The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-07-03

The postoffice will close at $50 a.
m, on the Fourth Of July and will
not open until Monday.
! Postmaster Willard Weer, OF Sykes
Vile, has appointed Mr. Nathan
Hobbs as assistant postmaster.
Formwalt G. Phillips have formed q
co-partnership and will deal In cattle
They will open stable i'm this city
Saturday, being the Fourth of July,
! IL legal holiday. This office will be
closed, as well as the court house,
banks and barbershops.
st. Benjamin's CKrider's) Lutheran
Sunday school will hold its annual
picnic Saturday, July 20, in Andrew
Reese's grove. 4 band Of music VII
be present.
The postmaster at Woodbine will
receive an increase of 500 i'm his
salary according to an announcement
BY the postoffice department. The
salary will be $1,10O.
Providence Methodist Protestant
Sunday school will hold its annual
picnic on Saturday, July IS, begin
ming at 10 a. IN. a band OF music
will be on hand during the day.
This morning the 935 train, going
west, ran into a herd of cattle be
tween Patapsco and the tank, and
four cows were killed. 1T IL not
known. to whom the cows belonged
The engine came very near leaving
the tracks.
MI. and Mrs. James F. Rinker and
daughter, Miss Eva Rinker, have
moved from the residence which they
had occupied for many years, and will
make their home with their eldest
daughter, Mrs George Mather. Mr.
Edward Helwig will occupy the house
vacated by Mr.. Rinker's family.
State Comptroller Harrington has
made public the annual apportion-
ment of the funds for free school
purposes for Baltimore city and the
several counties OF the State, amount
ing to $50,457.95. These funds are
derived from dividends on stocks and
bonds and surplus revenue in the
hands OF the State. The distribution
also included $4,000 for the INDECENT
blind. The amount apportioned Car
roll county is $1,S76.1S.
A hail storm which was almost un-
precedented for the wide area cover
ed and for the size of the hailstones
precipitated, swept large portion Of
Frederick county and other sections
OF the State Monday afternoon be
tween 3 and o'clock and wrought
considerable minor damage every
where. Few places escaped some lit
tie destruction by the pelting of the
immense hailstones, which for time
were driven by strong wind and
threatened to do untold damage to the
crops, garden produce and property.
Mr. l. Earle Simpson is spending
several weeks with his mother, Mrs.
8. Simpson, Willis street.
BY will Of Edgar McCauley, left for
probate Wednesday in the office Of
Register of Wills William J. Peach at
Towson, he leaves his property to his
first wife, Mrs. Mary 5. MdCauley,
who was divorced from him, and her
children, and nothing to his second
wife, who shot and killed him at
Arlington June 23 This means that
his widow will be deprived of all ex-
cept dover rights to his property.
The will was executed January 3,
1911, before the divorce and second
marriage His daughter, Miss Gather
inc r. McCauley, is left 500 and the
rest of the property is given to his
first wife and son, Edgar z. McCau-
ley, equally.
MI. John NJ Roberts, Of this city,
and Col Joseph H. Wickes, of Balti-
more, deputy collectors of income tax,
began work Wednesday. They took
the oath Of Office before Collector
Hanna. Mr.. Roberts il field deputy
and Col. Wickes is an Office deputy.
Approximately $1,500,000 in Federal
income taxes was collected from in
dividuals and corporations in the
Maryland district, composed Of the
States of Maryland and the District Of
Columbia. Mr.. Hanna announced that
the collections from taxes on tobacco,
liquor and other sources during the
month Of June aggregated $2,014, 243.61
and for the year $9,516,566.33. In
come tax payments are still pouring
into Mr.. Hanna's Office. The per
cent. penalty will not be imposed up
on these belated returns, the Treas
ury Department having allowed 10
days Of grace. There are, however,
but a small per cent. Of delinquents,
compared to the total.