The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-01-30

The County Commissioners on Mon
day transacted their regular routine
work.
Rev. Herbert Parker, Professor of
\ the freshman class at Loyola College,
officiated at both masses at &C. John y
Catholic Church on Sunday.
Trim your apple trees Apples are
more profitable than apple wood.
February is considered by many to be
the best month Of the year for this
purpose
MIR. J. ID. Ffssel, or Jacobs Mills,
Pa, has been appointed by the North
ern Central Railway Company as
track foreman of a section of track
near Key Mar, Md.
Mr. Walter Helm, Of Trenton, N. D.,
Iis home suffering from rheumatism.
Mrs. Ella Helm, East Green street,
ed to enter upon his duties again.
=. D. Morrison, a Western Mary
land Railway conductor, was present
"a by President J. MI Fitzgerald a
gold safety first" pin as reward for
the prompt action he took when he
discovered a broken rail at Sloan on
December %.
Miss Mabel Myers, student Of
Strayer's Business College, Baltimore,
and daughter OF Mr.. Ephraim Myers,
Of Mt. Pleasant, was knocked down
by street car on January II and is
in the Maryland University Hospital
in serious condition, being hurt in
ternally.
Mrs. Mabel Garrison Siemonn, a
graduate OF Western Maryland Col
lege and wife Of Prof. George Siemonn
former professor of the Peabody In
stitute, Baltimore, has been engaged
as one of the principals of the Metro
politan Opera Company, New York.
a. preliminary to her New York
appearance she will make an extern
sive road tour, beginning in the
spring, which will take her as far as
the Pacific Coast.
MIR. Philander p. ClaXtOn of the
\ United States commission OF educa-
ton in an address delivered at Wor-
cester, Mass, few days ago stated
that the public schools of the LATED
States have educated 90,000,000 peo-
/ pie in the last forty years; that they
have reduced illiteracy from 22 to z
per cent; that they have reduced Ill
literacy among negroes from % to ID
per cent, and that they have reduced
illiteracy among immigrants to Il per
cent. This is splendid showing.
Mr.. Richard w. Smith, of Franklin
Grove, Ill, writes us as follows: En-
closed find check for subscription to
your paper. 1 notice by your paper
you have had some real winter
weather in Carroll county. So far
we have had very open winter, no
snow to speak of, and it looks now
as if we would have to depend on
artificial ice for next summer. Roads
are in good shape, but no grain to
move this winter like other years at
this time. Franklin Grove is on the
line OF the Lincoln Highway and we
are all boosting for that, and local
option in Lee county next spring"
The Smock recital came Off Tues
day evening, the soloists Of the occas-
ion being the popular tenor, Prof
Hobart Smock, of Baltimore, and Mrs
Smock, whose voice is a good con-
tralto. The Shocks are favorites in
Westminster, and always draw large
and appreciative audience. Both we're
in splendid form Tuesday night and
sang their duets and solos with fine
Interpretation. The program was one
of popular variety, concluding with
recitations and stories delivered in
Prof Shocks inimitahIe style, some
of them told with remarkable pathos
and other humorous ones winning the
loud appreciation of the audience
Miss Elizabeth Slagle was. the accom-
PIANIST.
The barking Of dog tied to ken
mel aroused Edgar Shipley and The
members OF his family i'm time to g.
cape in their night clothing from
their home at Gathers Station, at {
O'Clock Sunday morning. The house
was entirely destroyed by fire. The
origin of the blaze is unknown, but il
il thought that it started when mice
chewed matches that were i'm the gen
eral merchandise store, which Mr.
Shipley conducted in the front part
of his home. When the family were
aroused by the loud barking Of the
dog the house was already in flames
took from their beds, about them, ant
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save their home Mr.. and Mrs. Shipley
and their two children walked nearly
a mile to the home of their nearest
neighbor, where they were giver
clothing and shelter. MIR. Shipley s.
timated his loss at $4,000, which X
only partly covered by insurance.
Invitations have been received by
local Alumni of Western Maryland
College to attend the eleventh mid
winter banquet of the Alumni Asso.
citation of the College which will be
held at the Hotel Rennert, Baltimore
Friday evening, February s. The
committee in charge of the banquet
has made elaborate preparations anC
the event is sure to be big success
H. Irving Pollitt 1872, is the chairman
Of the committee and has ali arrange
ments completed for an unusually fine
evening. Each year the Alumni OF
the college gathers to feast and while
feasting to renew old college friend
ship and to live again the most event
full days Of their lives. Last year the
banquet was held at the Belvedere
the year before that at the Emerson
The attendance last year was over one
hundred and has been steadily in
creasing each year. Besides many
notable men from this State, efforts
are being made to have several
nationally famous Alumni Of the col
lege attend. DR. Lewis, president 81
the college, and many Of the faculty
and trustees have signified their inten'
tions of being present.