The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-05-01

N Hartford county t. rate has been
put at $1.10 on the $1OO.
The latest weather bulletin calls
for cool weather from May ? to y.
n April has passed many a postponed
ball game over to luckier month
Mr.. Frank u. Miller II having mi
residence On Willis street painted
Express rates viii lower from to-
day until another move il made On tine
\ scale.
II Governor Goldsborough appointed
Charles T Reifsnider, associate Judge
to the Peoples Court. Baltimore, yes-
/, terday-
Carroll Lockard, Jr-, son Of MIR. and
Mrs. Carroll N- Lockard, East Main
street, was operated On at the Johns
Hopkins Hospital. Baltimore, this
morning at 40 o'clock
The County Commissioners have
beautified the surroundings at the Jail
\ by grading and BY planting hedge
\ in place it formerly was, ii II now
Judge u. " C. Bond, of this city, was
one OF the principal speakers ait tn
Belvedere Hotel, Baltimore, Wednes-
day night, at the banquet Of the South
ern Maryland Society III was a rep
resentative gathering Of lawyers,
bankers, physicians and preachers,
professors and business men
\ Nearly one-half Of thu white popu-
\ lation Of Baltimore and more than
one-quarter Of the white people OF
Maryland were born in foreign lands
or sprang from parents, one o. both
Of whom immigrated to America, &C
cording to a Census Bureau mother
tongue" bulletin issued for Maryland,
dealing with the foreign white pOpu-
1ation OF the State.
The Board Of Managers OF the Meth
Odist Protestant Church Home for the
Aged, met at the Home in this city
Wednesday The affairs Of The Home,
financial and otherwise were found to
be in flourishing condition "A new
board Of lady visitors was elected a.
follows: Mrs. Charles Billingslea, Mrs.
Thomas III. Lewis. Mrs. j. Pearre
Wentz, Mrs III. L- Elderdice, Mrs. Den
ton :. Gehr, Mrs George * Mather
and Mrs Carroll Albaugh.
Rev. John Roach Straton, ID. Nd, OF
Baltimore, Md, will give an illustrated
lecture on Egypt, Old and New" at
Alumni Hall. Western Maryland Col
lege, Friday evening, May 18th, at s
o'clock Admission will be charged.
Dr. Straton Is one of the most pleas
Ing lecturers On the Chautauqua
platform IT. will use altogether 125
or the finest views, and hi lecture
will be not only highly entertaining
but most instructive and inspiring.
Telephones have been installed
during the week in the following
homes: Edward T. Reindollar, fancy
town 5f; Samuel Nusbaum, Westmins-
ter 131w; a. ri. Bankard, Taneytown
39w; Mrs. Sallie A Smith, near Mar
ston, New Windsor 38-14; Claude B.
Reifsnider, near Fountain Valley,
Westminster 1884; Frank wv. Mather,
Westminster 246k; Samuel Greenholtz,
near New Windsor, Az; Nevin II
Roger, near New Windsor 41-3; wv. T..
Sauble, near New Windsor Al;
James T.. Brown, near New Windsor
AIS.
"a telegram was received here this
morning by relatives announcing the
death OF Vinton Herring, son OF the
late Charles IT, Herring, of this city.
No particulars were given except that
his death occurred yesterday evening
at Camden, nv. J., at the residence of
his grandfather. Mr. Frank III. V1nton,
where Mrs. Herring and her two child
rem, Margaret and Vinton have made
their home since MIR. Hering's death
The news il great shock to the many
relatives and friends here, who re-
member Vinton a. handsome, bright
healthy boy. He celebrated hi 18th
birthday last February. TIE was a
grandson Of the late Dr. Joshua wv.
Herring and nephew or Mrs. Frank x.
Miller, Willis street.
The Frederick Farmers Association
received word yesterday that the
Public Service Commission had modi-
fed its decision in the toll rate fight
between the association and the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone Com
pany rendered month ago. In the
original opinion, rates were reduced
between Emmitsburg and New Market
and Emmitsburg and Brunswick and
no cents was fixed a. the maximum
toll Under the modified opinion,
maximum charge or ID cents il allow
cd between Emmitsburg and Mount
Airy and or 20 cents for particular
person calls. Between Emmitsburg
and New Market and Emmitsburg and
Brunswick and between Myersville
and Emmitsburg and Myersville and
Mount Airy charge Of 10 cents il al
lowed for each two number" call and
ID cents for each particular person
call. Between Ill other exchanges "a
charge of cents il allowed.
Following meeting Of the Democrat
ic Central Committee or Beaver county,
Oklahoma, the - Kemp Mirror,
newspaper published at IA Kemp,
Oklahoma, has the following to say
about MIR. Claude T Smith, who was
unanimously elected a. State Com
mitteeman OF hi county: There
could have been no better choice
made i'm the county. Mr. Smith has
been a consistent and vigorous work
~ from his advent into this county.
When he came here the party was
more Oh less divided into factions and
through hi labor, perhaps more than
any other one man, il due the present
excellent condition in which the party
ID. out OF a divided force has been
wrought a solid phalanX we'll equipped
to contend for supremacy. The com
mittee expressed In it, unanimous vote
for Mr. Smith the universal sentiment
wv tha rnnntV Democracy Mr Smith