The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-08-28
RURAL NEWS.
CHRONICLES OF HAPPENINGS AMONGST
OUR NEIGHBORS.
LOCUST HILL.

nual picnic to be held on Saturday,
August 20, all day and evening, near
AbbottstoWn, Pa. The features for
the day will be a merry-go-round,
running races, sack races, peanut
scramble for the children, baseball
game, addresses by able speakers,
baby rack, shrinking made, barrel
rack, wheelbarrow race, graphophone
music and music by the Carroll
County Reed Band.
The Lutheran Harvest Home SER
vices held at st. Bartholomew church
on Sunday morning by Rev. s. ~.
Hench we're well attended The Of
fering amounted to S102.10
Jacob Utz Is making cider and boil
ing apple butter.
Visitors at the home Of Nahia
AFTER on Sunday were: Mr.. and Mrs
OttiWell AFTER and SON, Charles, of
near Abbottstown, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
ID. Petry and son, Chester, OF Silver
Run; Misses Cora and Elsie Batch
Union Mills; Fife airing, OF fancy
town; Hilda TroXell, Gladys Weisen-
sale, Levi Gobrecht, Earl and Lester
AFTER, Uriah Markle and Clayton
Utz.
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tanned on Sunday: Mrs. Charles
Miller and son, Roy, Misses Louise
and Anna Kirk and Cora Miller, OF
Mrs. Guy Stauffer, of York, and Miss
Edythe Artley, Of Williamsport.
Miss Edythe Artley has returned
to her home i'm Williamsport, after
spending two weeks at the home of
her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. A
M. Miller.
Mr.. and Mrs A. M. Miller are en-
PERTAINING this week Mrs. Kate Sim
mons and Guy Stauffer, of York.
All roads led to the great Pine
Grove picnic grounds on Saturday.
The crowd that come on foot, by
vehicle, automobile and farm wagon
was estimated to be nearly 1000. The
supply of refreshments was entirely
exhausted, 30 gallons of ice cream,
IS cases OF pop, 800 packages OF
peanuts, besides other refreshments
were entirely exhausted. The re-
ceipts were $2S5.44. The speakers,
present were Revs. II. 8. Lindaman,
Of Littlestown 5. l.. Hench, and J. I'll.
Hartman, Of Hanover. Altogether it
was the biggest and best picnic ever
held by Pine Grove Sunday school.
Orestus D. Myers will have public
sale OF his live stock and farming i'm
plements On Saturday, March 9, f915.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Bish, Mr. and
Mrs. Milton Resi-, OF Bachman's Val
ley; Mr.. and Mrs. William Smith and
son, Francis, Of McSherrystown, and
Riley Sterner spent Sunday, August
16, at the home of Milton Null
Visitors at the home Of Milton Null
on Saturday and Sunday were: MIR.
and Mrs. Albert Wildasin, of Marburg;
Misses Elsie Shue and Fay Hesson, OF
Grangeville; Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton
Sterner and children, Ora, Monroe,
George, Grace and Edna, Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Bechtel and sons, Eugene and
Woodrow, John Orndorff, Misses May
Smith and Mabel Zumbrum and Mr.
and Mrs. William Sterner and child
rem, Walter, Treva and Beulah.
z. M. Raubenstine has apples that
weigh la ounces and measure 13
inches i'm circumference
Sunday school at Pine Grove on
Sunday at p. M.
Rev. j. III. Hartman will hold the
Reformed Harvest Home services at
St Bartholomew Church on Sunday
morning at $40 a. m.
Walter Baughman, of East Berlin,
is visiting at the home OF his uncle,
David Baughman.
Emory Raubenstine has raised po-
tatoes that measured inches in
length and 3 inches in circumference.
Arnulphus Krumrine, wife and
children, OF Deep Run, spent Sunday
at the home of Emory Raubenstine.
Visitors at the home of Erwin Leese
were George Utz, wife and children,
Mr. and Mrs Roy Flickinger, Mrs.
Flickinger and daughter, of Hanover,
and Orestus Myers and son, Melvin,
and Lewis Stahl.