The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-05-29

DON'T forget TO paIrOnlZe the nre-
mems festival tonight and tomorrow
night. The firemen need the money
badly just now.
A special memorial service will be
held in St Mary's Reformed Church,
Silver Run, on Sunday morning at
10 o'clock > q Hoover, pastor
The Shirt Factory On John street,
r. IL. Wimert manager, has closed op-
Grafton until after Home Coming
Week III will reopen On June H.
The locust trees are in full bloom,
and, according to an old saying, when
there il profusion OF locust BIOS
SONS. there will be a biz corn crop.
Mary Edna Myers. OF this county,
graduated as nurse at the Biedler-
SeIlman Sanatorium Training School
for nurses, in Baltimore, yesterday.
Mr.. E. D. Loane, OF Baltimore. has
purchased through NJ. A. Sullivan,
real estate agent, the lot on Centre
street belonging to Judge ]. A. C..
Bond. Mr.. Loane will erect bunga-
low.
DR.. T. NJ. Hare, superintendent of
the Anti-Saloon League, will preach in
the Methodist Protestant Church, this
city, Sunday morning. Sunday night,
the pastor of the church, Rev. Edgar
t. Read, will discuss Some Economic
Aspects Of the Liquor Question"
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Yeiser and
daughter, Miss Treva, Of Union Mills;
Mr. and Mrs M Theodore Yeiser and
daughter, Miss Ruby, Pennsylvania
avenue; Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson T..
Houck, Of Hampstead. attended the
funeral OF Theodore iii. Flickinger, at
Hanover, Pa, on Monday.
There will be a meeting in the
United Brethren Church, Manchester,
on Wednesday evening, June 3rd, at
s o'clock, to effect local option or
ganization. Addresses will be de-
livered by prominent speakers and all
persons interested in the work are
earnestly invited to be present.
Pen-Mar, which will have a pre-
liminary opening tomorrow, will be
formally opened for the season June
20 with an excursion from Connells-
vile and points along the new extern
sion of the Western Maryland. There
will be numerous improvements and
invocations noted at Pen-Mar this
season.
This is the year for a new regis
tration, and about $500 voters in Car
roll county must register IL they want
to vote at the Fall election when a
United States Senator and Congress
man will be chosen. The Election
supervisors will meet next month
and make arrangements for the regis
tration.
Temperance people OF Uniontown
district have organized BY electing
DIR. Luther Kemp, president; G..
Fielder Gilbert, seer etary; ID. Myers
Englar, treasurer, and Milton Zollick-
offer, Samuel ID. Hiltabridle, r. H.
Singer and HI. B. Fogle, vice presi-
dents. They will launch a vigorous
campaign for local option.
The residents of Ellicott City are
endeavoring to have the old bridge
that spans the Patapsco River either
repaired or replaced with new one.
The bridge is in state of decay. Last
Sunday the front wheels of an auto
mobile went through the flooring of
the structure. The exact date of the
erection of the bridge is not known,
but it was rebuilt in the fall of 1867.
After three days of wandering, in
which he covered more than a hun
dred miles, Albert Lindsay, an inmate
of the Maryland Training School for
the Predetermined, near Owings Mills,
was found on Friday night near New
Market, by Deputy Sheriff Raymond
Frizzell. Lindsay was perfectly will
in to return to the Home and had
made inquiries relative to returning to
the institution. He was taken to the
institution Saturday morning.
Walking in his sleep on Tuesday
night, Joseph Zepp fell out Of door
way at North Branch, Md, Is feet to
the ground and broke several ribs. He
is employed by Thomas, Poole & Hun
ter, contractors, in building the state
road from North Branch to Elders
burg and was sleeping, with others in
barn. His home is near Hampstead.
1t was out of the barn door he fell.
A physician was summoned from Har-
risonville, 31s miles distant.
Westminster will honor the mem
DRY of the soldiers buried in the ceme-
teries tomorrow afternoon by the
usual custom of decorating the
graves, after the memorial exercises
are held at the Opera House at 2
o'clock. The program as published
last week will be carried out. All
children wishing to take part in the
parade will meet at the High School
at l-30 p. m, carrying small bunch
of flowers. Flags will be provided
for them.
One Of the features OF the BIZ re
union Of Odd Fellows OF Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Vir-
ginia and the District Of Columbia to
be held at Pen-Mar on August 6 will
be an exhibition drill by the degree
staff of Garden Rebekah Lodge No. 23
of Gardenville, Va. Another feature
being arranged for the reunion will
be mass band concert. All lodges
attending the reunion have been re-
quested TO bring a band, and it is
proposed to consolidate all for a con-
cert. az
A severe thunder storm on We'd
nesday afternoon accompanied by
wind and sharp lightning gave relief
from the oppressive heat which had
caused this part of the state to
swelter for two days. Rain began to
fall about ) o'clock, washed clean the
air and gave new life to the trees,
grass and flowers, though not enough
fell to supply the needs or the crops.
Several large trees i'm and near town
were struck by the lightning, and
some fences and telegraph poles were
blown down.
BaccaIaureate- Sunday at the West