The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-10-02
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCT, ?, 1914
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

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Mr. Fred p. Miller is having con-
crete curb put down on the Willis
street side Of his residence.
a marriage license was issued at
Elticott City Tuesday to William
Merrick, Carroll county, and Grace
Picket, Howard county
Nr Joseph j. Price, who moved to
Wiley, Kansas, has come east and H.
Gated at Hanover, Pa. Mr.. Price
was in this city Wednesday On bust
ness.
Flay in the series for the worlds
championship will begin on October
o. at o'clock, it was announced BY
President b. B. Johnson, OF the Ameri-
can league.
Dry Day will De observed at Carroll
County Fair, at Smallwood, October
9TH. Exercises will begin at 2.30
o'clock. Good speakers will discuss
the saloon question
A photograph of the bus of the
-ReisterstoWn Bus Line
was shown in Saturdays Baltimore
News. Crisfield has similar line,
and each doing successful business.
An ear of field corn ia inches in
length was exhibited at the Advocate
III MI. a. "A. Mitten, Spring Mills.
The grains are large and healthy. It
II only a sample OF MIR. Mitten's corn
crop.
MI. John ILL., Cunningham, this city,
was appointed delegate to the fourth
American Road Congress which Will
o. held in Atlanta, Ga, from Novem-
w. NV GnynrpRr En1dEhnrOnph
on Tuesday.
Stone Chapel Sunday school will
hold an oyster supper Saturday even
ing, October liz, i'm the hall adjoining
the church. The Taylorsville Band
Will furnish music III the weather -
Indictment it will be held Monday
evening, October IS.
Nearly 100000, part of the funds
sc aside annually by the State for
education, soon will be distributed.
Carroll county's part j. al follows:
Public school tax, $10,391.72; school
book fund, $1,162.O4; approved high
schools, 81 ,625, and manual training
schools 81 500
The County Commissioners are hay-
ing an office fitted up for the board Of
Supervisors of Election for Carroll
county in the Court House. The room
will have a cement floor and closets
for the election work and nicely
painted. Mr. Florence Little is super
intending the work
The bridge spanning Cat Tail Creek
in the Westminster road at RoXbury
NJ liz. near Jessups, collapsed on
Tuesday under the weight Of heavily
laden furniture van. The load ex-
cfaded the capacity which the bridge
was designed to carry when it was
built about ten years ago.
DR.. v. NJ Richard, OF Washington
county, was unanimously nominated
FOR United States Senator at the Bull
Moose State convention held Wednes-
day at the Rennert, Baltimore, and &C
cepted in a speech in which he prom
ised to make a vigorous campaign and
predicted victory for the party in 1916.
stranger, representing himself as
a special agent for Harper's Weekly,
recently operated in Lancaster and
faeced a number of business men and
citizens He offers a subscription to
the magazine with a bonus of ten
volumes OF a modern work for $3.50.
Look out for him as Carroll county
II 2rItld any CACh ~ 5u1A NAOOAAS'
Owing to a rush of freight, the Ha-
garstown and Frederick Railroad has
found it necessary to operate steam
engine Oh the Thurmont division The
engine was secured from the Western
Maryland and 1T Is said, will be used
for the next thirty days. The large
freight motor of the railway suffered
a breakdown several days ago and
this increased the need of the steam
engine to draw the freight cars on the
division.
The remains of Joshua Frederick,
who died at Topeka, Kansas, and
were brought here and inferred in
Westminster Cemetery i'm November,
1912, was disinterred and shipped to
Baltimore on Monday where they
were again inferred in the Greenmount
cemetery. Mrs. Edgar Goldsmith, of
Baltimore, MIR. Fredericks daughter,
came here and took charge Of the rs
mains after Funeral Director II. ".
Sharrer had it prepared.
Prompt action on the part OF En-
gineer J. M. Crum, saved passenger
train No. a, on the Western Maryland
Railway from a disastrous wreck at
Due Gully tunnel, west OF Hancock,
Tuesday morning. The train, east
bound, was running at a fast rate
when it struck an open switch. The
engine and tender left the track, but
Engineer Crum brought his train I'm
der control before more serious dam
age was done The track was badly
damaged and blocked. The above
train is the one that arrives in this
city at 4-14 p. m
The second get-together conference
of the officials in the operating depart
ment Of the Western Maryland Rail
way was held at Hagerstown, Monday
In the Office or General Superintendent
8. Ennis. About 40 were present, in
Guiding the superintendent, train mas
ters, chief dispatchers, agents, super
intendents of motive power, master
mechanics, heads of police department,
timekeepers, chief clerks, yard mas
ters and superintendent of car ser
vice. Various questions having to do
with the operation of the road were
discussed at the conference.
The Ladies' Missionary Aid Society
met at the residence on MIR. and Mrs.
Jas. M. Stoner, Pennsylvania avenue,
yesterday. "a very enthusiastic meet
ing was held and the following officers
were elected for the coming year:
President, Mrs. Hersh; vice president,
Mrs. William Starner; secretary, Mrs.
John Stevenson; corresponding sec