present; also several
speakers. There will also be special
music by the church choir. The Off
GERS of the school, which have re-
Gently been elected, are: Superin-
tendent, D. w. Houck; assistant
superintendent, Henry Williams;
secretary, Emory Mccullough; assist
ant secretary, Tone Kemp; treasurer,
III. G.. Snyder; librarians, William
Houck and Clay Abbott.
Run over by a farm wagon loaded
with 2 Il tons Of fertilizer, Emory
Watkins, Of near Mullinix, was taken
to Baltimore to hospital Friday
morning in critical condition. The
team or five horses ran away while
he was driving them from Mt. Airy.
Both wheels are thought to have pass
ed over Mr. Watkins. The team be-
longed to Oliver Brandenburg, who
lives about two miles from Damascus,
and his employee, MIR. Watkins, and
Mrs. Brandenburg's son, about Ia
years of age, were with the team.
Young Brandenburg was un1nJured.