The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1913-05-09

cry. Rake the alleys! Swat. the ,ny!
The Maryland Motorcycle, Club of
Baltimore. made = run W R1dgeville
Ion Sunday. IS ~
Strawberry and ice cream festivals
and picnics are prevailing topics OF
conversation. <<
MIR. Joseph L. Matthias has had his
residence and place. OF business
painted during the week.
The May term OF the Circuit Court
for Carroll county will convene on
Monday morning at 10 O'Clock. This
is grand jury term.
The base ball team of Western
Maryland College defeated Washing
ton college at Chestertown last Sat
urday with score OF 4 to 8.
Miss Elizabeth Polk Warfeld, OF
Sykesville, graduated on Wednesday
from the Johns Hopkins Training
School for Nurses, Baltimore.
Mr.. Albert l.. Davis, Bird Hill, Is
the hrst to announce his candidacy
for an Office on the Democratic
ticket. He Is candidate for Sheriff.
A Well-graded yard or lawn plant
ed with ornamental trees, vines or
bright flowers, is one of the most at
tract1ve features that can be intro
duced on a farm, and shows that the
owner has some taste and pride.
Mr.. Nimrod T. Bennett, New Wind
sor, while riding a motorcycle on
Monday lost control of the machine
In his efforts to avoid a stone in the
| street and ran into a church build
ing, breaking his collar bone and
damaging the machine.
The Health Officers Bulletin for
March states that 1913 deaths from in
| fictitious diseases occurred i'm the
counties of Maryland during that
month. OF these 81 resulted from
tuberculosis, and 20 from typhoid
fever.
! Rev. B. J. Lennon, who has been
transferred from St. Joseph's Catho-
Tic Church, Taneytown, to a parish
In Baltimore, was presented with a
purse of gold by his Taneytown
parlshioners as a token of their
y, esteem.
| A force of men was busy on We'd
nesday morning pulling out water
cress on the farm of Mr.. William
Gelman, near this city. There are a
great many fields on other farms in
this county containing this weed
which should be pulled at once.
The services Of Hon. John G.
/ Woolley, of Chicago, ILL.,, have been
secured by the Anti-Saloon League
Of Maryland for series of meetings
! throughout the state. Mr.. Woolley
mas the reputation of being one OF the
greatest speakers on the American
platform He will speak in this city
on Monday, May y.
| The bee is the friend of horticul-
turists and agriculturists, and as
there is no insect that Increases in
such vast numbers so early in the
! spring, when their services are SO
! much needed, they are of more value
to the farmer, gardener and fruit
| grower than all other insects in car
rying the pollen of one blossom to
another.
There's smudge in the garden, a
smoke in the air; a smell combined
of burnt leather and hair. There's a
girl on the lawn with a rake in her
hand; there's woe and distress all
over the land. There's carpets to
beat and rugs to shake; enough of
such work to make a man quake,
There's stoves to be moved and car
pets to put down, no wonder a man
wants to get out of town.
The kickers on the farm are not SO
hard to get along with as the kickers
in town. On the farm there is the
kicking cow, and our long cared
friend, the mule, while in town there
is the old mossback who wants all
the municipal improvements without
paying for them. The cow may be
sold for beef, the mule traded for a
shot gun, but nothing but funeral
will get rid of the town kicker.
Rev. and Mrs. Howard 0. Keen, the
former pastor of the Methodist Pro-
testant Church, Mt Airy, celebrated
the fifteenth anniversary Of their
wedding with large reception. The
guests were received by Rev. and
Mrs. Keen, assisted by Misses Ethel
and Gladys Fout, Winnie Watkins
Marie and Willie Lewis and Mrs
Jesse Watkins. Among the guests
were Mrs. S. IT. Walker and Miss
Helen Walker, of Baltimore.
Mr.. Guy w. Hess, of Silver Run
met with a painful accident May LIST
While riding a motorcycle on 1.-The
turnpike, short distance above
Littlestown, Pa, in rounding curve
of the road, he collided with horse
and buggy, in charge of young man
named Blocher, Of Littlestown, tear
ing off one of the rear wheels OF the
buggy. Mr.. Hess was thrown to the
ground with great force, badly
bruising his left shoulder, arms and
hands. The motorcycle was a wreck
Beginning ON January 4, last, the
Baltimore News has inaugurated an
advertisement campaign in church
work, devoting a page or more each
Saturday to church advertising. In
communication from them We
! learn that many Of the Baltimore
churches have awaited themselves of
/ this form of reminding their mem
bers and the public generally, of
church services, and suggest to US
that we call the attention Of our local
ministers to this movement, particu-
larly if the churches are not filled
to capacity each week., knowing the
vast benefits derived by the business
world from modern advertising.
The semi-annual lovefeast of the
Church Of the Brethren, will be held
at Meadow Branch, beginning at 2
p. m, Saturday, May 10th. Elders
n KurtZ Miller naStOr of the Brook