The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-09-25
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPT. Is. 1914
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

We are now on our way through fall.
MIR. Jesse Chrest, Pennsylvania ave
nue., IL now harvesting crop OF ripe
strawberries from his garden.
Sir. c. c. Gorsuch has rented his
residence on Green street to MIR. WI
+. Morton, Roland Park, Baltimore
for one year
Jesse c.. Marshall, of Rocky Ridge
filed =uit for divorce against his wife,
Daisy E. Marshall. The charges are
on statutory grounds.
The postoffice department has call
ed for civil service examinations at
Mount Airy and this city for rural
carriers on October "a.
Ivy slipping and falling upon "A side
walk in Martinsburg, W. Va, a wo-
man received a verdict OF $4,000 in
Berkeley Circuit Court Tuesday
The large building used as a ten
Din alley and storage house i'm the
rear Of Mr.. John Poisel's Cafe, East
Main street, is being torn down.
The State Tax Commission has be-
gun series Of visits to the several
counties when they will confer with
the commissioners on tax and assess
ment questions.
Mr. Howard Caylor and sister, Miss
Florence Caylor, Linwood, have pur-
chased the farms owned by their
farther's estate. The farms are To-
Gated near Linwood.
Edgar Bennett, Of Hagerstown, "a
brakeman ON the Western Maryland
Railway, il at the Western Maryland
Hospital, Hagerstown, suffering from
a severe injury, having been knocked
from the top of box car by a pen
stock at Oldtown, on Saturday.
Mr.. Glenn W. Horner, mortgage
and assignee Of mortgage, sold at
public sale on Tuesday the double
weatherboarded dwelling, on Bond
street, to DIR. ]. J. Stewart, for $2755.
The house was owned by E. o.
Grimes, Jr. Il. O. Weant was soli-
cirOr.
A pickpocket cut the vest of Mr..
Daniel Sharrer, near Brummel, while
he was looking at the attractions of
the side show of Robinson's circus on
Saturday and got $50. Mr.. Sharrer
had the $50 sewed in his inside vest
pocket, but the pickpocket cut the
threads and the vest and removed the
money.
The game between the Spring Grove
and the Springfield Hospital teams,
at SYkesville, Saturday was very ex-
citing up to the final inning, when the
Spring Grove lads recovered their
batting stride and sent nine runs
across the plate, placing the final
score at 13 to 5. Morsberger as US
Ual pitched splendid ball.
Adam Martin, East Green street, this
week and stole between 80 and 40
Jars OF fruit. Mr.. Martin Is q good
citizen and neighbor and cannot &C
count for the action Of the parties
who committed the deedr But the
next person caught around his prem
ises will get warm reception.
1t is understood that Deputy United
States Internal Revenue Collector
William Logan, of Hagerstown, who
received his commission from the col
lectOr some time ago, has been asked
to resign. Deputy Logan, who has
been in the service for years, asserts
that the Office Is under civil service
rules. Mr. Logan is we'll known in
this county
John Dorsey, colored, Of near Lib
ertytown, who several weeks ago es-
capped from the insane asylum at
brownsville, where he had been COM
mitted from this city after partly de-
strOying the home of his mother, was
arrested in Frederick on Saturday
afternoon. Dorsey was seen along
the street and when first arrested
claimed his name was not Dorsey.
Progress Is being made on the new
First National Bank, of Mt. Airy. The
plastering is now being done, the
roof having been finished a few days
ago. The new building when com
pleted will be a one-story modern
financial structure and a great i'm
provement over the old building
which was burned during the fire
several months ago that left half of
Mt. Airy a mass Of smoke and ruins.
The Frederick School Board Mon
day took up the question of the in
crease in the salaries of teachers. A.
will be recalled, the last legislature
ordered certain increases i'm the pay
OF teachers, depending on their length
OF service. The amount needed to
meet this increase is between Sc 1000
and $1,000. 1T Is expected that the
School Commissioners will be able to
meet this extra expense. III they are
not, some special steps will have to
be taken.
The celebration of the Jewish New
Year came to close in the Ortho-
doX synagogue Monday evening at
Sundown. The ten-day Penitential
season commenced Monday night and
will come to a close at the end of
that period, on what il known as Yom
Kippur, or the Day of Atonement.
That Is the most solemn day OF the
Jewish calendar, when Hebrews fast
for the whole OF the "a hours. The
ten days between the New Year and
the Day OF Atonement are impress
sive ones and prayers and dispensa-
ton OF charity will be the guiding
rules that will be religiously follow
ed.
large motor truck belonging to
Baltimore firm while en- route to
Frederick county Saturday night near
~ plunged over a 40-foot embankment
at Della. The driver OF the truck
proceeded from Baltimore by way of
the Frederick road, and when arriving
&C the temporary ford across the
Patapsco river, at Grays, became con
FUSED In the darkness and followed
DELLA avenue. When near the Della
Mills the driver made inquiries of
Patrolman West ~ To the right road.
- was told to turn around and cross
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