The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-06-12


orally felt that everybody else shoul
hang out flag
Hampstead ball club defeated th
Manchester club on Saturday by
score of II to g.
Mr. Wilson Grouse, OF MiddleburE
is making a number Of Improvement
on his farm near Cranberry.
Milton and Arthur Dull, O
Patapsco, captured q very large turtl
which weighed 80 pounds.
Recent statistics credit the Unite;
States with abo one automobile fol
each two miles OF country road.
Mr.. Frank M. Stevens, Creagers
town. has purchased a Packard, no
real Packard, but Jew Packard
A festival will take place at Small
wood, June 10, on the Deer Pari
Church grove, beginning at O'Clock
p. m.
Six thousand gallons of oil have
been put on the streets of Taneytown
giving them a much heavier anC
wider coating than last year.
The last dance of the series under
the auspices Of the Girls Club Of
Westminster, will take place Wednes.
day night, June II, in Boyle's Hall.
Extensive improvements are being
made by the Westminster Metal and
Foundry Company to handle the large
increase in the business which it is
enjoying.
The Carroll Merchandise Company
is occupying its new store room al
the railroad. Mr. George A Bixler
will open a cigar store in the room
vacated by them.
Mr.. S. P. Weaver has replaced the
narrow brick pavement along his
property on Centre street with 0
concrete one the full width Of the
sidewalk, making a great improve
ment.
Several carloads Of machinery have
arrived for the building of the State
road from Frizellburg to Taneytown
The concrete work will start this
week. The grading has been com.
pleted as far as Tyrone.
Frederick Whitcomb. ~ years old
who said he was molder and lived
in thisHcity, was fined $40 and costs
by Justice Henry, in the Northwest.
ern Police Station, Baltimore Satur.
day, after being found guilty OF car
rying a razor.
We cheerfully commend the follow
ing beauty hint from the Journal OF
the American Medical Association
For giving the face a good color
get one pot of rouge and one rabbits
foot. Bury them two miles from
home and walk out and back once q
day to see if they are still there"
It has been rumored that the Pitts.
burgh Express will be run by the way
of Hanover and Gettysburg instead OF
over the main line. 1t seems that the
officials of the Western Maryland
Railway Company try to give this city
the rawest accommodation in train
service that their minds can manu-
facture.
At a meeting Of the veterans Of the
Western Maryland College baseball
team Walker M. Coe, 1916, was elect.
ed captain OF the Green and COLD
team for 1915. He is president of the
1916 class and is a halfback on the
football team and holds down the first
sack for the followers OF the horse.
hide. The supporters of Western
Maryland are all satisfied with the
election Of Coe and promise him theil
loyal support.
On Saturday evening several acci.
dents occurred in this city but none
were serious. An automobile ran
into the back Of buggy opposite the
postofice and broke the shafts on the
buggy At the corner Of John ant
Main streets motorcycle ridden by
a woman and man ran into Mr.
Huff's automobile, throwing both &C.
cupants off the cycle and bruisine
them. But little damage was done tx
the motorcycle and automobile.
Firemen of the Ellicott City, Airing
ton, Roland Park and Gainesville
engine companies stood for three
hours Sunday afternoon upon the higt
trestle Of the United Railways and
Electric Company battling with tht
fire which destroyed the historic OLE
covered bridge spanning the Patapscc
at Ellicott City. The bridge formed
the only approach to Ellicott City
from Baltimore. Now it is necessary
to make a detour of three miles.
Fire which threatened the entire
property of the Western Maryland
Railway at Gwynnbrook Station Sun.
day midnight was under control hall
hour after 1t started by the efforts 81
four county fire companies. Three
horses, several vehicles and the barr
of George I'll. Davis, the station agent
were burned. The fire started in The
barn, but the cause is unknown. Mr.
Davis was in his room when he dis
covered the blaze He and neighbors
fought the flames for some time until
finding their efforts unayailing, they
telephoned for the county fire com.
panies. The barn was a mass 81
flames and was doomed when they ar.
rived, but the firemen succeeded il
combining the fire to that building. Mr.
Davis formerly lived in this city, ant
il a brother Of Mr.. Walter III Davis
John street.
Raymond Clabaugh, of near Woods
boro, who about three years ago was
sentenced to two years in the Mary
land Penitentiary for robbing the
house Of Arson Boiler, near Woods
boro, and who was pardoned after
serving Is months Of his sentence
was arrested Sunday morning by
Deputy Sheriff Lind, Of Woodsboro
upon the charge or again robbing the
Boiler house. The alleged robbery
took place last Sunday. Clabaugh wal
chased to near Keymar before he was
caught, and was then captured ONLY
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