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

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The summer boarding houses are
filled with patrons at present.
Forty tickets were sold from this
station to Pen-Mar on account " the
annual reunion OF the Reformed
Churches.
To sell seven automobiles In one
week Is going some That il what
MIR Carroll Lockard, Liberty street,
sold the past week.
The suit OF Edgar +. Schildt ". the
western Maryland Railway Company,
Tor the loss of hand while working
at the company's shops at Hagers-
town, has been compromised for a.
substantial amount Mr.. Charles E.
Fink represented Mr.. Schildt.
The following G. & p. phones have
been installed this week: William M.
Phillips, Westminster 1I3: Erwin =.
Lester, Hampstead 119w; George r..
Straw, Union Bridge 15r; Miss Ada
Hobby, Westminster 12w, and David
W. Ebaugh, Hampstead 120k.
The n. r. s. of Baust Reformed
church will have its annual picnic on
thursday aSkernoon and evening,
August 9Th, in Rodkey's Park, Tyrone
"A Baltimore band will give concert.
Superintendent Hare, of the Union
temperance League, will speak. All
invited.
&C the sale Of Mrs. Belinda Stoner's
effects, Union Bridge, Nd, some time
ago, a number or old books were
offered. or these two ancient Bibles
were purchased. They are leather
bound volumes. Both are i'm the
German language from translations
hy Or. Martin Luther. The older
book was printed by Christopher
Saur, Germantown, Pa, in 1776, the
year made famous by the ''Decla-
ration Of independence" of the United
States.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Eckard, of
Tyrone, probably escaped death on
Friday evening of last week, when
they arose from their bed and went
down stairs during the heavy thunder
storm which was passing over, as a
bolt of lightning struck locust tree
i'm front of the house, and passed over
to the roof of his residence going
through their bed that they had left a
short while before and set 1t on fire.
The fire was eXtinguished without fur
Their damage.
The East end OF this city was In a
state of excitement yesterday after
noon when dog which was supposed
to be mad, bit the young SON of Mr..
Charles Brown, East Main street. The
child was in front Of Mr.. Basler's
rYh0-
up to him and bit him in the hand and
face. The dog was chased by a lot
OF excited people to be captured and
killed. 4 number Of wild shots were
fired but the dog was not harmed. we
learn this morning that the dog was
killed and the head would be sent to
Baltimore for examination.
Just now, at the height OF the build
ing season, we want to call the par
ticular attention of our readers to the
advertising of the Cortright Metal
Roofing Co., Philadelphia, Pa, which
has been appearing in our columns
for several months, telling OF the
merits OF the famous Cortright Metal
Single. The Cortright Company ad-
v1ses us that the use of these goods
has grown enormously all over the
country and they can only attribute
this constant growth to the splendid
satisfaction the roof il giving. Mr..
]. Webster Ebaugh handles these Metal
Shingles.
During last Friday evenings thun-
der storm bolt of lightning entered
the bed room window of the residence
Of Mr.. John +. Freyman, Of near Win
field, tore the papering from the wall
and set 1t on fire. The bolt after
ward passed through the floor be-
tween the beds of Mr.. Freyman and
son, who were in them, to the kitchen,
on through to the cellar, and out
through the cellar wall to the porch
where 1t killed four young chickens
which were roosting under it. An
axe in the cellar was nicked on the
blade by the bolt Mrs. Freyman got
up and went to the kitchen while the
storm was raging and saw the flash
from the bolt as 1t passed through the
room to the cellar, which frightened
her. She ran upstairs and found the
wall paper on fire, extinguished it,
and afterward found Mr.. Freyman
partly unconscious In bed.