The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-06-26
l.. D. DIFFENDAL, Manager.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 26, 1914
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

school children IL off on a vacation.
Il good soaking rain was given this
city N Monday 1t was much needed.
Fen-Mar opened on Sunday with the
ftrst excursion to the Park. Two
tickets were sold from this station
The car of road oil was put on the
streets of Union Bridge last week. A
popular subscription was made to
bear the expenses.
Practically every merchant in Union
Bridge will close after O'Clock on
Tuesday and Thursday evenings dur
ing the months of July and August.
Miss Rose Mccall, teacher at the
Union Bridge school, is making prepa-
rations to attend the summer school
for teachers, at Johns Hopkins Uni
Versity, Baltimore.
VIII. FL Davis & Co., John street, have
delivered Overland automobiles to the
following: Charles E.Eyler and Rhoda
&. Iightner, Union Bridge, and D. J.
Hesson, Taneytown.
TIE Maryland State Bar Association
will be in session at Cape May, N. j.,
July 1, 2 and 3, Judge Walter l.
DawkinG, of the Superior Bench OF
Baltimore city, presiding.
upper Centre street il very much
improved by the cement pavements
on the properties of DR.. D. F. Shipley
and Mr.. S. P. Weaver, and by the
parking and shrubbery around the
High School building.
Messrs. Bond & Parke, attorneys,
defended the B. & o. R. R. Company
against Edward E. Padgett in suit
for 1000 damages against the rail-
road at Hagerstown last week. The
railroad company won the suit.
Some boys in town have recently
been making habit Of catching kit
taus and cutting off their tails. IN
I4ss this cruel practice il stopped at
once, an investigation will be made
and the offenders summarily dealt
with.
James Sappington, of Libertytown,
has filed a suit for libel against the
Post Publishing Company, of Freder-
lex, for alleged libel, growing out OF
the publication of humorous article
on the Libertytown postmastership
He asks $1,000 damages.
Friends Of Mr.. George Mather, Of
the Mather Printing Company, are
very sorry to learn of his ill-health.
His physicians having advised com
plete rest from business duties, MIR.
Mather left yesterday for the sana-
torium at Sabillasville, in hopes that
the treatment there will soon restore
his health
Thomas Chapel Sunday school will
hold q picnic in Whites grove, near
Tanuery Station, on the road leading
from Manchester road to Tannery,
on Saturday, July IL. There will be
band OF music and several good
speakers present. Refreshments will
be served. The public is cordially
invited to attend.
The beekeepers of Baltimore and
vicinity held their first field meeting
at the apiary of W. II. Wagner,
Owings Mills, on Saturday. There
were about so beekeepers present, in
Guiding ladies. The afternoon was
spent in demonstrating and manipu-
latiug the hives Of MIR. Wagner, which
numbered 40 in all.
The Mt Airy National Bank, Milton
G. Urner, president, has stared to re-
build it, bank building, which was
destroyed several months ago when a
destructive fire wiped out nearly half
of the town. The new building will
be larger than the old one, and will
be as nearly fire proof as possible.
The plan IL to have the building COM
.pleted by September /.
A fireman from Homecoming who at
tended the firemen's convention here
IL very much peeved over the loss OF
hrMv ALI +I,yat h1 IlN# ty, hIr lrvrr
house when he went home. He states
that it was left in a house on a street
near the railroad. If the doll is
returned to Mr.. William Weagley
secretary of our fire company, he will
send III 20 the proper party.
We hear, from good authority, that
the change made by w. II. r. officials
in running the Pittsburgh express
over the B. & I'LL. Division, j. not a.
profitable as expected. Quite number
Of petitions have been circulated
through Frederick for the return of
the train to the main line. A dele
cation will 20 before the Public Ser
vice Commission and plead the cause.
The Western Maryland Railway
Company has taken over the Relief
Department formerly operated by its
employees. This department il to pay
dement's to members on account of
accident or sickness and also to make
provisions for it's members who by
reason of old age or infrmity are
retired from service, and allows
members to deposit money i'll "A saw
ings fund with the company, and To
borrow money for the purpose OF
acquiring or improving homes. Mr..
Carl r.. Gray, president Of the road,
IL general chairman, Mr.. H. Al.
HorMes, secretary and treasurer;
DR.. d. T. Dunott, superintendent
and Mr. E. o. Grimes, jr.. counsel.
Western Maryland College reappears
in our columns this week soliciting
the patronage OF our people. This
College has established a reputation
in the AZ years of its existence as a
safe, thorough and earnest school. Its
young people are doing ii credit and
it, work has been felt all over the
state. From its recent catalogue
it appears to have 256 students and q
teachers. 1t has graduated over 900.
The courses of study cover the usual
subjects i'm the best Colleges and we
have no reason to think they
are not well covered. We are in
terested especially in the course in
Pedagogy which is offered to gradu-
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