The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-07-17

! Mr.. Truman Hook, near this city,
has purchased a Studebaker auto
mobile from the Garage Company.
Charles e. Smith, tax collector for
Mt. Airy district, filed his bond with
the County Commissioners on Monday.
The Mite Society of Stone Chapel
will hold a pink tea and bazaar on
Wednesday, July y, commencing at 5
O'Clock. The Taylorsville Band will
be present.
| The large residence OF Mr.. Alfred
Stevenson, on the Lfttlestown pike.
near this city, is having a hot water
plant installed by Mr.. Joseph Elliott,
plumber, Of Taneytown.
I 4 concrete curb is being placed
along the property OF Mrs. Fl. Scott
Roop, Bond street. This IL a much
needed improvement as there was no
drainage along the walk
MIR. Charles z. Fink, this city, was
an honorary pallbearer at the funeral
of Mr. George Blackstone, Of Balti-
more, who was buried the first OF the
week Mr.. Blackstone was president
of the Union Trust Company.
| Mr.. Charles A. Horner, a member of
the composing room of the Advocate,
celebrated his 18th birthday Thurs
day. Mr.. Horner has been an employ
Of this Office for so some years, and
bids well for several more.
Ten thousand persons 1t II esti-
mated, attended the twenty-fifth an
nual reunion of the Reformed Church.
es of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Vir-
ginia, West Virginia and the District
| nf TnIn Of
| terday.
| The Frederick County School Board,
al its session July awarded to Will
lam ". Albaugh, of Libertytown, the
scholarship to which Frederick county
is entitled for Washington College, at
Chestertown. The scholarship car
ries board and tuition.
Three dough mixers from this city.
hustled out earlier than usual one
morning the first of the week and
went fishing at Bunker" and expect
ed big day. The day was big, but
the catch nix. They returned early
with a sad look on their faces.
1t is reported that work on the
proposed new hotel, to be built upon
the site Of the Blue Mountain House,
which burned last summer, will begin
in August. 1t is said this new build
ing will be of concrete and about as
large as the hotel that burned.
Mr.. Wade II. D. Warfield, Of Sykes
vile, was a member Of the party OF
bankers and business men from Mary
land, Pennsylvania and New York,
who were guests of the Fidelity Trust
Company, of Baltimore, Wednesday, on
1 q oh nj fri he
Of the Hagerstown and Frederick
railway.
At the commencement, June 10, OF
Oskaloora College, Iowa, Rev. Martin
Schweitzer received the degree ID. ID.
The letter with diploma states in part,
The degree is a donation granted,
in honors." Your work in the min
istry has been quite varied and sue
cessful and we believe the ID. ID. has
been worthily bestowed"
AS a result of Fourth of July es-
capade near Sykesville, three young
men are in a serious predicament.
They have been arrested on a serious
charge against young girls and are
now at liberty on bail awaiting a hear
ing next week. One Of the girls was
able to appear when the case was
first called before Judge Brown.
Suffering from a severe attack of
gastritis, for which he may have to
undergo a serious operation in a day
or SO, Frank Shipley, member OF the
well-known Shipley family Of Sykes
vile, and who resides at Ruxton, Md,
is now a patient at the Union Pro-
testant Infirmary, Baltimore, where
i he was taken by his family last Fri
day.
tionally good bill tonight with
Lucille Love No. g." The Counts In
fatuation" and AT the Crossing" Sat-
urday nights vaudeville will be Geo.
Woopman and Cavanaugh & Lewis. "
These acts will be different from any
thing shown at the Opera. The pic
lures will be Petrol the Vassall" and
THE Coward Halter"
The old Dolly Hyde copper mine,
near Liberty, will be opened for oper-
alton after lying idle for 30 years. It
has three shafts, each rs feet deep,
and one 240 feet deep. The property
is owned by the United Mining, Mill
ing and Smelling Company, Thomas
A. Dunshee, general manager. The
Linganore mines, owned by the same
company, are being worked. Swedes
will be imported to mine the Liberty
property.
| In an effort To capture, alive or
dead, a negro believed TO be Ennis
Dawson, alleged murdered and des-
perado, Detective Davis, Of the Balti-
more headquarters, and Detective
O'Brien, Of Washington, viii today
assemble a posse and scour the neigh
borhood of Owings Mills. Yesterday
the detectives failed to make the cap
ture. The negro was absent from the
barn. about seven miles from Owings
Mills, which farmers say he has made
his stronghold, with an armament
consisting Of two guns and a pistol.
Diff Mcclellan, of Frederick coun-
ty, was captured and arrested on
Sunday morning by Sheriff A. T..
Davis and Deputy Sheriff Arnold, and
Detective Raymond Frizzell, OF Fred
erick county, at the home OF David
Hooper, near Taylorsville, where he
was i'm hiding. Mcclellan was want
ed for larceny of some clothes in
Frederick county, and was traced in
to this county. The prisoner was
brought to jail and held until Monday,
when he was taken to Frederick for
a hearing. He was released after
paying $3.50.
Buster" Duckett, a lively colored
lad from Philadelphia, who came to
Sykesville not long ago to spend the
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