The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-05-08

through our city on Monday evening,
The tree with its new spring foliage
Ii now making its bough to the pub
lie.
Recently IL suits for divorce were
instituted in Hagerstown within 20
days.
The Hampstead Creamery has been
closed after being in operation for
many years
The Western Maryland Railway
Company will run an excursion to
Pen-Mar on Decoration Day, May 3d.
Mrs. Catherine Wagner, Of Spring
Mills, il having all the buildings on
her farm painted by w. 5. Arbaugh,
contractor.
The Chicago limited was delayed at
the Coal Chute last Saturday by a
freight car which ran away and OBJ
structed the main line.
Mr.. Horace G. Bush, of 1888 Hoff-
man street, Baltimore, formerly of
this city, is confined to his bed suffer-
ing with hemorrhages.
The Door-to-Virtue Lodge of
Masons held a banquet on Tuesday
at the lodge room in the Wantz build
ing. The Order will 60 to Manches-
ter to visit a brother order on Fri
day evening.
Mrs. Morris Mitten OF tile Civic
Leagues flower committee desires all
or the children that want flower beds
In the lot back or Odd Fellows Hall
to meet her there Tuesday evening,
May IT,, at o'clock
Mothers Day-Sunday, May lois
to have an added significance this
year in that the observance il intend
ed especially to honor the mothers
who have given their sons to the
nation in the present Mexican crisis
There is almost everything your
appetite Graves in the green" line
ow-a-days-kale, spinach, cabbage
sprouts, water cress, asparagus, rhu-
barb, and even poke. And they sell
at very reasonable prices and have
their takers too.
A delegation from Glyndon waited
on the Baltimore County Commits
sioners at Towson and asked that
new bridge be built over the Western
Maryland Railroad at Glyndon. The
Commissioners said they would visit
the neighborhood before deciding
what to do.
Rev. DIR. Oliver Huckel, Of Balti-
more, who has been delivering a
course of lectures at the College on
Mountain Peaks OF Literature" will
rrFrr ~ I1- aFf
noon at $50 in Smith Hall, his sub
ject being Shakespeare and his
spiritual Teachings"
Prof T.. Stanley Bowlus has re
signed as principal Of the Manchester
High School to accept position with
the Terrill School, at Dallas, Texas.
He will teach mathematics and coach
the base ball and foot ball squads.
The Terrill School is a preparatory
institution for Yale, Princeton, Darts
mouth and University of Michigan.
The fire observed in the direction
of Spring Mills on Saturday night
was the stable of Edward KINNEY,
about one-half mile west of Spring
Mills. The fire started about u
O'Clock in some way unknown and
burned the barn, a horse, COW and
calf, wagon and some hay before
they could be saved. The loss is
heavy blow to Mr.. KINNEY.
Major General Daniel T.. Sickles,
the last OF the great commanders of
the Civil War, died at hi home, 23
Fifth avenue, New York, May A. IT,
resonded to Lincoln's first call for
rft 49,
regiment He led them into battle,
always with consummate bravery and
distinction. AT the last he turned the
tide at Gettysburg and earned a
soldiers Immortality.
In Tariff Bulletin No. "a, just issued
by the Public Service Commission of
Maryland, the rate on cement from
Security and from Union Bridge to
stations on the Hagerstown and Fred
erick Railway Company's lines, Blue
Mountain to Frederick and Frederick
to Groves is reduced to 95 cents per
ton. Changes in class and commodity
rates over the Hagerstown and Fred
erick Railway Company's lines were
ordered and class rates on the West
ern Maryland, Bachman's Valley and
=
ed.
County Commissioner J. Stewart
AMMAN was the chairman of the road
meeting held in Emmitsburg on Sat
urday, for the purpose of presenting
the desires OF the citizens along the
road from Emmitsburg To TaneytoWn
to have that road made into State
highway. Chairman AMMAN was in
structed to have a meeting at Pine
Hill, about midway between Emmits-
burg and Taneytown on next Satur-
day, at which time it is planned to
name the committee to 60 before the
Good Roads Commission and present
formal request for the road.
Plans are being completed for the
One-Day Annual Flower Market which
will be held at the base of Washing
ton Monument, Baltimore, on Tuesday,
May II. Flower, plant or vegetable
donations, however small, to aid in
getting funds for developing vacant
city lots for those unable otherwise to
have gardens will be extremely ap-
preciated by the Baltimore Women's
Civic League, which is much interest
ed in cooperating with her sister
information apply to Mrs. Austin Gal
lagher, of Carroll Orchards, Iele-
phone 126, or Mrs. Charles II. Stew
art, Green street, Telephone 80.
Two young men, Ridgely Johns and
Oliver Ridgley, both of Montevue,
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