The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-06-26

/ A colored man by the name Of
Brooks, from Union Bridge, had two
\ fingers on his right hand broken by
trying to hold two unmanageable
horses.
All the barbershops in this city will
b. closed on Saturday, July A. The
proprietors, to accommodate their
patrons, will keep open late on Friday
evening.
THE largest and most delicious
cherries seen this season were pre-
scented to The Advocate by Mr.. Will
liam Waltman, of FriZellburg. They
were red cherries.
Mr.. r. z. Lee Hutchins has erected
uron The farm buildings of John H
Brown, and William I'll Yingling, near
Pleasant Valley, and Jacob Marker
and Edward Hively, perfect system
Of lightning rods.
The Opera House bill for tonight
will be Lucille Love-" No 3, almost
a Bridegroom" and Weekly 1922
Tomorrow night vaudeville and the
following pictures: Nuggets Nell
Ward" His Wedding Day" AN Epi-
sode" and One OF the Bravest-"
A horse owned by Mr.. Robert
Green, of Tannery, escaped from a
field in which it had been left for
pasture last night and walked on the
tracks OF the w. MI. Railway, where
it was struck and killed this morning
by extra freight 776
Professor J. K. Smith, teacher Of
Agriculture at the MT. Airy High
School il spending few days at his
home in Myersyille, Pa. Professor
Smith will shortly leave for Pennsyl-
vania State College, to take sum-
mer course i'm agriculture and chem
istry. He will specialize in dairying.
Mrs. o. D. Gilbert. chairman Of the
playground committee of the Civic
League, has succeeded in defraying
All the expenses Of the new play
ground, by means Of her needlework
exchange and the receipts from the
lunch counter which was conducted
during Homecoming Week.
The case OF the Westminster Metal
End Foundry Company vs.. Reliable
Junk Company, use Of the Maryland
Surety and Trust Company, which
was appealed from this Court to the
Maryland Court Of Appeals, and tried
AT the april term, was decided yester-
day in favor Of the Reliable Junk
Company. Bond & Parke represented
the Reliable Junk Company. Hoff and
Weant the Foundry.
Issuance OF a new domestic postal
card was announced by the Postottice
Department yesterday 1t is to re-
place the card now in use which
rears the profile portrait of the late
President Mckinley. The new card
will bear the portrait Of Thomas JEFF
ferson. The only other difference in
the cards is that the new card is
printed in green ink. while the CID
one was printed in red ink.
A Rural Life Conference for Mary
land ministers will he held at the
Maryland Agricultural College Aug
rst A. and s. The conference is
planned to help ministers to cops
with the many changes which are
taking place in country life in gen.
eral, and that denominations may CO.
operate and become efficient. instead
nf working Al they often do. indie
dendentlv and at a cross purposes.
One day last week as Mr. Harvey
OgIe was returning from GraC cham
to his home near Logs with his team
attached To heavy wagon. he met
With an accident while entering the
bridge at the old Grouse farm on
Owens creek. His lead horse turned
too quick and the rear wheel of the
wagon was run up the wing wall and
iron work Of the bridge and the wag-
Y on was upset. Mr.. Ogle, who was On
the wagon was thrown and his head
cut severely.
Solomon Alexander and r.. M.Raidy
arrested in this city recently to ans
wer indictments found against them
by United States court in California
waived examination yesterday before
Commissioner Bond in Baltimore
and were released on bail for their
appearance for trial in California
next January. Alexander gave $1,000
| bail to answer the charge of imper-
sonating a Government officer, and
both he and Reidy. gave $1,000 bail
each on an Indictment for conspiracy,
The bail was furnished by New
York trust company.
| Frank r. Hossfross, 1920 Hanover
street, Baltimore, engineer, Of a
switching engine on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, was instantly
killed, three locomotives and q coal
laden cars were wrecked and con-
siderable section of railroad track was
torn up, as result of a smashup at
Watersville Junction, shortly before
o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Hoss-
fross' engine was standing when the
double-header freight train, east
bound, became unmanageable and
crashed into it. w. P. Burns was
engineer and c. S. McQuinn, fireman OF
the locomotive. They escaped by
jumping. Hossefross jumped, too, but
his skull was crushed. Stanley Pack
EFT, fireman on the switching engine
jumped and was not hurt.
The corner stone of the John Hub
ner Psychiatric Hospital, which Mary
land will erect for the care and treat
ment of acute cases of insanity, was
; laid at Sykesville yesterday in the
presence of Governor Goldsborough
and members Of the board Of man
ayers of the State Hospital and the
State Lunacy Commission. The ex-
ercises were informal. DIR. w. A.