The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-04-24

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of Mr.. and Mrs. William M. Eckard,
East Main street, this week
Mr.. James T. Trayer, East Main
street, killed a blacksnake . feet in
length near Hampstead on Sunday.
It. Louis must be some good old
ball town when it can support three
clubs i'm the National, American and
Federal Leagues.
Westminster High School will
cross bats with Baltimore City Col
Ilege tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock
on the local athletic field. This
promises to be a good game.
Western Maryland's baseball team
was defeated Saturday at Annapolis
by st. Johns IL to 4. The game
marked the resumption OF atheletic
relations between the two institu-
tions, after break extending over
dozen years.
Mr.. William ID. Lowell, OF New
Windsor, a member of Sulphur Spring
Lodge, was named as Grand Herald of
the Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows for Maryland at the annual meet
! ing Of the Grand Lodge in Baltimore
on Wednesday.
| The success OF the operation per
formed several weeks ago at the Bal
! timore Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital,
! in which the cornea of a pigs eye
was grated onto the blind eye OF
! David Kane, a six-month-old infant.
formerly Of TaneytoWn, is now prac-
tically assured.
\ In a recent editorial the Baltimore
Sun speaks OF the poor showing that
Maryland makes on the trolley maps,
compared to that OF other States like
Pennsylvania and New York. We
have not a single line i'm Carroll
county, while nearby towns like
Littlestown, Hanover and Glyndon
have trolley service
The country home OF Mrs. Mary
Riggs, in the heart Of Cooksville,
Howard County, about three miles
from Sykesville, was consumed by
fire last week. The home was a
beautiful frame structure, surrounded
by fine lawns and was one Of the
show places OF that section Of How
ard county. The loss is about $4,000.
Mr.. James M Stoner, Pennsylvania
avenue, who is an expert fisherman
and has dreamed many a time of
catching a fine bunch, witnessed
haul at Tilghman's Island last week
when $4,000 herring and 200 shad were
brought in. OF course MIR. Stoner was
not in the fishing party and when
the division was made his allotment
was somewhat smaller than had been
his share on fishing parties with the
boys in Westminster.
Leonard Lynn Haugh, aged 81, a
boilermaker in the employ of the
Western Maryland Railway, com
mitted suicide by hanging himself at
his home, i'm Hagerstown, Saturday
morning. Dependency is believed
to have been the cause Of his act. The
roof Of the attic in which the man
ended his life was low, and after he
had adjusted the rope to a rafter he
was compelled to lie down against
the moose to produce strangulation.
The annual meeting of the Church
OF the Brethren, Middle district Of
Maryland, was held at the Manor
Church, Washington county, with
about so delegates present. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: Moder-
ator, John r. Otto; ice-Moderator,
John williamson; Reading Clerk, A.
Harvey Martin. The Rev. Abraham
B. Barnhart was elected delegate to
the annual national conference of the
Church Of the Brethren to be held at
Seattle, Wash, June 16 to 2S.
1t is said that the Western Mary
land may charge ten cents a. day for /
dancing at Pen-Mar this summer.
The suggestion has been made that a
large new floor be erected near the
scene of the present observatory.
This would mean the removal of the
old pavilion or its adaptation to some
other purpose, is is supposed. The
proposal to charge dancers for the
use of the pavilion is an entirely new
one for Pen-Mar and it IL not certain
with what favor it will be received.
Many people from Westminster,
Baltimore, and some from Hagers-
town and Washington attended the
public sale OF the real and personal
property of the late Mrs. Mary Horn
at Medford, on Saturday by Francis
D. Reese, executor. The four acres
OF land and the home were sold to J.
Hamilton Fritz and wife for $4,000.
Good prices were realized from the
sale of the household goods, ETC., all
of which were in good condition. Mr.. I
70. o. Clemson was the attorney and
Mr.. F. A. Crawford, auctioneer.
Rev. r. w. Doty, formerly Of this
city, but now of Cambridge, Ohio, has
just completed and dedicated a new
church. Mr.. Doty is well known by
many of our people who will be glad
to know of the large measure of sue
cess he is achieving in his new field
OF labor The congregation Of which
he is at present pastor was organ
lied about fifteen years ago, with a
membership Of but twenty-three. They
now have a large congregation. and
have just completed a handsome
church edifice, costing over $4,000.
A mad dog scare, the first we have
had for a long time, caused the town
to be in an uproar Monday evening
from s to 10 o'clock, when a dog
afflicted with rabies ran down Main
street and Pennsylvania avenue,
swapping at everyone as he passed. \
Little Katherine Albaugh, the 7-year-
old daughter Of Mr. and Mrs Harry
c. Albaugh was bitten in the hand, |
and Harry Ditman was bitten on the
thumb. At the railroad the dog was
shot at by Officer Stem. Harry |
Thompson and William Helm, but he
got away and was last seen beyond
Willis street.
The story of the writing of the
Star-Spangled Banner will be made
a feature of the program for Flag
Day, June IA, in all the public schools