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

biTtlQds'
Mr. Otto Dieffenbach and family
Liberty street, have moved TO Balti-
more
Moblon school, near Finksburg,
III hold an ice cream festival on the
evening of May 10.
Navt Thursday is May 1st. During
.ba month of May no fishing Is allow
ID in anv stream in Carroll county.
Mrs Philip Bitzel, East Main street,
was taken to the Maryland University
Hospital, Baltimore, on Monday, for
an operation.
A force of men is engaged this
vook in laying tile in the drain, OPP
nositp the railroad, which carries the
water from Main street.
George E. Motter, of near Littles-
town, Pa, sold his fine pair of heavy
draft, sorrel horses to G. II. Heiges &
Son, of York, Pa, for $500.
Stop. look, listen! A general clean
ing Of back yard, front yard, side
ward, every old yard, spic and span
by May. Get in the push.
Mr.. Joseph Fl. Shipley, of near
Pools school, has, field of growing
corn, something unusual at this time,
as corn is just being planted.
Mr.. Philip Bitzel, proprietor of the
Central Hotel, was granted a liquor
license on Monday after a hearing
before Judge William H. Thomas.
The law requiring automobiles when
passing vehicles from the rear to
foot their horns. This has been very
much neglected around Westminster.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Trinity
Lutheran Church, Deer Park Road,
will meet at the home of Mrs. William
Marion Bitzel, on Wednesday after
noon next.
Mrs John l.. Reifsnider, ST., of
Terrace Hill, entertained the ten
active members of the sewing society
of Ascension Episcopal Church at
supper yesterday evening.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
Providence Methodist Protestant
Church will hold a strawberry and
ice cream festival in the Gambler Hall
on May 18th. ALI are invited to at
tend.
DR.. oliver Huckel's final lecture of
series on Nineteenth Century
Authors will be delivered next Mon
day afternoon at the college at 4.30
o'clock. His subject will be Sidney
Lanier.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Salem
Methodist Episcopal Church, near
Bloom, will hold an ice cream and
strawberry festival on June z, -tNm-
mencing at 6 o'clock. If the weather
should be unfavorable, it will be held
on the first fair day.
Frank Harbaugh, Thurmont, West
ern Maryland Railway section fore
man, was bitten on the end of his
finger by a copper snake Friday
while making some repairs to car
in the west yards in Hagerstown. The
snake was concealed beneath the track
and jumped at the man.
The funeral of John W. Ohrum, who
was killed on April liz at Pittsburg,
Pa, took place on Saturday at Provi-
dence Methodist Protestant Church.
The pallbearers were Joseph Dandy,
Oscar Monroe, z. B. Griffee, George
E. Benson, R. w. Barnes and Otis
Gambler. F.. c. Sharrer undertaken.
A number of men dismantled the
old York Road creamery, near Han
over, Pa, and shipped the machinery
to Taneytown, to be used by the Han
over Creamery Co., in the erection of
an ice factory, cold storage plant and
creamery in that place. Condensed
milk, butter and ice cream will be
the products. The proposed building
Will be of brick and concrete, 70 feet
long, and two stories high.
Miss Leffngwell, who opened a
studio in the Times Building during
the winter, has completed several
portraits of our townspeople and
invites inspection of these and her
other work. She will remain in
Westminster until the summer and is
prepared to execute orders for por-
traits or other orders, or to give in
struction. Her course of study has
Deen extended, as she has studied at
Yale and Wellesley Colleges and at
the Art League in New York, the
.nnest art school in America.
The Just Government League of
carroll county will hold its regular
monthly meeting on Monday after
noon, April 18th, instead of Saturday,
april 18th, at the Opera House, at 8
O'Clock. Mrs. Foster, field agent, OF
baltimore, will be present and bust
4ess OF Importance will be brought
oelore the members for action. Tt il
earnestly hoped that every member
m!ll De present, and bring with her a
Lrlend' as Mrs. Foster will address the
meeting and arrange for the summer
campaign in the county.
agents OF the Western Maryland
railway Company are endeavoring to
.Duy r1ght-of-way through farms in
berkeley county, West Virginia, across
frotomac river, from Williamsport,
Mu' 1t is reported that the company
sntends building a spur OF railroad
from W1ll1amsport to the limestone
deposits along the river In the vicinity
indian Church. The plans, 1t IL
9alu' call for a new bridge across the
aotonac. The company contemplated
Gtonstruct1ng a spur from Charlton
.n.o the Berkeley county limestone dis
tulet but, 1t is said, land owners
olocked the plans by asking exorbitant
ngures for the right OF way.
=, Believing that the merging Of
ulyndon and Reisterstown will less
- tae tax rate and be OF general
1enent to the two communities, resi-
aents OF those sections have started
movement to incorporate the two
t tII"ns under one name. The belief is
49, LAT the tax rate would be lowered by
- consolidation, and chat better
ioads would be built and an up-to-
aate nre department justified. Those
Mno are on the committee to work